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Show uu IDAHO FALLS' FORMER MAYOR Louis Elg, former mayor of Idnho Falis, Ida., is in the city for his health. Ho Is taking tho hot mineral baths at tho Utah Hot Springs and tho Ogden sanitarium and Is being greatly benefitted Mr Elg is anions the pioneer residents resi-dents and business men of Idaho Falls and he s unstinted In his praise of the river city of the Gem state Ho says that the city recently completed a splendid light system and that the waterworks department has installed 'a good water plant. The rather damaging fire of a few days ago occurred in a district that had not been connectod with the water mains and there was no water to ho had except that carried in buckets. The Idaho Falls country, says Mr. Elg, is forging ahead at a wonderful pace and it promises to become one of tho largest communities of the in-termountain in-termountain region. Tho productiveness productive-ness of the soil is almost limitless. Mr. Elg Is pleased with Ogden and he does not hesitate to say that he looks on the city as the strategic point, commercially of the western country. oo Oscar Townseud, assistant general freight agent of the Chicago Great Western, with office at St. Paul, Minn,, has been appointed general freight agent with offico at Chicago, succeeding succeed-ing G. O. Soraers, resigned to engage in other business. R. E. Lay has been appointed traveling trav-eling freight agent of tho GalveBton,( Harrisburg & San Antonio, the Texas &. New Orleans, the Houston & Texas Central, the Houston, East & West Texas and the Houston & Shreveport, with offico at Dallas, Texas. |