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Show :" v THE A PRESS-BUttETI- N . VOLUME 47 , BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1918 NUMBER 45 Some Good Old Bachelo rs Were Left Out Last Week Mditor Press-Bulletin- : In your IsBue of last week 1 notice Quite a lengthy article eulogizing sev-eral of our prominent young iuii an eligible to be lead to the matrimonial halter. iBut why leave out the cream? Why use all skimmed milk? Now there is John Hocking, Fred Reuther, John Rino, J. E. Wilson, Jay Mitchell, George Warner and last but not least, myself. Now, girls, John Hocking is a man we might say the town of Bingham was named after.. For years Mr. Hocking has been trying to dicker with Sears-Roebuc- and Montgomery Word for a wife, but without success. For a girl who likes liingham and would like to make this her future home, she could do no better than lay her trap for John, for people will come and people will go, but John will re-main with us forever. And while Bpeaking of "Johns" there is John Rino, proprietor of the "Damflno" pool room. While John came very near getting married In Ogden last month, there is still some chance of the right Bingham girl land-ing this prize. Girls, don't overlook Fred Reuther. While vFred may seem a little distant and bashful to many, he has a heart In him as warm and as big as the shop on the hill of which he is foreman. We might also mention that Fred has shaved off his mustache. Wow Jay Mitchell and J. E. Wilson are presumedly confirmed bachelors, but as nothing Is worth- having that is not worth fighting for, we believe if the right girls would put' up the right kind of a fight they would be able to deliver the knock-ou- t blow. George Warner would make any girl a,, good husband, for George cau love any girl and is always in a receptive mood. You can make no mistake in selecting him. Owing to the lack of time and paper I will have to refrain from mention-ing my own good qualities. lAnyway self praise is half scandal. But if us : single men are to be sacrificed at the altar let us all die together. .Much obliged, "A Prospect,"' NEW TOIVH BOARD WILL STOP fiimiBin; i Retiring Mayor F. E. Straup Was Presented With a Handsome Gold Watch Fob He Responded to F. W. Quinn's Presenta-tion Speech in a Masterly Fashion Mayor Q. B. Kelly and the New Board Held Their First Regular Session Wednesday Evening They Decide on a New Policy and Put the Lid On. At the first regular meeting Jpf the 'town board, which was held Wednesday evening behind closed doors, a policy of a closed town was decided upon, and I hereafter gambling and bootleg-ging will be dealt with roughly. The members of the board are in dead earnest about this mat-ter and have so instructed the police department. The fact that the chief or police is ap- - ) pointed only temporarily is good evidence that the new board mean business and will remove him unless he obeys their man- - . date. It was also decided that no undesirables will be harbored in 1 the camp, but those who cannot I1 prove a definite place of employ-ment will be asked to leave town lfir will be locked up. Mayor Q. I B. Kelly aftd the other members I " of the board who have accepted I positions on the board and have I . taken their oath of office to en- - 5 " force the ordinances do not in-- I tend to allow things to slide ' along and to wink at open viola-- ) v,&rfs,-o- the law - i F'Jf Old Officers are Feted. t - i At the city hall Monday night the members of the old and new boards . P - met in Joint session and the mantle of authority passed into new hands. A large crowd was present In the build-ing to witness the formality of the change, , This last meeting of the old board, was very impressive. The final busi-ness of the administration was wound and disposed of and everything j 1 i)Viced in perfect condition bo that' ,tb new administration; might begin with a clean slate, IMr. Sullivan, the. It public accountant, who has been em-- I ployed to audit the town books, pre-- , sented his report, which showed that' I they were In excellent condition. Following this a handsome gold watch fob of Elk design was present-- of a successful. business concern. After the Joint meeting the new board went Into executive session to make the appointments and transact such business as the meeting called i for. President of the new board is Q. B. Kelly,' and the board members are j C. iB. Adderley, .H. S. iBrownlee, S. L. ,'Byram and T. B: ertephehfl. iMr. iBy-ra-was a member of the old board. That the board Is preparing for an economic administration is shown by the fact that at this first meeting plans were set in