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Show August 31, 1928 THE MIDVALE JOURNAL Herbert Hoover Visits His Iowa Birthplace Governor AI Smith Accepting the Nomination News Notes It'• • Pri11ii•11• to LrH in Utah .........................: DUCHESNE-A quarter of a m'lIion rloll:!rs worth of honey c:rne vut of the Uintah basin du1ing 1927. SALT LAKE-The total valuation o! all Utah crops in 1927, at price~ paid to growers, bas been estimat' d The conservatively at $39,000,000. estimaterl total of acres planted to all crops was 1,120,000. PLEASANT GROVE-Mort! than 5000 barrels of Ut~.h strawberrie3 WJ:·~ "cold packed" in 1927 and dis~ribul~ throughout the country for use in so:Ja fountains and by candy manufacturer>. The crop bst year totaled 2,544,000 quarts, v~luecl at ;305,000. TREHONTON-The bulk of the wheat grown in this section has i•een harvested, there l.aving been shipped from this point :n the first month shre the first car was loaded, July 11, 101 cars. F..-om Garland during the s~ me period there wal'l shipped 133 cars, each car averaging about 1200 bu>l•els. The Garland shipml!nts represent the crops frNn Portage. EUREKA-Tintie mines shipped a total of 149 carloads as compared with 115 carloads for the week preceding. 'Ihe Tintic Standard shipped 42 carloads; North Lily, 21; .merican Smelting & Refining, dump ore, 15; Empire Mine!!, 10; Bingham Mines, 10; Colorado, 9; Mammoth, 4; Dragon, 2; Mountain View, 2; and Gold Chain, 1. Chief Consolidated units: Ghief CGnsolidated, 7 carloads of ore and 5 of dump ore; Eureka Lily, 10; Plutus, G. SALT LAKE-A total of 3180 acres of land in Utah and Idaho will be open for settlement soon, according to wo:·d received by the Associated Pres-s from Washington D. C. The land is scattered througho'!lt. Custer anrl Blaine counties in Idaho and in Utah county in Utah. Veterans of the World war will hwe the first opportunity to file on the land. The lanrl in Utah will be opened Aug-ust 31, while the tracts in Idaho can be filed on bc;;inning September 14. HEBER -- Vocational agriculture students of the Wa~atch county high school at Heber will be repre~ented at the natio.1al r:Jm sale in Salt Lake with two pens of r~gis~ercd Ham'>- Ulerbe1t Boo'er and Mrs. Hoover leaving the little house In West Branch, Iowa, In which lllr. l.ioover was Republican candidate stopped In the town to meet old friends. British War Pilgrims at Menin Gate, Ypres ~hire Huge crowd of Brltlj!h war pilgrims standing In silent homage for two minutes before the liienin Gate in Ypl'l'S. Big Passenger Liner Is Launched SUCCEEDS HOOVER 1 deric1c. SeYier Fair association reports William F. Whiting of Holyoke, who was appointed secretary of commerce to succeed Herbert Hoover and was sworn In at Superior, Wis. :Ma~s., BYRD'S ORDERLY -Launclllag at Newport News, va., of the Panama-Parll!c line's new 34,il00 turltiHJectrlc liner Vlrgin!R. New $625,000 Yacht for Fleischmann Eagle Scout Paul A. Siple of Erie, Pa., who was selected by Commander Byrd as his orderly on the expedition to the an ta rctlc. Clock Need• No Winding The new twill screw Diesel yacht, which was built at a cost of $625,000 Fieisch1D1U111 of Clncinnatl, as It appeared lying at anchor orr the York Yacht club ,pier. It Is said that the Camargo, the name of the Ia the most expensive pleasure craft built this year. ~Jttlltts FROM niE FOUR QUARTERS be funny to hear anyone ..., - ... bow to be "efficient." life of the deep sen ln,etltlgated In the search colol'l tor automobiles. 890 aoldlers In the English , Rhine have taken German wives. ~1mti1A of 1he Toronto pollee force notleJ:~!d 1811 ponnds In weight 'n belghl: .... Truth is stranger than f!ction because there Is less of It on the market. The man who never engages In an argument with a woman Is wise Indeed. The H1:st typewriter was Invented by an Englishman early lu thP J.;ightel'nth century: the first wo•·kahlt.. pattern, howe1·er, was designed in Detroit about 100 years ago. A clock that has run tnten·upte!lly tor 12 years and, according to Its Swedish maker, will keep on tlrkiug forever, Is at present on exhibition at Oerebro, Sweden. The timepiece. which was first set In motion by Its Inl"entor, Teodor Dieden, In 1916, Is drll'en exclusively by the utilization of atmospheric variations. Perfection Henry 'Wilrd Beecher sai:I of his aunt Chandler that ''she was t woman so good and so modest that she will spend ages In heaven wonclt>rlng how It happened that she ever got there. and that the angels will always be wondering why she was not there from all eternity." The British Flag 1'ht> Rritlstl flag lloats o1·er abnu1 '>llP-fuunh of the huhltnhle :uea ot tb• worlcL tha~ . ... This photograph, transmitted from New York by wire, shows Gov. AI Smith delivering his speech accepting the Democratic nomination tor the Presidency. The cer-emony took place In the assembly room at Albany because of. rain. More Fine Ruins Are Uncovered in Rome tw~n~y rams, including some head of lambs and fifteen yearlings. The boys have set for themselves a minimum sta:Jdard of 130 pounds fur lambs and 200 Ji~U:J(1 ,~ for the y0arling~. From a quality standpoint, it will bP the bc3t shipment yet macle from the s~udents of the school to the national gale. ~-:IT. PLEASANT-:'>ft. Pleasant rity will soon be protected from the mcnadng floods of past yearS', as a ftGo:l control project is under "'\y two miles e:~st of the city. A. F. ReyneLla of M t. Ple~oant, who b in charge of the construction work, has 20 men and teams on the job. The e::cavation for the 30-foot, J:Ob)Jie S;Jitlway is now compktely ready for the masonr_y work, which will bc.c;ia at once. The north win!