| Show GRATIFYING INCREASE SIN IN PROVO Xo XII hack to III 1 ns II Predicted lit Jh I Opponents of Iro h lorr PROVO April 2 A careful and thorough of buln s firms R that thai mercantile business generally lute lias I Increased 25 s per Ir cent nt for tor the Itt three months of 1910 compared with the same period of iaO 1508 These figures figure are arc very 1 encouraging an as showing Increasing prosperity al though somewhat disappoint disappointing ing tw tu those th who claimed that with a prohibition ordinance In III force fune the business Interests of the i 1 Ity ily would l suffer a perceptible k Specula Speculative tive live transaction In lit mining stocks stocke have hav almost entirely ceased but bul land deals dallo and especially In fruit lands land have hae increased d COURT April nIn I In the nation suit of Provo city Ill Ity vs s a h hubbe Stubbs ubbe ct et al el 1 to condemn land for sewer newer purposes In the extreme rem south southern southern ern em part of the dl ell city near the utI the Jury brought In a verdict for de defendants Ing their at al alU U for Stubbs and 40 tO for Fred Stubbs The Thu order by Judge booth a Il fine of 10 against Charles Chari 1 B E hollen for tor failure to attend court a aa ae aea a Juror last Monday lon has hM been benn fin revoked ed as u Mr his h hl left the slate state PROVO NJ S NOTES S SJ Elder KMer J Hent Johnson Jr will leave leac In May lay on his hi second mission to Swe Sweden Sweden den dell The finding of a human skull at the back of the Moore Drug company store yesterday caused d some ome Interest on tat the part of the under finders and others oilier till It was wall learned the skull had beet been thrown out of a saloon sometime last lul ye year r The Th n b O 0 IT C orchestra will give 1 one of Its Ita flue floe concerts this thin Friday Frida i evening in College hall W 1 D Harrington who has ban been with the U S 8 reclamation service for several B years lies has opened an nn as civil engineer at 41 U west WIIt Center street al reet Mies MI Florence Florelle and Llda Lida Edmonde have returned from Boston Hoon where they have been studying music mule at the Boston Doston conservatory of music mule Tho The county commissioners have havo lot let lota leta a contract for tor widening the dugway leading onto Provo bench west weal of Olmsted to 10 twenty feet and making milking It II less lens 1 than Ihan a 6 I per cent grade COUNTY TELEPHONE SYSTEM April 23 The Independent Telephone company which has itA up to 10 date glen given free telephone service to Its subscribers between nil all Utah county l points has haa Issued an Announcement that after atter May 1 I toll will be charged baited t on a R mileage basis the minimum charge hall being 10 cents rent and the max maximum maxImum maximum IS 35 cents for tor R a 1 period p of conversation A meeting Wua vu held helt here lest last night of or representatives of the Ih commercial clubs of the cities of the tI county to 10 protest against then thee rat ral rates ex as all being exorbitant SUIt Supt 11 It 1 ItA A Harvey of th tit the telephone company ny explained the reason for the rates rale pro After AUr sonic some further discussion following the th retirement of or the th tele tel telephone telephone phone people f It was wa decided to sub H a proposal to the company for a Ie arate arate rate ral tit to t and from Provo from the north northern ern Ill t an 1111 of or the county of 10 cents ants and nn I the th same ame from the southern towns town 1 0 5 tents cents additional In talking to tor r 1 south of Provo from the south and tn I b point pints In south from the north i nil 1 In II the III event that this Ihla proposal u o re rc tint not m accepted then to eliminate the thena use 11 na s of f r one of or the th Ih phones either the Itch Hell cr r the th Independent or to con t a I county telephone line to be bei b i imd 1 by hy local laal 1 people fIO It was was 18 brought oat mit that such lines tin paid well In other I of the Ih state stAt where the tin In In I much mu h smaller maUer than In Utah t tint y The Tit telephone officials were Mere ere then need I In III and of th the action taken Mr Harvey stated that It Itis Wa was is a matter he would have he to con cone e ter r and It U wan aee M derided decided deal to have an another other duet meeting here hero next Wednesday nd a evening at which there Ihre will be ba three thren representatives rr present prent from each Nu h of the he commercial clubs of or the tho county C The Th Mountain bell Telephone company l is III now charging a R ORt flat rate rAle of 1 i nt nl between Itah county towns Thi was oa established when the Inde Ind 1 ml nt om offered free fr service I hr h i ro that time the Ih Hell ell charges were 16 higher IAh r They Thy made a c nt rate ral rater I rII r th r titan tree free r service to do away I vit It useless e talk lalk |