motion that will save the town $430 a month to begin with, ,To accomplish this some offic-es were abolished and- others were consolidated. The following appoint- ments were made: - - Ued .to Dr. F. IB. Straup, president of retiring board, by the board 1nem-- X . bers and the town officers as a token . of their esteem. The presentation ' was made by F. W. Quinn, clerk to . the board, in an appropriate talk. Mr. Quinn. in speaking for himself and the others, expressed appreciation for the fair and Just manner In which Dr. Straup had presided during the past four years. He said that Dr. Straup had worked hard and faithfully for the betterment of the town, and that , in doing this he was actuated by no selfish motives, but did his work for , the improvement of the town. . ' Tn receiving the present. Dr. Straup v-- '- made a very Impressive talk and re-viewed his relations with the board members for the past four years, ' . which he said had been very con-genial. He stated that he had been associated with a number of business, ,', social and fraternal organizations, but ' A.-- d never been with one where so .1 much congeniality and unanimity of purpose existed. There were differ-- j ' ences at times, but on all the great issues the board members and the president were a unit. He also said V that the affairs of the town were be--1 ing handed over to the new board In a splendid condition, and that it could begin its work with a - clean slate. The new board members were remind-ed that they were elected on the rec- - ord of the retiring board and he ex-pressed the belief that they would maintain tho standard set by those ' - have had charge of the affairs of tr the town for the past four years. His talk was listened to most attentively 0 ' by the crowd, and all who heard him W were favorably impressed with his re- - marks. . ' The personnel of the d is: is President, Dr. F. B. Straup; board members, S. J. 'Hays, W. V. Evans S, I L. Hyram and It. . Johns. The town . owes them a debt of gratitude for the j 1 excellent service they have rendered, ' When they came Into office they found 1 much work to be done and they did " it, and did it well. The splendid n t sidewalks, the Increased water upply. the commodious town hall, the modern fire trucks, fire hall, improved 1J lighting system and other valuable improvements will be a fit and lasting t tribute to the aid they rendered the town. And in spite of the great im-- I i provements made which cost (large sumsif money, they were made with-- i out burdening the town with debt. So ') when the affairs were wound up they did not pass to the new board any 1 dt-lit-s they had created during their 1 tenure in office. This of itself speaks 4 much for their work. The affairs of fi 'the town. were handled much like that 1 " k F. W. Quinn, clerk; S. S Jones, chief of police (temporary); Phil Cul-leto-patrolman; William Fobbins, water superintendent; VV. E. Alexan-der, assistant water superintendent and special police duties; II. N. Stand-ish- . custodian of the city hall and health officer. The offices of health officer and custodian of buildings were consolidated, and the position made vacant by the recent resigna-tion of Policeman White will be filled by one of the above officers in con-- i nectlon with the other work. The of--j fice of city attorney was abolished as a salaried office. The legal offices at the city hall are occupied by Attorney A. C. Cole, who located here several months ago, and hereafter the legal work of the city will be handled on the fee system. In the organization of the board Mr. Adderley was se-lected treasurer. For, days and weeks the people on the street have been talking and ask-ing each other who would be the ap-pointees of the new administration. There was very little guessing, and the majority of those who discussed the matter seemed to want to get the other fellow's idea, but the other fel-low seldom gave it. Since the inaug-uration of the new board there are now a great many who are anxious to know what policy it will pursue and there has been quite a 'little talk on the matter. Rumors on the street say that the authorities are going to be more exacting on those who reside in the town and have no visible means of support. So far as is known offic-ially there will be no sweeping chang-es. Those mentioned above are nlong the line of retrenchment with a view of conserving the finances of the town, and this was made possible by the fart that there is not bo much de-mand for police work as when there were 28 open saloons. As has been mentioned time and again In the local paper, the water (Continued on page 8) BINGHAM FIREMEN