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Show --." v VOLUME EIGHTY-FIV- E BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH, APRIL 21, 1927 NO. 46 Masonic Memorial Nears Completion - s u fc . tu;our', ; Washington v I L? r ' " ' I M.ONl,;NATjlONA,-i- ! MORIAt, 1- -3 j" u ririii if-f- J' Lri iiii irh ruin .,- - r, mmtt The nutiouui memorial being erected to George nshingtou. Master Mason, by American Mason a, 1 Bearing completion at Alexandria, Va. : : PRISOMIRSPUT TO IRK LAYING CEMENTON ROADS During the week Sheriff C. W. Pat-ten has had a gang of prisoners at work doing some cementing around the county hospital and infirmary. This is- preliminary to the work which it is expected to have the pris-oners do this summer. Between 12 and 15 men have been used at the county institutions and this number will .be increased to 25 or 30, for road work in Big Cotton-wood canyon and other places. The work done by the prisoners has Saved the county a large amount of money, and is satisfactory in ev-ery way. Before launching this policy, how-ever. Sheriff Patten consulted with leaders of various labor organiza-tions to ascertain their attitude and was given every encouragement to go ahead. Sheriff Patten explained to the la-bor leaders, that the prisoners would not do work that could be done by contract, and would only do work that would not otherwise be done, unless performed in the manner out-lined. BINGHAM KIWAN1S INVITED TD ATTEND SPHIMBVILLE MEET J. F. Mendenhall and Dr. Nelson Bcal of the Springville Kiwanis club were visitors at the local club meet-ing during the week to extend an in-vitation to Bingham Kiwantans to at-tend the state Kiwanis meeting to be held in Springville, Thursday evening. It is expected that eight or ten couples will attend from the local or-ganization. In addition to a number of high class musical numbers, Professor J. H. Paul of the University of Utah, will discuss the subject of "The The-ory of the Beautiful." The local organization was inform-ed that between 40 and 50 couples would, attend the meeting the Salt Lake organization. Members of the Bingham Kiwanis club, Boy Scouts and high school stu-dents, are to be highly commended for their work of last week, in the beautifying of the cemetery. Between 40 and 50 evergreen trees were planted and will be kept alive by the various members. Wagons and teams were on hand to haul away the debris raked up and the place really presents a most beautiful appearance. Following completion of the work, those participating repaired to The Tavern, where a splendid dinner was served by the wives and mothers. In addition to performing real commun-ity service the Kiwanians had an ex-cellent social time. Oil Awakens Dreary Old Town talking to their farmer friends aboat "signing up." The professional lease seeker might he mistaken for a millionaire horse-man or a lieutenant of some Balkan arm;. Ills boots are high and laced, nnd from the top of these, In neat folds, are varicolored stockings. His shirt Is bright, and when It Is not open at the throat Byronesque It Is adorned with a cravat of latest vogue. Usually he wears a corduroy suit of blue, brown or gray. Folks of the countryside discuss with awe the fact that geologists poked about among the rocks and hills and finally assured oil men that If they would spend approximately $115,000 on a given spot they had a good gamble of hitting "pay." Farmers bring their families almost dally to Boise City to gather facts about the well. Perhaps the field extends to their farm? Anyway, their leases ought to be worth a ralte. Real estate prices are being Inflat-ed; snies are rapid. A few weeks ago shacklike homes on a lot could be bought for $200 without any bick-ering. Today one would be lucky to secure one at $1,500. Merchants have enlarged their stocks. One of them bullta lean-t- at the rear. of. his store and offered "rooms to rent." Activity Is BWlnglng beyond the city limits. Oil men come by train, by motor car and by airplane. Oil In the well Is 2,000 feet deep and has a paraffin base, while the base of oil In the Borger (Texas) field, ISO miles away, Is asphalt. So the sleepy capital of No Man's Land finds Itself exceedingly prosperous and somewhat awed. the well. Casing and coal would have to come considerable distance, hauled