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Show KEAHLT REM TO Big Plant at Lelii Is Being Overhauled and Improved. Im-proved. WHITE FLY HAS CAUSED GREAT DAMAGE TO CROP Government Experts Are Working Work-ing Hard lo Rid Country of Pest. Speclnl to Tho Tribune I. EII1. Sept. II. In nnd around the sugar factory are busy scenes nowadays. Nearly every pleco of machinery In tho big mill Is being overhauled and put In repair for tho season's run. which will commence ubout September Sep-tember 2v New Plnnt Building-. Tn steel work on tho Steffens plant In nhout completed and the brick work thnt will house It Is nearly up. This new fenturp alone will cost about SIW.OOO. Besides this, other Improvements Im-provements are being made, and when the plant commences mnklng sugnr again It will be In better condition than ever before. Arc Sampling Beets. Active sampling of the beets Is now In progress. pro-gress. Orders to commence digging will bo given In a few days, nnd on iho L'.Mh Instant tlm tlrM beets will bo delivered Im the fuctory sheds. The white lly has played havoc with ninny fields, nnd In mnny coses the stand Is not more thnn half a crop, but taking It In general, tho beds nre In fair condition nnd thero will bo enough for a successful run. How Pest Works. The smnll lly which Is dolnp o much dnmoge ."uck the Juice from the leaf on Ito under side, causing It to curl up nnd wilt. Government experin who have been In hehl for somo limn nre unable to give u remedy for the blight; but they give the farmers tho consolation thnt this blight does not follow two year.s In succession In the same locality. In Sovler county the ltoeta nre almost a total failure. Hanr. Hammer, ono of our oldest citizens. Is iultc 111 und Is confined to his bed. William Cmbb of the Co-op. la spending a vacation In Cache valley. At a meeting of the board of directors of tho People's Co-op. a special dividend of 1' 1t cent wns declared. S. I. Goodwin tendered his resignation and A. B. Anderson was ap-lKilntcd ap-lKilntcd to till the vacancy. Mrs. W. W. Souihworth. who has ben on a 1slt lo Cnnnda for a month, returned homo this week. Fred Hnrwood, one of Tehl's talented musicians, musi-cians, has gone to JnckNonvllle, III., where he has accepted a position ns Instructor In thn llllnoi.i University of Music. Oscar Ivlrkham, who has been spending the ummr In Ileber and on tho reservation, left this week for Bexburg. where he has chnrgn of the musical department In tho Boxburg academy. Joxeph V. Smith, who has been teach. ng music mu-sic In the Prlgluim Young university for the past year, hns accepted a iosllIon In tho I-chl biir.k. II. G. Smith of Provo. and Wllford War-nick War-nick of Pleasant Grovn have moved their fnm-!llcs fnm-!llcs to I.ehl. Both ycnllcnien nro teaching In tho public schools. Arthur Rradlcr nnd If. E. Osterloh, who went to Vernal to visit friends, arc homo again, without having located on any land. John Q. Adams of Market I-ake. Ida., who has been In Iclil for two weeks selling horses, returned north today. F. A O'nden. after a two weeks' holiday spent In California and Oregon. Is back at his key In the Rio Grande Western station, Jh-i.hi! N. Smith who has been living In Garland Gar-land for two years, has moved back to Eehl, and accepted a position with the sugar company. com-pany. Mrs Bertha Kusce, of Beaver Is the guest of her sister, Mrs Dr. Steele. John V Smith has bought for Eastern par- I tics nearly 1(00 pounds of wool, vhlch comprises com-prises nearly every pound thnt will bo sheared In this vicinity this fall. Tho price nvcrnge about come per pound. Mr. Bcntrlco Cllft of Ileber Is visiting with her daughter, Mre. Rlchnrd Gough. |