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Show VOLUME 48 BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH, FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1918 , NUMBER1 5 THE SPRIT OF VICtORY f V" THIRD - ( ; 'y,v. vuoEimfLOANr The above is a design contributed by Howard Chandler Christy for use in the coming Liberty Loan drive, which opens in Utah and the nation next Saturday. Art articles state that Christy has risen to new heights in endowing this painting with the spirit of freedom and victory. . One million of these posters of this design, in eight colors and two sizes, have been lithographed for general distribution. , 111 ID PATH illI I ;l lil 1 1 fi Number of Splendid Addresses Delivered Club Rooms Well Filled Greater Part of Program in Italian .Tongue Were Guests of Commercial Club. One of the most important patrl-oti- c meetings held in IBingham for some time was that of the Italians of the camp, who assembled at the Com' 1 mercial Club rooms Tuesday night as guests of the club. ' - - ? The meeting was called to order by 1 Mayor Q. "B. Kelly, who welcomed the Italians to the club ona mace some appropriate remarks concerning the meeting. He then Introduced John Contratto, who acted aa chairman or the meeting, and spoke In Italian. Jlei; made a speech, explaining the nature-o-the meeting and presented the-- ; other speakers. . . Miss Contratto rendered the nn-- -' tional Italian anthem in a most effec- - ' Uve manner, , s Following this A. C. Toe, city attor-- neyy made a splendid talk reviewing : the wonderful history of tho Italian people, and he made a special appeal ' to those who were not already Ameri- - . can citizenB to become bo without do-la- y. - , , 'Miss Maxine Kelly rendered a piano solo. Dominick Pesezapane, speaking In tho Italian tongue, delivered an ad-- " drass which held the closest attention of the Italians and appeared to make a deep impression on them He spoke especially on Liberty bonds. Thin-wa- followed by an address by Mrs. John Contratto on the work of the Red Croes la Italy, France and Belgium. She spoke In Italian and f ddresf.d her remarks particularly to. the ladies. In speaking of what tha women could do the reviewed the -- work cf the wife of the famous Italian general. Garibaldi. She spoke in a ' mo-i-t impressive manner, and was lla-- -- tened to with great interest. The next speaker was Joe Scnsseli; who talked briefly on the work of " every one doing what he cuuid U win the war. """ help , ' Judge John C. Green was the next speaker and he urged the Italians to take part in municipal affairs and to afrtliate more with tho other people of the community. The speaking of the evening was concluded by a half, hour talk by Mrs J. H. Milnno, who spoke of the Red' Cross and the war savings work. He- - for the meeting closed President Kelly-extende-d an invitation to the Italians to use the Commercial Club any time-fo- r patriotic meetings, dances or any ' purnose they desired. ' 'After the meeting the Indies ad-journed to the parlors of the club where they formed a ,Red iCross unit ' " For the rmaii der of the evening : the visitors were the guests of the club and were entertained In a most ' appropriate manner. . This was one of a series of meetings which are being hf Id by our citizens of foreign birth. Binghrm has the dis- tinction of being the first city in the . state to inaugurate meetings of this kind and the effect is a most whole- some cne. r The Italian Red Cross unit which wm organized et th mnn-.- , ...,n give a dance In the Commercial' Cluh within the next fortnight, G. Mllano, editor of the Italian Ga-- ?ette. Salt Lake City, and J. Bruno, of ' 1 San rancisco, who were to liavo boen the main speakers of the evening were prevented from mterding the meeting on account of the bad condi-to-of the roads. They wera stuck e ' mud some dlatance from 1an am did not r.'ach the camp until M:S0 A letter read before the meeting' by Mr. Pezzupanc is published elsewhere jin this Issue. Mayor Kelly Issues Proclamation Relative to Event All Clocks Moved Forward One Hour People Readily Become Adjusted to the Change They Get Up an Hour Earlier and Retire Hour Earlier. ' ILast Sunday Bingham witnessed a t change of time, when the clocks were turned ahead one hour, trains arrived an hour earlier and people got