In by truck or teai over the trails of ranchers through the flint hills. Calm Bafore Storm. To the east of Boise City there were Indications of the steadying hand of civilization. Farms were fenced, the old rancher trails were cut off; milch cows, chickens and hogs added to the revenue. Boise City Itself drowsed. Its 800 residents could not get much kick out of drought and rocky bills and baked earth. A little more than a year ago the railroad came and more attention was given to highways. The CO miles to a larger town Is now a drive of some-thing like an hour. South Is Dalhart, Texas; southwest, Clayton, N. M. ; northeast, Elkhurt, Kan. ; east, Guy-mo- Okla. Itevetly Boise Cljty-wa-awed with sudden tidings that the Ramsey brothers had struck oil in their wildcat test ten miles out of town. The word was broadcast over the oil fields of Kansa9, Oklahoma and Texas. The little bamlet of No Man's Land was overrun with visitors. Prices soared overnight. An oil scout asked for the check for his supper. The proprietor called to the cashier that the bill was about 90 cents. "But I had only two fried eggs and coffee," the customer protested. "Well, I'll let you have that for 75 cents," the proprietor retorted. Whereupon the oil scout instigated a movement to transfer headquarters for the new field to Elkhart, Knn., 52 miles northeast, or to Dalhart, Texas, 60 miles south. Lodgings Are Scarce. Opportunity seekers are now finding it difficult to live comfortably In Boise' City. Lodgings are scarce, although Boise City has converted every fa-cility Into sleeping quarters. Garages and barns and attics and sheds are bringing their owners large returns by caring for the overflow from the hotel and two small rooming houses. To tho9e who do not mind pumping what water they want and reposing under Inadequate coverage, these accommo-dations are to be had for from $2 to $5 a night. Oil men sleep In their clothing to keep warm. On every corner hover lease spec-ulators. Everything is "sewed up" In lie Immediate vicinity of the well, but reoiote leases ofttlmes bring good profits. Business men from nearby towrts are taking' a fling In the oil game, and Boise City residents are Arid Wastes Suddenly Leap in Value When Petroleum Is Located. Boise City, Okla. When oil is dis-covered in an American community, curious transformations take place In rapid sequence. Changes are as em-phatic as going suddenly from defeat to victory, want to satisfaction, drows-iness to activity, hope to realization, shacks to homes, overalls to riding breeches. Boise City, the sleepy hamlet in No Man's Land of Oklaho-ma, Is the latest example of what the discovery of flowing black gold can do for a community. BMse City, bound territorially to Oklahoma, is a sort of poor relation of five states Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado," Texas and New Mexico. ' It Is within hailing distance of- - each, but none of I hem ever sent delega-tions In quest of Boise City's trade, because Boise City was poorer than a field mouse. The 300, more or less, happy souls of this once dreary capital of No Man's I,and plodded along trying to get a living under discouraging con-ditions from broom corn and wheat and cattle. Drenching rains were hailed as godsends. Merchants led their business away when depression appeared ; where there were no crops there. was no money. The place never had a reputation as a crop producer; usually it was drier than Old Tray's last year's bone. A Bandit Lair. In Wild West days the desolate mesus furnished horse (lileves and bandits with Impregnable fortresses. When gunfire seemed Imminent the outlaws would ascend the steep, ar-duous trails to the summits of rocky hills. There they- - would stand their ground, and since only one trail led to the summit, the pursuing posse of men found it Impossible to escape the shower of bullets from the top. As long as outlaws held their summit they were safe. They could dispatch death to halt the ascent of any one who took the trail to them. Where the mesas converge in" an effort for fertility, apple and perfh orchards relieve the monotonous pauo, rama. The cattle rancher still rules over the hills; farmers have optimis-tically sown patches of broom corn and kafflr. Last summer, when an oil rig pounded Into the earth there a herd