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Show 4 ' TIIE WEEKLY REFLEX O' Points the news of Davis County. Its subscription list contains the names of Davis Countys best citizens. Are you among them? POLITICAL NEWS ' Kviery week during campaign times jou will find all the news of the politicians in The Weekly Reflex. Read about them! REACHES EVERY NOOK AND CORNER OF DAVIS COUNTY VOLUME XII KAYSVILLE, LAYTON AND FARMINGTON; UTAH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1916 STATE PRISON ROAD CAMP AND. WORK OF ITS INMATES The editor of The Reflex visited the turn to the prison accounts for the state prison road camp, located about few attempts to get away. a mile and a half south of Kaysville, One smooth wire, strung on stakes Monday afternoon. Th camp is on about three feet the Schramm-Johnso- n farm and is forms the dead from the ground, (ine around the located immediately south of the sleeping tents of the prisoners and highway. every man knows full well that to At this time there are fifty-eigstep over that wire, after darkness in the of has all whom camp, fallen, takes his life in bis hands. prisoners are working on the state road in At the northeast and the southwest some capacity. The camp is provided corners of the wire enclosure has been with a kitchen tent, two eating tents, erected a small guard house, open on one for the prisoners and one for the side toward the sleeping tents. the guards and free laborers There In frontof the guard houses have are also five sleeping tents for the been installed two large carbide head prisoners, each 18x24 feet in size, five lights, which light up the entire quadsmall tents for the guards, a black- rangle occupied by the tents. Such smith tent and tents for the horses are the provisions against escape and storage of, grain and hay. Of during the night and these are about the fifty-eigh- t' prisoners three are ne- all the evidences of prison .life about groes and the remainder are mostly the camp. The men are worked from foreigners Greeks, Italians and Aus- 8:00 in the morning xto 5:00 in the trians with a few Americans. The evening, with an hour for, noon. In . men sleep in individual bunks providthe camp the men are allowed many ed with matresses, blankets and tar- privileges. They play ball on Sunpaulins to keep off the dust and keep days; play cards and put in considerthe beding dry should rain drive in able time in reading and conversation. the open tents during the night ojr The men are not allowed -- to- have 'should the tents leak during the hard money, as cash is inclined to make -them independent and sharpens their storms. fir freedom. The kitchen and dining tents are Nineteen work teams, one driving provided with wire screens to keep five saddle horses for guards out the flies, and no pains have been team, and an Ariedale terrier comprise the spared to keep the camp in good sanilive stock at the camp.Therfc- is-- a is xhower bath condition.-proA tary vided for all the men and all the camp blacksmith shop, presided over by a garbage is dumped into a hole and prisoner blacksmith and helper, where buried. The prisoners are fed as well the horses are shod and all the camp as in the best construction camps any- blacksmithing is done for the camp where in the country. Supper was and road machinery equipment. The writer was taken over the being prepared at the time The Reflex man was looking over the camp. camp and given an opportunity to inThere was an abundance of first-clas- 3 spect the entire establishment and on fat hind quarter beef from Stephens leaving he was strongly impressed Brothers market at Layton, potatoes, with the wisdom of thd movement bread, fresh from the state prison which had resulted in. the establishbakery at Salt Lake City and fresh ment of the Utah state road camp tomatoes. The, writer was informed for working prisoners on the state that the .above was a fair menu for highways. The policy is good for the the camp from day to day with fresh people of the state and above all it is vegetables, cake, pie and pudding good for the men. Most of these from time to time. The prisoners men feel they are doing a service for seem well satisfied and were working the people and for society. They are with all the zest of Well paid free brought to realize that they have broken the laws of the land and translabor. The camp is under the direct charge gressed the established rules of soof T. Mark Munford, who bears the ciety, more through their efficient title of From Mr. service and the results which they are Munford it was learned that the state achieveing, than through any other prison road "policy was adopted by method. They are being taught that the State of Utah five years ago, and labtfr is honorable, and lessons in honthat the innovation had- - proven- - suc- or are being inculated in their minds cessful from every standpoint. Under daily through the humane