up and started work an hour earlier. There was slight confusion the first day, but since then everything has been worki-ng1 fine. With reference to this change a number of people here have commented on the fact that the clock rather than the sun is the real guide of activities among the citizens. In bringing the change before the citizens of Bingham Mayor Q. B. Kelly Issued the following proclamations (Whereas, By an act of congress, It is provided that beginning the last Sunday in IMarch and continuing until the last Sunday in October, the clocks shall bo set one hour ahead; and, W hereas, The governor of the State of Utah has issued a proclamation in accordance with the provisions of this act; and, Whereas, The purposes of this act are patriotic, and we are going to get up an hour earlier to beat Kaiser Wilhelm, and it will make for greater ! .jSiar efficiency, improve the general j health of the nation, increase the pro-- I duction of feed, save fuel by reducing the use of artificial light and add one I hour to the day light playtime of the 1 "kiddies' ... I'. Now, therefore. I, Q. B. Kelly, mayor I of the Town of Bingham, pursuant to I the provisions of said act of congress. . I do hereby proclaim and declare that I , The clocks in Bingham shall be set I 3ne hoaf ftieal n the evening of I ...fluster Sunday. , 1 ,'i '1 his change is unlverral and will i causae no confusion; business will go ' on just, the same; appointments will Je kept, just the same; raih-oad- a will run on . the same time tables and a million tons of coal will be saved. L Go to bed an hour earlier Sunday I night, but before you go, set your clock an hour ahead, when you awake live your life as usuaL un lesumony nereor l nweunto set iy hand and affix the seal of the Town of (IJingham, this 3jth day of March, tA. 1), 19,.S Q. iB. KHIJLT, 3Iayor. Attest: F. W. QTTINX, I. . Town Clerk. y The provisions of the above procla mation have been carried out and are being carried out in Bingham in every detail, and no one is inconvenienced on account of the change. - , BIDS WANTED : Bids for sprinkling the streets for the season of lftlS will be re- - ceived by the town board until 8:30 p. m. on-Ap-ril 10. Bidders 4 will please submit figures for day's work and monthly work. F, W. QUINN, ... Town Clerk. ' CiGHAM BASEBALL TEAM ELECTS OFFICERS FOR SEASON The first regular meeting of the Bingham baBebull ,club, held at No. 1 fare headquarters, with members pres-ent as follows: Otto Burke, Ole Jen-sen, lAndy King, Ed Shaw, Jon Soren-boi- j, Joe DeLaney,' Jack Speuce, Joe Cuiihman, Art Sorenson. tAfter the meeting was called to order arrangements for organizing were made and officers for the season were elected as follows : Joe DaLaney, ' manager; Otto Burke, captain; Art' Sorenson, secretary and treasurer; iloe Cushman, publicity mauaer; Ole Jensen, fifth man on the board of di-rectors. Three committees were appointed to raise funds and at present the firemen have already done considerablo work. A new grandstand has been built. The grandstand has been moved about 60 feet down the canyon, and this makes it possible to have fie diamond more on the level. . , It has been planned that whatever funds are on hand at the close of the season will be donated to the Red Cross or to the soMirrs' tobacco "fund Bingham has some fine material this year and there Is every reason to be-lieve she will put out a winning team, Om? of the officers of the club in speaking of the prospects, said that he expected as strong a club this year as that of two yes.rs ago. when this town onjy lost two out of 32 games. . 111$ Any American toMIro tt on the torpedoed transport were protected by United Stules government "Insurance and government compensation. Those who hud not applied for insurance were covered by automatic insurance, which .is paynbla to a wife, child or widowed mother. The automatic In-surance aggregates about $4,300, net-ting $i:r a month for 2-- months. In-surance (hut had been applied for U pnynble to a much larger class of ben-'StiU-and coti go a high us $10,-00- 0. nettinj $57- - a month for 240 months. The compensation in of death, given by the government without charge and regardless of rank or pay, ranges from $20 to $75 a month, based on the nuirtlier of deptndnts. Pay-- nicnts under the compensation feature of