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Show THE MIDVALE JOURNAL Detroit H_as the World's Best Lighted Street. .......................... Dnnns for Japan Emperor's Coronation f 1\'tews Notes • i~~·· .put;h Friday, August 17, 1928 L ... •• ................... ~~~ A view of Washington boulemrd-Detroit's Champs Elysee and Fifth avenue-which has just been converted , ~ the best-lighted street In the world. Each lamppost has fiye lights with a combined cand!epower of 10,500. Attractive Homes for the Poor of Amsterdam MYTO)l-Enough asphalt to pave most of the city streets in the weRt lies awaiting dcvelopmPnt in the Uin· tah Jlasi11. VF.RN.\L--Uintah Basin contains 10 per ce11L of all the hors~s. cattle and ' sheep in the state of Utah and the basin is &till young in development. J MYTON-Sixty-seven bilFon dollars ) wor• h of gasoline all the world's s-upply, say federal surveyors, lies in 1 the Uintah basin. DUCHESNE-More than half the water of Utah ftowg into the Uintah basin, which expects to have more t.han half a million acres under cultivation. HEBER CITY-In 1927, the value of eggs, poultry and turkeys produced In Utah was 3,679,753. Of the egg prot!uction, 614 carloads went to outside markets and 567, 924 pounds of turkeys were exported. OGDEN-According to an appeal for help made recently to the Weber County Fish and Game Protective asJapanese workers putting the finishing touches on the drums which will furnish the sacred music at the sociation of Promontory Point, rabcoronation ceremony of Emperor Hirohito of Japan in November. These instruments were made especially for bits have descendea upon the crops in this occasion. ~ the locality and are doing damage that is estimated at thousands of dollars. PAROWAN-On Augus-t 16, 17 and 18 the Southern Utah Rambouillet association will hold its seventh annual 5how and sale at Parowan. Over ~0 I head of blooded Rambouillet sheep I will be exhibited at the show. The3e sheep will come mostly from Iron county, but it is expected that other flocks from other counties will be included. ROOSEVELT-Roads between Salt Lake and the Uin tah basin are in fairly good condition, according to reports prepared in the offices of the state road commission. In one or two places the road is reported as s·low because of construction work under way, but no inconvenience r.hould be suffered by any motoris-ts pasing over these roads, highway officials declare. BRIGHAM CITY-Peach Day wi:J have the enthusiastic support of all groups and organizations of the com· munity, if the widespread organization effected in the chamber of commerce is any indication. Representatives from civic, social and ecclesiast- 1 ical units met to outline policies and 1 pe1fect phns for the Peach festival to be h81tl in the Boxelder county seat I Friday and Saturday, September 14 1 and 15. Gt'neral Yiew of the c€'1rbrat!on in Carca~sone, France, of that famous city's two thousandth birthday. President BRIGIIA~f CITY-City Attorney I Doumergue and a host of other notables were present and a huge procession was hel<l. The scene showed is In Lewis Jones announced recently that I the "new" part of the town. The old part, across the Tiiver Au<le, has a castle and wall considered the best preserred :be had ju;·t beCll informed by the of all such works of the Middle ages. Utah-Irlaho Cement company that this firm had executed a five-year lease BEST ENGLISH BABY on a tract of land near the cement plant at Brigham City to be used as an airport. The tract is about threefourths of a mile long and half mile wirle. Brigham City will in turn lease the premises to the department of commerce, after leveling and placing the field in p-noJ shape. SALT LAKE-Roads through Utah r.re in good condition generdly, although there are some ruts anu dust ln placts·, according to the WPckly road repo1·t issued by the state road commiru;ion. The main routes acraos thP s~ate, however, are in good condition On the desert section of United States. hi~hway No. 40, west of Salt Lake, the road is dusty, hut good time can be mDde, the report show&. It is in<licated by the report that the highways are in practically the same con<lition us they usually are at this time of the year. SALT LAKE-Crops and ranges in Utah are beginning to show the need of rain, according to the weekly crop report Issued Wednesday by J. Cecil Alter, meteorologist in charge of the local government weather bureau. His report is as follows: "Cooler weather has been favorable but there was not enough rain and crops and ran.ges are Betty Froggatt, nine months old, showing the need of general showers. who Is believed to be one of the finest The weather has been fine, however, bnbles in the world, and easlly the As a memorial to her marvelous milk-producing record, a mark neYer for ripening spring grain and for the finest in England, as she appeared In approached by any other cow that ever lived, this marbleized statue of Segls harvest of grain anrl alfalfa. The the Surrey bllls, where she Is being Pietertje Prospect, by the American sculptor Freder!~k Willard Potter of Los higher ranges still afford plenty of reared by her mother, Mrs. Froggatt, AngeJes, was unveiled near Seattle at the entrance of the Carnation Milk feed, but lower ranges are not grow- a former nurse, who believes In the ing. Sugar beets mostly are doing efficacy of fresh air &nd lack of farms overlooking the Snoqualmie river. well, but would be improved by rain, ~ thes for babes. GUNNISON-Preston G. Peterson, HAS BIG ALASKA JOB a member of the state road commission, has investigated the bad curve in the state highway at the Palisade park junction betwe<'n Manti and Gunnison and has reported that would soon be improved. He inquired as to roadS' nee-!