| Show MORMON OEM BATTALION DRIVE DRIB E UND UNDER R WAY NAY Committees Begin Work of Raising for Monument Fund The campaign to r raise lse to be De added to a a. similar sum appropriated by bythe bythe bythe the state legislature for the erection of ot ofa ofa a a. monument in honor of ot the Mormon Battalion was launched Sunday Sunday It is planned to conduct the drive which will close January 30 through county committees who will work unI under under un un- I der a state commission headed bv by B B. H. H Roberts of Salt Lake Today at noon Mr Roberts had not returned to his office from a a. speaking tour in the Interests in interests interests In- In of the drive that he had departed departed departed de de- de- de parted upon last week It was stated Mr Roberts was to have closed his tour at Heber yesterday Members of oC the monument commission commission commission commis commis- sion head headed head d by Mr Roberts will entertain enter enter- r taro tain the members of ot the Salt Lake county committee at luncheon at the Hotel Utah Thursday when reports will be made as to the progress of the campaign The last week of the tha drive will be marked by a a. study in all aU the public sc schools in the state of ot the new history of the Mormon Battalion which has I just been completed by Mr Roberts I January 30 the date set f for r the I close of the campaign will mark rk the close of the third seventy-third year since I the pioneer battalion entered the valley val val- ley i |
