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Show spending a few days ' vacation here with his folks. . Chips and Shavings Around Bingham J. Benton Leggat, one of Montana's Mon-tana's capable mining engineers was in Bingham this week inspecting in-specting the property of the Bingham-Montana Mining Co. Mr. Leggat is a heavy stock holder in the company and as sures the stock-holders this company com-pany has a brilliant future. A. Reynolds and W. C. Clive, of Salt Lake City were in Bingham Bing-ham the past week assisting income in-come tax payers in filling out their blanks, also collecting any loose change which the boys felt like donating to Uncle Sam. A roof fire on Friday brought both the fire fighting companies on the scene at the home of John D. North. Very little damage dam-age was done. George A . Wotten and C. Corey of Salt Lake were in Bingham Bing-ham the past.week in the interest inter-est of a . Cottonwood mining property. They exhibited some splendid samples of ore. Sam Feraco, after becoming a full fledged Elk, returned from Salt Lake City the past week in a new five passenger Ford Sedan. Se-dan. Scoutmaster Kirkham of Salt Lake City attended the Kiwanis Club banquet here on Thursday and made a special appeal for the Boy Scouts. A number of Binghamites attended at-tended the funeral services of John Gallacher, a pioneer restaurant res-taurant keeper at Salt Lake City this week. A dance will be given by the Bingham Freshies, Class of '27 at the Bingham high school gym on Friday, March 14th. Music will be furnished by the Kinney Brothers Hawaiian Orchestra, Or-chestra, of Salt Lake. Bring along your green badges and en-joyouxselves en-joyouxselves . ... W. D. Allen, who is operating the Bingham-Salt Lake Auto truck service has been permitted to increase his rates to $ 1.00 per 100 pounds on empty cases, suit cases, tinware, furniture and household goods. The change is effective by the Utilities Util-ities Commission within thirty days after the amended schedules sched-ules have been filed with the commission. Latest reports from the Park-Bingham Park-Bingham Mining properties in Butterfield tunnel which is being driven by the United States Mining Company are said to be encouraging. It is estimated esti-mated there is about 120 feet of ground to cross-cut before the tunnel leaves Park-Bingham territory and enters that of the U. S. Mine. Numerous fissures containing excellent ore values have been cross-cut in the pro-phry pro-phry and quartzite of the Park-Bingham Park-Bingham properties. - fast fissure fis-sure in the quartzite, about two feet wide, is said to carry good ore values. Doctors Christie and Ohmart, dentists, have opened dental parlors in the Woodring building build-ing over the Schram-Johnson drug store. Hours from 8:30 a. m. to 9 p. m. At the meeting of the Town Board it was decided to redeem six$ 1,000 Water and Fire Station Sta-tion bonds. Heavy water users in camp will have meters placed on their water supply. At the school house numbers of children chil-dren have been climbing on the back of autos passing on the street and Chief Thompson is desirous that this practice be immediately stopped, otherwise he will be compelled to make arrests, ar-rests, and violaters will be prosecuted prose-cuted to the full extent of the law. Leonard Gust, manager of the Bingham News shop is wearing a big smile these days as a result re-sult of a visit from the stork Thursday morning. Leonard says this will be a welcome addition addi-tion to the forces of his business, busi-ness, as it is a real honest to goodness boy. Leonard has since been busy handing out cigars. ci-gars. Mother and son are doing fine. Wesley Straup, who is attending attend-ing college at Salt Lake City is |