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Show UTAH STALE HEWS Schools, churches and other com-mounity com-mounity organizations of Utah during the coming year will make use of hundreds hun-dreds of reels of moving picture films that have just arrived at the Bureau of Visual lust ruction tit the University of Utah. Last week 200,000 feet oi picture films were received at the Bur- ' eau. ) Word was received at Salt Lake Wednesday of the election of Mrs. I'. ! J. Adams as third vice president of the ! national .Service Star Legion, which 1 recently concluded its national conven- j tion at Des Moines, Iowa. Mrs. Adams : was one of the leaders in the forma- ! live days of the Service Star Legion in Utah and for some time past has been ' state organizer for the legion. j ' Upon the urgent request of citizemi of Ferron and surrounding fwns, a branch of the Wasatch acadsmy is to j be opened about October 1 at Ferron. j The school will give lirst and second year high school subjects, and will bo .; under the supervision of the Woman's Hoard of Home Missions of the I'res- I byterian church. More than sixty stu- : tlents have already asked for enroll- ' ment. ' ! Germany Is now making an indus- ' trial invasion of Belgium, getting raw ; and manufactured products to her ' cheaper than the Belgians can pro- ; duce them. This is the statement of Ynl Browning, son of John M. Browning, Brown-ing, gun inventor, who has returned to 1 Ogden from Liege, Belgium, where hi) has -been in the intesest of his father's patents, which are being manufactured by the Rationale Fabrique Arms com-panie. com-panie. i "I So great is the demand for space In ' the manufacturers and merchandisers ; department of the Uttah state fair that j an extra building will be used to take care of the 1921 entries', . according to J. 1.. Home, manager. By utilising utilis-ing t:ie building formerly us 'd by automobile firms, it will be possible ibis year to segregate the products of manufacturers and retail merchants, the Liter being housed and di-;"lac-d in the new quarters. Although it entirely omitted a state road tax this year, and although the nssessed valuation of the county dropped more than $509,000, taxpayers if Beaver county this year tire assessed assess-ed to pay about $21.00:1 more in taxes than they paid lart year. This year the figures show a total levy of $237,-940.73, $237,-940.73, on an assessed valuation of $7,202,574. Last year the levy was $216,SS7.49, and the asessed valuation $7,S23,009. How Utah win benefit by a plan to bring the Atlantic seaboard 1300 miles I closer through- the completion of a waterway for ocean-going ship3 through the St. Lawrence river and the Great lakes, was explained Thursday Thurs-day to members of the transportation committee of the Commercial club and other Salt Lake business men by Chftiles P. Craig of Duluth, Minn., executive ex-ecutive director of the Great Lakes-St. Lakes-St. Lawrence Tidewater association. I C. Gill, chairman of the transportation transpor-tation comittee, presided. , Three city officers and one city employee em-ployee Thursday filed petitions as candidates for the Ogden city election this fall. The candidates are Mayor l"rank Francis and Commissioner Chris Flygare, for reelection ; Arthur F. Lar-sen, Lar-sen, present city auditor, for city commissioner, com-missioner, and Mis. Mary Farley, assistant as-sistant city auditor for city auditor. A candidate for city auditor whose petition pe-tition lias been circulated is F. A. Behling. Among others who have been mentioned for mayor tire George K. , Browning and David Jenson. For the commission some of those mentioned as possible cantlitdates are D. F. Seery, Frank 1'. Htrban, William II. Lowder, j K. It. Geiger, George Goddard and W. M. I'iggott. I Jacob Iff, 74 years of age. a native j of Switzerland and a resident of South Jordan or forty years, was killed when j he was struck by an automobile driv- " en southward on the Redwood road j by Lynn Beckstead of South Jordan, 30 years of age . Mr. IK was on his way to attend a meeting of the stockholders stock-holders of the Pioneer Sugar company In the West Jordan meeting house when the accident occ tired, about a mile and a half south of the place of j Ws destination, lie started across the road us two automobiles approached j from opposite directions. Kach driver ! aid they could not see 111' because of the glare of the l.ights. The car driv- -en by Mr. Beckstead struck him, throwing him to the ground so that his bead struck the earth, inducing rupture rup-ture of tin; blood vessels in the huso ot the. lira In. He lived just long enough en-ough to tell his name. ; ... Registration cards were given out to 1270 students 'at the University of Utah Thursday, breaking all previous records. Lines of those waiting to register reached twice the length of the administration building at times duriug the day. ' The contract for a five-room mod- : ern school building of the latest de- , sign, to be erected at Lake Shore, has been awarded to II. G. Fern-ten, cm- I tractor. i |