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Show P age Six THE MIDVALE JOURNAL ..• N~wsNotes +++•••••••••••o~••• American Sailors Enjoy Themselves in China - Friday, September 7, 1928 Testing the -New Submarine Safety Device ... It'• a Privilef(e to Live in Utah .. ......................... LAYTON-Utah's potato crop in 1927 totaled 2,790,000 bushels with .. market value of $2,228,000, an increa<e of 505,000 busl:els over 1926. BRIGHAM -During the w<•el: thousands of pintail ducks have been feeding in the grainfields west of this city, adjourning the marshes. rhe duckS' have mih"rated here from Car,a<la accor<lingo to k'ame officials, and are so numerous that an esti ~ rnte o1 their numbers is pJmo!lt impossible. OGDEN-Weber county peaches arr unusually free from insect infcs1ations and general blemishes this year, Le Roy Marsh, clistrH agricultural in spector reports. E stimates nf this year's crop is set at 175 cllr!oads. The . orchards of North Ogden are so.id to be in the be~t of conrlition and will undoubted!~.' yield the most fruit. :·;· GU:::-lNISO~I-Cauliflower ~hipments from the fields at We •tview anrl Cbrion are in c reasi~g alm 0s ~ daily !lr,cl 1 two carlnarls were fent ou t Wedne:day, 1 bringoing t hP t otn.l r." r shipments ~ ') I date up to sixteen. Tho pcuk of th o 1 harvest will be reach ed about Sep1em ber 6, at which time extra forc0s w'll Life ashore for the United States navy sailors In the Orl<>nt Is rather pleasant at times. Here are two of them be adrled to handle the big crop. on Temple hill at Chefoo, China, chatting with native youllgsters. VERNAL-The crew of t'Hl deep test of the Ashley Valley 0!1 cumpany , • on the Ashley valley ~tructure, t .. n miles southeast of Vernal, iR drillin;; throuf."h the cobble rock dur] ped into the hole to plug it back from tllP dept~ C1f S70 feet to 580 feet for the pur!l'.l~(' of straightening the hole. It will e several days before drilling for increa~ed depth is resumed. MURRAY-Plans for enterinr a county Guernsey herd in the state fair 1 this fall wrre made at a mectin~ of Guern3ey breeders h~lcJ recentl y at the ~orne of Arthur B. Erck son, Sou th Cottonwood. A co mmittee includin .~ Mr. Erekson, L. E. Madsen, Jame~ G. Burtt, J. B. Er€kson and V. L. Martineau, county ar-ricul'u ral a g-ent, wa~ appointed to a•ran"'e t"• mat te!' an l select the herd. BRIGHAM CITY-Plans are g , ingforwa rd f or the community fair to be held at Cori ne September 7, un<lcl' auspices of the C:orine farm burean. This is the j;:rst fai:r of the kind to be held in the valley. ThP e'Oecutive committee consist s of Pres<lient Sterling Wril!ht of the Corine farm bureau. C. G. Adney and Abraham Evans. Agri' cultural Agent P.. H. Rt"wa rt is a•- Fighting the Mosquito With Motor Cycle I 1 Lieut. C. B. Momson, United Slates navy, one of the lnv<'ntors of t~e new submarine safety device called the "lung" t esting It at the Washington Navy yard. It Is destined to be the one avenue of escape to the sailor Imperiled in the depths aboard a sunken submarine. ~' he "lung" used today resembles a gas mask and weighs tour pounds, and by the use of a mouthpiece the person Is enabled to breathe. • Lad Will Try for $1,000 Aviation Prize I :v ;.c. ' sis·tin~,.. LOGAN-l~arm c r • .. of Utah will profit a great deal by revising an old mis1conception that seed from some other ~arm is hatter than from their own, Dr. Geor~re Stewart, agronomist with the experiment station of the Utah Agricultural collegP., stated in answer to inquiries on "home grown ~eeJs." However, Dr. Stewart said, there cume ·1 times when seed grown on a given furm~o~d~re~ared~se~hom 9.