HAVE GREAT II III . First Joint Meeting of Year Well Attended Offices For New Year Elected School Faculty Give Interesting Program-Sple- ndid Banquet Poet Laureate Reads Catchy Verse on Faculty Members Many Interesting Jokes and Stories Re-late- d. One of the most enjoyable meetings held by the firemen in a long" time . was, that Tuesday night when they met in joint session at hall No. 2. In spite of the inclemency of the weath-er a large crowd was in attendance, First the business meeting was held at which time the attention ,of the companies were called to the fact that ' there were a number of defective flues in the town and the captains were in-structed to look into, the matter. This was followed by the election of offl-- ' , cers for the new year. Those elected were C. J. titillman, president; A. J. Sorenson, vice president; Dan Fitz-gerald, secretary-treasurer- . 'After the business' of the occasion was completed the meeting was turn-- ' ' ed over to the entertainment 'committ-ee,. E. O. Locke and Theo. iMarx, and as had ben previously arranged the factulty. of the high school entertained for. something like a half hour. Mr. Southwick was chairman of ahe facul-- . ty program which consisted of solos, duets. Quartets, piano selections and readings and recitations, Peter , Mar-thak-ls gave a .number of Interesting readings, among which was a parody on Anthony's oration on Caesar In which he said that he had come to , bury the faculty not to praise them, He made quite a number of good hits and the crowd was greatly amused. Throughout the faculty program was 4noslv?ffocUvelyrendered and. elicited, much applause. Music was also fur-nished by Messrs.. Cook and Kenner, rendering several selections which were greatly enjoyed. . It now being well past 10 o'clock ar-rangements were made for a Hoover-ize- d banquet. The soldiers, as well as the faculty were guests of the fire-men, and this feed was least among tho pleasantries of the evening. After the feed Alberta cigars were passed through the crowd and those who smoke enjoyed a real snwke Uhat night. .' , ' After the feed Theo. Marx announo- - ed that H. G, (Locke, poet laureate ot Bingham, would present his stately verse to the assembled auditory. .Mr. '' lLocke's poem was lengthy and highly ' entertaining, and at most of the time his hearers were In an uproar of laughter over the clever original Jibes at some who were present. The poem featured Lieut. TJader, who spoke at the last fireman meeting, and finally . came down to the members of the fac- - r ulty who were present, of whom It gave a splendid : characterization. Ii was very interesting, and but for the fact that portions of It would not get by. the censor we would reproduce it for our readers. v . For an hour following this feature the time was spent in tolling good, wholesome Jokes and stories. One of the leaders In the joke line, was ex- - " Judge iTtaan. AIho Southwick. - Coak-ley- , iDeLaney. 'Homer P. Chrlstensen contributed substantially to the mer-riment of the occasion. , The meeting broke up shortly alter midnight. LIBERTY BONDS NOW HERE Karl Randall, cashier of the Bingham State iBank, informs us' that, the Liberty Bonds of the first and second issue have ar-- rived. Those who subscribed can get Bame by calling at the bank. A REAL GHOST WAS SEER HGU According to talk among the em-ployees there is now and has been for two weeks a ghost in the camp. A real, strange, mysterious ghost that has caused many who have seen and heard of it to wonder at , its queer capers.' Heretofore this community has not been bothered much with ghosts and "haunts," and there are doubtless many people here who have never seen one, and it seems strange that a common ghost would pick' out a mining camp as a field for opera-tion. And there are no negroes here with wild,' fanciful imaginations to take fright at the appearance of the supernatural. aa4 seek other placs..f abode, but In uplte of all this a ghost' has paid the camp a call. The alleged ghost made hlg debut some two weeks ago on the. Utah Cop-pe- r hill and his first appearance in public created quite a little excite-men- t among those to whom he favored with a call. According to those who have seen it or heard what the other fellows said who did see It, the ghost is a handsome, well dressed man with a rather long nose and ' somewhat chiseled features. He was first ob-served one night coming from O level down to N. He had no lantern and! he did not seek out the trails, but came straight over the precipice and! reaching the level approached a shanty wherea,few souls were assem-- i bled. The men did not know it was' a ghost and