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Show CONSIGNED f TO THE TOMB Tenderly Laid-Awa- , -- ros-tfrn- m in the tabernacle was drap-- ! ed in white and in the'center was the big oil portrait of the departunveiled a few years ed, that was beautiful ago. There were many, flowers. t j - The services were conducted Second by the bishopric of the were ward, and the, pld residents of that district N. W. Kimball, L. Farr, "Wm. Edwards, Benj., Willmore, Joseph pall-beare- rs I j Quinney, Jr., II,E. Hatch, John P. Squires and neber Morrell. t The tabernacle choir furnished the music for the occasion, and in and all conditions I never saw him waver from the right. He was one of the grandest examp-l- a rsl ever knew, quiet, unassuming but ever doing bis duty. I have often listened to him relate the conditions under which be joined the church as a boy and have admired him for his integrity to the truth for he left all that was dear to man for its sake. I have never met a man for whom I have had more respect. His example has often been a source of strength to me and hundreds of others. He has a as the large and a united-familfruits of the noble example they have had set for them. I value my association with him as one pf the brightest parts of my life. May God bless his family- - that they may follow in his footsteps. The choir sang Oh My Father, after which -- Aged Resident of the Tliird Ward Becomes . lost And is Drowned. Commissioners 1 " 4 Logan City. - I. well the contract for the citys ces, and it was wranted upon the understanding that the counlighting service ty court-hous- e shall be furnished for $7 per remember to the bishopric and I have seen him tried under all conditions incident to a new country and never saw him flinch; he was always true. Many flowers are placed upon- - his casket and he has had flowers strewn in his pathway,, all through life, for all who knew him 6poke well of him. He was one of the minute men in early days and was ever ready to do his duty. I know himT to he a true Latter-da- y Saint. Men are here to get an experience and he made use of it to his profit. Let us who are lef not make wrecks of our lives, but do as he did, ever prove true. when Tie" was called -- -- . said Bell and appointed constable and Justice respectively of the Lewiston precinct. bid of Charles 'Edlefesens $122.50 for the upper county popr farm was accepted. Stephenson school district asked for additional territoryTTaken under advisement. , , Much Ado About Nothing. , -- n n -- M " j, c Champions Finish The League' Basketball Season Without a Defeat. : . td-th- 2 o 1 ( Went Through Undefeated have to be applied if consolidation does not come and thenet them take their choice. . The either ' radically board - will change the district lines or consolidate, and they believe that this fact has not been made plain-tall the people. ', i - . act arbitrarily in the matter. It is likely that they will visit some of the large . precincts which opposed consolidation at the meeting on Saturday and point out to the people what remedies will : fishing On Friday evening he noticed s6me unusual object in the spring, but did not stop tinvestigated' He did not hear of Air. Thorpes absence until Sunand then the day. evening, him that the obthought struck ject he had seen might he' the body of the ''missing man. He promptly mounted a horse and rode, up' e spring, and there found theabody of the unfortunate man floating in the water. By meats of .some large fishhooks Hied--oa stout! cord, he dragged the body out of the water andt-thetelephoned to relatives, who at once cared for it: When the funeral is to he held had not been decided when this was written. , , med-Cutl- The consolidation question was not decided. , Apparently, the commisisoners are in favor of consolidation hut do notcare to President N. W. Kimball We are sometimes criticised for eulogizing the dead, but'it urould be difficult for any one to criticise that anything might be said in of praise Henry Ballard for he deserves it all.. For. sixteen years I labored with him in the bishopric and be confided in me as I think he did in no other au, and I know him to be a man m all that the term implies. There re four men on this stand who have acted as counselors to him an all they , testify that they Dver knew a better man. ne as one of Gods noblemen. I ave never known him to refuse Ju respond to any call made upon ljm by big people. Under any L M.