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Show Provo Items. A number of Salt Lakers who were among the party that came down to visit the Asylum remained in Provo this week. A temperance meeting was given at the M. E. Church by Trof. J. E.Talmage, which was unusually interesting and instructive. in-structive. The lecturer dwelt principally upon the injury of alcoholic liquors to the physical structure of the body, and the necessity of temperance in all the matters of life. - Mr. A. A. Noon delivered an interesting interest-ing lecture in the Fourth Ward school-house school-house on home manufacture and the interests of the Utah Valley Iron Mining and Manufacturing Company, and the iron industry of Utah, tne location oi iruu works in Provo City, and the resources of Utah Lake, its adaptability to shipping ore and produce across to either side. He gave some estimates and figures that show beyond doubt the practicability of establishing iron works in Provo, and the great benefit and importance of the enterprise en-terprise which is within reach of Utah county. At the close of the lecture several sev-eral prominent citizens spoke, endorsing fully the statements of Mr. Noon, and recommending that iron works be established estab-lished at Provo. The expression of the meeting endorsed those views, and a committee com-mittee of five was appointed to canvass the city on the subject. A. R. |