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Show 31NGHAM BRIEFS There "was. only one person to take the civil service examination for a j clerk-carrier, held in the poet office here last Saturday. ';' ' The schools and banks here observed observ-ed 'Lincoln'8 birthday Tuesday, but no celebrations for the , occasion were held." . .;. ; The Senior Epworth League of the Methodist church met Tuesday evening eve-ning with Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Willis. The evening was spent in playing games and telling stories, but there waa no dancing. (Refreshments were served. Among those present were Dr. J. J. iLa.ce, Mr. and Mrs. Gust, Mrs. Greer, the Misses Greer, Mrs. Manly. Miss Henry, Sherman, Miss 'Lewie, Miss Johnson iMlss Robblns, Mrs. Grady, (Miss James, Rev. and Mrs. Tram el. The contestants nominated for the loving cup to be given away next Tuesday night at the dance of the employees em-ployees of the Utah Copper company are Miss IMaurlne tBourgard, of Bingham, Bing-ham, Mrs. IW. 'A. MoEidden of Copper-field, Copper-field, Miss Edna ilorg, of Highland Boy. In addition to the regular candidates, can-didates, the contest will be open to any one. 'M. La. James has moved his book and stationery store Into the recently completed Chandler building. This is the third time Mr. James has moved within the past few months. " Mrs. Arthur Cook has returned home from Pleasant Grove, where she spent some time visiting relatives. Mr. and Mrs. C. iH. Roberts have gone to Los Angeles, where they will spend a few months at their winter home. Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Metcalf spent Monday in Salt 'Lake. Mrs. Mark Thomas entertained the members of the Red Cross unit at her home In Markham. Gulch Wednesday afternoon. The members of this unit are iMesdamea Cam ah an, iMan waring, Varney, Kemp, Lewis, (Bruckheimer, Evans, iBuchman, Garnett. Mrs. Paul Ackerman entertained the knitting unit of the Lady Maccabees at her home in Copperfleld (Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. (Charles D. Abel, Mrs. Otto Lee and daughter Margaret spent the week end in (Salt Lake visiting Miss Stella Ward, who is a student at St (Mary's, F. J. Derge, of Salt Lake, sales manager of the Utah Power & Light company, spent a few days in Bingham Bing-ham during the week with the local office. iMrs. 1A. L. iHeaston, of Salt Lake, spent the week-end In Bingham. , (Mrs. James Jackson entertained last Friday evening in honor of her birthday. birth-day. The rooms were decorated with of last week. Tjhe evening was' spent v in needlework.' ' Refreshments ' were '' ' ,; 1 ' served. ' Mrs. Jnei Todd King entertained th .. vs,: members of the IH. a knitting unit t Thursday evening of last week. " ' ' 'Miss lAlice Pure toy spent th week--V ' end in Salt Lake with her parents,, Jlr. a, v and iM. J. W. (Purefoy. . M v Vr The members of the Relief Society enjoyed a delightful sleigh ride Tues-( day evening of last week. t Th party, was composed of Mesdames '"ier' Sorenson, Deaton, Simpson.' Wright1 Nenfin. Grace 'Loveridge, iSarah Lov-j eridge, Thorpe, FlnelL Flehe Nerdln, j Halson, Green, Pierce, Chrtstopherson. A surprise party wsj given-istrs. James Jackson Thursday evening In honor of her birthday Ttje first part of the evening was spetft In play Ing whist, Mrs. Nerdia and iMrs. Jlmpson winning the prizes.'7 On behalf of the' ladies Mrs. Patrick Hyland presented a cut glass Jelly dish to Mrs. Jackson to which suitable thanks were returned. return-ed. Luncheon was then served to the guests, who were; iMeedames George Chochos, John 1 Junpson, H. C. SDeane, Pat IHyland. Henry Borenson,-Albert Marriott, (Ed. Clays. DeWitt iBevans, Charlie Sullenger, W VS. Scott. Thomas Thom-as Nerdln, Thomas Williamson. Knos Sooggan, William Grant. Will Cush-man, Cush-man, Vaughn Christensen, Roy Davta. Lindelof. Starr, Stagg. A delightful time was had by alt present Mrs. Josephine JSvans. of Center-vllle, Center-vllle, is spending a few weeks in Bingham Bing-ham visiting her children. The services at the Mormon Church next 8unday evening will be held under un-der the auspices of the Mutual Improvement, Im-provement, Association. ' , iM las Alona Heaston, who far" the past few weeks has been in Washington Washing-ton state visiting friends, has returned home and has resumed her duties at the post office. I Mrs. Spltzeiiburger, Miss Veda Far-Uey Far-Uey and Miss Rose McDonough spent . the week-end visiting friends in Salt Lake. I Nichola Ruvina, aged 34, well known citizen of (Highland Boy, died Sunday in the St Mark's hospital, Salt Lake, of consumption . and was hurled at the I ML Calvary cemetery Tuesday by the I National Croatlon Society. The funeral fu-neral was held from the cathedral, j Rev.' Father OTBrlen officiating. (He ls survived by a widow and four chil- dren- ;,..': iMargareL the wo-year-old daughter of Mn and, Mrs.,, William Schnlze, died at the home ef her parents in Carr Fork Thursday of last week of acute Bright' s disease, . The funeral was held from ODonnell chapel and the interment was in the IMt. Olivet cemetery. ceme-tery. SaltlLake, ; IMrs. Harry J. Herr, who has been visiting relatives at.Richland. Oregon, for a,lx weeks, returned home ' this. week. 4 :'.' .'A 'Mrs. W. S. Jones has returned home from Salt, (Lake, where she has been undergoing treatment for the past few1' weeks. , -; ' ' ; ' '"' ' "Stint Cecils Oeffen spent the- weekend week-end In Bait Lake, visiting relatives. . , Miss (Lillian Meyerhoffer spent the week-end In Salt Lake with her people. peo-ple. .j-" V. 