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Show " UTAH'ApJTAHNS The largest and most spirited mass meeting of l.elii citizens ever held, bv a majority of 140 votes refused to concur con-cur in a motion authorizing the sale of the l.ehi tabernacle to the Alpine school district. The scheme was to have been the initial step in l.ehi's program for the ostahliMmicnt of a S.l'XUK'O civic center. The annual farmers' round-up and housekeepers' ronfereuce of the Utah Agricultural college will open Monday morning. February 2, in Logan. Speakers Speak-ers of national reputation and Utah experts will conduct practical courses, lectures and demonstrations on topics important to farmers and housekeop-ers. housekeop-ers. In a ruling which Union S. Wells, insurance in-surance commissioner of Utah, savs may extend to several other labor unions in this state, Dan I!. Shields, attorney general, holds that the insurance insur-ance business of the Journeymen Barbers' Bar-bers' International Union comes under the supervision of Mr. Wells office. Forty-five cases of influenza were reported in Salt Lake one day last week by the city board of health. All the cases reported are in a very light form and little anxiety of a recurrence recur-rence of an epidemic similar to that of last winter Is felt by the city board of health officials. Suit for ?11U8.S3 has been brought in the district court at Ogdeu by John L. Wilson against Walker D. Hines, director general of railroads, to recover re-cover for a carload of fruit spoiled en route from Ogden to Idaho Falls, Idaho, according to the complaint. Each organization in Utah to which the proposition has been submitted is heartily in favor of the state educational educa-tional campaign, to be conducted February Feb-ruary 6 to 15, according to Nephi L. Morris, chairman of the executive committee com-mittee and campaign manager. Scores of oil operators from many parts of the country have gone to Moab since the news of the oil strike a week ago. Many are acquiring holdings hold-ings and it is said that at least a dozen rigs will be in the field within the next six weeks. The executive committee of the federal fed-eral fair price commission for Utah has adopted 5V. per cent as a fair margin for the wholesaler of sugar, and 10 per cent as a fair margin for the retailer of the same product. Teachers of the Sevier school district dis-trict have submitted a proposed salary sal-ary schedule to the board of education, educa-tion, and have been assured a definite reply to their request for Increases and adjustments by February 1. The Indian war veterans and their descendants held a big jubilee and celebration at Provo, the jollification being In honor of the receipt of war pensions from the government and state officials. Harden Bennion, secretary of state and acting governor of Utah in the absence ab-sence from the state of Governor Bamberger, has designated Sunday, February S, "Boys and Girls Day." In the Utah education campaign the state committee has prepared a circular circu-lar of information and instructions which is being mailed to all workers work-ers in the commonwealth. Utah will join Maine in defending the validity of the eighteenth or prohibition pro-hibition amendment to the federal constitution, con-stitution, according to Acting Governoi' Harden Bennion. A complete still and fifty gallons of corn whisky were captured and three Greeks arrested at the town of Watters by deputy sheriffs and internal revenue rev-enue officers. Chauncy R. Dana, a market gardener, garden-er, widely known in Weber county, committed suicide at his home in Ogden, by shooting himself through the heart. Wayne is to have telephone service, a company having been formed with that object in view, the capital of which is .$20,000, of which $2742 is paid in. The body of R. E. Johnson, of Twin Falls, Idaho, was found in his room at a Salt Lake hotel. Death was pronounced due to acute alcoholism. Three Mexicans convicted at Ogden of having robbed John Rhea, on January Jan-uary 17, of ?0.3o, were last week sentenced sen-tenced to five years' imprisonment. Union motion picture operators of Salt Lake have gone on strike, demanding de-manding a six-hour day and a substantial sub-stantial increase in the wage scale. Another big irrigation project is planned in Washington county, by which 16,000 acres of land are to be inigaied. More than 000 pupils have been accounted ac-counted for at the part-time school in Salt Lake since its opening in September. Septem-ber. A continuous highway from Yellowstone Yellow-stone park to Ogden will be completed in all probability by 1921. Six thousand beef cattle are being fed in the vicinity of Delta, and are In good condition. L'tali has one of the most efficient child labor laws in the United States, according to Miss Nila F. Allen, head of the child labor tax divi.-ion of tin-bureau tin-bureau of internal revenue, who is in Salt Lake in connection with the ch'id labor tax law that was enacted by congress April 2.". 1019. The Utah Slate Automobile association associa-tion has inaugurated a campaign for a reduction in the price of gasoline. A 1-ceiit reduction on the sale price of gas. dine would save the autoists ?2ii(i.iii'(i in the coming year, it i-s claimed. |