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Show FLU BAN LIFTED . INjEDAR CITY Meetings, Schools and Other Public Pub-lic Gatherings Given Permission Per-mission to Resume. BUT FEW NEW CASES HAVE DEVELOPED DURING WEEK Ivory Balls Were Rolling and the Young People Dancing at the Cabaret Last Night, and Trading Trad-ing at Stores is Reviving Fast. The influenza ban hus been lifted from Cedar City. You may attend Sunday School and Sacramental meeting meet-ing next Sunay; Monday the district school will re-open, according to present pres-ent arrangements. Tonight or tomorrow to-morrow night as soon as a shipment of films is received the Thorley Theatre The-atre will reopen. Last night the ivory balls were clanking in the pool rooms, the brass band was holding a practice, and the young people were enjoying a dance at the Blakely Cab-erct. Cab-erct. The town is fast returning to normal, and trading at the stores is beginning to pick up. The B. A. C. opened tho first of the -week and has continued with no bad results, though every precaution has liecn taken to prevent any cases from developing in school. Some three or four new cases have developed during the past week, but on the whole the condition has improved im-proved very materially, probably ten having been releascl from quarantine for every one placed under these restrictions. re-strictions. -. A comparatively few families in the city now have not had flu, either this year or last, and it is found that ono siege of the disease renders the victim , largely immune. So that tho situa tion appears to be quite satisfactory. Closo watch will, of course, bo kept on travel to prevent the disease being be-ing brought in again from other places. plac-es. Reports received from Salt Lake City are very disquieting. Forty to fifty funerals in a day, one of the reports re-ports Btate. The Salt Lake papers npw admit that they have tho flu in Salt Lake, and one of them admitted to ten deaths one day, which is quite a concession on their part. It seems too bad, and certainly a very shortsighted short-sighted policy for the business interests inter-ests of Salt Lake to muzzle the press and suppress accurate information about such matters, merely because it is feared that it will curtail business. busi-ness. Once it is fully appreciated by tho country pcopleithnt the Salt Lake papers cannot be depended upon for accurate information on such matters it will have the effect of keeping them away when there is nothing to fear, and Salt Lake business interests will be the losers in the long run. The (?) is mighty large with tho average av-erage Salt Lake business man, ns well I ' as with Salt Lake newspapers. 4 |