Passing Events

Salt Lake Cily schools opened Sept. 7, with the heaviest registration on record. More than 23,000 students were registered.

A skilful operation was performed at the Salt Lake County hospital. Sept. 17, by Dr. H. M. Sheranian, of Murray, when he removed three shot from the brain of six-year-old Willie Tutcher, the son of Thomas Tutcher, of Murray. It is thought the boy will recover.

Alexandre Millerand was elected president of France, Sept. 23, and received the greatest ovation at Versailles ever given a French president. He succeeds M. Deschanel, who resigned the office on account of failing health. He is the eleventh president of the young republic.

Three Socialist members of the assembly of the New York legislature were expelled by that body, Sept. 21, by a vote of 90 to 45. They are Louis Waldman and August Claessens of New York, and Charles Solomon of Kings county. Two Socialists, Samuel A. Dewitt and Samuel Orr tendered their resignations.

Schleswig was represented in the Danish rigsdag, October 5, and im- pressive ceremonies marked the opening day in honor of the occasion. It was the first time since 1864. The historic event was preceded by divine services, attended by the king and queen, other members of the royal house, and foreign princes.

An unusual marriage was performed in Salt Lake City, Sept. 7, when Mr. Moses V. Reeves and Mrs. Elizabeth Guest were pronounced husband and wife, by Bishop C. A. Carlquist, of the Fifth ward. The bridegroom gave his age as 95 years, and the bride admitted that she was 85. Mr. Reeves is a veteran of the Civil War. The ninety-first semi-annual conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was held in Salt Lake City, October 8, 9, and 10. The weather the first two days was almost ideal, but on the third day a thun- derstorm with rain and hail passed over the valley as a reminder of the approach of winter. The attendance was very large. The American Flag, which Admiral Peary planted at the North Pole, April6, 1909, was found by Captain Godford Hansen, leader of the Amundsen auxiliary expedition, 400 miles from the Pole, while he was laying food deposits along the Amundsen trail. His report is dated Copen- hagen, October 13. The flag, when found, was intact in the ice. The oldest house in Utah is claimed by Ogden. It is a log cabin built in 1845 on the banks of the Weber river, by Miles Goodyear. Mrs Ambrose Shaw, the present owner, has presented it the city, and the to commissioners, on Sept. 20, ordered that the cabin be protected by an in- closure until it can be moved to the City Hall park and a permanent building be erected for its preservation.

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Pilot John L. Eaton of the United States aerial mail service, who was reported lost in Nevada, arrived in Salt Lake, Sept. 17, at 1 o'clock p. m., at Buena Vista field, carrying 211 pounds of mail. Owing to engine trouble he was forced to land in Butte valley, where he remained two days and two nights without food and with only radiator water to drink. On the third day he was found by a sheepherder.

A disastrous eartliquake visited Tivizzano, and other places in Italy, Sept. 7. One hundred seventy-four people were reported killed and thou- sands injured. Survivors describe the shock as terrifying. The air was filled with choking dust, so black that the sun was lost to view. A still more violent quake was reported on Sept. 9, from the Emilia district, with loss of life and destruction of property. Three bishops and their counselors were ordained and set apart at the quarterly conference of the Duchesne stake, September 25 and 26, Elder Orson F. Whitney, of the Council of the Twelve, officiating. They were: Duchesne ward, Francis M. Shelton, Douglas M. Todd, Jr., and John P. Madsen; Mountain Home ward, Lester E. Akelund, Harvey A. Pace, and Albert S. Jenson; Tablona ward, Claude L. Wagstaff, John H. Jones, and John J. Sellers. The total population of the United States is now, according to fig- ures published by the director of the Census Bureau, Oct. 7, 105,683,108, exclusive of about 12,250,000 inhabitants of Alaska and the outlying pos- sessions of the country. The increase since 1910 is 13,710,842, or 14.9 per cent, as against 15,977,691, or 21 per cent, during the preceding decade. The smaller percentage is accounted for by the decrease of immigration as a result of the war.

Armistice was agreed upon by the representatives of Poland and Rus- sia atRiga, Oct. 5. The Polish-Russian war began in December, 1918. and reached an acute stage when the Poles made their first sweep east- ward to Kiev, which they captured, followed by their gradual retreat until the soviet armies had again forced their way westward and were threat- ening Warsaw. The present negotiations were initiated about that time, first at Minsk and then at Riga.

The Council of the League of Nations met at Paris, Sept. 16, this being the ninth session of that body. The first matter discussed being the con- flict between Sweden and Finland relative to the Aland islands. Poland and Lithuania have been asked to send delegates to Paris for the pur- pose of attending a session of the council. This step was taken at the in- stance of the Polish government, which asked that the frontier controversy which has threatened serious consequences there be considered by the council.

F. C. Stannard Machinery Company. In the Junior manual, "Campfire Stories," and the Senior Manual, "Science and the Gospel," appears the ad- vertisement of the F. C. Stannard Machinery Company, who carry a com- plete line of road-building and contractors' equipment, to which your at- tention is called. Unfortunately, an error was made in the spelling of the word "Stannard" and it appears as "Standard" instead. All our readers who communicate with the company should take note of the fact, so that the correct name will be used: F. C. Stannard Machinery Company, Dooley Building, Salt Lake City, Utah.

The fifteenth international congress against alcoholism was opened at Washington, Sept. 21. Sir Auckland Geddes, the British ambassador, told the delegates that prohibition in the United States had attracted the at-