Show General IVotcs This evening the entries close for the laces both at the Ogden Driving Park on the 30th and the matches at tho Hot Springs on the 27th Exciting times are expected on each occasion as excellent programmes have been prepared James Grcenwell has returned from Promontory where he has been putting up the brickwork for the stock company C L Peebles is having an artesian well dug near his residence on Young street After getting through twenty fcot of gravel the borers pierced through 144 feel of blue clay then striking rock under which the water is expected The new double brick block of Lamoni Grix and Williard Kay on Fifth street below Main is one of tho handsomest architectural features of the business part of town Gifts of f flowers for the decking of the graves on Memorial Day will be gratefully grate-fully received by the ladies of tho Womans Relief Corps Tho elegant new brick block of Smuin Thomas ° on the west side of Main streot near Fifth street is nearing com and phtion It presents a handsome chaste appearance greatly to the credit of the builder of Idaho big stockman C E Colton 3 owning considerable property in Ogden after a visit to his is in town again ranch real estate Joseph A West reports tho constantly improving con business in n dton The action taken by the firemen in accepting ac-cepting the invitation from the G A R Committee on Memorial Day and resolving re-solving to turn ont as a body is very commendable and nothing but what I anticipated from the wellknown character charac-ter of the boys who are vrholesorJied bighearted and publicspirited as indi jA r i viduals no less than as a body The fire brigade isAmost popular and usetul public institution deserving of recon tion and honor on more than mere parade or picnic occasions The City Council will hold a regular i session on Friday evening nest I There was again complaining about the insufficiency of the electric illumination on Monday night It becomes more and more apparent that either the promised new style incandescent of electric lighting light-ing or the gas works should be hastened along The plank sidewalks all over town are beginning to be intolerably insecure especially es-pecially at night time Spikes and nails either projecting to the great imperilment of the pedestrians vestments and pedal integuments or even their own limbs or they are absent altogether so as to cause that peculiarly unpleasant and dangerous selfpromotion which leads to stumbling and falling The city is liable for damages dam-ages arising from these neglects C L Corey has returned from the railroad rail-road contracting regions in Colorado on account of the sickness of his wife L McCarty has taken another trip of inspection to his ranch on Salt creek By the way lie likes to go up Salt creek since the Presidential election of 1885Henry Henry E Steele has been out of town for a day or two and the wicked tremble apprehending hip unwelcome visits |