~ """"z-~::J:---·-·'•··•#"•~•-'"•- -----"-----·~·. gt;,_ I I Residents of Chicago's west.ern suburbs report that evenings spent on porches and in yards ha•e been mueh more enjoyable lately. ~'he reason Is that an anti-mosquito motor cycle has been added to the equipment of the Des Plaines Valley Mosquito Abatement district. This machine, which is the invention of J. r.yell Clark, carries a thi rty-two gallon tank of acid tar oil on its side car. This is deadly to the mosquito. ~'he photograph above shows Mr. Clark a.nd his new contrivance. Hichard E. .Tames of Flushing, L. I., seventeen-year-old pilot of the Flushing Aero club, who will attempt a 21-hop flight from San Francisco to New York for a prize of $1,000 offered by the American Society for l'romotion of Aviation. Dick has over 50 solo flying hours to his credit. His plane Is called the Spirit of American Youth. I -------------------------------------------~ Mr. Dooley Takes His Medicine • another farm, but thi~ is only when the seed form erly u~erl is mixed, dlsea sed or otherwise of poor quality. OGDEN-Use of granulaterl sor.p 1 · with arsenate of lead in spraying ap 1 ples in Wcbcr county this year ha~ 1been succe~sful, savin~; one orchardist I alone more than 4000 bushels of ap1pies, it was stated recently by LeRoy MarS"h, district af"ri cultural inspe~tor . I H. A. Thomas of Ogd en suffered a loss 1of 50 per cent of his crop from worms last year de>'pite his using arsePate of ! lead in water, as was rer,tllarly reel commended. Mr. :Mar<h says: This year '! less than 5 per cent of his crop is wormy, The smallest of the figuru 1 he attributes to his use of the soap CEDAR CITY-With the aid of Mel1 \"in Cropper of Deseret, the Amer!can Legion bucking horse commit~eeee will have at lea't twenty hea<l of profe.'ssional bucking hor ~ es for the race mr-et 1 and rodeo at Cedar City September 16, 7 and 8. Some of these horse~ are Cropper 1 well known to r odeo fans. won the ri<lhg contest of the l926 Cedar City rod eo a.!!ah1st olrler u~d better known men of Pendleton and Ertrl W. Davids~n. !:ending railroad telegraph operator at Terre Hill, Pa., Cheyenne. He is to be a contender fPr who has made successfu: experiments the belt this year. Bob Vaughn .. win of talking between t.wo radio sets ner of second place in 1U26, will l•e over the carrier wave of a broadcast- here. Buster Vaughn of Pendl~ton i• ing station. Davidson, with what be expected and many professional riders calls his "phantom radio," has mystl- ~ave expressed their inte11tion of re.n!' fled scores of neighbors an1l batTled eSreA. T LAKE '1' t 1 d't f 0 a radio experts by hi~ ability to broad- I expen 1 ure 0 cast through his loudspeaker, with the state road department from Janupersons receiving his voice In their : ary 1, 1928, to Ju_ne 30, 1928, amounled sets from two t'J fourteen miles dis- t? $1,275,369.40, 1t is RhOY.Il hy a finant t · era! statement of the department for an · 1 that period, which was made public I recently. On JRnuary 1 of this year UP IN THE AIR AT 98 I there was a balance of $10,955..19 of ll'oad funds in the state treasury, an<l 1 Teceipts from various sources durlng the first 'six months of the year nmounteu to $1,986,501.30, brln~rin~ the total balance and receipts to $2,'197,456.79 fer the period. On Jnnc 30. 1928, the department had a cash surplus of $774,082.16 and a loaned ~ur pl!s of $458.638.45, making a '0t:ll surplus of $1,232,702.61. Loan~ ~e turned to highway ann revolving funds during the six months amountecl tn I $289,366,7fl, HE QUITS DRUMMING Albanian Claimant and Ruler PHANTOM RADIO MAN 1 • I •• I I "Mr. Dooley" has learned to take his medicine. After many months of persevering effort on the part of Miss Anna Jenkins of New York, '':\Ir. Dooley" makes no fuss, but picks up his spoon and drinka his medicine like a m11n. Verdun Will Be at the Legion Meet Born In France, "Verdun" Is getliu;: ready to grPet the men of the A. E. F. at the American Legion's National convention In Ran Antonio, 'l'exas, October 8 to 12. Pet of the Fifteenth artillery, she will have a conspicuous place In the convention parade. "Verdun" is the most famous of the mascots bt·ought back from the other side. She was foaled on April 17, 1018, on the banl;s of tire Meuse, south of Verdun and was lmmedtately named for the battle·scarred city. She Is the only American mule born in France, her regimental owners say. FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS By the end of this year $10,000,000 of B rllain'~ new coinage will be in clr1·u latlon. t:a llfurl ia grape growers are rals· ladybugs with wh irh to fight the menl ~ b ugs, the worst of all gmpe pests. 