the military and dhvh! Insurance act In case of 'death are payable to a widow, children, defteudent wid-owed mm her. , The automatic insurance ceased on FeiiniHry 12, but the compensation feature of the act Is a ephrate pro-vision. The scule of compensation in case of death follows; a) For a widow alone, $25. (h) For a widow and one child. $35. (c) For a widow and two children, $471)0, with $r for each additional child up to two. (d) If ther (be no widom, ithen for one child. $10. (e) For two children, $:tO. (f) For three children, $40. with $5 for each additional hlld up to two. (g) For a widowed mother, ?20. The amount payable under this subdivision shall not be greater than a sum which when added to Uve total amount pay-able to the widow and children, does not exceed $75. To meet the shortage of small silver change In Norway a large Issue of one-crow- n nifes"fat normal exrhtinge the Norwegian crown Is worth 20.8 eents United Stntes current?) has been put (a circulation. The United States publls health amice Is carrying on a campaign along sanitary lines in areas adjacent to 28 military camps. Complete sani-tary organizations work to prevent the spread of disease from the civilian population to military forces, and t protect civilians from conciiunlcuble diseases where taey have occurred among troops. The organizations Include physi-cians, military engineers, uuraes, at-tendant aud laborer Methods un-dertaken Include Inspection of all handling food luppllea. chin mrsiUMoviE" ' OFERJSIflS DIED SMUT Ciiin Ming Silk, a well known China-man, who has been in Bingham for about six years,- - died last Sunday night of pneumonia after an illness of abojjt 12 hotiTs. . SiJk was wU known nd well liked here. For some time he haa ot-t- n janitor for the Bingham State hank, the Commercial Club and operated the machine at the Paramount-Prin-ces- . He was about 30 years of age and was one of the best of the Chinese in the camp. He was known as one (if the most efficient operators of a movie machine in the camp. He was iKo connected with the Souol Cafe. Th funeral was held Tuesday after-noon from O'Donnell's chs-iie- l in Salt Lake. ITALIAN PRISONER WRITES BROTHER BEGB'EOR 1(1. This letter came to Mr. Ciet Guer-rlno- , a resident of Bingham, from his brother, Ciet Orlando, an Italian pris-oner, Jrom Mannheim, Germany. It reads as follows: My Dear Brother. By this letter J will inform you that 1 am in good health, at present. Hope you are the same. I don't know Ifj you are aware that 1 am a prisoner in Herman haiids have been from last November, 1917. I believe that you know that our home town has b"en occupied by the Germans and Auirtriuns, and I "don't know any news of it I wrote to the folks, but was unable to ;?vt any an-swer at aB. LeasTen, I om all right, but I am dying for hunger. 1 have nothing to eat, and no change to get tnything from home. I pray you with all my heart to send me some bread, if you can, "by mail or expreso through the Red Cross or some other source that you may think, that will bo de-livered to me soon, before I die. And if some day I cpme back to you I will repay you for every favor whi!h you may do to me today. As I said. I can not get anything from heme because the Germans occupied our city, so It is up to you to help me out and try to do your best. 'I-- me know come news of our folks, if you do know something about them, in your answer, I will close, giving yon my bent re-gards ana kisses. Your ever loving brother, CIET ORiLAXDO My address is as follows: Ciet Or-lando. 112 Comp. No, 55449. War Pris-oner's Camw, Mannheim, Germany Chips and Shav-ings From Lark Theo Marx of (Bingham, the Alberta cigar manufacturer, was in camp the past week commenting on the suc-cess of his product. Mr. and (Mrs. Harvey iLar.ro's are visiting In California. Mrs, Brandon. Mrs. Lamos' mother will make her future home there. Bob IMyerhoffer and Louis Hem-mingse- n inspected farming lands throughout Idaho the pest week. Mrs. John Green and son of Bing- ham have been the guests of her sis-ter, Mrs. iHarvey Thomas, the pant wek. Arguing with a bahy butcher seems like a waste of good dictionary words, 'Miss Veda Wray, the charming daughter of Mr. and CWrs. J. Wray, is spending the Easter vacation with her parents h?re. Miss Wru.y Is an high school student at Salt Lake City