| OCR Text |
Show ! ED I TORIAiTs (By C. D. McNeeley) Have you bought a thrift stamp? Booze in Bingham is worth its weight in gold. The latest sensation in Salt Lake City is the lady spy. tory, however), was in town and sought out Nick Tonkovich and offered him the following 'bargain :' Twenty-fiv- e pounds of sugar for $1.98; 6 cans of peaches, $1.18; 6 cans strawberries, $1.18; 25 pounds coffee, No. D. L., $9.63; 1 keg pickled pigs feet, $1.75 28 R 1-- 2 pounds of cheese, $3.68; 2 gal. fancy syrup, $2.98; 1-- 4 box of soap, $2.88 amounting in all to $25.26 but seeing was Tonko-- g vich, the big-heart- ed Robert Lind company would let him have the whole order for $14.00 cash Tonkovich to pay the freight, which he guaranteed would not exceed $6.00 if it did, Lind company g would make good the excess. Of course, Tonkovich 'snapped up the remarkable bargain and paid over the 'mon.' Yesterday the 'goods' arrived, but before the purchaser could get them he had to pay $9.16 for freight, instead of $6.00 or less. When the 'pack-age' was opened, instead of the many articles above enumerated, Tonkovich found himself the possessor of a few pounds of rotten cheese, absolutely worthless ; kit of pig's feet, a sack of nee, a lit-tle sugar and a can of baking powder, the whole 'truck received not worth $2.00. Of course Mr. 'Lind & Co.' had 'skipped before the goods arrived, and now Marshal Tracy is trying to locate him, and Mr. Tonkovich is anxious to prosecute the out-of-to- sales-man for obtaining money under false pretenses. So it goes wily anglers and foolish fish,' a combination always disastrous to the 'fish. " . TRADING WITH STRANGERS LIKE TRADING WITH ENEMY The world is full of people who are looking to strike bargains where they can get something for nothing. They think that some-where there are business houses and people who will sell articles of value at less than half price. An incident of this kind happened some days ago in Park City. A stranger dropped into that town and claimed to be a representative of a Salt Lake concern which was selling household necessities dirt cheap. And he had little trouble in finding a sucker who was willing to pay casn in advance and take the stranger's word for it. The Park Record tells the story and we reproduce it for the benefit of the people in this community who might be duped in a like manner. The account as given by the Record is as follows: "Suckers will bite and outside 'grafters' ply their trade among those who do not trust the home merchant, but rather pay their . jrood money to slick talkers and get practically nothing for it. There is only one remedy for this disease of 'hankering for some- - thing for nothing,' and that is: 'Patronize your home merchants.' This week some fellow supposed to be representing Rolert Lind & Company, Lock P.ox No. 1, Salt Like (not in the telephone direc- - Spend your money in Bingham. It will help make the old! ' town better. Another modern commercial building has been completed in Bingham and a portion of it was occupied in advance of the finish-ing touches. There is at present an under current of talk on the county election for next November, and those who have their ears to the ground say it is going to be a live one. Copperfield is full of the spirit of real patriotism. Her peo-- pie have shown it and manifested it on every occasion. So far every soldier leaving that town has been honored with an enthu- - v siastic farewell party. The Copperfield people are all right, all right. Guaranteed- - g Work Clothes (E23Wft?f5 n Made of good, substantial mater-- Jj. ials, guaranteed to stand the hard- -' trf est kind of wear and priced un- - Xz-- usually low these are just a few rf" good reasons why you should buy ? AfeU-yu-r work clothes here. - Unusual Hat and Cap Opportunity We still have some mighty good jSSpZ&Zsm Ha ana Cap values left; enough sf VX7 ke UP sPace badly needed for l'XJvi T our Spring stock, f- -s Help us make room for the new r-- goods, and get a fine Hat or Cap 1 at a big saving. Short lots, odds J "N-I-i and ends, in all shades, priced for . J " quick clearance ?100, $1.45, $1.95, $2.45 QJ.Isiy ' B.&G. NEW SCHEDULE The Bingham & Garfield Railway Co. i The Popular Route Finest Equipment. Best Train Service Two Trains Daily Between Bingham and Salt Lafe City TIME TABLE Leave Salt Lake City: Leave Bingham: J 7 45 A. M 9:25 A. M. 3:00 P. M 4.50 P. M. Arrive Bingham: Arrive Salt Lake City: 9:05 A. M 10:40 A. M. 4:25 P. M 6:10 P. M. v Effective Saturday Morning, December 15th, 1917. TICKET OFFICES CARR FORK AND UPPER STATION Take Electric Tram at Carr Fork Station. H. W. STOUTENBOROUH, A. G. P. A. F. B. SPENCER, Salt Lake City, Utah. Agent, Bingham, Utah. wmmmmmmmmmmmKmmmmmmimmKmmmimmmmmmmmmmmmemMm - CAI! CANDY! CANDY! When buying Candy you not only want to know that it is fresh, but you want to know that it is pure and made in the best way from the best materials. We are in a position to assure our customers that the ' Candy bought at our store is always of the highest quality - in every respect. It is manufactured at our own factory every day by an expert. Ask your friends where they get the best candy and they wiH ten you from The Royal I Candy Company I OXFORD I 1 (Formerly Budwciser) 1 1 Pocket Billiards I H First Class Cafe, Modern Rooms in Connection. 1 I Tobaccos, Cigars, Drinks, I I 499 MAIN STREET 1 I J. W. MATTHEWS, Manager. 