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Show EWERY COUNTY PROGRESS, CASTLE DALE. UTAH iMrninuic T HE Hi f cn uHiid ii DOZEN UTAH BUDGET TM VILLAGES STJLL III FLIGHT The Salt Luke Elks lust week launched their fourth Uberty loan campaign with a total of S25.000 as a starter towards a goal of !fl00,000. Charles W. Clark, who was Injured at Rawlins, Wyo., when he fell down n the stairway of a hotel, died at an hospital after every effort known to medical science had been resorted ito to save his life. If the Y. M. M. L A. of the L. D. S. church of Salt Lake had a service flag the banner would have more than 300 stars. So scarce have young men become that the official board has decided to raise the age limir. Such a serious shortage of tin plate, used in the manufacture of cans, is Imminent, according to W. W. Armstrong, food administrator for Utah, that the local canning factories may be compelled to close down. Victor Roman, a farmer of River-dalwas severely Injured and his wife and child were slightly lujured when the buggy In which they were driving to Ogden along the Riverdale road was run down by an automobile. Payrolls of the Utah Power & Light company will be increased $100,000, It Is declared, as a result of an an nouncement made last week that employes of the company will receive a blanket increase in pay of $15 a month each. A proposal to construct a railroad, 150 miles in length, into the Uintah basin is being discussed by Dr. p. S. Cooke and Leslie Asliton with Gover nor Bamberger and other members of the Colorado river basin reclamation committee. Of five applications for building con struction considered at Salt Lake last week by the special building commit tee of the state council of defense, two were approved and the remaining three were deferred pending further Investigation. Protest against the employment of girls under 21 years of age as operators of elevators, as "bellhops" and In automobile establishments or gar ages, is being made by the committee on women in industries of the state council of defense. A Young Men's Christian association has just been organized at the Utah Agricultural college for the students' army training corps at the institution of Logan in with Rev. Pillsbury charge. Quarters will be established in the large museum. Liabilities of the Utah Gas & Coke company aggregate a total of according to statements made by General Manager George H. Ware-In-g before the state public utilities commission hearing on its application to Increase gas rates. Reports complied by Secretary Thomas E. Banning of the state public utilities commission show that coal production in the intermountain region so far this year has Increased 19.1 per cent over that of last year during the corresponding period. of the Merchants Reorganization bank at Salt Lake, to be known as the Liberty State bank, will be affected Anwithin tlie next thirty days. nouncement to that effect was made last week by O. P. Soule, who has charge of the rehabilitation. With grapes donated by patriotic women of Salt Lake, tlie sugar donated Lake by the government, two Salt women have made upwards of seventy-fiv- e quarts of grape juice for the use of the v ar victims who will shortly be undergoing treatment at the Fort Douglas reconstruction hospital. Never before in tlie history of the University of Utah has the actual registration of the first day equaled or even compared with that of September 26. More than 1000 students made tentative application for admission, while practically .TOO approved entrance cards were filed in the office of the registrar. The central governing board of the volunteer medical service corps of the council of national defense announces that tlie Utah state executive committee of the volunteer medical service corps is composed of the following doctors; A. J. Hosmer, chairman; F. S. Bnscom. secretary. Salt Lake; E. M. Conroy, Ogden; John W. Aird, Provo ; E. F. Root, Salt Lake. Participation of one Utah firm in war business to the extent of S1.000,-00- 0 is assured as a result of the receipt at Salt Lake by the manager of the Burdett Oxygen company, of a letter announcing that his firm has been given a contract for the manufacture of 1.000.000 cubic feet of oxyliydro-gegas for use in the United States army balloon corps. That a splendid reponse has- been made to the country's call is shown by the fact that 24 Bingham citizens are now in the military service. A large percentage of them were volunteers. Fifteen cases of smallpox have been reported to the city health office tit Ogden. Two girls with slight cases of smallpox, who failed to observe the quarantine law. are said to have caused the disease to spread. His Desire, Lemon Juice For Freckles Girls I Make beauty lotion at home for a few cents. Try Itl Og-de- ADVANCE SEVEN MILES DAY AND TAKE OVER IN ONE FIVE THOUSAND PRISONERS. Pennsylvania, Kansas and Missouri Troops Break Through German Lines Despite Desperate Resistance, Making Great Gains. STUBBORN RESISTANCE OF THE HUNS UNAVAILING; ALLIES GAINING GROUND. Bulgarian and German Troops in Macedonia Face Disaster, While Residents of Metz Are Leaving Under Shell Fire. The Teutonic allied Washington. Attacking Thursday WashingtonMacedonia and Turkey still in forces of miles, twenty morning ou a front with 6re In flight before the armies of the west f Verdun, in the French, the American first army entente, while on the Inhighly iinior France, the ikIvhii ed to an average depth of seven taut St. Qiientin sector after hard