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Show V T - r SHOP EARLY: Christmas shopping is a pleasure if it is done early q a pleasure to the cleik $ as well as the customer. 4 S 2 H Select your Christmas gifts 4 ' O from the Posts ad column . then go to the store and tell them what you want t PROVO CITY, UTAH, NO. 102. BP THE CHRISTMAS NUMBER. S. VOL. VIL. BIG CARNIVAL HELD AT THE MAY BE CHARGED WITH RIFLING THE R. READ IT. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1915. THDrARBITER OF GREECE ROY PETERSON ARRESTED; BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY MAILS FOR WIIITECOTTON LIBRARY t & O 4 P seusaticn was caused today when j f 4 SEYMOUR PLEADS NOT ftoy Peterson was taken into custody by Sheriff Henry East after having j GUILTY TO EMBEZZLEMENT been shadowed for some time, and a C. D. Unit-Seymour pleaded not charge of interfering wjth the "a charge of to was mail guilty ed Slates placed against wh'en he appeared zement 4 to the Information According fore Judge Morgan yesterday. the boy has been using a hwas appointof W; D. Robins "w inch made lt further hicVhe' key by the court to defend Mr. Sey- hos of a local business house and haabeen entering' the ifost office - mour and a demurrer was and taking the mail. The officers i $ tered ' and overruled by- the court. who have been on the case claim th? ( $ , interference with the mail has been rehas and going cn for somq time sulted in considerable trouble and Intbe firm. The post convenience al inspectors are now on the case MORMON COLONIES and startling developments ar- astlfip sated. PILLAGED BY TROOPS After the boy was taken into custody he confessed to having stolen AT' CASAS GRANDER some cigars, ut denied any connec- tlon with the thefts at the post offipe. However," the""' officials on the Job E1 Paso, Tex Dec. 16. Reports to claim to have very conclusive evi- the Mormon bishop, P. H. Hurst, ' decce. from his colony at Casas Grandes today were that soldiers of Rodrigues division were looting snd JAMES L. f,rr,iURRI!6 billeting themselves upon the colo, nists. of A' border Jbsican the crossing DIED IN SALT LAKE Cplumbus, N. M., today reported to a custom rider there that 100 cavab Salt Lake City, Dec. 15. James ryment cf Gen. Jose Rodrigue Villa son oJmes L. and Mary forces, now retiring from Sonora, Jacobsen McMurrin, died , at ftis looted the ranch, of W- A. M. Roxby, mothers home, 765 4th avenue. Salt an American and removed Roxby to Lake 'City, Monday, December 13, at he burned alive, under orders, they 11:00 oclock p. m. Deceased was are alleged to have said of General born In Salt Lake City In 1891 and Vila. No confirmation of the report has since lived in Idaho, where he coud be obtained. j Several hundred head of cattle of has many friends. He graduated from the B. Y, U. and was in Washington the Santo Dominga ranch at Villa working in the U. S. land office and Ahumada were slaughtered there for studying law at the Georgetown Law' the Villa army, upon the refusal of school when his health failed him, so the ow ner, E. P. Puller, to refusing to was brought home by his mother. pay a tax Of $10 per head, should S U. the a He accepted they he delivered at the border for pcsitonin able Fullcrd "reported the to was him to export. as soon as he office land work but hat to give up and has matter to the state department Tli grim struggle since been fighting-th-e question of termlcrtirg Villi to regain his health. His life hai( cpponUPfl to the Carranza de facta became a live iSsue been one of noble example and haiU 1 the kto gain a poMtira tcp. fore a council of war, nowr in in prog-Hi- s in every ptacw grers at Chihuahua at which Villi friends are legion survived He is by his and his staff are ijwattendance. This lived. he has Mis. A. B. information Aihericars gfTon five and mother sisters, yisfrom thebysouth today. Jean w Marie arrived ho Arlene, Hopkins, Provo; jette and Thelma McMurrin at home, j Pressure ft, being brought to heal Funeral services were held in tho , upon. General Villa to abandon the ward chapel Thursday, ji-- pt Jit is said, Twenty-Firs- t ffwas saH Villa declared that if Carranza troops were permitted to Mrs. Elmer cross Mr. and the horded within fifty miles of Holdaway spent relaLnke In Salt visiting Juarez, he wpuld return to take reTuesday ' tives and friends. t prisals upon El Paso, Texas. !, A 1 3 S The made merry today - embez-.bim- , A meeting of all the quorums of the Seventies will Jie held Sunday at 2 oclock in College hall, and all Seventies of the Utah Btake are ." -- fr ictho-duce- rY--, . aud-Scien- the-ver- . - - -- !'