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Show BIDDLE PIANO was won by the Logan Tabernacle Choir, L O. O. F. Lodge was Nearest Competitor, The contest for the Riddle piano closed Wcdnescay evening at eight p. in. and a count of the votes showed that the Tabernacle choir was the winner. The choir iceelved i"8,ltii) votes and Its ueaiest competitor, the 1. O. O. F. lodge Is supposed to have had In the neighborhood of KiO.OiH) votes. After the count, of the choir's vote was announced, it was deemed unnecessary to count luither, the I.O. O. F. throwing up the sponge. On Mondav evening the choir had :itj,070 votes ami during t he day 2J2,:t'.M) weic deposited for it. The Odd Fellows had eight or ten thousand up to Tuesday Tues-day and about l.lo.ooo In icserve'tls said, but after the big showing or the choir, they refused to count theirs. This victoiv of thecholi'ls due large. Iv to tlieelToitsof Mrs. Anna R. Phillips Phil-lips who was ever aleit and watchful for votes and she got t hem. In writing of lhe Riddle cant est and the result of the vote "the only" says: "Some of tlie Odd Fellows weie iat her sole over the icsiilt and made all kinds of charges relative to Hie methods used l) the choir In winning, but they weie evidently much excited and disappointed over the rcailt, and (lid not sense what they weie saying, for the charges marie weie utterly without foundation." The Odd Fellows weie soie and while Tiik Rr:i'inii.if..v really knows little of any ehaiges made by them, tlie statements of business men lead to the belief that thoie Is room for any charge lliey might cue to make not against the choir but In the conduct of the contest. It was rotten, anything but fair and honorable honor-able and those whom the shoe lltscan wear It. "The onb's" asset linn that the charges made weie utterly without with-out foundation Is like its icpeated assertions as-sertions that nothing was vviong at the com t house. i Tlie Quailcil) Conference of the Relief Society of the llyiuin Stake will beheld hi the II) mm Stake meeting house on Friday, February 2(ltlr, at 10:0(1 o'clock a. m. and at 2:00 o'clock p. in. A full attendance Is requested. re-quested. Nki.i.ih Paukinson, President. GnoudiANA Ralph, Secretary. |