of cattle mooed suspiciously at it. Now that the rig Is the cynosure of all eyes and hundreds of persons visit the well, these cattle have moved further Into the hills. All about Is wild coun-try; but this, of course, was of minor import to the geologists who located BINGHAM HIGH PRESENTS "THE GYPSY ROVER" "The Gypsy Rover," romantic mus-ical comedy in three acts, was pre-sented by the Bingham high scohol students, at the high school audi-torium, April 19, to a large and ap-preciative audience. The play was exceptionally well presented, for which much credit is due J. Clement Crapo, who directed the music, Miss Helen Candland, who had charge of the staging; Miss Iris Sleater, who directed the dancing, and Miss Verna Skanchy, who looked af-ter the costumes. J. M. Woodhouse, had charge of the stage settings and lighting, which were beautiful. The cast of characters were: Meg (Rob's foster mother) Jane Steele; Zara (the Belle of the gypsy camp) Bertha Kappele; Marto (Meg's hus-band) Walter Abplanalp; Sinfo (gyp-,s- y lad in love with Zara) Robert O'Neal; Rob, (afterwards Sir Gilbert Howe) Thomas H. McMullin; Lord Craven, Willard Nichols; Lady Con-stance (daughter of Sir George Mar-tindal- June O'Neal; Sir George Martindale, Atkin McCallister; Nina (Sir George's second daughter) Flor-ence Giles; Captain Jerome (captain in the English army) Lloyd Prig-mor- e; Sir Toby Lyon (a society but-terfly) Alvis Teague; McCorkle (a song publisher of London) Walter English. In addition there was a large num-ber of chorus gypsies, bdies and gen-tlemen, which did. some excellent singing. The scene of the play is laid in England near London and the story is built around the character ..o. Rob, lafer' known as Sir Gilbert Howe. When an infant Rob is stolen by his nurse, Meg, who later becomes the wife of the gypsy, Marto. After var-ious escapades, full of thrills and much good acting, Rob returns and claims his estate. CLEAN UP DAYS FDR HIGHLAND BOY AN! CDPPERFIELO SOON Although May 2 and 3 have been announced by the county commission as clean-u- p days in the county, these days are not to be observed in High-land Boy and Copperfield. The clean-u- p campaign for these districts is to be deferred until later, when the roads are in better condi-tion than at present. Residents of these towns are asked to watch the columns of the Press-Bulleti- n for announcement of the days that are to be observed. When this announcement is made, the county commission has given in-structions to the various road super-visors to have trucks, teams and wagons on hand to haul the debris away. In addition to assisting the residents in cleaning up the rubbish that has accumulated during the win-ter months, the road supervisors will have graders and 'scarifiers on hand to put the roads and streets in shape. May. 2 and 3, will be observed.-fli- T clean-u- p days in the balancaJf the county, and the same assistaOce will be given various other communities of the county, is will be offgfed High-land Boy and Copperficid. In the immediate,' vicinity of Salt Lake, the couny-commissi- is co- - operating witK the Salt Lake cham-""- f o rTvnie rce . toe viion to the clean-u- p work, V'fr'shty commission is making pre-- , Rations to repair and reconstruct J ;ihe Butterfield canyon road, which ravages of winter left in bad shape. Thousands of tons of ore are --hauled out over this road every sum-mer and its repair will do much to facilitate this work. The road from Bingham to Lark, "which has" also been In Ijad .shapeor some time, is now being graded and scarified, and will soon be one of the finest highways in the county. Scar-ifying of the road will be done as often as necessary during the sum-mer months to keep the highway in excellent shape. RJ. THOMAS, FORMER RESIDENT DIESJ BUTTE Word was received this week by Mrs. B. J. Barnard of the death of her brother, Russell W. Thomas, in a hospital in Butte, Mont. Death fol-lowed an operation. The funeral was held Saturday and interment took place in ,the Montana city. Mr. Thomas was well a'nd favor-ably known in Bingham and vicinity, having lived here for a number of years. EXAMINATION EOR CLERK-CARRIE- R TO BE HELD MAY 11 Announcement is made by Post-master B. J. Barnard that a civil ser-vice examination for clerk-carri- in the local postoffice will be