1 The people of Utah should return thanks to the Great Creator I for this splendid weather. . Our friends in the East and even in I the Middle West are suffering the terrible blasts of a terrific win-ter and coal is scarce, while here we have plenty of coat and a semi-tropic- al climate. Regardless of all these blessings some people are still inclined to grumble. When you feel that way, brother, just stop and think what the boys over in the trenches are suffer-ing for your sake and mine. It is even colder over there than it is here in America at the coldest, yet those boys are standing in the trenches shivering in the mud and water for your liberty and for my America. The Bingham people-ar- e still asking questions as to when steps are to be taken for the construction of the cement road from Bingham to Midvale. Just when the steps will be taken is un-certain. There seems to be some difficulty in arriving at a plan under which the 'highway might be built. The columns of Ihe Press-Bullet- in are open for a discussion on the subject. They say Salt Lake Is still wide open. A representative citi-zen from the metropolis was here a few days ago and did some bragging about the ideal conditions there. He said that in his city the saloon men not only served the best of liquor over the bar, but that the bar-tend- er would always hand you the bottle and let you pour out your own drink. One man in Utah may have to spend about forty thousand dollars to get out of his failure to report his income tax last year under the old law. Another one may have to spend about eight thousand to settle his affair with Uncle Sam's representatives. These are cited here to urge every citizen in this city to see the income tax collector at the Federal building and make his report in the proper manner. There is no chance to escape, and the pen-alty is very severe if you try to dodge it and get caught. It in-cludes a term in the penitentiary and a heavy fine if you dodge this report and are apprehended, as were the two gentlemen mentioned above. A great many Bingham people took a lively interest m the contest over the chief of police for Salt Lake City which was fought out between the Tribune and the Herald-Republic- an with a result favorable to the latter. The Tribune people here said with the Tribune that Parley White was not fit for the place, while the Herald-Republic- an followers said he was the best man in the world. The way things have turned out the Tribune will doubtless find it . difficult hereafter to get its morning drink. If every man and woman in this community would read the story of "The Clackers," in Collier's of February the ninth, it would tend to check some of the wild stories which are being cir-culated about this city. For example every now and then we hear some report come in from "Somwhere in France" or somewhere in the distance, that so and so told Aunt Kate that a certain soldier boy had heard that one of his company had paid the Red Cross so much for a sweater. But when you come to trace the thing down the fellow who wrote the letter or the exact facts are sel-dom available, and are generally found to be the work of The Clackers. One of these cases now and again may be a true story, but in ninety-nin-e out of a hundred they are the work of Clackers. Our army officers are not such a cheap bunch that they would al-low Red Cross articles to be sold to the men. Unless we have more of the kind such as former Captain R. F. King, who would resort to almost any extreme whatsoever to raise a little coin. Complaints have reached this office regarding the local milk supply. It is alleged that the milk has entirely too much water , in it to be serviceable as food. One party says that the milk he gets from the peddlers is hardly worth drinking at all. Milk vendors should exercise more care in this matter, because milk is not very good when it i3 more than half water. , Of course there is a possibility that the milk men are trying to Hoovenze and have found out that an application of water makes the milk go further. But even at that most of the milk users would rather water their own milk. It is regretted that unkind personal reference was made in this paper two weeks ago to Malony, Salt Lake reporter, who covers this territory once a week in the interest of his paper. Mr. Malony is not only a good newspaper man, but he is a refined, courteous gentleman and we have yet to entertain the first un-pleasant feeling towards him. We consider the publication he represents unfair competition unfair to the local paper, unfair to the local merchants, unfair to the town but personally we have the highest regards for him. And we would not write anything that would be personally offensive to him. A public library would be a mighty fine thing for Bingham and could be had at a small expense. The little towns all around us have libraries for the benefit of the students in school and the citizens generally. In our neighboring towns which are too small to have a Carnegie library there are libraries in connection with the schools, the Bingham schools are not so fortunate in this mat-ter. It is possible that the local teachers might be able to create .a little sentiment on this line, and if they would they would ren-der a great service to the community. Good reading matter is :now an indispensable part of an education, but it is impossible for many people to have good reading matter in a town where there is no library. By all means Bingham should have one. CHINA NEEDS A ROOSEVELT. The Chinese lecturer who appeared here the other evening brought out some astonishing facts which might be worth while for our people to consider in the