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Show DEATH OF JOE MELICII. With sincere regret we report the death of Deputy Sheriff Joe Melich at the L. D. S. Hospital at Salt Lake City on Friday last. He is survived by his wife and seven children, with his parents, who are in his native country, Jugoslavia. Jugo-slavia. . He was forty years of age and had been in business in the Higip1 land Boy district for eighteen years. During the war he worked untiringly on behalf of the allies. He was prominent not only locally, local-ly, but nationally. He was a trustee trus-tee of the Serbian Federation Sloga and made a trip to New York annually to attend their national na-tional meetings, where he was regarded as one of thp mainstays of that organization. Funeral services were held at Society Hall under the auspices of the local Aerie of Eagles. The principal prin-cipal speakers were Dr. F. E. Straup, president of the Town Board.. and Willard Hansen of Salt Lake. Solos were appreciably appre-ciably sung by Ray Kcnner and Miss Phoebe Masters, and three selections were rendered by a choir. Interment was in the Bingham Cemetery. |