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Show TREES AND FLOWER BEDS DESTROYED. Heber Scowcroft, prior to building a palatial home on Twenty-fourth, street, set out saplings to beautify tho ground. A day or two after he discovered dis-covered that his labors had been to no purpose as vandals had destroyed the tender growths. Complaints from at least a dozen sources have come to this office, of trees injured and flower beds robbed. rob-bed. Near the corner of Twenty-ninth street and Grant avenue boys have stolen the flowers and then uprooted the plants, including rose bushes. Would it not bo a good plan to cm-ploy cm-ploy a few plain clothes men on the police force for a few. days to search out these wilful destroyers of trees, shrubbery and flowers? An example made of one of these vandals would serve to stop the practice. Many owners of beautiful lawns ara endeavoring to make them more beautiful beau-tiful in an effort to have Ogdcn show to best advantage during the period of the Grand Army encampment, but if hoodlum boys and a few, rascally men are to be allowed to set at naught all thl3 careful, painstaking work, then there is no encouragement for these- home-lovers, with pride In their I lawns and flower beds, to continue to strive to make Ogden exceptionally attractive |