Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-09
Who's Who and What's What.
ing Salt Lake, and said there was
good attendance OF the w. r. G. here

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ing Salt Lake, and said there was a
good attendance OF the w. r. C. here.
A prominent character in the wo-
mans work of the G. A.. r, a member
&of the National executive board of the
w. r, Ct, past president Of the de-
I partment of the Potomac Of the corps.
and associate editor of the National
Tribune, is Isabel NWorrell Ball, who Is
present in Salt Lake and quartered at
the Knutsford. She is a charming wo-s
man. and has occupied her present
position withSthe National TribGne for
seven years. Prior to that she was one
of the antional newspaper correspond
ents, being the only woman ever adj
mitted to the press gallery at Washing
ton. '.Oh, the boys of the press gall
s;lery are all fine fellows, said she,
&.and they always treated me Just like
one of Them ! regretted, very much
having to leave the gallery, but the
requirements on my time on the Ma
tional Tribune are sufficient to take up
my time" Miss Ball knows all the
CT a. r. people from one end of the
country to the other: and in fact she
is pretty well acquainted with every
body who ever amounted to- anything
in Washington.
Another prominent newspaperIworna
of the national apital, who is do
ing" the encanpment In Salt Lake. is
s Nora Sayer, who edits the House
Z hold Hints column y of the National
G.. Nora Sayer. who edits the House
= ford, and says she is delighted with
Salt Lake aud the encampn1ent. Ysnr
ozone in Of the life-giying kind, !" said
Miss Sayer. do not wonder that
your people are so vigorous and their
welcome to the Grand Army SO whole
,souled.,' Fl 8
Salt Lake City is entertaining dis
tinguished guest in the person of Mayor
Martin Behrman of New Orleans.
Mayor Behrman is accompanied by
Mrs. Behrman. a son and a daughter
and they expect foreman here for sew
eral days. The visitors express great
delight with Salt Lake City and the
west generally. This Is Mayor Behr-
mans first visit to this part of the
country.
s Mayor Behrman, VINO is a prominent
Elk, attended the Los Angeles conven-
ton, and since that time has visited
san Francisco, Seattle and Portland
He Is now serving his second term as
mayor of the Crescent city, his second
election being without opposition.
& Mayor sBehrnlan is most popular. in
his home state because of the remark
able progress made in New Orleans un-
der his administra tious. notably the
war on the yellow fever mosquito, I'M
on sewers. new drainage
system, the abolition of cisterns, a new
water system, paving the erection Of
new school buildings, three high schools
at a cost of S6,000,000 and a new belt
Mayor Behrman was a leading factor
in securing the Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep
convention the coming No
5ar, .,tf tom
the convention and will go to New Or
leans from st. Louis by steamboat.
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4 Ct. H. Pulver, Of Yillisca, Iowa. is a
member of the old Third Iowa infantry,
mustered in juno III, 1861, and he was
with the fighters who followed Pap"
Price down into the southern Missouri
swamps, and thence We're taken over
Tor the battles of Shiloh, Pittsburg
Landing and Corinth. After the battle
Of Shiloh the wounded, to the number
Of t,2o9 were loaded on the old War