Btarted towards it, think-ing it was a man, as it looked. At the Bight of the men the ghost began a flanking movement, ran across the level and Jumped over a high : and dangerous precipice to the M level Those who saw it were' horrified. They decided it was a crazy man or some desperate criminal and they knew he was killed. So they picked their way around by a trail to the low-er level to find the mangled remains! of the unfortunate, but they found nothing. They were puzzled at the appearance and the disappearance of this strange visitor, but had this been the only call it might have passed un-noticed. It wasn't. Mr. Ghost came again and seemed to take special de-light in letting the men chase him awhile and then he would Jump over a steep cliff and disappear. These capers he kept up night after night,1 but would never enter Into conversa-tion with the men, and would disap- - pear wnen it seemed that tie was about to be cornered. And when he disappeared there would be no trace of him left behind. . Hut at last one night he descended to the :N level and the men there de-cided to capture him alive. When the men started for him the ghost fled as usual, but this time he did not choose to Jump from one level to the other and ran along the level with the men In hot ' pursuit. The men gained on him and Jimt as he was ap-proaching a sharp curve on the level were almost ready to lay hands on him, but when the ghost rounded that curve he vanished Into thin air. It is said that there was no nossible way for him to escape or hide there, but when the men reached the corner they could not see hide nor hair of him. There is a diversity of opinion about this apparition, but In view of the fact that the ghost Is still at large we can see no necessity for elucidat-ing upon mere opinion. J. C. PENNY STORE WAS ROBED OF 1000 MIES Some party or parties entered the J. X Penney Company store between twelve o'clock Saturday night and seven o'clock Monday morning and took therefrom a bag of coin contain-ing more than 1000 pennies, five watches, twelve watch chains, i, and perhaps some other articles. The scheme for getine in the Rtorn was a clever one, and It must have , been somewhat hazardous. The par-- , ties entered the building from under-neath. That is, they centered from the sewer where there Is an 'optming i large enough for a man to crawl ; through But in order to reach the Penney store by the sewer route" it is necessary to travel quite a distance through the bad water under build-ings and in darkness. No matter whether they went with the current or up stream it Is some distance. Having to travel the route they did they had no idea of carrying away large bundles of luggage, but were evidently on the lookout for money. They broke open the cash drawer, but failed to find the coveted riches. Then down under the cash register they found a bag containing 1000 pennies. They doubtless thought this a rich catch and must have, been keenly dis-appointed when they got off to them-selves to count the money. ' Immediately after discovering the burglary B. E. Willis, manager of the J. C. Penney Company, offered a re-ward of 50 for the arrest and convic-tio- n of the guilty parties. IGHIiWED A WRESTLING IAICH The first jui-jits- match held in Bingham in five years was held last Saturday night, in the anyon Hall. Professor &. Takahashi, the Japanese ' jui-Jits- u champion of Japan, the man who threw all comers at the Panama-Pacifi- o Exposition at San Francisco ' In 1915, was the leading performer of! the evening. The professor, wrestlirig Jui-Jits- and the Masked 'Marvel.' wrestling catch-as-catc- can, put up a stiff fight. There was some irre-gularity as to the rules of the bout, but finally - everything-wa- s - to the arranged satisfaction of both contestants. The first fall was won by the Mask-ed Marvel In two and one-hal- f min-utes, the Marvel using what is known In the wrestling game as a Pile Driver. The professor scored the sec-ond fall by using a Japanese hand hammerlock, which was made In seven and one-hal- f minutes. The third fall was made by the ProfeBBor in eight minutes, by using' a strangle hold, This was made possible by the fact; that the contestants wore the loose Japanese wrestling togs. Altogether the chief bout of the evening was well worth the money. ' The Marvel has quite a reputation, having defeat--! ed Workman, of Rigby, Idaho, the man who once defeated IMIke Yokel. The first preliminary was a two-- ! round boxing contest between Harry Tesharogi and Pet Willard; this was Interesting but lacked the punch usual ly observed in boxing matches. The second preliminary was be-tween Harry