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Show School superintendents of the -state held i their annual convention in Salt Lake last- week, ....,..,., ....j,.. , 1 Taxpayers of Uintah county passed the school tax levy of three mills for a $25,000 indebtedness by a vote of 446 to 125 at a special election, ' The Uintah ', canning factory ' has opened for the summer - run. String beans are now being canned and corn and tomatoes will be next In line. ' A large plaster paris cast of the cliff dwelling .region at Mesa Verde, Colo., was received at the University of Utah last week. The cast is reproduced in color. ..'. There are two kinds of mosquitoes in Utah, say . experts, the aedes and the anapheles, the latter the breed that carries malaria and spreads it. They are in the minority. Colonel Thomas G. Webber, 84 years of age, merchant and former newspaper newspa-per man, who for, years has been general gen-eral manager of the Z. C. M. L at Salt Lake, died August 15. ; ; The American Jersey Cattle club 1ms written the Utah State Fair association associa-tion a letter In which it offers $200 to be distributed to exhibitors of Jersey cattle at the annual falri y Melon-growers of Provo bench, Salem Sa-lem and Santaquln report that the melon crop Is just coming on and local melons will now take the place of the imported crop on all local markets. ' In Provo there are sixty-five fewer children of school age this year than last, according to the school census, the number aggregating 3101, which is practically the same as ten years ago. i vThe 1920 winter wheat acreage in Weber county is considerably . below ' that of 1919, and the spring ., wheat I acreage is greatly in excess, according to figures submitted to the bureau of crop estimates. , Vernal will have a University club if plans of some of the leading business men of the city, mature. About sixty-five sixty-five college men and women have been listed and many more are being added to the roster. .. .. , ..,,. Cedar. , City . is erecting one of th6 most up-to-date auto camp parks in the state. Tents and cook ovens will &e provided, . while . shower baths are being installed and the grounds seeded to lawn, and trees planted. T, " Bryce's canyon has been the Mecca for the auto tourist this season, thousands thou-sands visiting the wonderland. All visitors are enthusiastic in their praise of , Bryce's and many additional thousands thou-sands will make the trip next season, it Is predicted. v. Work on the new , Millard county courthouse at Fillmore is progressing rapidly and it will be ready for occupancy occu-pancy by the latter part of October. It; Is located on the park of the old capltol grounds, a short distance from the old capltol. ; Farmer? of the Callao section take exception to recently circulated statements state-ments to the effect that the people of Callao wre maintaining a mudhole for personal' gain, ' that they might extricate extri-cate autoists from, the mudhole at an outrageous rate.. , , , Harold It. Hagan, state inspector of crops and pests, . will serve part of the time as an instructor in zoology at the University of Utah beginning with the fall terni, September 27. His work at the state Institution will in no way Interfere, In-terfere, with his present duties.' The formal dedication of ZIon na-tlonaK na-tlonaK pnrk on September 15 has been suggested to the Salt Lake Commercial club, which is to have charge of arrangements, ar-rangements, by Stephen H. Mather, director, di-rector, olj national, parks, who 1ms agreed to attend the ceremony at that time. ,.:,.,,). u .r- . .-i,-.; j . The secretary of the state board of ! health Is in receipt of a letter from the United States public health .bureau !nr i formlng'hlm that it will be impossible j for the tiureau to comply with his re-j re-j quest to send an agent to conduct a l campaign against mosquitoes in the 1 Bear River valley of Box Elder county. Mrs. Gurtha Wheeler, 17 years of age, was arrested at Ogden and bound over to the district court on the charge 1 of bigamy. The, complaining witness ! Is Elmer Wheeler, the woman's hus- band, who claims ,that he has Just i learned that the young woman was al-i al-i ready married when she married him. i! An audit of the books of the Utah i Agricultural college, which has Just I been completed by Joseph Rirle, state ;i auditor, shows an overdraft of almost ! $150,000. The deficit is due to expense I incurred by the erection .of buildings for the accommodation of soldiers while the war was in progress, It is said. The Southern Utah Federated Commercial Com-mercial clubs became an actuality on August 13 at Cedar City. The commercial com-mercial organizations of -Washington, Iron, Beaver, Millard, Garfield and Kane counties are present members of the federation, but commercial organizations organi-zations of other counties are eligible to' membership. :., The' state mental hospital at Provo has . the largest population now the Institution has ever had. There are 001 inmates,, nine more than on July 1. During July five were discharged and three died. , . , . The Farmer-Labor party officially tossed its hat into the state political ring at its, convention In Salt Lake, August 'IS,' with the selection of a .iartiy. cotnplete state -ticket and the ijamlrig ofja committee, to a ct. In con-S con-S 'Smction with" the executive committee I f the state In choosing candidates for I ;tnm!nlng offices. . . '. . .-. t: |