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Show 01 STATE liEl'S A large mill for the manufacture of alfalfa meal la being erected at Monroe, Mon-roe, and others are planned for Elsl-nore, Elsl-nore, Richfield and Gunnison. Already twenty heifer calves have been pledged to the American Red Cross by the cattle men of ' the Moab country, with at least forty more expected. ex-pected. ' j Those who contemnlata attending J the peach festival at Brigham City ; this year need have no fear about there not being enough' peaches to supply the demand. - k While diving In a pond near Moroni, Hugh Strlngham, aged 17, suffered' a broken neck. He is In a Salt Lake hos- J pltal, and while partial' paralysis has I resulted, there la hope of his ultimate recovery. . , . From the federal treasury at Washington Wash-ington Daniel O. Larson, state treasurer, treasur-er, has received a check for $3750 to be applied to vocational education in Utah, under the terms of the Smith-Hughes Smith-Hughes act Openly declaring his; hope that the "fatherland" would win the war, Edmund Ed-mund Richard Thews, a German enemy alien, employed as a chemist at the Garfield smelter, has been arrested and probably will be Interned. It Is highly probable that Utah will j become the location for an extensive I plant which will produce steel, iron and coke in large quantities'. It is J estimated that tha nlnnr would pnat In ! the neighborhood of $20,000,000. ! j Ira It. Browning, state road engl- I neer, has approved the lease from the j Denver & Elo Grande railway of the , I old grade stretching nine miles from Tucker to Soldier Summit for conver- ion Into an automobile scenic high- ' way. . I The Nelke Reading club has present- I ed the Pjovo Red Cross with $Q00. J This fund Is the result of a business" I venture. The club had a local firm S manufacture boiler' racks, which the I members sold In a house-to-house can- vass,' -i. .. "' I Utah can save 10,000 tons of coal i for next winter with the time that it f takes the ax to cut and chop. This Is I the word from the fuel administration, I which Is advocating the cutting of old fruit trees that are non-productive, for f firewood. li Positions for forty women, many of n whom have dependent enndren, was j secured In three days by Mrs. Addle II A. Soper, examiner in charge of the j woman's division, United States de- partment of labor, United States em- j ployment service. , -, . - ,- jj ; ' Upon Information obtained through a ii strictly conducted survey of the tuber- !! cular situation' In Utah .will be based II the anti-tuberculoBls campaign in this Jj state, according to Frank W. Le Clere.- H executive secretary of the Utah Public 1" Health association.'- . In an address delivered In the tabernacle taber-nacle at Salt Lake, United States Senator Sen-ator William H..KIng declared that the German people are repudiating Christianity as being too International and are adopting materialism as representing repre-senting force and scientific Isolation. Believed to be one of the four men who, In the spring of 1918, attempted to kill William Bowen, special officer of the Oregon Short Line railroad, when he undertook to, arrest them on suspicion sus-picion of dynamiting a safe at Salt Lake, R. Maulsby has been arrested. Frank S. Fuller, reported killed, in action In France, was the son of San-ford San-ford and Mary A. Fuller of Springvllle. He was born May 30, 18&3. He was a railroad foreman on the Salt Lake Route and was working nt Las Vegas, Nev., when the selective service law went into effect I Advances of money to bnnks and bankers to aid in the movement of crops is to be made by the war finnnce corporation, according to official Information Infor-mation received" by the Salt" Lake brunch of the federal reserve hank of Sun Francisco from the parent Institution Insti-tution on the coast The V.Vber County Women's Farm ISuieuu, which has local organisations In every one of the county towns, has taken Mops to secure a list of the boys from the county that are in tho service of their country, and to keep tho IM tip to date with those who respond to the tall to the colors In the future. What Is claimed to be a world's record for early laying Has heen established estab-lished by three pullets owned by F. E. j F. Hudson of Salt Luke. One of the precocious birds laid an ejrg July 24, at the a;e of 4 months 2 days. Another luld an egg August 2 nt the ape of 4 months 11 days. The third luld her first egg August 8 at the age of 4 months and 17 days. The federal food administrator has fixed the price of mill feeds to the consumer at not more than $1.75 undelivered unde-livered and allowed a charge of 10 cents per hundredweight -to be mads for delivery. This price Is the maximum, maxi-mum, and It Is expected that competition compe-tition will bring about a reduction, as the farmers are permitted to sell at a lower fk'ure If thev desire. At the request of the national food administrator, that the work of the ptate food administrator may be simplified, simpli-fied, particularly in the matter of disseminating dis-seminating Information, W. W. Armstrong, Arm-strong, state food administrator, has appointed county food administrators. August .20 Is the date set when tho stute public utilities commission will hold a hearing In Ogden on petition of the Utah-Iduho Centra! Railroad company com-pany to Increase its rates to correspond corres-pond with those of the competing Oregon Short Line in the suine uni- tory. i - |