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Show UTAHAN3 WILL RESPECT NATION'S DEAD EXECUTIVE. Governor Mabey, by proclamation, has asked the people of the commonwealth of Utah3 to observe the last obsequies of the late Warren G. Harding. The proclama- tion is as follows: ' In His great wisdom the Creator has seen fit to deprive the people of the state and nation of a trusted and beloved friend and leader Warren G. Harding, twenty-ninth presi- deent of the United States of America and we are plunged into deepest sorrow. Now, therefore, I, Charles R. Mabey, governor of the state of Utah, do hereby request and urge appropriate evi- dences of respect to the memory of our departed friend and chieftain, and earnestly suggest that the observance be gen- eral throughout the state and take the following form: That flags be stationed at half-mast from sunrise to sun- set until the evening of the date of interment; That at 12 o'clock noon, Friday, August 10, 1923, all business be suspended, transportation service for a period of one minute, and all other business for a period of ten minutes,, and that the time be given over to sorrowful medi- tation or to such appropriate exercises as conditions may permit; . That Sunday, August 12, 1923, be set aside as Warren G. Harding Memorial day, and churches throughout the state conduct services in keeping with the spirit of the occasion. |