French and Uritish armies, and towns twelve ti ad miles captured more closely have drawn lighting, more than 50(H) prisoners. lines in the investment of the Four of the towns were carried by their west and on the northwest, ..own and storm by Pennsylvania, Kansas oiith. The stubborn resistance of Missouri troops of Major Generul the Germans in defense and in corp. General Pershing said In has been unavailing exhis official statement on the battle, reto the progress of the Impede cept The ceived at the war department. Marshal men - Lite-Kelt- 's counter-at- tacks, enemy offered stubborn resistance. Troops of other corps forced their way across the Forces brook, took the ISois de Forges and wrested eight towns from the enemy. The Pennsylvania troops referred to are by General Pershing evidently (nathose forming the Twenty-eighttional guard) division, while the Kan-Ha- s and Missouri troops make tip the Twenty-fift(national guard) division. At last accounts, the Twenty-eight- h division was under Major General C. H. Muir and the Twenty-fifttinder Major General W. II. Smith. or "Iron" diviThe Twenty-eighth- , in had been hard fighting heresion, tofore, having held the center of the American line in the advance across the Otireq July 26 to 31 during the beginning of the general allied ofsalient fensive, when the AIsne-Marn- e was wiped out. They remained In the line until August fi. advancing to Flames, where they were relieved by national guard) the Thirty-secondivision. division landed in The Thirty-fiftFrance last June 0 and wwit on the firing line eleven days later. They were last reported on the Vosges front September 4. h h h d h JUNEAU FLOODS CAUSE HAVOC Buildings Destroyed and Main Street Menaced by Water. Homes in JuJuneau. Alaska. neau are being torn away, a big government hospital has been temporarily abandoned, power plants are Idle, and all business Is suspended, as a result of torrential rains of unusual warmth, causing a water deluge along the main shore of Gastineau channel. The main street of Juneau Is threatened by the floods. Volunteers from many mines in this district are working with federal officials, clerks and business men In succoring many families in the Casey Sliattuck addition to Juneau, where Gold creek lias torn through its banks and bulkheads, washing out numerous homes. Patients in the large government hospital in that district, which has been uhtmdoned, had narrow escapes in the swirling waters. of the armies of Field Hulg and General Deheney. In Macedonia the Bulgarian and German troops are still faced with disaster; in Palestine the remaining TurBs seem to have scarcely a chance to escape from the British forces and friendly tribesmen who are closing In upon them east of the River Jordan. More than 40,000 prisoners and 26." guns have been taken by the British, and yet General Allenby's appetite for further emoluments from his hard campaign has not been satisfied. "It Is announced that, owing to the long-rang- e bombardment of Metz and other places, preparations are making for the expeditious evacuation of civilians and movable property from places within range of such guns when tlie evacuation becomes necessary." says a dispatch received at Amsterdam from Berlin. Ou the French front the British have taken the village of Selency, a scant two miles from the western environs of St. Quentin, and both the British and French troops north and south of this line have driven further wedges into the German front. Good weather has returned to the American sector on tlie Lorraine front, but nothing has occurred there except tlie usual reciprocal bombardments and a resumption of aerial activity on a great scale. Advices from Berlin are to the effect that there is much perturbation in Germany over e the guns of the Americans which are shelling the areas behind the German line. long-distanc- TELLS OF HUN FAILURE. General Wrisberg West Front Due Says Disaster on to Surprise Attacks. Amsterdam. General von Wrisberg addressed the main committee of the reichstag on. behalf of the minister of war. He explained, according to a. tetegram from Berlin, that the failure of the German offensive on tlie west ern front was due to the failure of the German army to surprise the entente allies and the necessity of assuming the defensive on the arrival of the English home army in the theater of war ; to the employment of colored troops and to the Intervention of American divisions. EPIDEMIC HALTS PROGRESS. General Crowder Cancels Call for Entrapment of 142,000 Drafted Men. Washington. P.ecaus of epidemics of Spanish influenza in army camps, Provost Marshal General Crowder oil Thursday cancelled calls for t he between Octobev V and 11 of 14::,00 draft registrants. During the L'4 hours ending at noon Thursday, fillft) new cases of influenza iu army camps had been retried to the office of the surgeon-genera- l of the One hundred end seventy army. from pneudeaths, resulting eliietl monia following influenza, and 72." new cases of pneumonia also were reported. TWO AMERICAN SHIPS SUNK. Great Damage Done Off Western Coast by Hurricane. San I)iego- .