Show bond election today the bond election tor for the new high school district la is being I 1 old eld to day in eureka mammoth and silver city avery A very leivy vote is being polled in this cita and as near as we can tell at th tb 8 9 time i 1 I large maj majority of those otin favor the issuance ot of the bonds in order that a new building may be constructed at once there seems to be but little aus on but what tho tile i iasu qu t of the election will be favorable to the bond issue and this means t that at is work ork will immediately be commenced upon the new high chool building quite a number ot of the newspapers of utah have published a half alg ad which was sent oat out by the national light co of michigan we suppose c every very paper in the state received an order fi afton 0 n tl is 13 com company pany but some of them were wise enough to investigate the responsibility of the firm before I 1 publishing shing the ad its a dollar to the h le in the doughnut that the corn com I 1 any an is N G and that the papers using the ad will not be able to collect a cent 11 ben hen will utah newspaper men commence operating their business aloi g con conservative lines demanding decent rates and consigning question able advertising to the va basket A halt dozen of the la large rge eastern ma have beel been forced to go out of b iciness because of the gradual tendency of the large advert sera sers to draw away from the magazines and use the newspapers in borne t the large cities there is quite a discussion going on with reference to the reeni retsina na from new newspaper shaper and magazine advertising and it is needles needle 49 1 to say that the newspapers have the best of the argument the subscription price of the ordinary magazine represents only a small percentage of the cost of ing the publication and page after page of advertising is absolutely feces sary to make the publisher a business profitable the new commissioners who are handling the affairs of utah 9 metropolis are going to prove a great disappointment unless they switch their system straining bt raining at gnats and swallowing camels ib is a poor way to bi bung ing about the reform of a city it if we are to believe half of gf wl at has been published in the daily papers there are plenty of big jobs for the commis to tackle without dipp ingin on small matters that harm nobody the closing of ot saloons on sunday is perhaps all right betit but it is not proper to tell a man that he cannot buy a cigar or a loaf of bread breal on the sabbath the reporter understands that the utah development league of salt lake is 13 making an effort to have the telephone company loss lower er the rates upon toll business between the state capital and the other cities of the state this is a move in the right direction as there can be but little question but vi vs hat the present rates are the officials of the old bell tele phone company believed in charging all that the public would stand for and in spending as little of the money as possible for improvements the mountain states officials have shown a somewhat different spirit and it is barely possible that they will be willing to cut the toll rates which were es by their predecessors A cut in rates would mean more business and more money for the company corr pany in the end to say nothing of a better feel ings between the corporation and its patrons the demonstration train of the agricultural college at logan which is making a tour of the state will visit eureka one week from today toda and in the absence of any commercial club or business men a organization the duty of providing a proper welcome for the visitors will no doubt involve upon the officers of the city and county the professors who are spending their time in an effort to tell the residents of the state things that they 8 should hould know about the farming industry realize that the tintic gintic cities are mining camps and for that reason they will excuse an a lack of interest in the work which they are re doing but our reputation for hospitality must not be allowed to suffer stiffer other places which have been visited have pro vided splendid entertainments for their distinguished guest and while this will hardly be necessary in eureka it is important that a representative crowd of officials and business men be upon hand to welcome the visitors upon their arrival the speeches of the professors while they will be upon agricultural subjects will be interesting and in tive to all even to those men who are following mining tor for a livelihood and have no intention of ever engaging in any other line of dvork work |