but firm receive. They are the system the State was receiving treatment they terms of service their shortening valuable service from the prisoners of demanded which been of them have the State, and during the period hunlaw of the for and transgression dreds of thousands of dollars of road fellow men men. These of their rights work had been done by the prisoners. It was found that the prisoners pre- are brought to realize that labor and ferred the hard work of the open an occupied mind, are, after all, the with solid substantial food to prison greatest boon to humanity, and when will" be equipped Mr. Munford also explained that they are freed they in a measure were working for them- both in mind and body to manfully meet the conditions which will conselves, as they receive forty days credit on their prison sentence for front them, and go out in the world of and self reliant to take every month spent in the road camp. men strong This rate of credit amounts to 120 their place alongside' good citizens, in the work of the days in a year, or four months. In who find pleasure the camp are prisoners who have been world. The Road Work f in the camp since its formation and have received a corresponding time a mile to the About a quarter-o- f credit on their sentences. The camp north of the prison camp, the writer is operated the year round, in summer came to the force of the prisoners in the north part of the state and in and free working men, who are buildwinter in the south part. When the ing the roadway, which will in due system was first put in operation the time extend from one end of the camp was surrounded by a high stock- county" to the other, and bind together ade of posts and barbed wire, but for the two principal cities of the state the past three years the stockade has Salt Lake City and Ogden. This Davbeen abandoned and at this time the is county state highway is the first camP is open on all sides. During the piece of permanent roadway of any past year but two men have escaped considerable length to be constructed one of whom has been captured and in the Rocky Mountain region. More returned to the prison and the other than twelve miles of this great road-w..- y is still at large. The fact that prisonwill be completed this falL The ers attempting to escape, or who roadway has been brought to a goi and are captured, means a re grade, permanent culverts have been ht - -- guard-in-charg- e. -- 4 es-Ca- pe - - provided and where needed the road bed has been well drained. The piece of road under construction between Farmington and Kaysville is the most expensive the state and county will be called upon to construct through this county There are several very heavy cuts and fills from Haights creek to the foot of Secrist hill. All the dirt in these fills has been kept wet and has been rolled as put in with the seventeen ton steam roller belonging to the State road commission. On account of the heavy grading the Cost of this section of the road will be very heavy, but it is being built in a most pleted to that point in about fifteen SUNSET HEIGHTS days. Saturday, September the 30th, will - Time was when the people of Davis be the first time in tho history of Sand Ridge district, that county were not very enthusiastic for the of delivering demonstration public this concrete highway, but that day - min u to to 223lL gal'di iA ,.q w ate r 03 its above the feet cent of the people of this county are, highest point, Da iff Weber and canal has Counties when the looking forward to the time ever been given. great highway will be .fully completThis is done by means of a large ed for their use and benefit and the use and benefit of the State and the turbine power plant, which develops 01 horse power, and operates a large world at large. pump, throwing sufficient ..water to irrigate mote than 2,000 acres of the CITY COUNCIL MEETING The Kaysville City council held its upper bench land, which comprises some of the most fertile soil in the meeting at, the city hall Salt valley. Monday evening. Mayor John G. M. The company will have Barnes presided and all the members crowd a tho at large opening of the of the board were present. new colony, Sunset Heights, and they CityRecorder Coles read the min- will endeavor to convince the public utes of the special meeting which was is more ecthat tho called to award the contracts for side onomical pumping system than the ordinary gravity walk paving. The minutes of both eanab1 meetings were read and approved. At Sunset Heights is destined to be the the special meeting held at the Barnes most colony in the vicinbank bn Monday evening, September and of owing to the activity ity Ogden, 18, the contract for sidewalk paving shown there in the past two weeks was let to Hyde& Sheffield. There t the promises greatest influx of popwere four bidders for the work, three ulation of any section on the Bamfrom parties outside of Davis