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Show TOES DEDICATED ST UMVEBSITY CLUB SITE TODAY With Imposing and pleasing ceremonies, cere-monies, the University club members today recognized the importance of Arbor day by planting five green ash trees, to be historic, perhaps, in the future, in front of the now club building build-ing at Twenty-sixth street and Washington Wash-ington avenue. Judge J. A. Howell, the club's first president, presided as master of core-monies, core-monies, introducing each speaker in his usual happy style. The Rev. John Edward Carver christened chris-tened the first tree in honor of Wood-row Wood-row Wilson, president of the United States, Princeton university and the ministry of tho gospel. Mr. Carver delivered an eloquent little speech, commenting on the present exalted position po-sition of his former Instructor In jurisprudence jur-isprudence at Princeton. As the ceremony cere-mony proceeded each member put in a spadeful of earth. Dr. R. Kanzler dedicated a tree for the medical profession In honor of tho Northwestern university and Dr. John B. Murphy, the world's greatesti physician. John Culley dedicated a tree in honor hon-or of Professor Remington, the father of modern pharmacy. Elaborate ceremonies attended the planting of the tree in honor of the legal le-gal profession, in which Judge George S, Barker, Reinhart L. Gideon and Claienco E. Wright, attorneys, were the speakers. The tree -was dedicated In honor of Chief Justice White of the supremo court of the United States. The fifth tree was dedicated in honor hon-or of tho constituted authorities by R. A. Gery of tho forest service, especially es-pecially in honor of the agricultural work of the forestry department, represented rep-resented hero, by tho Agricultural college col-lege and the University of Utah. James J. Brummitt also spoke in honor of this tree, its significance and future interest. in-terest. The trees are about ten feet high and were procured for the occasion by Mayor Abbot R. Heywood, whose public-spirited efforts brought about tho building of the University club. Tho foundations for tho building are now being laid and it will be completed in June There will be an enjoyable house-warming at the formal opening on the Fourth of July. oo A party of New Yorkers were hunt-Ing hunt-Ing In the "piny woods" of Georgia and had as an attendant an old negro ' whoso fondness for big words is char- 1 acteristic of the race. One of the ; hunters, knowing the old African's bent, remarked to him: i "Uncle Mose, the indentations in terra firma in this locality render ( traveling in a vehicular conveyanco without springs decidedly objection- ; able and painful anatomically. Don't you think so." Uncle Mose scratched his left ear a i moment, and replied, with a slow shako of his woolly head: I "Mistah George, the exuberance ob yoh words am beyon' mah jurydic-tion." jurydic-tion." t |