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Show UTAH STATE JEWS' i Dewey Wood, aged 17, escaped from , the state Industrial school at Ogden. A new weather station is to be established es-tablished at Escalante, .Garfield coun--ty- The tax levy for Salt Lake county for 1916 has been fixed at 2.S2 mills . on the dollar of assessed valuation. Aid of the clergv and of the medical, profession in making a' state survey of the feeble-minded may be invoked. Brigham City will celebrate Peach day as usual this year, a committee having been selected to make preparations prepar-ations for the celebration. The annual fruit festival is to he held at St. George on September 7 and S. An excellent program of sports and other events is being ar- ranged. William Binford of Ogden was seriously seri-ously injured when his automobile was struck by a street car. Binford did not see the car in time to prevent the collision. While demonstrating the workings pf a rille to his two sons at Phoenix, Paul C irley accidentally shot and seriously ser-iously wounded Philip Dinardo, who was standing near by. Preliminary arrangements for the! first parade of the Ogden harvest fee-! tival have been completed, the plans; aiming to make the parade for Sep- tember 7 a patriotic display. Improvement of the highway extending ex-tending from Deseret station to Green! River and Castledale has been ordered order-ed by the state road agent. The cost' will be from $5,000 to $6,000. Seventy-six applications for homesteads home-steads were filed at the United States! land office at Salt Lake in July, ac-1 cording to figures Just compiled. In July, 1915, there were 192 applications. Petitions are being circulated in Richfield by the Parents' classes of the three wards asking support of: the citizens to build a modern swim-' ming pool and bathing resort in Richfield. Rich-field. Letters received from Utah troop-: ers now on duty at the Mexican border bor-der at Nogales, Ariz., indicate that they expect to remain in service there until after the arrival of coldi weather. O. Rowland Mumford, mail order broker, has disappeared from his usual haunts in. Salt' Lake and creditors cred-itors are claiming that he has made away with funds estimated as high, as $30,000. school census of American. Fork for 191G shows a decrease ot 106, as compared with that of 1915. The total census of 1916 shows 6-00 1 boys and 619 girls, making the grand total 1,219. A home talent wild west show, char-1 iot races along the principal streets, and a "jitney" dance are among the features planned for the Harvest Festival Fes-tival to be held in Ogden, September 7, 8 and 9. Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Baine and Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Mitchell, of Salt' Lake, were injured when an automo- bile in which they were touring the country turned turtle near Glenwood Springs, Colo. The largest percentage of increase; yet recorded this year in any district which has reported its school census, to the state department of education' was shown in the returns from North: Sanpete district. While sitting on the curb in front of his home at Salt Lake, Calvin Wor-then, Wor-then, aged 9, suffered a fractured leg when an automobile driver lost control con-trol of his machine and ran into the curb, striking the boy. Discovery of vast quantities of an - " Iron oxide from which an excellent pigment for paint may be made, is announced by an Ogden resident, who says his paint mine is located about eight miles east of Ogden. Walter R. Siders, Ogden's new superintendent su-perintendent of schools, is one of the four trustees of the National Education Educa-tion association, and the author of the school laws which were adopted by the Idaho legislature in 1911. While a party of Tintic people were enjoying an outing in North Tintic. one of them unearthed what is evidently evi-dently the hoard of an old-time miner. The cache contained a pocketknife, a fountain pen and about six dollars in 1 dimes and nickels. Facunda Gonzales, the Mexican who was shot in the hea4 while resisting re-sisting arrest at Salt Lake, when two of his countrymen were killed, attempted at-tempted to esca;e from the prison hospital, while delirious, and was only restrained after a furious fight. With the arrest at Salt Lake of Earl Young and the recovery of several sev-eral hundred dollars worth of loot, believed to have been stolen from Salt Lake and Denver homes, the police po-lice believe they will be able to clear up a number of recent burglaries. Delegates who attended the convention conven-tion at Salt Lake last week of the National Association of Master Bakers Bak-ers are profuse in their praise of the manner they were entertained by t'A-people t'A-people of Utah, and the state will receive re-ceive much WMiefit from the meetings. Not Recently. "Has this glass been sterilized?" "Yes, sir," answered the Inisy soda clerk. "Nonsense! Why. It's positively filthy. Don't try to deceive me!" "I'm not trying to deceive you. said that glass had been sterilized, bul I didn't say how long ago." |