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Show ROOSEVELT F B ! E H! D S TO MEET IT THE UTAH HOTEL Friends and admirers of the late Theodore Roosevelt in Utah and Wyoming Wyo-ming will gather in Salt Lake City on Friday, August 15, to perfect tho organization or-ganization for the campaign of tho Roosevelt Memorial association in those states. The association plans to raise $5,000,000 in a country-wide an-1 peal for funds during the week of October 20 27. Out of this fund will: , be built a magnificent monument at Washington, and a park for the people iat Oyster Bay, which may eventually ; include the Roosevelt home at Saga-iraor Saga-iraor Hill. The meeting, which will be held at I the Utah hotel, will be addressed by one of the national executive committeemen commit-teemen of the association, all of whom were long-time friends of Mr Roosevelt. Roose-velt. William H Taft and Charles L. (Hughes are the honorary presidents of tbe association and William Bovce Thompson, of New York City, is the! (president Colonel C E Loose of j Provo will be the state chairman fori .the campaign in Utah and Governor iRobert D. Caiey 01 Wyoming will have i 1 supervision of the canvass in that state. ; The campaign win be conducted by slates, counties and communities. The, organisation Is now practically com-1 pit ted In both Utah and Wyoming. It I is the purpose of the Roosevelt Mem-j orial association to make g direct ap-! peal to Americans of every' party, d-nomination d-nomination and class. Among tho members of tbe national executive committee of the association are Major-General Leonard Wood, Senator Sen-ator Henry Cabot Lodge, Governor R J Livingston Beckman of Rhode Island. Eiihu Root. Colonel George Harvey. Mrs Medill McCormick of Chicago,' and Governor James P. Goodrich of In diana. |