building of a great nation. One of those points was that the Chinese people had a remarkable power of endurance which was perhaps cultivated throughout . early childhood. One method used in developing this endurance was their system of education, which is perhaps not the best or the most ideal. Chinese children go to school at 4 o'clock in the morning and stay until 8 o'clock in the evening. This is more like a system of torture or punishment instead of a phychological drawing out or developing of the child's mind. Yet as a nation we are coddling our children along at such a rate that there is danger that they lose the development of those qualities of endurance which are so essential today in making a strong race. Then, too, we are drifting so far from that other essential element in the making of a sturdy race, viz., work, that the lecturer to our way of thinking really sounded a note of warning worth while. If every boy was compelled to spend at least six months of the year on a farm at hard manual labor during the so-call- ed adolescent period it would be a great blessing to him and to his race. China's great enemy is Japan, according to Dr. Ng Poon Chew. America and many of the other nations have a warm place in the hearts of the Chinese people, but Germany will for ages and ages to come be an avowed enemy of China, because of her terri-ble atrocities committed against the people of that nation. The lecturer stated that what China needed was a leader who would teach them how to fight. He said that China had 100,000 men that they could send to the trenches at once and never miss them, but they were not trained fighters. In this connection he said: "Some of you people do not seem to want Roosevelt ; if you don't, we'll take him. We would like to have Roosevelt in our country, because he could teach our people how to fight," said the speaker. The writer would be glad to see Mr. Roosevelt take up his residence in the Orient were it not for the fact that the Republican party might need him for a candidate in 1920. We would be the last man in the world to deprive that bunch of anything they want, because they howl enough as it is. The question of national holidays came up for discussion at the city hall a few days ago and Francis Quinn, who is good auth-ority on matters of this kind, sprang a surprise on the crowd by stating that there are no national holidays. He said that there were certain legal holidays but none which were strictly national holidays. There are six days which are generally referred to as national holidays, because on these days throughout the country operations in the government of fices are suspended. They are New Year's day, January 1; Washington's Birthday, February 22; Memorial Day, May 30; Independence Day, July 4; Labor Day, first Monday in September, and Thanksgiving day, the last Thurs-day in November. " - In speaking of the conditions after the war Josephus Daniels, secretary of the navy, touched the keynote a few days ago when he stated: "I am not in the least interested in the future just now. It does not exist for us in our present mode of thought. The thought of the things to be done in the immediate present is too big to leave us time or inclination to think of the future. That ia as it should be. We are living and working in the biggest woch of the world's history. Why neglect it for a moment? "Why think about a future that will look back to the great present that we have the privilege and responsibility of making? Our only concern need be that we produce something now that the future will have occasion to be grateful for." If every American interested in winning the war would think, speak and act in the manner set out by Secretary Daniels there would be much more --efficiency manifested by this government ROAD CONSTRUCTION PLACED IN A NEW LIGHT. Now that Washington is committed to an intelligent road con-struction program, it is calming and heartening to realize that Canada has come to the identical conclusion after three years and more of war. England likewise has decided that the highway net work is as essential a part of her war-maki- ng resources as many an item over which her successive ministries have split and fallen. To engineers who have been engaged in this work, as well as to the more numerous groups who have been urging extensive pro-grams for reasons that are not so logical, this almost universal change in viewpoint comes as a complete and welcomed justifica-tion for their long continued advocacy. The formation last week of the Highways Industries Association seems to indicate, further-more, that the business of manufacturing materials and machines for road construction may be put on a different and broader basis, and that an understanding has been reached through which much of the unhappy propaganda and counter propaganda that has pre-judiced many people may disappear to the benefit of all concerned. Engineering News-Recor- d. We are now told that the coal mines of the state are likely! to have to shut down on account of a lack of market for the coal. The East is freezing to death and we have coal to spare, and yet the transportation charges make it almost prohibitive to ship over the mountains and across the plains to where it is needed. This means great things in the future for Utah, because in time the big manufacturing plants which are using vast amounts of coal in the eastern states will be moved here because it will be cheapor to move the manufacturing plant than it will to try and move the coal to it. |
