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Show HM CITY E S BI5I1S FIRE BRIGHAM CITY, Dec. 25. Christmas Christ-mas eve a fire in tho residence of Moroni Faulkner, First East and Second Sec-ond South, for a time threatened the entire building and destruction of most of the furnishings. The fire is thought to have started In the upstairs when Mrs. Faulkner went into a clothes closet with a lighted candle to get some articles, and In passing the clothes it is supposed that the fire of the candle touched the clothes and started the blaze after Mrs. Faulkner had returned down stairB It was about 9 o'clock, and as the Are had got quite a start before it was noticed, considerable consid-erable damage resulted when the firemen fire-men applied the water. The inside of the house and much of tho furnishings were badly ruined by smoke and water. Miss Maud Forsgren has accepted a position as stenographer in the ofDce of Congressman Milton H. Welling in Washington, D. C and will leave January 5 to take up her position in the National capital. Miss Forsgren Is an efficient stenographer and for many years has been connected with the First National bank in this city. The people of the third ward will hold their annual program and banquet in the ward chapel and amusement hall respectively next Friday. The observance ob-servance of the Christmas week banquet ban-quet has become an annual affair in that ward, and every adult person residing re-siding in tho ward, whether a member of the church or not, is invited to participate par-ticipate In the festivities, which begin at 1 p. ni. and continue until late In the afternoon and finished up in the evening by a grand ball for tho married mar-ried folks. Today at 2 p. m. funeral services were hold in the Willard chapel over the remains of Miss Myrtle Davis daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas II' Davis of that city, who died vesterdav morning. Miss Davis had just ro-turned ro-turned to her home in Willard after a S?nPn,s ir? to this citv' and became afflicted with a peculiar disease that Ogden and Brigham physicians could not diagnose. She lived but a few hours after being stricken |