The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-02-11
SALT LAKE
CITY AND NEIeHeoRHoop.

CITY AND NEIGHeoRHoo0.
Every labor union i'm the state is pre-
pairing for the dedication of the Fed
grafton Of Labor hall. in this city,
which viii be held on Feb. -.
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Fred Wey has completed the pur-
chase of the Spencer Clawson property
an the southeastern corner of State and
First streets. and win build family
hotel there this year.
j. Ross Clark, vice president of the
San Pedro. Los Angeles & Salt Lake
road. accompanied by Mrs. Clark and
Alex. J. Johnson. cashier of W. A.
Clark & Bro. bank AT Butte, arrived
from Montana this morning and will
proceed to Los Angeles over the rails
Of the Salt Lake route tomorrow MORN
ing.
New headquarters of the Press club
on the second floor of BambeTger's
building at 161 Main street were opened
by an informal celebration last week.
Features of the evenings entertain
ment were vocal solos by Anthony Z.
Carlson and George shepherd. and pi-
Bno selections by Arthur Shepherd, who
Only club members and few invited
guests were present. Impromptu
speeches were made by several of the
guests.
A small fortune of $1,000 is awaiting
John r. Stewart. is years of age, for
merly of this city. but he cannot be
located. His father, Peter Stewart of
Spokane, died about two months ago
leaving an insurance policy of $1,000
payable to his son. A letter has been
received from Spokane asking for in
formation about him, but nothing can
be learned in regard to his case. Stew
art left Spokane several months ago
and was soon afterwards heard from
in Salt Lake City. Since that time no
information can be found as to his
whereabouts.
The announcement made some time
ago that the Conreid Metropolitan
Opera company would give a concert in
the Salt Lake tabernacle on the even
ing Of April aroused a great deal OF
interest among the musicians and mu-
slc-lovers of Salt Lake and the inter
mountain country. This interest will
be accentuated by the deliberately ar
tistic programme that Conductor Vigna
has worked out for the event. The pro-
Pramme was received in Salt Lake last |
week by Joel l.. Priest, who has local |
charge of the concert.
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The rains of the latter part of last |
week have had material effect on the |
amount of water in Great Salt lake. |
Before the recent rainy spell the sur
face Of the lake was one-tenth of an /
inch below normal, but enough water
has flowed in from the various water
sheds TO raise ii two-tenths of an inch
bove the normal thus making a total
gain of nearly quarter of an inch. 1t
was said at the lake yesterday that the
fow was still coming in. and if rain
fails today. as it predicted, the figures
sntioned viii probably be increased
by at least tWo-tenths more.
Salt Lake was given touch of win
ter early Wednesday morning that
Weather Forecaster Hyatt neglected to
tell about in his report A gentle zephyr
cut of the northwest started toward
Utah several days ago and gradually
accumulated speed and more breeze as
it Travelled so that at O'Clock Wednes-
day morning when ii made its appear
rate of forty-four miles an hour.
The board Of education. at its regu-
lar meeting Tuesday night, adopted
resolution. at the request of the COM
lnittee on teachers and schools, pro-
viding that no pupil shall be allowed to
he absent from school during regular
sessions. to take music, drawing or
other lessons. or to attend a matinee.
The board also passed another resolu-
tion requiring pupils TO cover their
books within three days. If the books
are not covered in that time they are
to be taken up by the teachers and the
negligence Of the pupil reported TO the
principal of the school. The special
comprising members Thorn
as. Edwards and Cummings. appointed
to investigate the advisability of es-
tablishing a night school reported IA
Voraby. 1t was recommended that
such a school be established in the
Fremont school building; that the SUI
Derintendent of schools be instructed to
prepare a sOurse of study, and that $500
be appropriated TO defray the expenses
o. the school. The matter was referred
10 the committee of the whole