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Show UTAH ANDJITAHNS Salt Lake will join other cities of the nation in observing a "dress-up" campaign from April 5 to April 13, according ac-cording to announcement made last week. Having in view better service in the home and greater efficiency in civic welfare work, the women are forming auxiliaries to the county farm bureau in Utah county. With the good roads spirit in the ascendancy as-cendancy in Utah county, a movement is on to build an automobile road to the Aspen grove at Uie east base of j Mount Timpanogos. An outbreak of influenza at the state ! prison is threatened, according to ; Warden George A. Storrs. Two deaths ' and ten cases of the disease was re- : ported on March 23. I Commissioner A." S. Roper of the I federal internal tax office declares he will tax the sale of anything in dry territory that contains more than one-half one-half of 1 per cent alcohol. Local railroad officials have been-notified to be prepared to set their watches and clocks ahead one hour at 2 a. m. on Sunday, March 30, in compliance com-pliance with what is known as the daylight day-light saving act. College and high school students of the Brigham Young university are agitating agi-tating for a separation of one department depart-ment from the other. The presidency of the university is said to be in sympathy sym-pathy with the movement The bakers of Ogden must in the future sell all their bread with the weight of the loaf stamped upon each. The label must be attached to the loaf, showing the name of the manufacturer and the weight of the loaf. With the greatest shortage of residences resi-dences Salt Lake has ever seen and the demand increasing every clay, there is certainly every reason why over a thousand new homes should be built there during the 1919 season. If present plans mature the governors gover-nors of Utah, Arizona and Nevada will make a united tour of the Grand Canyon Can-yon of the Colorado district, with a view to coming to an agreement on a system of roads for the district. Figures compiled of the Carbon county school district by the school board show the assessed valuation of all property in the district to be almost al-most $20,250,000. The school population popula-tion is.estimated at 3G4S children. On March 22, Utah officials had completed com-pleted the last act in connection with the draft and was recorded in Wash ington as the first of the forty-eight states to comply with the order to ship all records pertaining to the draft. "Bennie" Bishop, a convict at the state penitentiary, died March 23, following fol-lowing the effects of lung trouble. He was confined January 9, 1918, for an indeterminate term. Bishop was sent to the prison for third degree burglary. burg-lary. Teachers employed in the schools of Ogden met last week and decided to ask the board of education to increase their salaries. The meeting was held under the auspices of the Teachers' association as-sociation of .the Ogden city public schools. Colors of the 115th field artillery, which were presented to the regiment at Fort Douglas just prior to its departure de-parture for Camp Kearny, now repose in the governor's reception room in the capitol. They recently were presented to the state. .Last year the total revenue from motor vehicle registration was $237,-0S5.T5. $237,-0S5.T5. The revenues goes into the sinking fund for redemption of a total of $5,000,000 road bonds, of which less than $1,500,000 has been issued up to the present time. Uintah county will vote upon a proposition prop-osition on April 1 to issue $110,000 in bonds for the purpose of improving the highways of the county. This issue, if. voted, will be used exclusively in the repair and reconstruction of the roads in the county. Facilities for finding employment for returning soldiers, sailors and marines are rapidly being organized by the state employment" bureau recently opened in Salt Lake by the National Catholic War council, co-operating with the Knights of Columbus. Although the budget as finally passed by the recent legislature contains con-tains an appropriation of only $28,000 for the National Guard of Utah, that military organization is In fair shape financially, according to Maj. Fred Jorgeuson, adjutant general. Thought to have become despondent over being jilted by his sweetheart, John W. Treloar, 24 years old, a mail carrier between Bingham and the U. S. Mine at Copperfield, Utah, is believed be-lieved to have committed suicide, five miles from Bingham on the mad to Salt Lake, where his body was found. More money is now available for state roads than was ever on hand in the state in its history. The total expenditures ex-penditures of the road commission last month were $125,000. This month tlicy are lower, being about $S5.0H(. After escaping five builds, said to have been fired at him fruln close range by Mike Kay, .1. W. Johnson, proprietor of a soft drink parlor at Salt Lake, turned on his assailant and administered ad-ministered a severe beating before police po-lice officers arrived on the scene. Although the Utah legislature passed an act providing for the issue of Tl.-GOO.ixid Tl.-GOO.ixid bonds for the soldier settlement, settle-ment, the farms for returned soldiers bill, and made possible the securing of homes for soldiers, sailors and marines, ma-rines, congress adjourned without tak-inc tak-inc auv. action. |