-w-o- r 1 ( j j Provo Will Have Bjg Public Christmas Tree Next Thursday i Commercial club will give! the citizens a real live Christmas treat next Thursday night when one of the big pine trees on the tabernacle lot will do the honors for the children right where it stands. The committee on entertainment fo-- the club arranged with the Utah Power and Light company to wire the tree from top .to bottom. It will then be decorated in gay Christmas merchants ct, .r,s.:u.r,li;hsd by the The children . will bo of the city. invited to 4e on thegrounds at seven oclock I nthe evening and fbr an hour there N join" to he all kinds Provo . of holiday games. T.o nrrangements for refreshments ate now being considered and will ba announced the next few days. HOUSE VOTES TO CONTINUE WAR EMERGENCY -- TAX Washington, Dec. 16 The admin istration today tootfrthe first step toward repairing the shattered government finances, when the house, 'py a vote of 205 to 189, passed the resolution continuing for one yea" law. .A six the emergency war tax hour session of the house opened the general revenue and tariff battle be- L - tween the Republicans and Demo-cratwhich , will continue through the present session of congress. library, recently purchased by the Bchool. ? Devotional exercises were held this to betn - attendance- .morning-iCollege hall tand the time- President Seymour B. Young was given over to the annual .of Salt Lake will be on of the contests. ''The' program was speakers. Duet by Mr. McAllister follows: as t Mr. Merrill Craig, followed by, and a selection by the choir. Mr. Hafea THREE PROVO MEN , presided and Introduced the first speaker, Mr. Matt SENT TO PRISON FOR Mortensen, and his subject. "Magnetism of Purpose." The subject jrt well and delivered. Tbe DHAMS erationarranged STEALING was followed by a selection Jy the band entitled First Heart Throbs. The Second speaker was then Three Provo boys, Ralph Lawhorn, Luther Eggertsen and bis Mone Lawhorn and Andrew Hardy was "The Conversion of Milsubject were . sentenced to serve from six Instincts." The address was the months to two years In the State! itary result' of deep though snd careful prison today for second degree burstudy and the speaker delivered It la glary. They were taken to the. pent-- , a. wasUrfyl manner holding his 'tenUaty, this afternoon .to begin ser-- ? y mtil end, wy Tng their' sentence. followed by another electionfrom Tbe offense was committed last the band and the last orator, Mr.' June when the three broke into the Guy,- Hafen, delivered bis address. house belonging to the , aS'iter The Vfslon,' folowed by a solo, The UtahWholesale Meat Co., County by Albert Southwick. The Carnival," Folice Officer James Snow obtained of orations were Prof. hi. the t:nfess!on from the men a short t judges Prof. J. M. Snow and P. Henderson, r tin a ago. Prof. Alice Reynolds, and Ijhe John Lawohrn, a relative of the were In favor of Mr. Eggerttwo boys, was arraigned yesterday sen and onq in favo of Mr. Mortenca a charge of forgery and today sen. entered a plea of not guilty. He Is Following the program the male charged with having forged a check marched throug the town students lor $10.00 on an Idaho bank and the public to attend the big inviting parsed it on a local back. barbecue held at 1 oclock. At 2 oclock a grand concert was held fore adjournment was taken, a comwith selections by Willard Andelln, mittee consisting of R. W .Brereton, Prof. J. C. Hawkins, Prof. Edward Otto Poulsonand Wm. M. Roylance Kimball and the B. Y. U. symphony v .re appointed to vote the proxies f orchestra, and a dramatic sketen the local fruit growers at the election the "Pride of the Regiment. ' to ho hed in Ogden. At four oclock the athletic carnival was held and this evening the Miss Ldia Jones returned from days festivities will end with the Salt Lake where, she spent the week grand Junior Prom, in the ladies gyss. i end visiting friends and relatives. beginning at 8 oclock. dobctlng-nnanager- - - n ora--lorlc- en-.2- S -- Brigham Young university . The faculty and students united in a big carnival to , uise funds for payment of the White-cotto- SEVENTIES QUORUM TO MEET SUNDAY 1 ' ! I r AAr ISSUE OF THE POST WILL The SHOP EASY: l l i ! This is the latest' photograph oV former Premier, Venizeloa, whohas by bis control parliamentary ma- - ! Jority In Greece overthrown the pro- Germ a ft government. - He has in do-- this beaten the king, who is and who has strongly his nation from ful tried to Ser bia, Ventzelos is now stronger In Greece than the king himself. MRS. C. FRUITGROWERS of-tlj- . e take has purchased the Nuttall ranch, five irilts from Provo on the Provo river, and it i sher intention to try to uso 0 the water power of one of the ditches crossing her property for the of generating power to operate a fruit drying plant, Mrs. Seymours son will take possession and will begin erecting a modern bungalow from the cobble Stones along