county, Electric. berger but as the bid of the local contractors Every person interested in land was the lowest they were awarded the should participate in the opening of contract. this project. - It is to the advantage Superintendent of Schools Hubert fioveryaml owner to become famil-a- r Cv Burton appeared before the board with' the latest modern method, fi nJ Trn he n amebf the board or tidu-- j, of diversified farming. The land comcation of the county asked that a pany assures the public of an enjoyy be obtained and a side- able time as , well as an eductional walk be constructed from the resi- event, and will .provide all ''visitors dence of Dr. Sumner Gleason along with free transportation and an inthe east, side of the, Bamberger tracks dividual lunch for the asking of freb to the entrance of 'the High school tickets grounds. Doctor Gleason appeared AIIOY1 BLACK EYE BRIGADE before the board and offered to sell The coming of fall is looked for the city a strip of land for sidewalk with reasonable as much joy and pleasure as the a at price. purposes of spring. With spring comes attencoming called Superintendent Burton birds and pretty girls; with flowers, school tion to the fact that the High fall comes to Davis High this ear of the students walked on the tracks the moleskins and blackeyes. pigskin, when weather the railroad company Football at Davis High this year was bad, notwithstanding the protest of the principal of the school and will be put upon an equal basis with the protest qf the railway company. the game as played in any High school In his opinion, it would only be a mat- in the state. This year Davis is in ter of time when a serious accident the State High School,, league. She would result from the practice. After will meet East Side, West Side, Granan informal discussion, the proposi- ite and Jordan High schools. We do not expect the championship tion was referred to the mayor and but we do expect to make first divithe committee on streets. The report of the city treasurer sion showing. There is nothing gained showed 160 meters in use and that without some risk. Davis made a fair the total earnings of the electric sys- showing last year and this year she tem for the month of August was hjpes to be in the game sufficiently to let the rest of the state know that $199.45. we are on the map. The streets committee reported that From present indication there will Hyde & Sheffield, to whom had been be about ten of the old men back in awarded tfih contract for constructing the game and one pleasing fact is that sidewalk, had filed a proper bond for all the best men are returning. the- faithful performance of the consuch men as Simpson, MarshWith tract with Charles T. Bennett and all, M. Swan pnd Stringham back of Thomas J, Smith as sureites. the line we ought to make a real showThe resignation of John Barton as ing in the big league of the state. cemetery Bexton was presented and In the line we will have Bone, Miller, read and accepted by the council and Reeves, McDonald and Muir; besides as the time named by Mr. Barton for these there will be many new men out the resignation to take effect was this yearT September 30, Mayor Barnes named Football is somewhat new in our The- - apGeorge- - Green as sex ton. county, Irnt we expect to waken the pointment was confirmed by the public up to the real value and the council. intesest of the game this year. We An ordinance levying a tax for the want to help to make the Davis High assessment of property on both sides school equal in all respects to that of of Seventh street from its intersec- any High school in the state. - tion with 'Cherry and Fine streets L. B. (except where sidewalk has already been constructed), also on the north side of Locust street from Eighth to the center of the block between Fourth and Fifth streets, was passed by the council. The walk will be four feet wide and will cost the property owners' 53 cents per running foot, with an extra cost for private driveway crossings. The tax will become delinquent on the 30th day of October and draw 10 per cent interest per annum after that date. There being no further business the council adjourned. so-call- mid-mon- th Davis-Web- er . te right-of-wa- ' - sub-ba- se -- , Irvin Clark will attend the Logan college and will go there next week. Mr. ami Mrs.. Nephl Falmer' motored to Bingham and back last Sunday. Alisa Phillis Clark is slowly recovering from a severe sick spell of several, weeks duration .the-groo- - Mr. and Mrs, V, Robinson have returned to Logan, where Mr. Robinson is a musical instructor in the B. Y. college. Miss Iris Clark, Mrs, Robinsons sister, accompanied them. r i Miss Liberty Call is out to Iosepha to visit her parents." She has been here several weeks with her sister Mrs. Delbert Walker, and will soon roturiLlaattend the Davi High school. Mrs. A. G. Robinson, wife of the former O. S. L. signalman here