Tesharogi and-T- . Nara-hari- , this was a Jui-jits- u exhibition and wa really very clever. These! two Japanese boys showed the ways of defending one's self when attacked by a robber, or when In a fight The third and last preliminary was between H. Tesharogi and Pet Will-ard. They wrestled catch-as-catc- h t can. The first fall was secured by Tesharogi in five minutes hy a full Nelson hold, the second was won by Tesharogi in eight minutes by a body scissors and a head chancery. Altogether the bout was one of the best ever witnessed by the local fans. The bout was staged by the Japanese boys of Bingham, and they are to he conjratulated upon the entertainment that they furnished the people of Bing-ham i A friend of the Press-iBulletin- , who is a good liar himself, and who be-lieves In repeating every good lie he hears, dropped Into our sanctum Wed-nesday afternoon with a clipping about lies and liars, which he thought the people of iBingham would be glad to read, and he requested that the same ' be published for the benefit of the ' people here who might be interested in the delightful pastime of lying. The clipping reads as follows: f, "Lying," said Mark Twain, "is a no-abl- e accomplishment, and it should be encouraged. When we hear a good lie we should repeat it, giving to the liar the praise that is his due. I met a real good liar in Florence, Italy. His name is Pietro. To incite Pierto to one of his loftiest flights I said to him one day, 'Did you ever hear, Pietro. of the fish that lived on the frost?" 'No,' said he. HVell, this fish, I explained, "haunts the 'Maine coasts. It comes ashore every morning before the sun has melted the frost, and from the rock and tree trunks and. grass blades It scarpes with its blunt teeth enough of this cold food to last It for the day. it can never be caught in the water, for the reason that it will not rise to bait. Some times, though, men catch It ashore with their hands. Its flesh Is considered a delicacy and brings $2.25 a pound.' . '"Pietro Bneered. 'Now I will tell you,' he said, 'about my uncle's mule. My uncle kept his mule in a wooden stable, and he fed It on popcorn. One day the stable took fire, and the pop- corn in the male's stall; shoot Ing up into the air, descended all about the unfortunate animal In soft, white flakes. These flakes the mule mis-took for snow. He imagined he was In a snowstorm and froze to death." HERE IS ONE FAT MAN WHO IS LOVED I fcV ,1:- :JS I , : 'V '$S : 1 : iJr-wAn-l r v- - mVv V' ;V : l ' r 5 ! , ! "Nobody loves o fat man," but when he Is wearing tin 'uniform of an American murine und 1 In France nenlng his country, nil ehiuws utul the fat man becomes the Idol of the people, especially the children, 'fids' Jolly plump Yankee marine is playing pnpn to these French kiddies and he Is the "great-est man in the world" to them. irwii MRS. BEN LEWIS ENTERTAINS Mrs. lien Lewis entertained the TU'd Cross knitting club Saturday - after-noon. The Idea was promulgated In Japanese fashion, the lunch consist-- ' ing of chop stiey, noodles, grass Baud-wiche- s and other oriental delicacies. . ' AIho Japanese lanterns were lined. Present were IMrs. Caniahan. Mrs. Mrs. iMnnwaring, Mr. j Thomas, Mrs. Chandler, 'Mrs. Willard Evans, Mrs. Grant, Mrs. Garnett. J SERBIANS CELEBRATE i . j January 7th is Christmas to the Ser-- ' jbians and a great many others who i reside In this community. According to reckoning of time tht t church their calendar diffem by thirteen days from outb, and '" therefore they celebrate Christmas thirteen days later. J The center of the celebration was at j Highland llioy last iMonduy, where there was general and a good time. Deputy Sheriffs J. W. and V. li. Jones ' were enter-tained at the Christmas feast Monday by Pete Louvre and they brought back , glowing accounts of the royal manner in which they were entertained, j On the menu was roast pork, chick-en, beer (near beer, of course), and a great variety of other good things very pleasing to the palate of the of-ficers. . .At the general Christmas feast at Highland dloy the celebrating partv had fifty pigs roasted, borbaeue style, iind those fellows know how a pig Just right. Well known among the Serbians at Highland 'Hoy are Joe and Steve Mfl-Ich- , Pete Sudakovieh and Pete Bog- - ,8011. FIRE COMI NUMBER ONE IfCIS m OFFICERS ': Wednesday night the members ot the liingham fire department company No. 1 met and elected the following officers: Captain VV, F. Thompson; assistant captain, Fr.'d Johnson; chairman, E. O. Locke; assistant chairman, Charles Kelly; secretary, C. J. Stlllman; as-- ! slstant secretary, J. W. Trelour; treasurer, 8. J. Hays. |