the river, aitd from the plans she nas maae, the old Nuttall ranch will become one of the beauty spot 8 of the Provo valley. It Is her intention to utilize the fruit growing on the place and she will call upon the neighboring fruit growers to supto make It a payply her , ing proposition, pu--pc- with-enoug- se h nzl I. V. W. 5 Daughters Organize The Sons1 and Daughters of the Indian tfar Ve'terans met at the Central school Wednesday afternoon to oganlze the Sons and Daughters oj the Indian War Veterans organization. Judge J. E. Booth presided at the meeting and Harvey Cluff acted as secretary. After discussing the organization ,for a short time, three committees were appointed to form an organization and the committees were appointed as flllows:, Harvey Cluff, Harvey Booth and Estella Smith, constitution and by laws; J, W. Knight, George C. Scott and May Forsythe, on eligibility; B. II. Bullock, J. H. McDonard and Sarah Tiffany, on Number and Kinds of Officers. William Probert and Albert Jones were appointed to confer with committees and a meeting will be called as soon as they are ready to report pro-Germa-n, VtstobltioM , END PROVO CONVENTION BOYS PROVO FARM Mis. Caroline Seymour of Salt ln ! The Utah State Horticultural society completed its first two days of conxenticn Wednesday afternoon and the officers left for Ogden for the commencement of the session which Tbe Thursday morning. opened mating openei with a review of the fruit snusfion mUtah by William M. Roylance. The speaker took up fruit condi&ons existing in the, and in discussing the outlook spoke largely upon the necessity of grading and preparing the fruit for market and the need of more care in placing the crop In proper condition for shipment.. He said the outlook for the future is bright, providing the fruit is graded and prepared for thd market. Dr. E. D. Ball of the U. A. C. took up fruit-- raising and discuessed the necessity of regulating the farm prop-- I erly by not only attempting to raise fruit, but by raising bogs, cattic and crops that will go to produde an all around crop, in order to balance the farming industry. Prof. E. H. Smart of the Brigham Yojng university de Uvered an address upon the "Over Production of Fruit in the United States and through a system oftq bles showed the actual production m a number of great fruit raising districts showing the rise of the industry, the number of trees in the dif fereb t states and the production, showing that Utah Is reaping a good average tori her crop, and while the returns per bushel is- not as great as the returns In Oregon and Washington, it is equal to that. 0t most of the eastern states and greater than California. C. C. Michner of Ogden also addressed the convention Snd gave some facts relative ta the industry in the state. 'After the addresses a general discussion took place in which the growers took part end related their experiences in the fruit business. Be- - x'e-tur- en-till- ed Public School children Enter Contest on Pat , ronizing Home Industry -- Pant Sit or one Stetson Hat, The Industrial committee of Pro vo Commercial club is going to con T 1 Wood-Clifto- n " Company. One Leather and Rattan Suit Casa and One Pair Derby Kid Gloves, Ir' vine and Son. duct a contest in the public schools and will give the students twenty prizes fer the twenty best sets of rea2 Sacks of Flour, Hoovpr sons why the freopie of Provo should Utah 1st and , Brothers. support: patronize 2nd, Provo County Manufacturers; One Large CharacterDoll, Hedquist merchants; 3rd, Local Professional Men; 4th, Local tabor; '5th, Local Schools; 6th, Utah Manufactures generally. The answers must be brief, short and pertinent paragrphs; each. to contain not more, than thirty words, and must be submitted to the principals of the schools on or before Friday, December 24, 1915. Tile pupils mav discuss the questions with their parents, but must consult with their teachers. After the replies are in the nr'ncipala will deliver the prepared forms to the secretary of the industrial committee and a committee will then judge upon the merits of each set of answers. 'The prize list is as follows: Two Mackiuaw Coats, Knight Wl-o-e- n - -t Mills. One 4 yds. Dress Length Crep de Chine and one 6 to 16 years Knee 1-- 2 i A. Drug Co. Utah Made Sugar, Provi Meat and Packing iCo. One $3.00 Hat, Fletcher and Thomas One 5 pound Box of Candy, Startup Candy do. Any $2.50 Article in the Store, Taylor Brcs. $3.00 Cash, Provo Foundry and Machine Co. Two Books for Boys and Girls, Columbia Music Co. Best Pair Shoes in the Store, Far-re- r Bros. $2.00 Merchandise, Sutton Marke. Pair Vaudeville Tui.o.3 lor Eaqii Performance for One Month. Columbia Theatre. ' Pair $2.50 Shoes, Sam Schwab. J3.50 Cake Set, Provo Drug 10 pounds Company. - r |