Passing Events

PASSING EVENTS 399 Hazing at the University of Utah is said to have proved fatal in the case of a student named Reginald Stringfellow, who died of meningitis, Jan. 6. That is to say, officers are inclined to believe that the sickness was due to a ducking he received some time ago by fellow students. Investiga- tion has been instituted by the county authorities and the university, and the student body have decided to abandon hazing. Prof. D. H. Robinson of the L. D. S. University died, Dec. 27, 1924. of pneumonia, after an operation. He was born April 28, 1865, at Pleasant Grove, where he resided until 1905, when he moved to Manti. After thirteen years' residence there he came to Salt Lake, where he has since resided. Besides his widow, he is survived by one son and three daughters all of Salt Lake. He has been prominent in educational circles for over 30 years. Correspondence Courses in Theology — Five courses in the theology of "Mormonism" are now offered by mail from the Extension Division of the Brigham Young University. These courses are "Doctrine and Dis- course" (three courses of fifteen lessons each) , "Essentials in Church His- tory," and "Genealogy and Temple Work." Each course carries two hours of college credit, and is charged for to missionaries at the rate of $1 for each course. To others the price of each course is $3. The co-eds exceed the number of boys in the B. Y. U. for the first time, according to John E. Hayes, registrar of the institution. The student body has been evenly divided between the women and the men, Mr. Hayes declared today. "Two years ago there were exactly the same number of women as men; usually however, the men have predominated by a very narrow margin except once or twice during the World War when the women ont-numbered them a little. Just now, however, the women predominate." An alliance between the United States and Great Britain is unofficially announced from Washington in a press dispatch dated Dec. 19, 1924. It is called a "tacit alliance, particularly in the region of the Pacific Ocean." That is said to be "the key to the policy of the Coolidge administration in regard to the development and maintenance of the American navy." It is given out that this "alliance" has existed since the Washington arms conference. Nothing is said in the dispatch about George Washington's well- known views on "entangling alliances." William Reed Horizon Paxman died, Jan. 8, 1925, at a hospital in Salt Lake City. Mr. Paxman was born on June 13, 1856, on the ship Horizon, bound from England to America. In early days he lived at American Fork, engaged in the molasses business. He later moved to St. George and helped build the St. George temple. He married Urilda Moody on January 16, 1879. She died nine years ago. He later married her sister, Mrs. Margaret Cliff, who survives him, as do one son and three daughters, all of Provo. Twenty-three grandchildren also survive him. A heavey snowstorm struck northern Utah on Dec. 21, 1924 adding considerably to the supply of moisture in the mountains. At Brighton 49 inches of snow was reported, and the snow was still falling. From Ogden the heaviest snowfall on record was reported Dec. 22. In some places it was four feet deep, after a continuous fall of 30 hours. The storm formed over the Pacific Coast on Dec. 20, moved east-ward and became general over western Nevada and northern Utah. Mail traffic east vand west was held up. The temperature rose during the storm from below zero to 20 or 21 degrees above. A cold Christmas day was reported from many places in the United States. At Salt Lake City the "official" temperature was 6.2 degrees below zero between 7 and 8 o'clock in the morning, but at several points the

400 IMPROVEMENT ERA thermometer indicated 10 below. At Delta, 27 below was reported, and at Brigham City 20 below. At Elko, Nev., the temperature reached 46 degrees below zero. In Chicago street reading showed from 10 to 15 below, and freezing temperatures were registered as far south as the Gulf Coast. Marks below the freezing point were recorded from one end to the other on the Pacific slope. Spokane had 5 below. The coldest recorded in California was 5 below at Yreka in the mountains. Death to deadly microbes has been discovered at the University of Minnesota, says a Minneapolis dispatch of Dec. 28. Dr. Robert S. Green is the discoverer. The ultramicrobes, we are told, which live as parasites on disease bacteria, have been isolated and made into a serum so deadly that one drop of the liquid, it is declared, will kill the most highly developed culture of pneumonia, typhoid fever, diptheria, dysentry, anthrax or chicken cholera. One drop has been diluted one million times, and one drop of the dilution has killed the strongest disease bacteria within a few hours. The dilution process has been repeated three times, and still the power of the ultramicrobe has been sufficient to kill the strongest of disease bacteria. iVetf Stakes Organized — Kolob stake was organized Nov. 23, 1924, the president chosen being George Ray Maycock These wards comprise the Kolob stake: Springville 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th wards, Mapelton, Thistle and Soldier Summit, formally of the Utah stake. Palmyra stake was also organized on the same day: president, Henry A. Gardner. These wards comprise Palmyra stake: Spanish Fork 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th wards, Leland, Salem, Lake Shore, and Palmyra, formerly of the Nebo stake. New stake presidents during Nov: Nebo stake, Lee R. Taylor, president; San Luis stake, James P. Jensen, president; Young stake, Elmer E. Taylor, president. The Hooper-Eldredge building was destroyed by fire Christmas morn- ing, and a number of adjacent houses on Main St., Salt Lake City, were at the same time reduced to ruins. The fire is supposed to have started in the Hazelwood Cafe, and from there to have spread in both directions. For five hours the firemen fought the flames heroically in a temperature that was somewhat below zero, and then the flames were under perfect control. Nine stores had been destroyed and a moving-picture theater entrance damaged. In other stores some damage had been done to the contents by smoke and water. But it was only the efficient and energetic work of the firemen that prevented the Christmas blaze from becoming still more destructive. It was feared at one time that the Z. C. M. I. might be reached by the flames. The total damage was estimated at $150,000. Henry F. McCune, Salt Lake City, passed away, Dec. 15, 1924. after a month's illness. He was born in Calcutta, in the year 1840, where his father, who was an officer in the British army was stationed. He came to Utah in 1857, and made his home in Nephi, where he lived until 18 years ago, when he moved to Salt Lake. Mr. McCune served in the Indian war during the Indian troubles in the vicinity of Nephi, and while in that town was active in civic affairs there, having at one time served as city councilman. After coming to Salt Lake, he engaged largely in temple work. He was a patriarch in the Liberty stake. He is survived by his widow, Elizabeth Grace McCune, and eleven sons and daughters. Funeral services were held in the Assembly Hall, Dec. 18, 1924. The speakers were Elder Joseph Fielding Smith, Pres. Hugh J. Cannon. Pres. A. W. Ivins, and President Heber J. Grant. George Buckle, for fifty years employed in the Deseret News bindery, died Dec. 18, in a local hospital. The previous Sunday evening he retired