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Show UTAH BUDGET The war mothers' of Park City are forming an auxiliary to the American Legion. About So per cent of the coal miners in the Carbon county coal fields are now at work. Morgan county teachers held their institute last week. Ninety-five per cent of the teachers were present. From the estate of the late Mrs. Russell- Sage, who died in New York on November 4, 101S, the state of Utah will receive $74,200 in inheritance tax. Water survey of the state under the law enacted by the Thirteenth legislature legis-lature Is to begin at an early date under un-der the supervision of the state engineer. en-gineer. A grocery store at Hyde Park was destroyed by fire. A large coal oil can in the store kept people from entering en-tering the building after the fire was discovered. Patriarch John Duke died at Heber City at the age of S2. Mr. Duke was one the the pioneer settlers of that locality and was the father of the mayor-elect. City firemen of Salt Lake have petitioned peti-tioned the city commission for an increase in-crease of wages which amounts to $35 a month for firemen and $5 monthly for lieutenants. Carrying the wishes of the Utah American Legion embodied in fifteen resolutions three delegates to the national na-tional convention in Minneapolis were sent from Utah. Uintah county was the first to send in to the state treasurer the taxes collected col-lected under the 1919 levy. The total tax collected for remittance to the state was $4544.31. Fourteen-year-old Irving W7aterfall will recover from the injury suffered when be was accidentally shot by a playmate at Salt Lake, unless some infection in-fection should develop. ' The county commissioners declined to build a central institution to care for the indigent, aged, infirm and feeble-minded, at the suggestion of the Merchants of Ogden association. The digging of beets and potatoes progressed with some difficulty through the week in the northern agricultural agri-cultural regions', particularly the Cache valley, because of the snow. At a meeting of the stockholders of the Lehi Irrigation company last week the articles of incorporation were amended so as to provide for the purchase of more water for the system. sys-tem. Several families in Brigbam City are quarantined for smallpox, nnd new cases are being reported. The health officers are doing all in their power to prevent further spread of the disease. dis-ease. Utah sheepmen, fearing that the sale of Australian and New Zealand wool in America during the latter part of No-vomber No-vomber will cause a depression of the market, have protested to the government. govern-ment. "Practically all the live stock in Utah has left the summer range and the movement to winter range is in rapid progress," is the view of M. M. Justin, agent of the department of agriculture agricul-ture for Utah. Efforts of Supt. George N. Child to have a parent-teacher organization formed in every school in the state is meeting with the hearty approval of educators, according to letters received at the superintendent's office. In bis report to the board of education, educa-tion, Superintendent C. H. Skidmore says there are 1840 students between the ages of 13 and 17, inclusive, in the Boxelder school district and that 200 are not attending school. Utah's gobs are making good, their record for promotions being bettei than that of any other state in the intermountain region, is the statement of Lieut. Com. L. R. Mann, head ol the local navy recruiting office. The promoters of the Ogden livestock live-stock show to bo held in Ogden January Jan-uary S, 9 and 10, report that the stock-raisers stock-raisers from the intermountain states have announced their intention of having hav-ing exhibits on hand for the event. The county commissioners of Summit Sum-mit county have applied for assistance from the forest service in constructing construct-ing the road between Oakley and Harden. Har-den. The road is to be thirty-six miles long . and will cost approximately $120,000. Timber sales out of the ordinary are being made on the Manti forests of southern Utah, according to word to the local forest service at Ogden. It is stated that oak and maple brush is being sold to meat-packing companies compan-ies to be used in connection with meat-snioking meat-snioking purposes. Need of school cafeterias, which are found in some districts of Utah, Is shown, educators say, in the public schools of Ogden, where, according to figures prepared by the superintendent superintend-ent and given to State Superintendent George N. Child, there are S9G pupils who eat cold luncheons every day. r |