The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-27
THE CITY
Weather Today -
Fair, Warmer.
TOWN TALK.

The Salt Lake City Press club meets at
n . =. m. TO-DAY. Imodrtant business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sheridan and Miss Kate
4 EowneY OF Virginia are the guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Major Downey.
City Justice Wenger went to the con-
vention at Ogden yesterday and all the
n police court cases were postponed until
Monday.
William A. Brown, aged o. and Minnie
Reed, aged %, both of Salt Lake, were
sSest er3ay given a marriage license by
4 Deputy County Clerk Dennis.
G. G. Wilkinson, registration agent of
precinct eight, has registered IA men anu
~ vcnicn, a total Of 3s5. There are pos
elhiy thirty 10 forty still unregistered IN
4 his precinct. His registry list, when made
up, vii be posted in front of his office
and store. as East Fifth South street.
AT the First Presbyterian church this
morning the resignation Of Rev. r. q.
~ lieu o. the regular preaching service:
The matter is most important one and
no doubt there viii be a large atten iance
n N interested members Of the church and
others in. attendance.
The health department reports sixteen
births during the past week, six males
! and ten females. The deaths numbered
Ten, eight males ard two females. SO far
as the department knows there IS but
one case Of scarlet fever in the city
49,
ported during the week, one Of which was
ontsIGe the CITY limits.
Mrs. W p Lynn entertained fifty
children yesterday in honor Of her daugh-
n Ter Vera al a bicycle tea. The table
around which the guests were seated was
= picture- with its center piece, d crescent
wheel. deliberately decorated in go.den
rod and autumn leaves. After tea, games
II were played. for which the successful
contestants were awarded prizes.
Of precinct twenty-siX, states that up to
p ~. on Friday, when the lists were
d cislSed. he registered 20 voters, of whom
Us are ladies' Lists viii be posted Up
IN due time at the store at the corner Of
t'irst South and Eighth West streets.
Mr. wishing thinks probably fifty more
viii be registered on October l3 and II.
Now that the frosty breezes of autumn
are beginning to caVort along the high
ways and byways, the Dusty Rhodes
Gent shelter and begging has begun on a
barge scale. Four rovers were captured
YES terday for petiuoning aims from pc
desfrians. They were Alex Gardiner,
James Thomas. William Duncan, an
other gentleman of the road sought
shelter from the cold in one of Jailer
BimBalps booths.
The Fort Douglas troops are about
packed UP and will be ready to move next
Saturday Company a, of the Sixteenth,
with Captain Noble in charge, has been
detailed 20 remain at the post and act as
guard Of military stores until the arrival
Of the Twenty-fourth infantry, and as
soon as Colonel Kent assumes command
OF Fort Douglas, Till leave for Boise
barracks. Companies 3 and L, win go
direct 10 Fort Spokane. Wash. and COM
1anes c. ., i. G and II to Fort Sherman,
near the town Of Occur d'Alene, Idaho.
The regular semi-monthly meeting OF
the Salt Lake County Teachers associa-
ton occurred yesterday at the University
building. Miss Cayanaugh. supervisor Of
penmanship in the city Schools spoke at
considerable length on the theory and ad-
vantages of the vertical system of PEN
Tnanship. Superintendent Van Cotr urged
fhe necessity of making as rapidly as pos
sibie A complete graduation of the schools
Of the county. Informal discussions on
subjects of interest TO those engaged in
educational work were participated in by
Messrs. G. NJ. Mumford, James Sanders,
Mr.. Paulson and others.