\' of th2 dike is complete'! and the s0uth wing will be finighcJ within 10 days. MYTON-The road that is bein:J: improved t:1roug·h 6e Pleasant Val!~y Jistrict will be completed in a couple of day~, so W. E. Broome, o1·erscer of construc~ion, reports. The purpose o~ tl}is ac~ivity is to put it in shape for the h~ndlin'\' of supp:ies, material and machin~ry for the test well for oil, to b~ started immediately. R. W. Gil:-son, a rcprc3entative cf th2 Utah Southern Oil company, is superintendent of the work in this part of Utah. recently workmen be~~a-:1 making Pxcavations in prepara:ion for th~ ~etting up of the RICHFIELD-The • County extensive train;ng is going on at the foir grounds every day among ownerf of the race horses. About ten head of race horses are already on the ground from southern Utah, reckoned among the fastest in the state. They abo have boo!;ed six head from Ubh cJunty, to arrive next wa2k, prom;sing the most interesting racing program t(.\ be held here in years. The c:airy exhibit is al~o more promising that ever before, owing to the fact th~t a number of animals from important herds in Wisconsin and the northwe,.t, have been Pntered. VERN.U~Prospects for the 1928 alfalfa seerl crop in Utah are 47 pr.r cent of normal compared with 60 per cent a year ag-o, Frank Andrews, a~ ricultural statistician for the United States department of agriculture, announced Wednesday. Increases or decreases from this estimllte may result penclin;r arrh·al of killing fros-ls, 1\!r. Andrews reported. Early !Tosts will bring production lower than estim~teJ and higher production will pNbably resuit if frosts are late, the report said. Lack of sufficient moisture h~ s caused the crop to lower :(rom last year's harvest and reports of stri rpinp; of blooms also have been made, Mr. Andrews stated. MYTON-The Upalco Flour :Mill In Myton, which is operated by C. P. Watterson, has opened for the fall and winter and recently bepn receiving new wheat. About 400 bushels were received in one day, some of which w~s of a superior quaEty, wci;:hing sixtyfour pounds to the bushel. l'oir. Watterson es-timates the crop for this sea~on in the vicl!lity of Myton at 20 000 bushels, which is a marked increase\ over that of previous years. In addition, he expects to purchase r-onsidcrhl>le tom•:>ge from othPl' pn·tivn• of the basin. The ruins ot an anc!Put temple which were discovered by workmen who were excavating for the erection of th~ new Argentine theater in Rome. Rockefeller to Restore Old College The remains of the ancient Wrenn building of William an<l ;!,Iary College nt Willi~mshu~g, Va., which is one of the structures there that .John D. Rockefeller Is undertaking to restore. The proJect .'nil cost about $::i,OOO,ll00. Bricks from old buildings throughout the state are being collected for use in the rebmldmg. People reflect their environment. Those who lh·e In shnhby, down-at· the-heels houses nre likely to feel depressed and discouraged. We borrow much of our contldence and spirit from our surroundings. It they have nothing to give-no hope or conflclrnce, no pride In home or joy In liring- then thPy become n liability nf ~urh prc>portions that only the n<t llerculean strength can residt '"h:'m. Congratulations on Record Flight PORTIA tN KNICKERS Staid jurists In a Brooklyn court were considerably ftu~tered when Miss Madeline Kaye, woman attorney, pleaded for her client In the above shown outll<, consisting of linen knickers, and a loose fitting, sleevelea's blouse. Busines• "Are you engaged to him?'' "Yes," answerwl the prudent girl. "But I have requested time to verify reports on his title and fortune." "That Is not an engagement. That Is nn option." Homes Indicate the People Living in Them (!' Obedient Outside ~ storm rnged. The deaf· ening thunder rolled and lightning llnshed almost continuously. Present· •Y n bolt strnck Mr. Jnncs am! He rose. ~nockeC: bhn out of bed. snwned. rubbed hi~ ryes ani! ~nld: ''Ail right, d~>nr, I'll get !'!)."-Open hoad Mngc1zinf'. Why He'5 Remembered As '"" r~c·ull t l•e 1'""111, mtm~ t.m h unn dill nPt hullk :HI auto twru "lit twnt -LnfJyelte Journal und Courter Art Goebel and Harry Tucker congratulating each other after compl n non~top flight from Los Angeles to New York in the record time of 18 hours and 58 minutes. SHORT ITEMS OF INTEREST Wish nod will are a great team when they pull together. One of the features of belonging to a !Jig and well-to-do family I~ that you are always gertlng a legacy. Tl!o~e who most exalt n certain degr~e of tougl!enss in r('putntion nre those who don't have it. Xothing like a gPnial friend to mnke nul' forget tl;e deficiencies of l he worl' Some natures will undergo n great den! of pol"erty for the sake of inde~ pendence. People who !Ike to do evil for the sake of el'il are probably cracked. They're nnt "daring." They're crazy. The Cuban public worl:b department Is making fllms of scenic spots. historic sitt>s. lntlustrles nml improvements on the !~land for di~play in the L'nlted States and 5:urope. .. |