--0. . Thorpe was either 81 or 82 years of age and had lived for1 many years with Mr. and Airs. Quayle. He was subject to Spells of irresponsibility, . and it ris thought he- - .was thus afflicted when he wandered away. lie coold dark after evidently Jost his, way man,- - butnot asign of him be found, until Sunday, evening and wandered down the lane r mentionedrahOve,"JA when a- - gentlema n n a bridge telephoned that he had. discover- crosses the spring, and Instead of ed the body in a spring, down the walking onto the bridge he misslane just south of the water tank. ed it and stepped into the water He leaves Mr. Cutler its seems is stop- ancLwas drowned. whom live and of three children, two ping at the Jensen ranch very often is out trapping and in Salt Lake City. I have known Brother Ballard since 1860. We worked together in laying" the foundations month. of Change.. ' Buried near the walls of the penitentiary in Salt Lake .were found four bottles1 of plain ! old glycerine teh variety used upon chapped hands and used as an excuse for drinking whisky when united with.it and taken as a cold cure y and forthwith the papers in big headlines told of a plot to blow up the prison. ! i . ' - By defeating the Aggies 27 to 18 on Friday evening 'he B. Y. C. Champions closed the league season without a defeat, and what 5s more without once having their title in real jeopardy during the seasonl Thq game on Friday night was a peculiar one. It was altogether too rough to be called basketball, hut still was fast. The Aggies dropped their old style of play and went in for the same sort of team work that the Champions play, and as a result put up a faster contest. It was too rough however, 35 fouls were called during the game, 18 on the B. Y C. and 17 on the Aggies, bdt at -- It was pretty bad weather on benefit of one or a few Saturday but nevertheless most The Vote. of the school districts of the After this meeting had adjourn county had representatives present at the consolidation meetings ed, the commissioners called the at the B. Y. C., and most of the delegates fbgether and called the representatives seemed to be roll of the' districts.. This ftas the pretty "well strung up, both sides result. District.. taking - very positive - positions. The majority of those present Young Aigainst, were opposed to consolation. In Hyde Bark No delegates pressome instances the delegates ent. fairly represented the sentiment Smithfield 35 for, 77 against prevailing in their towns, and in Richmond Unanimous for. other eases it was plainly evident Clarkston 3 for, 30 against. they did not, since the meetings Newton 25 for, 34 against. at which they were pamed were Alendon Unanimous against. very poorly attended. Wellsville Unanimous against. The meeting was a drawn out Ilyrum Alajority against. affair, nearly four hours being Providence Afajority against. consumed in discussing and votAlillville No delegates. ing upon the matter. Yice presiCoveville Unanimous for dent Wesley Jacques of the LoUnanimous against Peterboro ' gan City Board of Education, Alountain Home Unanimous was elected as chairman and Air. for. Frank 0. Nelson was named as Benson No delegates. secretary. . Supt. Ashton of the Riverside In favor. Granite district in Salt Lake Co., College No delegates. , opened the descussion and his reGreenville Unanimous against marks were rather rambling. In Trenton Unanimous against. a general way he, pointed out. the Cornish 2 for, 29 against. advantages of consolidation as Leyiston 1 for, 51 against. seen in his district, and commend Wheeler 14 for, 3 against. ed it to people here. Alt. Sterling No delegates. Air. Hubbard, a member of the Avpn Unanimous for. board of education of Boxelder Paradise Uninimous for. Co., where they also have consoliStephenson 9 for, 13 against. dation followed Air. Ashton. He Commissioner Knowles took made, a. very gohd'talk. 'He. la A tie floods soon as the poll' had t pleasing speaker and a very1 ard been finished by chairman Israel- -' ent advocate of consolidation. sen, and franVy stated that ho The two speakers used up a good was a consolidationist. We are deal of time and some of the anti- up, against a very undesirable consolidation delegates complain- situation he said, and we hae ed of this asserting that it was two remedies, we must either giving the other side the advan- change the boundaries of. the tage, but the commissioners ex- school districts so as to more plained that they had invited equally distribute the school pro- these gentlemen to he present and perty or we must consolidate the wanted to hear what they had to districts and to me consolidation : is by far the better plan. He then say. T. H. Cutler then took the floor read figures taken from the asin opposition to consolidation and sessors books showing the glaring he made a very vigorous forceful inequalities in the distribution of talk, making , his , points very property, among the districts. Ait the conclusion of - his replain, and at times getting really he was He stated that marks the.. meeting s adjourned. eloquent. without ihisnotes and therefore The- commisisoners will take the go- - into-th- e unprepared-t- o ques- whole matter.Jnhderl advisement tion in detail, muck as he would for a time but will act one way have liked to do so. It is doubt- or the other within 35 days. ful however if the injectipn of Neither Mr. Godfrey nor chairother data would have improved man Israelsen -- have ooramitted his talk,- which, while it did not themselves but there seems to be ' " directly answer the consolidation a pretty general belief that they argument, was very skilfully will