The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-05-28

The SCott-StreVell building, los Main
street, was sold Tuesday for $50, 600. Il
was purchased by Orange J, Salisbury
The transfer is one of the largest real
estate deals of its kind that has been
consummated in Salt Lake for many
months.
City Building Inspector Frank w.
Lewis has issued an order notifying
all owners Of building the doors of
which do not swing outwards to COM
ply with the city ordinance. If the
owners do not heed this notice they
viii be prosecuted for violating the
law.
Rowe & Kelly, bargain offerers. are
having a successful spring trade. Since
their alterations have made their store
thoroughly modern, their trade has
nearly doubled. Special offerings are
fine clothes. Material Workmanship,
style and fit are combined with popular
prices to draw purchasers.
Fort Douglas looks more like a post
Of some Importance now that the re-
building has progressed so far. The
large barracks to hold 100 men each,
viii be ready this week for occupancy,
and the new macadam roads not only
look well, but are a marked conven-
ience. The road leading to the head
of South Temple street is now about
one-third done.
Companies r, i, G, H and L OF the
Twenty ninth infantry, Under COM
msnd of Colonel Lockwood, arrived in
Salt Lake City Wednesday morning
from San Francisco. The troops num-
Der 24S men. The two senior compa-
MES viii be housed in the new barracks
at Fort Douglas and the three other
companies in the old quarters which
have been recently fitted up for their
use. Colonel Lockwood will succeed |
Major Califf as commanding officer at
Fort Douglas.
The Knutsford hotel has new man |
ager in G. S. Holmes, jr., who is home |
for the summer from the University OF |
Virginia. Mr.. Holmes will take his |
bachelors degree there next year. and
expects later to take post graduate /
course at Yale for the degree of doctor
of philosophy. Mr.. Holmes is quite
prominent in athletics at college.
There is a growing protest among
citizens against permitting young girls
selling newspapers on the street These
children go where they find they can
sell the most papers, and in front Of
saloons seems to be where papers sell
particularly well. In such places the
vilest language is frequently heard, and
ii does not take long for this to blunt
the moral senses of children of ten
der years, whose ears are subjected to
such talk.
The Freed Furniture & Carpet COM
pany has completely furnished the new
Southern hotel, managed by Fred
Wood, formerly of the Wilson. The
consist of the equipment
of ninety-flve rooms, parlors and d.
ming rooms, which are furnished in the
elaborate fashion of modern hotel sys-
tenn.
After twenty-five years service as
bishop Of the Mormon church in the
Twelfth ward. H. B. Clawson resigned
and T. A. Williams was confirmed as
successor. Bishop Clawson was born
n Utica, y. Y, in 1926. Twenty-one
years later he crossed the plains, ar
living in Salt Lake valley i'm 1S4S. He
anne with President Young when the
lead of the church made his second
rip to Zion. that time accompanied by
lis family. Since that time he has been
l prominent figure in Utah history
8ishop ClaNson represents the rapid c
y disappearing type of pioneers who
we're associated in their youth with
President Joseph Smith and labored in l
he valley with President Brigham
Young TO build up Zion in the desert
or the Saints. He is one of the few a
links i'm the chain which t
onnects the days Of Prophet Smith
With the present.