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Show Alexander, the optician, Hotel Kles-el. Kles-el. Hours 12 to 1:30 and 4 to 8. tf Ephrahn Shelton, postmaster nt Mention, Is building a new residence for himself. Misses Emma and 01le Snndbcri; of Cannon wore In Logan Saturday. They brought.a j oungcr sister to the N. .1. A. Wilkinson's business building on North 1st, West Is rapidly Hearing completion. Theie aic seeral small looms, and one large loom. Piof. Vernon of the P. Y. C. faculty is having elected a residence at. the northeast coiner of 'Jnd Jx'oith and 1st East. It Is a desirable locution. O. A. Nelson has been fixing up his baiber shop, "The Palace," In an up-to-date shape. A new cement Moor and bath tubs aie leccnt additions. Mr. E. M. .lohnson, with Yan Stmt fcChambcilaln, Salt Lake City, Is In Logan for a few dais doing piano tuning tun-ing forThatcher llios.' establishment. We made :i mistake last week Insay-Ing Insay-Ing that Prof. Anderson's wife accompanied accom-panied him as he sang In the Gates conceit. Instead, the accompanist was Miss Pagnell Jensen, recent I) from Christiana, Norway, :i ioimg lady of superior musical education now located In Logan. She is a graduate grad-uate of the Christiana conservatory of music and Is leeoin mended to prospective pros-pective scholars as a woman of cultuie and rellnement, and great success as an Instinct or. Itev. X. E. Clcmenson went to Preston Pres-ton last Thtnsday afternoon as the guest of llev. AValler mid delivered a dlscouisu in the new Presbjtcrian chinch dining the evening. Itev. Waller Is the minister Inchaigeof the (icntllc Valley dlstilct, but become seriously inteicsted' In Preston, and In the last twelve months lalsed the money to build both a chinch and manse. This building was opened on Thuisday evening for the llrst time. The chinch will piobably be dedicated Oct. 1st, and a chinch organlatlou elfected. This Is but another example of "where theie's a will, theie's a way." On the 1st of this month Mr. Zeph Thomas opened up In Salt Lake City a Debenture Savings Hank, to be tun In connection with his bank at this place. Mr. Thomas had been contemplating contem-plating this move for some time, and his business at Salt Lake became so large that the new establishment is piactleally a necessltj. The bank Is located In a splendid loom two doois east of the Kenjon hotel. Mr. Thomas Thom-as Infoims us that the new bank will Innowa iiitcifeie with the business of the Logan bank. Sovveis, one of the oldest of the Uintah Indians and a piomluent man of his ttlbc, tiled on the icseivatlon a few tlajs ago, and In accoidance with a custom in oguu among the Indians, his best hoises weie led up to the dead wanloi's wickiup and killed that he might have them to Udc over the hills and vales of the happy hunting hunt-ing giotinds. Sower had been a lover of fast horses and owned some that were veiy valuable. Among the horses that weie shot was one for which ho lecently paid X,0. Pi ice Advocate. "We have htaid It suggested bj dllf-eient dllf-eient business men that the thing most needed by them Is a Merchants Association. Theie aie various mat-teissuch mat-teissuch an association could arrange mote satisfactorily to themselves and tothch customers, and with but lit tie tumble. We understand that there aic two evils, especially that might be remedied by conceited action, besides be-sides the adoption of lilies and regulations regul-ations for mutual piotcctlon. It Is said that the merchants and business men geneially have pilces up lather high largeh, because of a disposition onthepait of customers to want to "Jew" t hem down. This Is a lather pernicious practice and one that could be KMiii'tllpil. AVith a meichants association It would also 1h possible foi each meinbei to know whom to tiust and foi how much. Theie need be no continued los.sc.son the pait of a io meichant. And again It Is said that business men Instead of pat ionizing ioniz-ing eath other aic Inclined to send oir foi goods when it Is found that a few cents can bo saved. A Meichants Association designed to concct sudi evilsaiul otheis of llko natiuo would ceitalnly piove bcnellclal. The addition to the Sidney Stevens Implement house goes ahead but slowly slow-ly as docs various other business buildings. Inability to secure material mater-ial and workmen has caused numerous and aggravating delays In the building build-ing Hue the past summer. An Idaho paper records the recent marriage near Pieston, of Miss Jane Weeks to Mr. Thomas Day, and adds: "A day Is gained, a week Is lost but time cannot complain; for soon there will be tlajs enough to make a week again." Pres. Wm. 0. Parkinson of the Ilyrum Stake was In Logan Tuesday. Mr. Parkinson Is mentioned as a very prominent candidate for the tieasurcr-shlp tieasurcr-shlp nomination, subject to thecounty convention, but he sajs he Is doing nothing to secure this honor. If his friends want nlm to have It, lie will accept and do all that ho can to lie elected. Mr. Eber Smith, for ten years a competent and valued salesman for the Consolidated Wagon and Machine Co.', this city, is now with the II. La-fount La-fount & Sons Hardware Store. Mr. Smith onjojs an excellent reputation as a hardware man and no doubt his friends will be pleased to see him at his new place. During the past six months he has been at the Montpcllcr branch of the Consolidated Co. The new addition to the Eagle Hotel Ho-tel Is practically llnlshed and with other Improvements makes this establishment estab-lishment one of the inosf.'eominodlous In the state outside of Salt Lake City. Thesuccess of the Eagle from the time of Its opening has been phenomenal, and this new edition will baldly pio-vlde pio-vlde room for the business in piospcct. The cntlie building now contains about one hundred guest rooms, three huge business looms, and sl sample rooms', also a large dining room on the second lloor. The hotel contains all modern improvements and is conducted conduct-ed on such a scale as to make It a very popular hostelry. As we have stated lieforc, The P.e-publlcan P.e-publlcan Is making little or no cITort to clnonlclc local news happenings at the present time. Until our presses arc Installed so as to enable us to get out a semi-weekly, thus giving j on the news fiesh and tip-to-date, It Is hardlj worth while to look after the local side of alTahs, other than the political situation. Such news items as come to us in the course of our loitnds among the business men, we aic pleased to mention, but aie making no cITort to cover the field. Our presses should have been heio at this time, accoiding to agicement, and we doubt, not that they will have leached us befoie another week. Kindly w Ith-hold Ith-hold cilticism until we aie in shape to cover the field as we have piomlscd, and then If we fall, let loose any cilticism j on please. |