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Show Bingham- Selected for the 1928 State Firemen's Meeting Bingham was advised Tuesday of Its selection as the place for holding the twenty-first annual convention of the State Firemen's Association. Selection of Bingham was made at the meeting which was held at Sprlngvllle during the week. The feature of the second day's meeting In addition to selection or the place of convention and election of officers, was the address of former for-mer Governor Charles R. Mabey. Walter S. Knight, chief of the Salt Lake City Are department, was elected president; L. C. Canning, chief of the Midvale department, first vice president; Arthur A. Makey of Bingham, second vice president; Harris Har-ris E. Anderson of Salt Lake, reelected re-elected secretary; Reuben Simpson ot Salt Lake, .reelected treasurer; E. D Anthony of Salt Lake, reelected state organizer; Edwin Larsen or Murray, reelected sergeant-at-arms; J. J. Hennifin or Eureka, rive-year-term trustee, and Dan Peterson or Brlgham City, one-year-term trustee. These, with L. E. Wlscombe or Sprlngvllle and W. T. Ayland or Salt Lake, holdover trustees, constitute the official staff." An outstanding ceremony of the morning session was the presentation of life certificates to the following: B. 'A. Hocking and Albert Dodell, Bingham; George R. Cromar, Eureka; Eu-reka; James P. Powell, Midvale; William Wil-liam J. Hancock, C. E. Drawbray, P, D. Dalton and M. D. Blake of Salt Lake; Glen Chad wick, American Fork; William Peterson, Spanish Fork: Albert Berklnshaw, Park City, and John H. Donnelly, Eureka. - C. W. Booth of Spanish Fork, chairman of the resolutions committee, commit-tee, presented to the convention a I number of resolutions which were adopted. L. E. Wiscombe of the Sprlngvllle department gave a talk on "For the Good or the Association," Associa-tion," and Chler Walter S. Knight of Salt Lake gave a talk on "The Big Fire." Music numbers were given by Miss Thelma Palfreyman, Karl Loveless of Provo, Roy McKenzle and Vera Davis. Da-vis. Miss Teas Child and Miss Jep-person Jep-person of Provo gave a duet dance. In the evening the delegates were entertained en-tertained In the City Park with a band concert. |