The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-16
BRIEF LOCALS.

Miss Jessie Anderson and Miss Donnel-
Ian will sing at the Unitarian service this
evening.
woodbine Circle No. Al. Women of
Woodcraft, will give a social in X. of p.
hall, April 10.
The members of the Rudyard Kipling
Literary society met at the residence of
Miss Olsen last evening.
Miss Emma Jorgensen will sing 1.-The
Plains of Peace. by Barnard, at St.
Paul's chapel this morning.
DR.. Prentiss will deliver his lecture on
the Philippine islands in the Tenth ward
meeting house tomorrow evening.
Warren Foster will speak on Doubt
ing Thomas at the A. o. L. w. hall, in
the Gladstone building, mis- evening at s
o'clock.
Several of the street car lines are in
bad shape at the present time, owing 10
low joints. The result is an unpleasant
shaking for the passengers.
By the terms of a recent army order.
Major Henry c. Ward of the Sixteenth is
ordered to Fort Leavenworth to sit as
member of a board to examine captains
Tor promotion.
An effort is being made to get together
the members Of the old Salt Lake ORA
matte company and present a play in the
near future for the benent OF the Salt
Palace fund.
Murray citizens are making some sub
Several handsome new residences are in
contemplation. The lumber yards and
planning mills are doing big business at
present.
Thomas Kearns. who holds the security
of the Ladies Literary club for money adj
Vanced on the clubhouse when it was
built, voluntarily advised the governing
board last week that he would reduce the
rate of interest from s TO per cent. The
offer was greatly appreciated.
Inst yy-aaL- +ar deaths y-ara 1.aDortad m
the board of health. and in addition two
bodies were brought from outside the
city for interment. The births reported
Tor the week numbered fifteen. There are
still fourteen cases Of scarlet fever, in
twelve families, under quarantine
a novelty in plow attachments is on
exhibition at the Coop. wagon shop. it
is the invention of z. G. Woodmansee of
change a walking plow into a sulky. The
change either way can be made in two
minutes and the attachment applies to
any form of walking plow.
The Shakespeare section of the Ladies'
Literary club will meet tomorrow after
noon at 2:30. Act four of Richard III
win be read, and Miss Adelaide Mason
will give. the topic, The Duke of Buck
ingham." A full attendance is desired,
as the election of a chairman and secre-
tary for next year will occur.
John Simpson. former president of the
Newsbovs' union, writes Chief Hilton
from Butte that some boys here are de-
frauding the public oy soliciting sub
scriDtions for the benefit of the union.
which, Simpson says. is defunct The
boys are using the eN-president's name,
and he desires that the public be warned
against them. The money goes into their
own pockets.
Several improvements are being made
at Mt. Olivet cemetery. The old water
works system has been taken up and re-
placed by j new one, which will greatly
add TO the facility of keeping the trees
and lawns in good condition. Consider
able cleaning up, in the eastern part of
the grounds, is being done which viii add
much to the beauty of the silent city on
the east bench.
At the Ontario Office yesterday morning
a meeting of some fifteen prominent prop
erty owners was held to formulate plan
TO influence the location of the new gov
eminent building Among those present
were +. e. Chambers, Henry Lawrence,
Richard Mcintosh, Robert Anderson,
Henry Dinwoodey, J. +. Woodman,
Thomas Jennings, James i. Jennings and
a representative of the Hooper estate. A
majority favored the old Continental cor
ner as being the most eligible, others pre-
ferred the location west of the Dooly
block on Second South. while some sym
pathized with the effort to place it on the
I'eseret News corner.