hald on May 11. In addition to taking the examina-tion, which is largely of a mental na-ture, each applicant is required to submit to the examiner on the day of examination a photograph of him-self taken within two years. Any ap-plicant who docs not present this photograph will not be examined. Index To Advertisers Inaugurating a new system, the Press-Bullet- in will, from., week., to week, list its advertisers in the hope that the people of Bingham Canyon will take advantage of the bargains offered by the merchants, and be able to locate the advertisements in a moment's time. In starting this method of acquaint-ing Press-Bulleti- n readers with the ef-forts of the mercantile establishments of the town to serve, it is to be hoped that the folks hereabouts take advan-tage of the specially priced commod-ities offered, and don't forget to say "I saw it in the Press-Bulletin- ." PAGE FOUR NELLIE GORHAM THREE BAR DAIRY WINDSOR HOTEL ' SLAVONIAN STORE Help Wanted O'DONNELL'S MORTUARY BINGHAM TAVERN For Sale or Lease CANYON CLUB Soft Drinks R. J. FRY, Inc. Dodge Cars ED JOHNSON Meat Market GRILL CAFE PAGE SEVEN CHESTERFIELD CIGARETTES They Satisfy DR. SHAFER Dentist SAGRIS PHOTO STUDIO BINGHAM STAGE LINE CALIFORNIA FRUIT CO. WILLARD EVANS Farm for Sale HOGAN'S DAIRY ASSOCIATED LUMBER CO. Lumber and Coal BINGHAM & GARFIELD R. R. ' BINGHAM BAKING CO. MURRAY LAUNDRY PAGE EIGHT CITIZENS COAL & SUPPLY CO. UTAH POWER & LIGHT BINGHAM DAIRY TERRY BROS. Contractors REGAL CLEANERS HENRY'S SERVICE STATION. Goodyear Tires ' WORK STARTED ON CONSTRUCT ON OF COPPERTON DIST. Copperton, planned as a model mining district city, is now being made a reality. Work on the two or three hundred modern homes, which will be constructed, is now under way. Work on the project will be pushed as rapidly as possible. It is anticipated that the first unit of about 40 homes, will be completed within the next three months, and that construction on the second unit will be well under way by the middle of September. When completed the district will be one of the most modern and sani-tary in the state and will add much to this rapidly growing section. Woman, 80, Lived All Her Life in Same House Woodward, Okla. Not many octo-genarians leave behind them the un-usual story of fheir life, as Is re-vealed In the passing of Mrs. Thom-as R. Tulloss, who passed away re-cently at her home In Franklin, Tenn. She was the mother of W. S. Tulloss, Woodward, who was with her during the last ten days of her life. Of the eighty years Mrs. Tulloss had lived the jentire time was spent In the home In which she was born Novem-ber. 16, 1846. She was married In the same room 50 years ago and her six children were born In the same room in which she was born. Two of them died in that room. The room Is 20 by 24, and for many years, with another room, constituted the home, a log house with an open porch between the two rooms. As the family Increased rooms were added, and today the house claims seven rooms. COMING ATTRACTIONS Mark Jones of the entertainment committee of the Robert Gemmell Memorial club announced the fol-lowing attractions at the club: On Friday, April 22, a monstrous vaudeville with seven acts and on Wednesday, April 27, Norman Ter-ry's orchestra will play for a dance. Senior Class "B" Dance at High School Gym, Friday, April 29 AT CANYON HALL Joe Delaney has Ashton's Colum-bian orchestra scheduled to play for a dance Saturday night, April 23. Cosmetic Forecast New York. Cosmetic forecast by Emll Fuch8, artist : The time is not distant when the girls will change the color of their eyes. . AT HIGHLAND BOY The scholars of the Highland Boy school will present the "Brownies Whisper" on Friday, April 29, to raise funds so they can take their an-nual outing at Liberty park. Tower Famous Landmark As a landmark, nothing can equal a tower in a hilltop. For Instance, the noted tower on the top of Leith hill, the culminntliiK point of the North Downs. England, enn he seen 40 miles away. The story goes that It marks the spot where an eccentric farmer of the neighborhood was buried on horse-back, and upside down, so that when the world was turned topsy-turv- y at the last day he would hp in fhe right position. This story is probably found-ed on the fart that Mr. Hall of I.elth place built the tower in 1706. and was hurled there six years later. Shanghai Volunteers in Action ' - ' Lj" -- I nJT ill-- . . " j V jl m.