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Show Intermountain News Briefly Told by Busy Readers f FREE FUN PLANNED j LESS GASOLINE USED j WATER SUPPLY GOOD ) IDAHO FAMILIES GROW, j MAY HELP BLIND POOR BOISE, IDA. The Idaho gasoline gaso-line tax brought in about $20,000 less in May this year than during May a year ago, the monthly report of the director of motor fuels discloses. dis-closes. BOISE, IDA. Families in Idaho increased from 100,500 in 1920 to 10S.515 in 1930, an increase of 8.4 per cent, the United States census bureau reports. Average size of families, fam-ilies, however, dec-reused from 4.3 persons to 4.1 persons, a reduction of 4.6 per cent. While the number of families increased 8.4 per cent in the ten year period the net increase in total population was but 3.2 per cent. HELPER, UT. A big community day celebration to be known as "Helper Day," sponsored by the civic civ-ic clubs of the city is being planned for JuneSo. The program will Include In-clude a Helper-Uiutah basin baseball base-ball game, water sports, swimming, games, band concerts, barbecue, parade, pa-rade, and a carnival street dance. Everything is to be free and the en-tire en-tire program is being arranged to afford the greatest pleasure to the hundreds of people expected as guests of the city. MOAB, UT. Mrs. H. Engmann. sails this month for France, where she will visit the irfave of her son. Chiles, who died from wounds received re-ceived on French battlefields. BOISE, IDA. Jackson lake reservoir res-ervoir on the upper Snake river Is gaining in storage daily. Water storage stor-age along the river is said to be ample although the two main reservoirs reser-voirs of the Snake now hold less water than at this time last year. SMITHFIELD, UT. The city commission has called for a special election, July 7th, to vote on the $50,000 waterworks bond Issue to enlarge the water system. OGDEN, UT. Bids on the eJi-struction eJi-struction and Improvement of 22.6 miles of highway on the Soda Springs-Freedom route, near the Idaho-Wyoming border, have been advertised by the United States bureau bu-reau of public roads. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Salt Lake County commissioners have been advised by the County attorney attorn-ey that the state law passed by the Xxst legislature empowering boards of county commissioners to levy a special tax for the benefit of indigent indi-gent blind was discretionary and not mandatory. OGDEN, UT. H. Bjorngaard, 30, professional of the local Ski club, was killed in a collision of his motor mot-or cycle and an unknown auto. FREEDOM, WYO. Swiss cheese to the amount of seventy thousand pounds has been forwarded from the recently installed cheese factory to Idaho Falls. The cheese is to be marketed in California. ROCK SPRINGS, WYO. Wool selling in southwestern Wyoming is very slow, with an estimated supply sup-ply of three million fleeces on hand. A brace in the market is hoped for In the near future. SALT -LAKE CITY, UT. Receipts Re-ceipts of the gasoline sales tax on motor vehicle fuel sold in April, the tax being payable in May, totaled total-ed $192,980.S2 as compared with $204,657.27 collected on gasoline in the same month of last year. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Support Sup-port in the move to acquire 8,000 more acres for Camp W. G. Williams, Wil-liams, summer home of the Utah National guard, has been pledged by three of the Utah congressional delegation. del-egation. Sen. R. Smoot, Con. D. B. Colton and Con. Loofbourow promised prom-ised their best efforts in speeches before the soldiers in the encampment. encamp-ment. PROVO, UT. Plans for holding eight eamps during the summer period per-iod for the two thousand scouts of Timpanogos council are being rapidly rapid-ly perfected and the first camp will be held shortly. 1 NEPHI, UT. The cfty has en acted an ordinance requiring monthly month-ly inspection and approval of a licensed li-censed veternarian on all milcli cows, stables and equipment used in producing or handling milk. EPHRAIM, UT Additional cash has been appropriated by the government gov-ernment for a continuation of the in vestigation of the amount of watei available for the proposed I.und tunnel east of the city. BEAVER, UT. The city council has decreed that all dogs and cats are to wear muzzles for several weeks. Any dog or cat seen outside of its own premises without a muzzle muz-zle is in danger of being shot. The ordinance is designed to safeguard against hydrophobia, as two calves and a cow recently died from the disease. IDAHO FALLS, IDA. A ' con- tract whereby southern Idaho canal companies will obtain from the federal fed-eral government 42S,000 acre feet of stored water in American Falls reservoir at an annual rate of $50,-000 $50,-000 has been agreed upon at a meeting meet-ing of the water officials. EPHRAIM, UT. The wort of graveling the stretch of the Eph-raim Eph-raim to Orangeville road for about 3 miles below the Great basin experiment ex-periment station is underway and will continue for the balance at thf moni.h. |