'i- .; Mark Allen, of Ogden, arrived in Salt Lake this week to accept a position posi-tion with the J. C. ipenney . company, One of the enjoyable sociables of the past week was that given by Mrs. Clyde M. Doble when she entertained a number of friends In honor of the fourth anniversary of her daughter, Maxine. An elaborate dinner waa served, at which covers were laid for Heulalu Wllcken, and Donald Byram, Lionel. Annette and -JHarvey Lewis, Vlllard and Jack Nichols, Dorothy Williams, Jewel Thompson, uVlene Burke, Merrill 'Matthews. iDorothy Wells. Clarke :IIiand, Eudora Coak-ley, Coak-ley, Thelma Jlartman, Dwlght tfasskle, Aurmenda and Luclle Merrick. Mrs. loble was assisted .by Mesdames Wells. IDyram, 'Matthews. 'Williams, Merrlek, Coakley, Thompson, iHyland and Hartman. The color scheme throughout was red, white and blue. American Beauty roses and pink carnations. car-nations. The first part of the evening eve-ning was spent playing whist Ladies prizes were won by:- First, Mrs. Jackson; Jack-son; second, Mrs. Chochos; booby, Florence Grant Men's, first. Vaughn Chris tenson; -, second, Bert. Allen; booby, Stanley Jackson., .iMusic ,aad' games were, later indulged In, after which the hostess, assisted by Mrs. Nerdln, . served luncheon. A large birthday cake formed the centerpiece. ! Those present were Mrs. Jackson, Mr. and 'Mrs. Tom Nerdln, (Mr. and iMrs. Bert Allen, iMr. - and Mrs. Vaughn Christenson, Mrs. Kd. Clays, (Mr. and Aire. Geo. Chochos, . (Misses Florence Grant iMae Dean, Iphoebe 'Masters, Agnes James, Agnes Qolnn. Jennie Jackson. Peggy Henchley, . liadde Adams. Hilda 'Fullmer, Fae Clays, Mildred Nerdia and Joe Grant, Stanley Stan-ley Jackson, Floyd Nerdln sod SUlie Clays-' ' i r :, .-. The detachment of soldiers now in Bingham came from a number of different dif-ferent states. .The personnel (a Sergeant Ser-geant Parsons . of Kentucky, Cook Dickerson of Indiana, first class private pri-vate Unnaman of Indiana, Privates Smith of South Carolina, Sanders of Oregon, Prince of Utah,1 Regalia of California and Stems on of California. They are all Jolly. good fellows and look the part of real soldiers. . (Railroad , Industrial Agent Douglas White has been in Bingham during the past week taking pictures which will be used within the next few weeks as features to show some of the difficul-' ties encountered in the matter of transportation. T. H. iPerleywiu. traveling freight and passenger agent of the Bingham & Garfield railway, was In Bingham Friday Fri-day on business. ' j Postmaster Countryman has not yet completed registering the Germans in Bingham. We has registered fifteen, but as his blanks gave out he had to defer the matter uutil additional papers pa-pers could be received. In all there will probably be twenty-five Germans In town who have not taken out naturalization natur-alization papers. Jack Dean says that the boys did him an injustice last week in reporting I the accuracy with which he shot the rs.bbit the previous Sunday. Hie says that a large number of sharp shooters were shooting at the rabbit at a distance dis-tance without renult. and that he calmly calm-ly and cooly raised his thirty-thirty gun and fired, and that the rabbit fell. The men then called hliu down, stating that they were shooting at the rabbit's head and did not wish to tear the game Into shreds. Then Mr. Dean replied, re-plied, "Well, 1 was shooting at Its eye." When one of the boys climbed up the mountain side and brought in the game it was discovered that the rabbit was shot In the eye. Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Moore, of lialti-Iniore, lialti-Iniore, moved to Bingham' bust week land are residing at 42ii Main street, j Mr. Moore has a position with the l Twin City Construction company, which Is building the B. & G. machine whops. At a social and business session of the Junior league of the iMethodlst church the following officers were elected: Mrs. T. J. Tramel, superintendent; superin-tendent; iKdna CuHhman, president; Viola Robblns, Gertrude Gerrans, Grace James and Margaret (McConnell, Perhaps the most popular dance given giv-en this year was that of the Brotherhood Brother-hood of .Railroad Trainmen at Canyon j hall Tuesday night It waa attended by a large crowd and every one had a fine time. The railroaders spared no I expense in making it a great success. Dr. J. J. ilace, of Salt Iike. spent a ! few days In town this week with Rev. T. J. Tramel In the interest of contributions con-tributions for the budget for the local I church. He Is superintendent of this j work in the state and he reports good 1 progress In 'Bingham. j The Methodist church has been made unsafe by reason of the fact that the snow has crushed In the roof of the building, and the Sunday school and preaching next Sunday morning j will be conducted in Society hall. iThero will be no evening service. The next big event for Bingham society so-ciety Is the dance to be given at Canyon Can-yon hall Tuesday night by the employees em-ployees of the Utah Copper company. A record breaking attendance is expected. vice presidents; Ivy James, secretary; lKrothy Williamson, treasurer. Miss Winnie iMcMahon spout the week-end in 'Salt 'Lake, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Guy iBolognesc. Mrs. ?am Sweat, accompanied by her son Walter, spent a few days' 1-ust week in Salt Lake visiting her mother, moth-er, Mrs. Norria. Miss Kllen Tirsen was hostess to the Sunshine Club Wednesday evening |