The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-10
VOTING COUPON
Carnival Notes.

Merchants are duplicating their orders
for bunting and flags.
The school children will next be invited
to choose a floral queen.
The Fort Douglas band will not go to
Ogden on Independence day.
There will be dozen or more bands in
the Independence day parade.
Hotel rates will be the same during
carnival week as at any other time.
Enterprising spectators are already ar
ranging to conduct temporary lodging
houses.
Miss Jean B. Russell is native of this
country, but her childhood was spent in
Scotland.
Arrangements for a grand athletic tour
nament during carnival week are being
perfected.
San Pete county is thoroughly organic
ed and great enthusiasm is reported to
be existing there.
The carnival buttons are in such de-
mand that another order has been placed
with the manufacturers.
Utah's best crop will be in evidence.
Ten thousand school children will par
ticipate in the floral festival.
Bids for the construction of tribunes
to accommodate 10000 people are being
solicited by the finance committee.
E. J. Palmer of Cedar city is chairman
of the Iron county committee and not
Frank Carroll, of Castle Dale, as has
been announced by the committee.
Subscribers to the fund have been re-
quested to forward the amount of money
they have subscribed by mail and to not
wait for the collectors to call on them.
Four electric lights have been placed
in the Continental market building in or
der to enable the float decorators and
builders TO work by night as expeditions
ly as by day.
Director General McGarvie and Chair
man NORTH, of the finance committee,
have asked the city council to appro-
! pirate sum sufficient to decorate the
city buildings.
| Oscar Lawrence has been appointed
chairman of the Summit county queen
| contest committee and will soon issue a
| call for a mass meeting to arrange for
representing the county by floats in the
parades.
Merchants who intend decorating their
establishments will be permitted to extend
| their decorations to the telegraph and
! telephone poles in the center of the
streets, provided they are kept sixteer
feet above the pavement.
| The committee on decorations has de
! cided to offer two medals, one gold, the
other silver, as an incentive to merchants
to decorate their business places lavishly
| The gold medal will be the first prize
the silver medal the second prize.
The queens ball will take place a
Saltair ON the evening of July Sd. Majol
| V. M. c.. Silva has been appointed fcoC
mana ger and will prepare the dancing pro
gramme and appoint his assistants
will be the grandest ball the west has eve
recorded.
Bishop Kesler, in q communication il
\ last nights News. suggests that the queer
of the carnival be selected from anon;
the daughters of the pioneers. The sug
gestion would have been an excellent on
had it been made sooner. 1t is now to,
late to act on it.
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press to the carnival, Weber county will
be represented by a queen of the PEG
pies bwn choosing. Coupons clipped from
the Salt Lake papers are being forwarded
to headquarters daily in great numbers
The majority of them bear the name o.
Miss Fannie Hammond.