vote to consolidate the dismade. tricts. , Former Supt. Oldham made a , The basketball game between brief talk giving thejresult of his the eduin the captains of the five basket--many years experience cational field. He had thoroughly ball teams of the. State and tha investigated consolidation, and five coaches, which was played Jo believed it to be a step in ad- Salt Lake on Saturday night was vance of the present system. He won by the captains 50 to 35. was heartily in fayor of it, and Jack Hill went down as the B. Y?C. representative, Capt. Wilpredicted its adoption by this county, if not now then when we cox being ill, and Jackie upare brought to a realization of held the reputation of his school the fact that we are lagging be- by scoring 10 baskets .from the hind those who have adopted it. field, which was four more than A general discussion followed any other player made. Hill says but it revealed nothing more than the game was the nicest one he this : those precincts who have a ever played in, the coaches playclean ball, and setting good thing in a school way want ing very to hold on to it and those that their teams a splendid exampleof in a have not desire a more equitable gentlemanly deportment of the A. distribution of the county pro- game. Capt. Brossari C.made an excellent showing and perty between the districts. 'Huconceded man selfishness stood out more the Salt Lakers readiy that the honors of the game beboldly than anything else, and the discussion was therefore of lit longed to Logan. p resident of wandered away from home on Friday, was found deaden a spring below town on Sunday night. The deceased. lived with his daughter, Mrs. John Quayle, and on Friday when Mr. and Mrs. Quayle went to the temple, was left in charge of the place as usual.' , , ,, When they returned about 2 p-Mr. Thorpe was hot there, hut no great alarm was felt until evening, when he failed to show up. Mr. Quayle and some of his immediately began neighbors searching for the missing man. They found people who had seen him at the depot, but the trainmen were sure he had not boarded a train, so the searchers went in olher directions. AH day Saturday the quest was kept up. hut without avail. s':. dn Sunday the water wasi turn ed out of the Little Logan, Hu order that its lower channel might he searched for the missing , ( New. , his missionary, companions, ex' Bishop C. J. Larsen pressing regrets at not being able to be present and saying many arose. He said that he had known concerning the de- 1868 and kindly things Bishop Ballard-sinc- e that during 22 years of that time ( Continued on pagf five.) he acted as his counselor. , I have ' nothing but good to say of him li and I am thankful. I can say that Meet . I always have, spoken well.- of him. He was always faithful and The .regular meeting of the true to every trust. I hope L can county commissioners occurred always say of every one that I yesterday, but little business of in never spoke ill of, them, for 1 terest to the puhlis was done. : think ita duty to speak of mens m. D; Goodwin asked for the good deeds and not, their bad establishment of an open crossing ones. Brother Ballards life was the Short over Line, near his always above reproach, and if I home. Taken under advisement. were as sure of a salvation as I City Councilmen Evans and am that one awaits him I would Carlson asked for a renewal of be a happy man. offi- : BradUy In Chicago Wandered Away From Home -- - : A. v other hymn was sung and said CONSOLIDATION AM ajo rity ofD ist rict sSeemto Be iDppofid opening the . services , sang the President Joseph E. Cardon Farewell All Earthly hymn, been Elder E. W. Smith of- announced that letters had Honors. Rob- Wm. Thorpe, an aged B. H. from Elders received fered the opening prayer. Anthe Third ward, who then erts and M. I. Schofield, two of Bishop B. M. Lewis AGAINST lojnv ' i INSANITY. y. .. PatriAll that was mortal of was laid to arch Henry Ballard, Sunrest in the city cemetery on fun-- . day, after, very impressive eral services had been held in the tabernacle. The last sad rites of were observed in the presence and a throng of the - relatives : friends of the deceased. The PLEAD IIenry Ballaf d Are Remains of Patriarcli - .IF HARRIUAN SHOULD . : that Referee Teetzel missed 40 that he should have called, and called some that a great many . T -- , - . 1 - other officials would not have thought of at least that was the view many. local fans took of it. There was entirely too much covering and hacking allowed. The Champions did not show any of their former speed, while the Farmers were speeded up to the limit. The floor seemed to' be in had shape for the men slipped as if on ice. Wangsgard won the tie value to the commissioners, FOR SALE. game for his team by his good who are face to face with the Red pine lumber and Cedar work in throwing from the foul question of what 'should be done for the benefit of all the schools posts, at Allen Bros. Store, ny of the county, rather than for the rum Utah. (Continued on page 5.) 11 -- - |