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Show UTAH ANDUTAHNS Between July 1, 1017. and July 1, 191S. Ogllen has given l.'IO men to the navy. Joe Cooper met death at Soldier Summit, falling about 100 feet in a mine shaft. Articles of incorporation have been filed with the secretary of state of Utah by the Marysvale Potash company, com-pany, capitalized at $1.000.(W. Joseph Scowcroft, of Ogden, has been appointed vice chairman of the war service committee of the garment gar-ment industries for the western states. The pledge drive in the war savings i campaign in the Magna district shows a total of nearly a quarter of a million mil-lion dollars and an average pledge of over SG0. The new early closing law is now in operation. Stores will close at 6 p. ni. the first five days of the week, and at 9 p. m. on Saturdays and the day preceding a holiday. One of the features of the training of the soldiers now pursuing a course of study at the University of Utah, is the thorough knowledge of the workings work-ings of motor cars and trucks. Herbert F. Gledhili, of Richfield, was killed in action in France, June 14. He was 27 years old and is survived by his parents and an Infant son, his wife having died before he entered the army. One hundred and nine persons were treated at the emergency hospital at Salt Lake for the month ending June 30. This is 26 more than applied or were brought there for temporary attention at-tention the previous month. Miss Maude Adams, actress, (luring her professional call in Salt Lake last week, left with officials of the Red Cross a valuable jewel, a lavalier, which she requested shall be sold for the benefit of the Red Cross institution. institu-tion. About a hundred members of the Booth family association held the annual an-nual family reunion of the association on June 29, at Judge J. E.- Booth's farm, Etlgewood, in Pleasant View. The head of the family came to Utah in 1S57. Charles Hoerner, a Salt Lake butcher, who supplied meats to three companies at Fort Douglas, has been charged with having entered into a conspiracy with the company cook to short-weight deliveries of meat and profit thereby. The first cargo of Utah coal has arrived ar-rived in Honolulu, according to information infor-mation received at Salt Lake. The coal came from the mines of the United States Fuel company and was handled through the new King Coal company of San Francisco. Disregarding the objections raised by Fire Chief Bywater, the most prominent prom-inent automobiLe dealers of Salt Lake have decided to adopt the sugge'stion of the federal fuel administration and close their places from 1 o'clock Saturday Sat-urday noon until Monday morning. Indian war veterans records of Idaho are in such condition that no federal pensions have as yet been awarded to claimants from that state, it is announced an-nounced in a communication from Washington received by Mrs. Elizabeth M. Cohen, pensions commissioner for Utah. During the month of June the forest for-est department set out 325,000 lodge-pole lodge-pole pine shoots on the Wasatch forest. for-est. The plantings were conducted on two separate areas, one tract of about 234 acres forming the planting space for 175,000 saplings. The other tract received 150,000 pine plants. Final apportionment of state funds to high schools for 191S was made last week by the state board of education, the amount being S5.63 m,r student. The total amount going to high schools this year is .$109,500.79, out of which SGS.IGO was apportioned in February. The present apportionment amounts to ?47,152.33. The German people are "silently praying that America may win the war," according to an interesting letter that comes to Governor Bamberger Bam-berger from a citir.en of Manti. He was thirty years among the laboring classes of Germany, twelve years among university people, he writes, and well knows the German people. Til honor of Armistoad A. Green, who has the distinction of being the first University of Utah man to be killed in action at the battle front, a short formal ceremony was held on the campus at boon on June 27. The ITusler Milling & Elevator company com-pany of Salt Lake was found guilly of profiteering and fined $1000, to be paid to the local chapter of the American Amer-ican Red Cross. The mill of the company com-pany was ordered closed for the period pe-riod of one week. James T. Hammond, member of tho state board of equalization, is cherkinj up on the Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph company's properly to make comparisons in respect of figures recently submitted by the corporation to the state public utilities commission as to valuations of its holdings In Utah. Thirty-four enemy alien women were registered at the police station at Ogden nt the close of the registration registra-tion period. June 27. The number of women registered was practically the same as the number of men registered during the month of February. Looking to protection of Salt Lake county against immigration from outside out-side districts of persons likely to become be-come county charges, the board of j county commissioners enacted an ordinance or-dinance to prohibit common carriers from bringing any Indigent or insana persons into the county. j |
