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Show UTAH ANDJJTAHNs; The I'Sitrsi! county board of education educa-tion has a sa'ary selu-ip,i!e wherehy a teacher v,:!h two years' cor:iiii! training will receive a minimum min-imum a:ary of .S T J Hie first year in sehoi'l, increasing by for each year's experience as a teacher after the first two years, when $100 a year he-reuse is allow ed. 1 The Mate securities commission has decided to combat mail order dealings 1 in slock. The process is being adopt- i ed by stock companies which do not care to come into the state and meet the approval of the securities commission commis-sion before attempting to market their stock in Utah. Special inducements will be offered young men employees of many Salt Lake firms who join toe national guard of Utah in the way of full pay and credits for time off while doing military duty with their organizations. Protestant' ministers of t'tah met in Salt Lake, February 10, to formulate a program for the interclinrcb movement move-ment in Utah and to receive the report of the world-wide survey undertaken in connection with the movement. Six months In the county jail was the sentence given Dewey Conley, recently re-cently convicted by a federal jury at Salt Lake of possessing and using counterfeit revenue strip stamps on bottles containing "fake" whisky. Confronted in every city he visited by police circulars charging him with complicity in the theft of an automobile automo-bile In St. Joseph, Mo., in May, last, year, C. L. Clark, 12G years of age, surrendered sur-rendered at Salt Lake last week. "Never in the history of the state have there been so many deer as this winter," reports Parley P. Pascall. supervisor of predatqry animals, following fol-lowing an extended trip over the east and southern part of the state. Sevier county fair this year will be held in Richfield, September 10, T7 and 18. The Sanpete fair will he Held the following week, September 22, 2.'1 and 24. The exhibits from these fairs will be shown at the state fair. Scenic Utah, and Salt Lake's opportunity op-portunity as "the center of scenic America" will be the principal themes for celebration at the annual dinner of the Commercial club, which will be held at the club February 24. Postmasters of Salt Lake, Ogden, Logan and Provo may obtain dies for stamping mail with "Zion National Park" by making application to the fourth assistant postmaster general, it has been announced. There has been expended on post roads in Utah thus far .$1,000,000. The construction of these roads is on a "fifty-fifty" basis with the government, govern-ment, and there is due from the government gov-ernment about $400,000. Blackleg, a contagious live stock disease, has been discovered in a herd of beef cattle belonging to Ellis Pet-i Pet-i erson, who operates a farm near Utah lake. One animal is dead as a result of the contagion. Plans for the entertainment of ' eighty members . of the Cleveland , board of trade wdio will visit Salt , Lake and boost for Cleveland pro-, pro-, ducts March 3 and 4, are being com pleted. More than seventy members of the Salt Lake Commercial club, with their wives, will form the first spring trade excursion to Idaho, starling from S:'t Lake April 11 and returning in ten clays. Seventy per cent of the $110.943.SG in the state treasury to the credit" of the state high school fund was last week apportioned among the school districts of Utah having high schools. Beaver furs valued at $10:1S. most of which were confiscated by R. H-Siddoway, H-Siddoway, state fish and game commissioner, com-missioner, and sent to the St. Louis market, were sold for that price. Many features of the Utah state educational ed-ucational campaign will be added with the postponed opening of the campaign, cam-paign, March 21, according to plans announced last week. The parents of a 14-year-old boy residing re-siding near Ogden have been sentenced sentenc-ed to'pay a fine of $10 in the juvenile court for permitting the boy to play truant from school. After this winter the Lehi canning factory will be a condensary, if a decision' de-cision' of the stockholders of the establishment es-tablishment readied at a recent meet ing is carried out. Several applications listed for the purchase of coal lands in Thistle, indicate in-dicate a large, new and hitherto unknown un-known coal region in Utah. The ban put on public dances by the board of heallh at Ogden. February Febru-ary 2, because of the health conditions condi-tions has been, raised. The bank deposits at Delta in 1017 totaled $110,000. In 1010. the bank deposits were $::sn.i)'t0. One farme.- near Delia figures that his farm is bringing him in each year at least $37.-) per acre. With a pistol beside it the body of Scott Snow, age 27, was found on the bank of the Provo river near Provo. He was last seen alive when he was noticed going toward the river bridge. ! It is concluded by officers that he committed suicide. Coal lands aggregating a purchase price of approximately .v,nu..no nine been applied for ih rough the I nited States general land office at Salt Lake, within the past three weeks, because be-cause of the anticipation that President Presi-dent Wilson will sign the new leasing bill. |