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Show ary 19th, Mr. Duffy organized Bingham Council, No. 3693 of:' this Order, last July, and Mr. Stepp was elected president of the local organization, taking insurance in-surance in the order at that time Mr. Stepp's death is the first claim in the organization here. Miss Dora Askew, a former telephone operator in Bingham, and for many years a resident of the camp who has been in the U. S. Army service as nurse for the past six years is now visiting with her parents at 829 Jeffer- . son St., Salt Lake City,. Miss Askew is home on leave but will be mustered out of the service in April. She served during war with the American army of occupation in France where she was a favorite among the convalescent conva-lescent soldiers. While in the Mesves Hospital district, situate in central France, most of the patients were suffering from compound fractures, for each 105 men there were two nurses and two corps men, and all those under Miss Askew were Americans Ameri-cans except twenty German pris oners. . Dr. F. E. Straup, Mayor of Bingham, was called to South Bend, Indiana, to attend the funeral services of his brother, Jacob E. Straup, who died Sunday Sun-day last. Chips andShavings Around Bingham Attorney A. C. Cole is confined to his home with an acute attack of "Flu" much to the regret of his many friends. Nick Balic returned from Rock Springs, Wyoming on Monday after spending eight months operating op-erating a store there. Mr. Balic Ba-lic wil take charge of the Slo-vonian Slo-vonian Store in the Hghland Boy district. George Washington Black of Salt Lake City, who for many years was in the livery business here, was in camp on Tuesday renewing old acquaintances, "Bill" Collins, one of Bingham's Bing-ham's pioneers returned to camp on Sunday after spending about three months visiting relatives and friends on the coast. There will be a little competition competit-ion in the Dance Market tonight. One dance will be held at the Society So-ciety Hall with the Gibson Sisters Sis-ters as the attraction and another anoth-er will be at the Canyon Hall with Don Kirkham and his Lagoon La-goon Orchestra. Which will prove the most popular is of general gen-eral interest. The Bingham Stage Line garage, gar-age, located on the site of the old Bingham Hotel opened its doors for business the past week Including " the stage line cars there is sufficient accomodation for about twelve other cars, which stalls were immediately taken. Tom Evans of the Bingham Meat Market is suffering from an affected left eye, and is compelled com-pelled to wear a sling. Sang, Lee, about 45 years old, a native of China, and a resident resi-dent of Bingham for about 12 years died of blood poison here Monday. He was engaged in the laundry business. His body was shipped to the O'Donnell O'Don-nell funeral parlors at Salt Lake City on Wednesday; where services will be held under the auspices of a Chinese fraternal organization. The Wells Groceteria are installing in-stalling a hot air heating plant in the basement of their store, altho the proprietor don't think there would be a real necessity for its introduction providing he could keep a newspaper man around. The crooks around Salt Lake certainly had a chance to get busy on Tuesday evening when a number of the heads of the city's sleuth's visited Bingham. They included Messers Clayton, Seager, Peterson and others, and on behalf of the Salt Lake Police Mutual Aid Association sold a number of dance tickets for the dance which will be held at the Auditorium at Salt Lake City on Feb. 14th. Funeral services for Garth Palmer, who was killed in the D. It. G. W. yards by a freight train on Thursday last were held in Provo on Saturday. The many friends of Joe Ger-rans, Ger-rans, shift-boss of the Utah-Apex Utah-Apex Mining will learn with regret re-gret he is seriously ill at the Bingham hospital. The Rev. Fred Eberhart of the Community church addressed address-ed the Bingham High School pupils pu-pils on Wednesday at memorial exercises held in honor of the late Ex-President Wilson. Homer Christensen, former coach of the Bingham High and Dr. W. C. Raymond, both of Salt Lake, made some excellent talks on athletics at the meeting of the Kiwanis Club here on Thursday Thurs-day of last week. Dominic Tap-pero, Tap-pero, Bingham's young boxer, was also present and staged a boxing exhibition. N. C. Hanks, a blind lecturer and a writer of repute addressed address-ed the Bingham High School pu- i pils on "The Evils of Narcotics' on Tuesday last, the address be- I ing much enjoyed by the pupils. ! George W. DufTy, of Salt Lake District Manager, of the Security Securi-ty Benefit Association, was in camp Monday in connection with the death claim of W. Leroy Stepp, which occurred on Janu- |