~ in tbis patt of the state. His attention was called to the fact the.t the stnte hi~rhway between Manti ~nd Gun·1i,on, which is a road of major importance and carries a great t1eal of traffic, has never received more than passing consideration • • Carcassone Celebrates Its 2,000th Birthday I 'l'hls Is one o! the new buildings which the city government of Amsterdam, Holland, is et·ecting for the poorer residents, to replace the old "slums." Advertising the Air Mail by Radio GETS DOGS FOR BYRD • • Statue of World Record Milch Cow Dr. David Ill. Buckingham of Washington, D. C., a former dean of George Washington university veterinary school, has been commissioned by Commander Richard E. Byrd to purchase nearly 100 Arctic sled dogs to accompany him on his trip to the South pole. HER HOUSE DIVIDED State and Madison streets, Chicago, the busiest corner In the world, wus jammed when the "talking mall box" began to inform the people of the change In rates of air mail. Thousands of persons paused to hear the air mall tJtlks broadcast through two loud speakers installed in mail boxes. British Gunner Has Pet Starling John D., Jr., Buys Historic House This building at JameRtown, Va., the old!tSt brick house of English construction in America, known as the Warren estate, has been purchased by Joh n D. Hockefeller, Jr. It was built for the son of John Rolfe and Pocahontas, the Indian princess-a gift from Chief Powhatan to his grandson. ITEMS WORTH REMEMBERING ur·e 1, lOO diJl'erent kinds A lt•lPS. · 'Ptinw~ rnid heehi\'!'R, ldll· l r.~ nff I : r;::e numbers o~ hees. ·,,Jl of dwt•fll:rte In lire :lt•d Stc,tes hus douhled "ince HlJ:i. ~::.·t r ""hinPs that ven<l "imple me· "''nle(lles are being tPste<l in l'l' 'l'he white or brown color of egg shells hn~ no connection with the food vulue of the eggs. R!'lntlcrr from North America dwin· died when kl•pt In corrals. nenr f:t·en· oh'P. Frntwe. Turnetl loose in the hills. they are thridng. Scores of the king's rounsrl nt the i':ngli~·h bar-thf're are ::;;o or soReltlom gN a !Jrlrf. Only a fPw are in po~ition to demand high fees. Mrs. Charles H. Sabin, Republican national committeewoman from New York, Is one of the picturesque figures in the Presidential campaign. Her husband, a bunker, who has come out for Governor Smith, ls acting on the finance committee of the Democratic national committee, but Pauline Morton Sabin goes right on with her worlt for Hoover. Incense Composition There• are many formulas for the making of Incense. It may be made by mixing olibanum, 11,4 poun<ls; benzoin, 6 ounces; cascarilla bark. I! ounces; cnssia bark, 2 ounces; cloves, 2 ounces. That's the Big Point It Is estfmnted that a walter walks l2 miles n day in the course or hi.• duties. We cnn well believe that, ~ap l.onrtnn Opinion, but why doesn't he • 'O!I.\!1 bn rl\ 1 BURLEY-A survey of damage done by the hailsto1m that passed through a section of the Minidoka tract s'Outh of Burley recently ~hows much l~ss destru ·tion than was at first reported. The storm extended in a narrow swath for a distance of about three miles. Around 320 acres of crops were pounded into the ground and apparently destroyed. Other crops were but little affected. The line between the hailed section and the part that escaped was sh;uvlr define<!. 0. F. Ohlson of Duluth, wh<> has lleen appointed to manage the government railroad between Fairbanks and Seward, Alaska. Mr. Ohlson Is a veteran railwayman and Is fum'llar with the work necessary to keep a road open during the winter months of the Far North. "Joe Bisley," a young starling caught recently at Blsley, England, percbed on the rifle of his master, Private lloddfng, R. A. 0. C. The pet goes with him everywhere, even to the range. Plain, Dittinct Ideas ~hey say ot·utory is on the decline. Perhaps. Yet the man who speaks vluiuly and di5tinctly and hns Ideas as well us words usually Is surroundell by n group of interes-ted listeners.-, Atchison Glohe. Hobbies and Worries <'ot~t~>ured ausorption in some act!v· ·' '' ~"''d for the disposition; when ,. nre nu~nrhed lYe don't stop to 'ht·r nhnnt small worries. - The :<'J'i<·un ~ht!;Ozine. Heart aa Body'• Monarch Dr. William Harvey, who demon strated the cfl'('ufatfon of the blood through the body. dedicated tlls book descrioing his work to the king, statIng that "the king In his kingdoiii Is like the heart in the body." The Dog Daya The "<lo:: rl.1ys" nre In July and part of August. They nre ~o cnllrrt hcruuse :;idus. the <log-star, most hrllllunt of all th€' nx~d stars. then ris€'s nnd srts \n the l1·wtimp nn<l not nt night JOTS FROM HERE AND THERE The world's automobile population Is now 2ll,687,499 cars. The alrplunl' rart·icr Saratoga ran carry eights-three planes. ~lount l•:tnn w:tg at'lh;e :19 n vol cut10 eYen ns Pnrlr n."' r~uo B. C. Di~(lH~f"~ <:Ut ~lown the ~ott0n <.:ror1 IH~t y!'ar h~· llP:I•·ly 1:. per <"l'llt. An Am••ri •:•n <'OlliJl 'I v ;~ the only <'onrPrn ma:·~pg 1pr•ui~.~; r.H !if't~ ln Au strnliu. Bull lightning moves more slowly than forked lightning. Some insects fly only once In their sltnrt iifl'tlme, in connection with maiing. The Fi,li f~lnn<ls eYport .nore than lwlf n million bunches of bananas a yenr. 'l'he first person to hn,·e his por· tl'lllt on coin was Alexander the Great. '\., |