- ot.aulidl uiunLuer corps bus been t;ikny a prouiineut part la th preparation for the defense of the International settlement there from the warring Chinese factions. Members of the corps, are seen above leaping from a lorry for action. Wind's, Great Effect on Personal Comfort I'ersonul comfort at any time of the year depends to an astonishing degree on wind ; that Is on the motion of the air. An interesting experiment, de-scribed by a writer In the American ' Magazine, Illustrates the point. ; To find out the different effects of still air and of air In motion, a man was shut up in a telephone booth. The booth contained an electric fan and It also had tubes through which fresh air could be supplied. The man had a lighted cigarette. With the electric fan going, and with no fresh air coming in through the tubes, the man was comfortable, even after his cigarette had gone out because of lack of oxygen to burn. But when he was sliut up in the booth without the fan being turned on. he was soon In great discomfort, even though lie was being supplied with fresh nlr through the tubes. His First hove Affair If a boy who has been notoriously careless of his personal appeurance suddenly begins to show some Interest In the condition of his face, neck, ears and wrists.; agonizes over the part In his hair; takes his fingernails out of mourning; discovers overnight that a toothbrush is of practical value In-stead of uselessly ornamental, and de-mands a clean shirt every day; If, we say, and when, this amazing meta-morphosis occurs, remember the basis on which the old French detective used to go to work "find the woman." There Isn't another thing under the sun that will produce such a revolu-tion. Philadelphia Inquirer. Founded Modem Astronomy Copernicus, the famous founder of modi-ri- astronomy, was bom in Prus-sia in 147H. His celebrated treatise explaining his system, which revolu-tionized the science of astronomy, was first published In 134H. CK0XCHCKCKCH 6 Maine Town Puzzled 5 5 by Punch Bowl Gift g 6 Blddeford, Maine. The town 6 9 fathers are perplexed over what V o will be done with a big cut glass S 5 punch howl that was presented 2 9 to the citizens r' the town meet- - 6 5 lug- - X 9 They are trying to figure out 9 6 the significance of such a gift. X X Maine, the banner prohibition V o state, of course, lias no use lor o 2 such a receptacle, but, ai any 2 9 rare, the huge piece of glass- - o 2 ware has been accepted and 2 o will ultimately, in ull probabll 9 2 ity. find a reposing place some- 2 0 whore In the town hall. 9 5 .Mrs. Kaiiuie Hall Fagan ot 6 2 Cambridge. Mass., sent the gift 2 5 here. It was presented by Se- - 6 leciutan Kliner M Kobhins. ' 0MMMCKCCKOCH Early Rulers of Greece The name "Ptolemies" Is given to a dynasty of Greek rulers that governed Egypt from 323 to 30 I!. C, a period of 293 years. The dynasty was found-ed by Ptolemy LagmT. surnamcd also Soter, who. at the time of the death of Alexander the Great (323 p,. C), was governor of Egypt, and after the divi-sion of the empire into four mon-archies became king of that country. The dynasty of the Ptolemies com-prised 14 sovereigns. On the deatli of Cltopatra, the last of the line. In 30 R. C, Egypt became a province of Rome. "Curiosity Killed fhe Cat" Just how his saying got started Is unknown. There was an old proverb that a CHt bus nine lives, yet care would wear them out. Anoiber version of the proverb Is that though she had nine lives care killed the cat. Probably "curiosity killed the cat" is merely a corruption of the former saying. lis popularity seems to rest on the alliteration of the three hard "c" sounds, rather than on lie sensa of the expression. Exchange. Nuts Fall During Night It is a fact not generally known that the majority of coconuts drop from the tree In tile night afler hang-ing for a period of about fourteen months for ripening. The action of the heavy dew loosens the seal with which nature has provided the nut and allows It to fall. Indian Summer Scientists have ascribed the warmth of Inulan summer to oxidation of dy-ing and dead leaves. Persistence of northerly winds may neutrallzs warmth of Indian summer, but oxida-tion of organic matter continues. |