Show EPHRAIM GETS BLACK HAWK ENCAMPMENT This years meet of the annual encampment en en- encampment of the Black Hawk War Var Veterans will be held in Ephraim during the week of AuguSt 3rd according according according ac ac- cording to the decision of ot the committees committees committees com com- from Manti and Ephraim who met meet in the Savoy Hotel last Sunday afternoon to det determine whether Manti ManU or Ephraim is to have the meet meet It seems that Manti ManU could have had the meet had there been sufficient sufficient sufficient interest shown on the part of the citizens as a whole to warrant the committee and officers of the local post to assume the responsibility ity of bringing the encampment hereIn here hereIn hereIn In fact the last public meeting held Saturday night voted to bring the encampment here at Manti l during the week of ot August 3rd But the 1 t. t committee eu C felt mil there Utne did um not nul seem to tobe LUbe LU LUbe be sufficient public interest back of ot them to guarantee the kind of entertainment entertainment entertainment en en- that would react as a credit to our city and also that it might be injurious to the County Fair to try to stage two major entertainments entertainments entertainments en en- in ono one city so close to each other Members of the fair tair board were asked their ol opinion as to the probability probability probe ability of injuring the fair should the encampment be held here and they were Ore unanimous in their opinIon opinion opinion ion that it would bej be Injurious but they expressed pressed themselves as being entirely willing to do all within their power to make the encampment a success should it be decided to hold bold It here It was estimated that the cost of the encampment would would approximate between two and three thousand dollars which would have to be raised through the local post by appropriation donations concessions concessions concessions conces conces- charges and by cha charging ging ad admission mission to special entertainment features which WHICH illig be ue promoted promoted The general nature of the encampment encampment encampment en en- programs as determined by the state commander and his staff provides that free free entertainments are to be furnished the visitors inthe inthe in la lathe the nature of three programs per day These free programs are al' tobe to tobe tobe be furnished b by the other local posts of tho the state The Indian War Var Veterans Vet Vet- orans erans and Pioneers are to be furnish furnished ed free entertainment while they are here and transportation tation at the expenSe expense expense ex ex- pense of tho- tho local post This item could not however amount to soI so much as there are only a few of I these Veterans and Pioneers left I |