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Show jTHE BEE HIVE STATE I Utah has been Invited, through the governor, to name a committee of twenty-five persons to prepare and carry out an adequate program in celebration celebra-tion of the three hundredth anniversary anniver-sary of the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers and the first meeting of a legislative assembly on American soil. The necessity for making the farm home a more important part of farm life, In providing adequate facilities and for making it more attractive, were constant themes before the United Unit-ed States farm convention at Salt Lake last week, which met with warm response from the bureau members. Representatives of the companies which produce the beet sugar supply of the United States gathered at Salt Lake on January 27 at the annual meeting of the United States Beet Sugar Su-gar Manufacturers' association for a discussion of matters of current interest inter-est to the industry. Every adult and child in the state will be Invited to adopt the boy scout habit of doing a good turn during anniversary an-niversary week, whicn will be celebrated cele-brated February 8 to 14, in commemoration commem-oration of the tenth birthday of the organization. Robert Jones, 74 years of age, one of the fashioners of the original railroad rail-road spike used by the Utah Central railroad at Promontory Point, near Og-den, Og-den, to . complete the first transcontinental transcon-tinental railroad, died at Salt Lake, January 29. Mrs. Rhoda Chase Stoddard Hin-man, Hin-man, who enjoyed the distinction of having been baptized into the L. D. S. church by the Prophet Joseph Smith at Nauvoo, 111., was found dead in her bed at Centervllle. She was 89 years of age. Forty-eight members of the national guard in various points throughout the United States will be selected to nter West Point during the present year, and two of these men will come from units of the Utah national guard. The poultry show of the Cache County Pet Stock and Poultry association associa-tion was held at Logan last week with an unusually large number of exhibits which have arrived from all parts of the state and southern Idaho. Bids for the construction of 4.47 miles of pavement between Payson and Spanish Fork are regarded by the state road commission as too high and have been rejected. The lowest bid was $33,252.03 a miles. Burglars used picks and crowbars to tear their way through a brick wall in the side of a clothing store at Salt Lake. Twenty-seven suits of the best clothing in the place were taken by the robbers. Addition of a dairy cattle department depart-ment to the fourth annual intermoun-tain intermoun-tain stock show, to be held at Salt Lake, April 5, 6 and 7, has been announced an-nounced by the directors of the show association. Large stocks of wheat are on hand in Utah, the wheat supply on farms and in mills and elevators upon the completion of computations recently made, being found to be 2,541,UO0 bushels. There is in the high school fund in the state treasury a total of $110,943.86 ready for distribution among the high schools of the state. Two distributions distribu-tions per year are made from this fund. The Amalgamated Sugar company of Ogden has filed with the secretary of state an amendment to its articles of incorporation, decreasing 'its capital stock from $33,750,000 to $30,000,000. Tlje Home and School league of Logan is a new organization which was formed last week at a meeting of representatives from the Parent-Teacher Parent-Teacher association. More than eighty scoutmasters from points in Utah, a number from Idaho and one from Nevada attended the scoutmasters' convention held at Logan. Isaac Beitman, cigar and tobacco merchant of Ogden for thirty years, died last week of influenza followed by pneumonia, after a week's illness. Mrs. Ann Jones, 81 ' years of age, suffered severe injuries at Spanish Fork, when she was knocked down at a street crossing by an automobile. The United States Wool company will erect a wool scouring plant in Salt Lake that will revolutionize the wool industry of the state, it is said. Fees from fish' and game licenses received by the state fish and game commissioner for the last quarter of 1919 totaled $21,486.75. Louis M. Brian died at Provo, following fol-lowing sleeping sickness of about three weeks, which was preceded by kidney trouble. John H. McChrystal, one of the best known mining men of the state, died at his home in Eureka-, January 27, of pneumonia. The Iliff Methodist church at Salt Lake Is being torn down and the material ma-terial will be used in a new church building. In accordance with a law passed by the last legislature, the state board of jxamlners lias approved action by the utate livestock board, under which C. B. Stewart, president, will receive a salary of $000 a year from the state livestock contingent fund. Word has boon received of the death at Pasadena, Cal., of 10. II. Parsons, Par-sons, former United Slates marshal for Utah in the territorial days. Mr. Parsons was 77 years of age, and loco motor ataxia, from which he had suf-I suf-I fered fur several jv th of death. f"V V |