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Show $40,000 CHAPEL FOR GUNNISON If plans made last Monday evening even-ing do not miscarry, and there is every reason to believe they will not, work on a new chapel for the Latter Day Saints will be started before piany months. At the meeting of the priesthood, held last Monday ev-., ev-., ning, Bishop Ernest Swalberg was ' authorized to secure plans and specifications spec-ifications for a chapel to cost approximately ap-proximately $40,000 and the many present were more than enthusiastic over the prospects for the new edifice. edi-fice. While nothing definite has been made for plans of the structure, it is Intended to pattern after the tabernacle tab-ernacle at Parowan, one of the neatest neat-est churches outside of . Salt Lake. The new chapel will have a seating capacity of 500 In the main auditorium. auditor-ium. , An amusement hall will be arranged ar-ranged for in the basement. A suitable suit-able stage will be erected and here dancing, lectures and amusements of all kinds will be held. Back of the main auditorium there will be an annex, divided into eight class rooms and a department for the Relief Society. To the rear of the annex will be an apartment where the furnace and heating plant for the entire building will be stored. The general church authorities of the state will assist in the building of the chapel in a financial way and the matter of appointing committees for finances and building has been put into the hands of Bishop Swalberg. |