The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-08-25
BITS FROM BRIGHAM.

BRIGHAM CITY, Aug. 29-Last Sat
urday evening the Democrats Of Box
Elder precinct met in the court house.
There was a goodly attendance and an
interesting meeting was the result. The
speech delivered by Fred j. Holton, of
Three Mile Creek, was listened to with
marked attention. Holton, although
still young man, is developing into an
orator of no mean ability. He has
good presence, a fine choice OF Ian
guage and an earnestness and magnet
ic enthusiasm that sways audiences.
Another good speech was delivered by
John Evans, one of the old time Dem
ocrats of this city. A precinct eXecu-
tive committee was appointed at this
meeting with the following as mem
bers: T. H. Blackburn, Miss Fannie
Graehl, Miss Hattie Nichols, Miss Al
vira Rees, Mrs. Brigham Wright, Olof
Jeppson, John G. Christensen, Peter j.
Koford and Joseph Nelson.
The summer school will terminate its
months work on Friday of next week.
A sociable is being arranged as q.
pleasant ending of the session. w. G.
Roylance's services have been secured
in place of Professor Nelson, who re-
signed to take up his old position in the
3. Y. A. of Provo.
in a rather funny bicycle race that
came off Thursday afternoon. 1t seems
that Judge CoombS and A. e. Snow,
both enthusiastic Wheelmen, got to
Dragging about their respective abili-
ties. The outcome was that a chal-
lenge was given and accepted to run
from Willard to Brigham, a distance
of seven miles, the judge being allowed
a. whole mile the start. Hundreds of
mil he "a
Thursday afternoon to witness the af-
fair. Both of the riders took one or
more tumbles during the run. The
judges 200 pounds weighed too heavily
upon him toward the home stretch and
Snow overlook him about a mile from
the finish. The latter beat the judge
in by two minutes, having covered the
distance in 81 minutes and half.
Last Friday E. A. Box, until recently
chairman of the Republicans of Box
Elder county, was sued on a. mote by
the Box Elder Building and Benefit
association for 5000 and interest. The
case was heard before Justice of the
Peace George R. Chase. Attorney Nils
Jensen prosecuted the case and r. FL.
Jones defended Box. The justice re-
fused to be guided by the technecalities
introduced to repudiate the debt and as
a consequence he decided that Box
must pay the face value of the note
and all interest due. Box gave this
note to secure some bad loans about
the time he was ousted as treasurer of
the association.
Next Thursday, August 30, at
o'clock p. M, primaries are called in all
the precincts in Box Elder county to
choose delegates to the county conven-
ton, which will be held in Brigham,
Monday, September 2 This county
convention is for the purpose of choos-
ing delegates to the various sconven-
tons, to make certain nominations
and to transact other important bust
ness.
The county court was in session on
Monday and the city council met Tues
was transacted. At the council meet
ing, however, something a little out of
the ordinary transpired. 1t seems the
council had instructed the city attor-
ney to draft q bicycle ordnance 1t
was presented at this session. They read
it, looked at Attorney Jones and
laughed, in substance saying: ooh,
you are a cyclist yourself; we want
something stronger than this-bring US
in an ordinance prohibiting bicycles on
any Of the sidewalks in Brigham
Bells and lanterns will also be de-
manded The cyclists in town are up
in arms and will make a strong fight
ii the council really intends 10 pass
any such entirely unnecessary regula-
tons for so small town.
This week, Andrew Kimball and
Brigham Soloman, representing sever
al Salt Lake firms and carrying home
industry badges were in Brigham City
on business.
There is a half-hearted movement on
foot in town to start a high school.
But as there is no suitable building in
the place for such an institution, and
as the people are given no assurance
OF right competent instructors should
they ,'ecide to open a high school, the.
moven ent is foredoomed to failure.
A young thief who got away with al
bicycle in Salt Lake was apprehended |
in Brig lam last week while trying to |