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Show UTAH ANDJJTAHNS j W. I'.i.werhitnk v;is injured ;tt Suit j Lake by the explosion of a jias lank, j TlllJ ank was exploded by compri'ssed air while beiiiL' rejitiired. The wearing of masks by every person per-son in Utah afflicted wit li influenza was determined upon by the state board of health last week. While rrossiiij; the street at .Salt Lake. T. li. lUirrett, 8.". years old, was struck by ;m iiuioinobile, sustaining injuries that may prove fatal. In addition to supplying labor .for various government instiuiiions east and wesl, Utah has been called upon to recruir T(KI common laborers for the federal nitrate plant at Mussel Shoals. Ala. Dorothy Weston and Jennie Searle. pretty IG-year-old trirls from Oplen. are in the (iirls' Detention home at Salt Lake, havinj: been arrested after ihey had tired of their ltomes anil ran away. Hoy Scouts of Stilt Lake in the fourth Liberty loan sold bonds amounting amount-ing to SL2,S,(KKi. This is double the work that they did in the third Liberty Lib-erty loan, for which they received honor medals. Speakers of international prominence promi-nence will come to I'tah when the allied al-lied labor unions of the shite open their drive for more members, as soon as health conditions base again been restored lo normal. A number of retail grocers in Salt Lake were nil led -to time last week by W. W. Armstrong, food adminisi rator, for selling sugar to oilier than regular regu-lar patrons and without seeing flint the proper certificates were filled out.' War orders aggregating SOO.HOII have been placed in Salt Lake. during the past week. The contracts involve the making of ship deck windlasses ami cargo hoists, propeller "struts" or bearings and steel plate water ami oil tanks. Announcement was made last week that a federal live stock loan agency would at once be opened in Salt Lake. 'reliminary steps toward the opening of tile agency will be taken by (lover-nor (lover-nor Harding of the federal reserve oaril. Fanners of I'lah county are protesting protest-ing against Hie prices proposed for beet pulp by the I'tah-Idaho Sugar company, anil say Ihey will' cancel their orders for feeder steers, and silo the beet tops for stock they expect to hold over. A stray bullet, evidently shot from a rifle in the hands of hunters, crashed through the windshield of an automobile auto-mobile driven by Howard W. Airey and grazed rhe cheek of his wife, Dr. Grace Strntt-on Airey, while they were driving near Ilolliday. The Liberty loan comniitlee for Og- den City and Weber counly issued a supplemental report last week showing show-ing that the city ami county had oversubscribed over-subscribed the foio-ih loan ...v -.'!. POO. The total subscription was Sli.Mtil ,:J00. from 14,Li7 subscribers. Photographs of family and home surroundings are to constitute part of the cheer dispensed lo sohpers tint1 sailors jit Christmas time. A plan for the "taking" of such pictures has been .devised by Hie I'lah War Mothers' association as-sociation as a part of a national campaign. cam-paign. . The insinuation iliat Ihey arc drawing draw-ing their usual salaries I hough idle during the period Hie schools are j closed during Ihe epidemic of infill-j enzti. and thai ihey are slackers instead in-stead of responding to calls lo care for the sick, is being hotly resented by Sail Lake teachers. All lesiatiranis and dining rooms In I'tah are prohibited, under a new rule, from serving more ihau one teaspoon-ful teaspoon-ful of sugar to one person al one meal. The use of roast or bacon as garnish-iugs garnish-iugs is prohibited. No bread must be placed on the table in -restaurants until un-til the main course has been served. A total of ".4-14 acres of additional land was put under eullivaiion last summer by about UOUt) students of the .Mormon church scl Is under an ex- periinenlal plan adopted early this t year by the elmrch's general hoard of education, anil sui-essl'iilly executed by Supl. Horace II. Ctiumiings. Auto mechanics will be called to the student army training corps. I'tah Agricultural Ag-ricultural college, Logan, every .month.' it is predicted. It is also believed ihere will be monthly calls for chauffeurs, radio operators, telephone electricians, machinists, blacksmiths, horseshoers, surveyors, topographical draftsmen, concrete workers and wagoners. wag-oners. Preliminary steps for the organizing organiz-ing into an association of western corporations engagetl in Ihe production produc-tion of salt were taken when their representatives held a conference al Still Lake last week. Complainus that a number of druggists drug-gists and confectioners in Davis county are not living up to the regulations regula-tions adopled by the Davis county council of defense, were made at a special meeting of ihe council held lust week. |