Superintendent Joseph Hyland of the Bingham Mines Company, spent his Easter at Salt (Lake City with his family. Tiie stork visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Newman and de-posited a ffno baby girl. .Miss Dannie of Riverton is acting as nurt.e, Ben Lewis, Bingham's landing jew-eler, and I. Selvin, Bingham's clothier of men, with their sons and daughters visited In camp on Easter Sunday Mrs. George Wood head Is visiting with hr--r daughter, (Mrs. O. Shippon, at Long Heac! Cal. Funeral services for George Roe were held on Sunday last In Society hull nt rri. ..i ""8", i iic bci vices were under the auspices of Oqulrrah .odge No. 17 Knight i of. Pythias. The Rev I. Trammel of Bingham eulogized de-ceased in appropriate language was in the Bingham cemet-ery, a large number of friends attend-ing to pay their last to one who was loved by all with whom he was acquainted. Foreman Pat Hyland of the Yosem-it- e Mines Company, represented the mining company for which deceased had been employed for several years as a stationary engineer. A variety of beautiful floral tributes completely covered the casket. 'War is hell, but there is some satis-faction in having It demonstrated that one American soldier can whip about four super men. A recent commerce report contalni the followiug in regard to the coal shortage to Austria: "A petition of the Union of Cinetnl Theaters to the emperor rcju?Btlug permission to heat cinemas In order to avoid the rule of tie Industry, baa re-sulted in consent bt-ln- given for the utilization of old wood as fuel for the cinemas in Vlennn. "At Prague all schools were to ba closed for a full mooth, from Decern. ber,16 to January 15. At Zlzkov (near Prague) the schoola hate already been closed for a month, and the holidnyt are likely to last three months. At Budenltz, close to coal mines, tlie school is closed. At Smlchow strin-gent measures for economy In the use of electricity hove been taken owing to the lack of cool; for example, pri-vate consumers are ordered to restrict their consumption to a single lamp. The lighting of Btalrs and vestibules is restricted as much as posslMe and must in no case be continued after 9 p. m. ; the closing of the electricity works is threatened. "At Lemberg the electric trams ceased to run on and from November 23, owing to lack of coal. The mu-nicipal authorities are doing their ut-most to secure sufficient transport for coal In order to resume the tramway service and maintain the gas and wa-ter works. 'Shops close at 5 p. m., cafes at 0 p. m. Several schools have been shut. Trains with a run of less than one and w-b- alf hour will not l heated." . ARIZONA-WYOMIN- OPENS : OFFICE IN BR1GHAM P. L. Mullen, secretary treasurer of the Arizona-Wyomin- g Oil Company, arrived in Bingham this week and has opened an office in the Grand hotel. . Mr. Mullen will be here some time In the interest of his company, whose holdings are located near Casper, Wyo., In the great oil district His property is surrounded by that of the s Midwest, iBig Muddy and the Big In-dian, all of which are producing enormous quantities of oil. The Big Muddy field of Wyoming is Bow the greatest oil producing section of the country. Oil was first discover-ed there in October, fl16, and the out-put has steadily been increasing since that time. . MASQUERADE BIG SUCCESS The grand masquerade ball given in Canyon hall 'Monday night by Prof. Siegel, wag a success in evry respect . ", and was a highly enjoyahle affair. The costumes were very attractive and were the subject of mnch favor-able comment. 'Prof. Siege), who is conducting a dancing school here find at Copper-field- , demonstrated his ability In mak-ing the masquerade one in which all present were highly pleased. i - ' MANY JAPANESE SICK It is said thtt there are 100 Japan-us- e laborer sick at tho Endow camp this week. They are troubled with , ulckness due to the sudden changes in the weather. MUCH SICKNESS IN BINGHAM Most everybody In (Bingham has been sick during the past week; The. trouble ! a complication of sore , throat, colds, grip, chills and pneu- - monla. This is probibly due to the unusual weather which has prevailed in the camp for the past two weeks. It has been very warm for the season, sev- eral days almost like summer, and the . druggists and the doctors have ben kept