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Show : SALT LAKE i CITY AND NEIGHBORHOOD. The big glass window plates were put into position Wednesday in the Keith block, and the new company that is -to occupy the premises has a warehouse full of goods ready to begin early next month. -5 The Elks hope to realize a library of eliout 600 volumes at their book social, so-cial, to be held at the club house next Tuesday from noon until midnight. Members of the book committee are Parley P. Christensen, chairman, and I II. Barnett, C. F. Adams. John Brooks. E. W. Duncan. H. K. Deardorff, and F-cretary A. W. Raybould. They will I bp on hand to receive such books as , j mny be donated. I Four members of the state senate J Loose. Gardner, Williams and Barnes j visited the penitentiary Monday fore- I rwoon under the direction of Governor j Wells, M. B. Sowles and Ellas A. j Smith, members of the prison board. I They found the institution in excellent i shape, but Warden Dow was too ill to I see any of them. An appropriation of j jriS.noo is asked for the prison for the j next two years. The W. M.. Rash company filed articles ar-ticles of incorporation with capital at $:n,rmn, to carry on a. fruit and produce pro-duce business. The directors and officers offi-cers are: William M. Rash, president and general manager: George W. Keel, vice president: J. Barnett. treasurer: E. A. Greenwood, secretary: Clair j Pallis. director. This new company I v ill succeed the Wood Produce oom- Ip.my. about to be consolidated with the Cosgriff Grocery company, and will continue in business at the old stand on West Temple street. Mr. Rash was manager for both the Hanson and Y.'ood Produce companies. . The great lake is slowly rising. In t ie last fortnight the level has risen t wo inches, and will continue to rise f ir the next five months. The present Vvel is three feet, two inches below the zero mark. Passengers from Tooele, ii passing Garfield, note a. visible raJry; in the lake's surface, as the water approaches ap-proaches the old shore line. -4v At last night's meeting of the board of governors of the Commercial club the following citizens were chosen to membership: Boyd Park. John E. 1 Evans. A. F. Holden, J. W. Houston, i Walter G. Filer. John Dern, S. B. Tut-tle. Tut-tle. S. G. Murray, J. H. Cripps. W. A. Price. J. W. Edmunds. T. G. Wimmer, all of Salt Lake; H. A. Moss, Denver; K. F. Freud anthal, Fioehe, Nev. The lowest bidder for the construction construc-tion of the superstructure of the new building of the University club is A. McDonald, his figure being $17,693, and I action on the bids was taken Tuesday afternoon by the building committee I of the club. !From what has been ascertained, it Appears safe to say that the Atlas and the Central blocks will be rebuilt as lour-story structures, the idea being ; that six or eight-story buildings would be -likely to concentrate the bulk of s the local commercial world in that I center to the detriment of other and leirab!e parts of the business part of the city. Senator Johnson of Piute' has intro- ' duced a bill that has for its purpose ! the illcgalizing of children's life insurance. insur-ance. The mesure provides that no child tinder the age of 15 years shall have its life insured by any company r agent. Senator Johnson says that he proposes to make it impossible for I the traffic in this state. He understands under-stands that the bill will be fought vlg-orouly vlg-orouly but declares that he is prepared pre-pared to fight back. |