- In a terrific hurricane that raged off llie lower California and northwest coast of Mexico Tuesday, Claims Official Accepted Bribe. While two con San Francisco. cealed government operatives listened and a telephonic device silently recorded his words. James A. Wood, former assistant federal food adtnln- strator for Nevada, accepted a $100 bribe in marked bills and promised discrimination in favor of an Elko, New. Hour mill, of which W. W. I'er-civis president, according to Perci-vnl'- s testimony at the opening of Wood's trial Wednesday. Curtails Output of Bicycles. Curtailment of tlie Washington. manufacture of bicycles and accessories was announced Tuesday by the war industries board. Men's bicycles are to be made hereafter only In 20 and frames, and women's models only in frames, and the manufacture of racing anil juvenile models and many accessories is to be discontinued entirely. h h September 17. two Coiled Slates shipI. W. W. Killed by Policeman. ping board vessels on l heir maiden Gils Kansas, killed P.ulle. Mont. trips were sunk: a fleet f oilier craft was badly battered; the Lower Cali- by Police Officer James Lnrkin Wed- fornia town of I.a Paz was partially nesday, after he had fired at the destroyed, and the llonting equipment patrolman, has been hb'iiiMied as an of I he Cnited Slat's naval coal depot active leader in the Industrial Work- at Pichiiinipic was damaged. News of ers of the World. He was one of tlie h:.voc wrought bv the storm was two Finns who signed a telegram b:vu.;1it here by a long overdue fish- - i from Whitehall, last year, asking that . I. v . organizers be sent to th i'ig launch. Butte district. Prince Sticks to Plebian Bride. Heney and Rolph Eliminated. Amsterdam. In answer to pleas San Francisco. A state supreme that he desert his bride of humble birth. Crown Prince Charles of llu-- . court decision upholding the constitumania has replied that thrones are so tionality of the state primary law elimunstable nowadays that he prefers the inated Francis J. Heney and Mayor James Rolph of San Francisco from uncertainty of having the wife he the Democratic nomination for Wants to tlie chance of losing a throne, j Snueeza the Juice of two lemons Into a bottle containing three ounces of orchard white, "shake well, and you have a quarter pint of the best freckle, sunburn and tan lotion, and complexion whitener, at very, very small cost Your grocer has the lemons and any drug store or toilet counter will supply three ounces of orchard white for a few cents. Massage this sweetly fragrant lotion into the face, neck, arms and hands and see how freckles, sunburn and tan disappear and how clear, soft and white the skin becomes. Yes! It is harmless. Adv. e, $478,-478.9- 9, n One From Uncle Joe. Uncle Joe Cannon tells of a conversation overheard in his home town in Illinois. "Was the wedding a success?" "Yes, in most particulars ; but some of the guests thought the bride's mother did a lot- - more crying than was necessary. You see, the young couple are to make their home with her, so she really isn't losing her daughter." "Maybe that was what she was crying about." "Pardon me, sir," said the sales,1 In his superior way. "but this u the hat you should have, at all. x here is one much more becoming h you. The price is only two dollar! more, and "If a colored man with a wooden should ask you for a seventy-fivpurple or polka dotted hat joc would sell it to him If you had it wouldn't you?" Interrupted old Fest Pester. "Yes, sir, but " "Then please treat me as kindly you would a colored taian with a wooi eu leg." Kansas City Star. 1 e Catarrhal Deafness Cannot Be Curd by local applications as they cannot r..-- i the diseased portion of the ear. Thenli only one way to cure Catarrhal Deatnen and that is by a constitutional HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE IS through tne Blood on the Mucous 8urfac of the System. Catarrhal Deafness? caused by an Inflamed condition of fl mucous lining; of the Eustachian Tubt When this tube la Inflamed you havt - rumbling sound or Imperfect hearing--, u) when it is entirely closed, Deafness Ii tin result. Unless the Inflammation can be and this tube restored to its nor mal condition, hearing may be destroys forever. Many cases of Deafness an caused by Catarrh, which Is an Inflame condition of the Mucous Surfaces. i ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for m case of Catarrhal Deafness that carina be cured by. HALL'S CATARRJ MEDICINE. All Druggists 75c. Circular free. F. J. Cheney & Co.. Toledo, Ohio. Helping Him. It's too hot to He (facetiously) . prt pose. She Not to propose an ice cream an automobile ride. or Single Standard. Daughter He has money and brains. Father But would you marry him Memphis, Tenn., now has womu barbers. Just for money? You Can't Eat Meat 100 Miles Away Preparing meat is only a part of Swift & Company's usefulness. The finest meat in the world wouldn't do you any good one hundred miles away from your table. Swift & Company efficiency has made it possible to place complete lines of products in the smallest and most remote communities. To be sure the work is done well Swift & Company, through its branch houses and car routes, brings the meat to the retail dealer for you. Swift & Company lays out car routes covering towns big, little, medium size which are not served by a Swift branch house. Salesmen find out in advance what is wanted by the dealers in every town. They are followed by refrigerator cars loaded with retailers' orders, which are delivered at each town fresh, clean, and sweet once or twice each week. Swift & Company operates a large number of car routes like this, from fourteen distributing plants. This is a necessary and natural part of the packers' usefulness. It fits into the industry in an orderly, effective way. It makes better meat cheaper from one end of the land to the other. 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