Show BALLOON ASCENSION WILL NOT BE st claire sisters meet with accident refuse to keep appointment the fourth of july committee received a telegram tuesday from st clair slaters sisters announcing noun cing cinat i the fact that they bad met with a serious accident on the and that they would not be able to fill their engagement at vernal this new cornea comes as a serl serious disappointment to the committee who have been counting upon the balloon as cension as one of th emain attractions for the celebration the committee has sent out dozens dozena of telegrams and the charge for this item alone is 36 30 up to date coming at this late date the announce ment that the st clair girls will N III nott not t be able to f fill III their engagement makes it impossible to engage anyone else although the committee has been in communication with eveia balloonist they could hoai of from atlanta geci gla aja to seattle washington members of the committee feel that it is due the public and to themselves in justification of the advertising matter that has been sent out regard ting ing this event that thal the correspondence concerning it would be published at least in part space will not per gift the publishing of all the telegrams and received the one received announcing the failure to keep the appointment Is its as follows muskegon Mus keyon mich june vernal commercial club vernal utah account serious accident on impossible to till fill our un oil ga gement at vernal this in answer to yours of 29 signed bank of vernal ST CLAIR GIRLS after several preliminary telegrams between the commercial club and the st clair sisters the sisters finally sent this telegram muskegon mich june 10 1914 commercial club vernal utah will make one ascension for one hundred dollars and all expenses answer ST CLAIR GIRLS to this the commercial club on answered stating that the offer was accepted also asking them to give an estimate of expenses the following telegram in answer to that wa was received total expense about one hundred dollars if satisfactory send contracts ST CLAIR GIRLS the club wired again stating that the price for the ascension including the expense estimated was acceptable and in reply received the following telegram all 0 1 K mailing contracts today ST CLAIR GIRLS the club waited a sufficient length of time and the contracts not coming wired again but received no response finally the bank of vernal wired tile the st clair sisters stating that the money inquired lequir ed was on deposit in the bank subject to their order and informing them that they expected to keep their appointment in vernal to this telegram the first telegram quoted above was received in answer the committee has one mor hope left and that is that one other balloonist will come A telegram was sent him accepting his offer to make the us ascension cension for one hundred twenty five dollars and eapen continued on page 6 balloon ascension ascensio n will not 1101 lie be given continued from page 1 toy kes since that timo the om cittee has not heard f from rom lim 1 im it Is possible that he h may appeal intini in time eto to make tile ascension but the committee is not willing to hold this hope out in oi 01 del to get people to come to the celebration all of the events will 1 take like place as scheduled in the program is oric I 1 ing smoothly and the commit tee feels assured that it will not meet N ith another disant with any ally number on the program |