'l'h cre are only a few hundred stars within 500,1'00.000.0(;0,000 m i l~s of the enrth. nntl most of t hese are tiny und lm· i~i b le. lforty-live of the trees planted by George Washington nt ~Iount Vernon are still standing. One can be tolerant enough to stuff cotton in hls ears when some one is saying what he doesn't like. In the ~lanchu dynu~ty, the right to store natural Ice for use in hot wentlrer was rl'htrkted to a few princes of Chinn, who sold Ice to the public. I .·.·. ·.. · l\Irs. Annll'a llaak.nnson of Ta~oma, Wasil., who celebrated her ninetyeighth birthday by taking her first airplane ride over Seattle. She was sr•1illn~ when she stepped Into th~ machine and still smiling when silt stepped out. I , LOGAN-The Cache county fair will be held here September 18 to 20, one week ear;ier than has been the case in recent · years, in an <'ffort t o avoid the ba<l weather that has accom panied loco] fairs in the pa s•t, state President Geor:~e Du nbar of th ~ C'ach< County Fair '.lssociation. Three tb ' IU sand fair programs will be mailPd i> the near future to homes of Cacht county and ten large twenty,four-shec · stands wil\ be used for billboa1·ds ad vertising ine cr unty fair in Cache val ley, Boxcldcr rrunty f\nd soutJ\IlTr Idaho. Opium Production l\Inster Sergeant Samuel Rotsteln, whose stirring drum beats have kept ho~nalled feet In time and buoyed up llaggil:g spirits through two wars und In various far corners of the earth, Is laying aside his drum and sticks after 30 years of service In the army. Sergean( Rotstein plans to live In southern California. ·' Ike Andrews of SpartanbuJ>g, S. C.. winr.er of America's greatest traP" shooting prize. In the Grand American handicap Andrews broke 05 targets from the 20-yard lin<'. Opium Is made from the whltl' A cast-iron base for the bottom of poppy, grown In Asia Minor, Egypt. , wooden columns will greatlv aid In India, Persia and t'hlna. By cuttlns; their protection from rot and will gaRhes In the bead ot the poppy ft serve to dl~tri!Jute the load to tlH! fluid Is made to run out and form a gummy suhstnnre. From tWa the pure footing. The base lifts the column sufficiently hi;;h to pren'nt dam~ne~s opium Is serured. and p<'rmits air to elrculate beneath the wood. T he- ln_e_x_ p -lic_a_b_le- Sex Camegie medals are aw!lrded nt the discretion of the Carnegie hero fund c11mmisslon, upon submission ot proof of extraordinary heroism on the part ot persons who have sm·ed or attempt. ed to save others' !i1•es at great risk to, or the loss of, th~lr own. When thiiH>llghly convinced that tile ) man can cause her unhappiness, a , woman Is unpplest In love.- Vanity There are 3,000 languages ftnd din· lects In the world and yet e1•ery now and then somebody Is saying that words !all bl.m. I I I~' air. I Tl:ne Wa3 F!eetir:g uAtl \\~ t w "t}JI).; f' ,,.., fnl . ~ w :•it• d I 1' Ill lllllllll tt · 111 fnt 1~·~1 hi • lir- rn:u: ,,·i ll' r Mascot of the U. S. S. Langley IKE ANDREWS WINS Awarded lor Heroism Preserves Columns At the left Is Prince William of Wled, who was once ruler of Albania and who says he will reclaim the throne at "the right moment." At the right Is Ahmed Zogu who has been President of the country and has been chosen by the national assembly to be king. Poverty in Plenty Here, with a friend, is Bob, the mascot of the UnitNl ~tates airplara; carrier, Langley. He has made more airplane trips than mos t aYiator·s. ALL AROUND THE GLOBE A war between ll'u<ling countries for control of the rag market of the world Is on. Promotul by •he city, a housing estate nt IIford, Euglund, has been such a fai!nre that It Is llg~rred that each house cost SC:i,OOO. Boys born duri;lg the World w•tr have less than the normal capacity for learning and work, declare~ a European scientist. Cllil<lren In remote A uslrulia can take tlreh· sehool wo1·k by correspondence. It was the nnelents who bPiicverl in whut tltey didn't SPe nnll ref•t"<'<l to believe in what thcy <li<! see. To compll'te the !'inuth London Twentr-tlve <'hurdte~ fmrd, the bi~h op of ~outhw:1rl;, En~laml, rPCPntly sat In ::;ouil•\\:tll: <·ulhi'<lr11 f,.r l:l hours cuntimwn ·ly • |