busy. SEVEN HUNDRED PEOPLE AFFLICED MTU NEW DISEASE It is estimated that about 700 peo-ple have been 111 this week in the tamp with the new disease which hus struck Bingham with" a terrible force Practically all the Japs employed by the Utah Copper Company have been laid off on account of this illness. It has even struck the IPressBulletln office, and our printer and the editor have been hit quite hard, so if your job of printing is a few davs late don't kick too hard. If the news looks a lit-tle short this week just ennrge It up to the new disease and call it square. The pnyslclnns have been busy combatting the trouble, and at pres- ent writing the epidemic seems better under control. .Let us hope that it vanishes with the next aunrlse and ceases to come this way. HINDU DEPORTED Policeman Phil Cullerton left Wed-nesday morning with One Man Singh, I a Hindu, for San Francisco. This man j in arriving in the country did so con-- f trary to the laws governing auch mat-liter- s and he will be deported to the - country from whet.ee he came. BHIS NEW CHIEF OF POEICE ji IN CHARGE IA1 Pouch Monday assumed the duties of the office of chief of police of iBingham. Mr. Pouch has had ex-perience along this line, having acted as deputy sheriff for a number of years, and he looks like he ought to make a good and acceptable officer. He has the requisite nerve and then he Is a man of good common sense and pound judgment He looks like a man who can b- - depended on to do the fair thing in the discharge of his duties. STUDENTS BUY THRIFT STAMPS The students of the local schools .fThim" ery act,V.e 1,1 the Pas stamps, and according to an- nouncement made this week thei pupils of the Central school l)aV bought over $6000 worth of stamps. It was well known tlmt the t idenls were taking stamps rapidly, but the an- - iTf"11 nt thflt the-- v had '"URht over joooo worth came as a surprise. Giving the Lla In Georgia. Chief Justice Hill of the aupremf emit of Georgia said in Rumsej igalnst Bollard: "All the Judge oi this court, being to the manner born; are willing to take judicial cognlzanc of a fact which aa individuals they all well know, that in Georgia to call a man a liar, even without raising ij stick, usually provokes a breach of th peace, and most generally brings on light There may he exceptions to this rule, but they are rare exotics, and find ' little nourishment In our Southern sol' j and beneath our Southern sklea." PARENTS AND TEACHERS' MEETING HELD IN HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM The parents and teachers held a meeting n the hich school auditorium last evening, and a good attendance was present. President Potter of the Granilev high school board was the principal speaker on this occasion, lie talked along the line of "Education" the nvct Important fea-tures which are used In our local edu-cational system. After the program was over the plrls of the Home Eco-noml-department served tea and cokes. ALIEN ENEMY UNDSR INVESTIGATION Spiro Radrnan. an Austrian, of Highland Boy, who was arrested last week, charged with several offenses and of belnff'a dangerous alien enemy, 's now in jajl at Salt Lake awaiting the federal investigation. It i aliened that Radmnn had ben v busying hin.self interfering with en listmeuts and that he was a dangerous man. This man will not have any trial but the federil officers will In-veKt'gate the matter and from their, findings he wi!! either be released or interned for the period ot the war. "1 ' New On en Snakes, A group of boys wera leaning their' noses up against the glass case which harbors the boa constrictor at the rep-tile house at tha New fork zoological gardens. "Where's its rattler?" aske one of the kid to a companion. "Ho, ho," roared another of the boys; "ha uln't gjt no rattler. When a soaks 'eta that big he's got a whistle." FIREMEN MEET TUESDAY NIGHT The 'Bingham fire companies will meet in joint session next Teeadny night at hall No. 1, and arrangements .have been made for a jolly good tirnt At the last Joint meeting a commit-tee' was appointed to provide enter-- ' toinment and this meeting ought to be one of unusual Interest. Alarm CIock Twin. Bachelor (sadly) "I dreamed last night that I was married. The alarm clock woke me." Benedict (more sac1 Ij) 1 nmed Imt night Unit I wal !ukK The twlus woke ." Buffalo New. |