Show 1 1 E D CITY CITY NEWS 4 cedar ciry Is to be the convention city for three important conventions within the next few weeks the first of 0 which Is ia to be the vocational con ler nce of smith or A cui tural Pilu education cation workers which Js ia scheduled for july 31 august I 1 ani 2 at the B A C this coif conference ference which has heretofore been held in the northern part ot the state will bring to cedar city those who are teaching or supervisor ing vocational education an interesting three day program featuring talks by prominent state and government people Is being arranged and it is understood that those local people who are in tere te rested sted in this phase of education are invited to attend the other two are the state municipal league convention chii which ch 1 will bring delegates from all the municipalities in the state about abou t in number to tile the iron county metropolis on august 30 and 31 and the state librarians convention of about 75 or 80 delegates on septem her ber first the cedar city chamber chamb er I 1 of commerce is lending every assis 1 barce tance and helping out with the these se conventions another goodwill good will tour is being made today to day by the chamber of commerce I 1 this time into beaver county on the invitation of the latter the schedule c calls alls tor for a meeting at mi min ers greville erhville ville at 10 a m lunch with the lions club of milford at noon a visit to some of the beaver valley dairy I 1 herds in tile the afternoon a dinner at putters puffers lake and a public meeting 1 in beaver in the evening to which I 1 the people of and greenville are also invited cedar city wag was the scene of ani other tragedy last monday when keith walker 17 year old son of reni j ben walker accidentally shot and killed a cousin henry walker 14 year old son of wm J walker with j a seven chamber double action 22 I 1 the boys had blien been talking about how quick some individuals could I 1 j draw a gun when the younger lad f asked his companion how quick he he could draw one the older boy 1 j whipped out his gun instantly and pointing it at the other said just that quick as he tired fired a shot which j struck the younger boy near the base of the throat and ranging downward lodged in the shoulder blade the victim was rusted to the hospital but died dithing two or three hours the boy who tired fired the shot j told a frank straight story of the at af J fair which made it unnecessary in 1 j the minds of the officers to hold an inquest he made no explanation on ly that it was just done impulsively and without thought of anything only how quick he could draw the gun funeral services was held on wednesday af afternoon I 1 ter noon I 1 I 1 mr lafa lafayette yette Ilc Corneil ri arly passed out and two or alree other individuals nearly drowned last saturday when a boat turned over vilh them at navaho lake the of the boat in addition to mr ar mcconnell were maeser dalley dailey acry y wilkinson ralston rals on buckwalter leonard green and the batters lat son rex it appears that two or three of them had fish on their hooks and in their excitement in trying to lana them tho boat capsized emptying them them in about fifteen feet of water a hundred yards from the shore percy seems to have been the the occasion though life late mcconnell I 1 insists that he saw the green lad ga go down and that he dived 12 feet under in search of him the buckwal i ter boy immediately struck out tor for them the shore and after the others had been safely hung onto the boat and they missed him percy heaved the boat over thinking he might bo under st it in going over the boat struck mcconnell on the head and all but finished him other fishermen fisherr r in the vicinity came to the rescue but by tho the time they got mcconnell to short he was pretty well filled up with water resuscitation measures were necessary and finally a heart stimulant be belore fore he revived two or three hours later from the tact fact that two or three members of the party swim its lucky that some of them were not drowned drou ned the newly elected officers of the rotary club announced their vart varl ous committee appointments at the regular weekly luncheon on tuesday they have about eleven standing committees with an average of five members in each ln in addition to these loul burascano was namer i i sargeant at arms J 11 urle uria and grant lf alquist song leaders and I 1 G henry bergstrom VI visitors at the luncheon were state A auditor john E holden W W mitchell of the parowan carowan times and a gov eminent inspector of the indian agencies gen cies Cles a guest of dr farrow whose name we tailed failed to catch sheriff leigh looks as though the c aits its had hall had him today to day as a result of an encounter with wn an insane man maii yesterday at the request of 0 lloyd akers people who are in charge ot of the ciscar city camp ground the sheriff and ills hia deputy grant wal 1 cr went down to take baker into rus custody tody th tho a latter has hem losing his mind and ilia his people became tearful fearful feared fit and asar asked ed that lie he be locked up when the sheriff and his assistant arrived irrl ved baker went into tho the house io get his coat and then refused to come out leigh followed him is house a and ad overtook him as they ran through the trees on the camp round ro ind and when he can caught him he ae sheriff probably imagined he had captured a wild cat fr from om the way ho he clawed and scratched at the face even after the aft had hung onto one arm and hla his deputy to the other tile the mad one put up an awful struggle tor for fifteen minutes utes before beffi e ho he finally submitted to being taken the sheriffs face Is pretty badly scratched ched and besides that he says he has an abiding knowledge now that stories of cra y peoples being hard to handle are not exaggerated interest in an airport for cedar city to be established in cooperation with the government has been revived again and it it expected that mm something ething definite will be announced before long several new residences are under construction in cedar among anong them are dr Berg stroma henry floyds Froy ds J il urics HoNN howard aril chamberlains and nd 1 folrn andruss Au druss the nex nev addition to the junior high school building bull dins Is going goin up rapidly and con concrete creta is beliar poured this week tor for walk at tile the school grounds PT A welcome home social was held last night in the ne nev second ward amusement hall tor for glen alt n froyd who has just returned from a mission to switzerland 1 LA L A burascano Eu and W R ralmer palmer ino motored to st george on oin I monday londay of Ws week on business they report that the dixie country had recently had some tine fine rains PT |