was a Farmington visito Tuesday. Mr. Robinson was transferred to Salt Lake and Mr. Ernest Alien is filling the .office left vacant by his removal to Salt Lake City. Mr. and Mrs. Grant Clark returned last Friday from their wedding tour to the coast. They were married two weeks ago Friday and left the day after for the west The young couple will reside in the Fordsham house, just south of the court house, the Fordsham family having moved tp Salt Lake City. James R. Millard, the nine year old son of Mr. and Mrs. William J. Millard, while riding a large horse on a fast gallop up State street the first of last week, turned the north corner and the horse slipping and falling broadside on the cement sidewalk, threw the boy violently to the ground, hurting him severely for a time, but he has apparently recovered from the effects of the accident J NOTICE United State Land Office, Salt Lak City, Utah September IS, ISIS To Whom It May Concern Notice I hereby given that th State of Utah 1 ha filed in thi of Hr lint of land. selected by th aid State, under Section 6 of the Act of Congress, approved July 16, l94, aa Indemnity School In min, vie. Serial OlHnO, Salt NEtNX'4, Section U, T. ft N, R. 1 lake Meridian. Copie of aid lUta, o far as they relate to (aid tract by descriptive hmv been ecmapictiouely pouted in this office for inspection by any person interettod and by th publie generally. During th period of publication of thi notice, or any ' time thereafter, and befor Anal approval and certification, under departmental regulations of April 26, lt07, pro Uinta or contest against the claim of the Slat to any of the tracts or subdivision hereinbefore, deeribd on th am la more vaiuabl for ground that th mineral than for agricultural purposes, will be received and noted for report to th General Land Olbce at Washington, D. C. Failure so to protest or contort, within the time specified, will b considered sufficient evidence of the character of the tracts and th (election thereof, being otherwise free from objection, will be approved to th State. CiOULD B. lil.AWt.LY, Regie Ur. ' i- C v ; I L. A ' (of'Iv' ' Ol . AX OPENING DANCE - On Friday night, September 22, the The Salt Lake & Ogdea railway company i3 constructing an additional track between Layton and Clearfield. The company is also constructing a shelter station at the Davis High school crossing. Mrs. Annie Tanner's bohs, LaVince, Kneland and Shbldon, have returned from their places of employment in Idaho and Nevada to resume school studies. .V n dancing season will open with a grand ball, given in honor of the Davis High school students. A good time is ex pected and all are cordially invited. George W. Palmer has returned from California, where he has been engaged in business for several months. It, company. Monday, September 25th, at 8 p.m. FARMINGTON County .out of rich an-- l fertile Dark county. llom of th Miller Flora eon. lany, th lament grower of flower In th tnternumntaiti' country. Location of th f union I agoon reort, Has waterworks amt I nc Tiahu. A fin place for raaidene. th painstaking manner. The cost of the road is being met by the county and state. The work is being done under the direction of the State road commission and is in charge of an engineer in the employ of the commission. Levi Muir of Woods Cross is in charge of the concrete work. He is assisted by Frank Hatch of Scipio, an instrument man, who has Ernest Wood for his helper. The roadway is a concrete slab, sixteen feet in width, six inches thick on the edges and eight inches thick in the middle, an average thickness of seven inches. The slab is laid in sections twenty-five feet long and the sections are separated by a inch thick piece of tar- red felt, which is left in place. The larredTelt'ia intended to provide an expansion joint and at the same time keep the water from getting-unde- r the concrete. The concrete surface is crowned by the use of a sixteen foot strike board, end. ifl. floated lor surfaced principally by the use of a strip of foot wide rubber belting, worked backward and forward over the crowing section of concrete. By the use of this belting but little trowel floating is required. The slab Is a straight sand, gravel and cement mix without a facing coat Long practice has made the finishers, all free workmen, very expert at the business and but few minutes are required to finish a section ready for covering with, burlap. Very soon after a section is floated the surface is covered with burlap to protect it from the rays of the sun, and within a few hours the burlap is removed, the slab checked with slight dirt embankments, and the checks flooded with water from the pipe line alongside of the road. These checks are kept filled with water for two or three weeks until the concrete is thoroughly cured, cube batch mixer, provided with automatic water reservoir and boom conveyor. The mixer is provided with a car hoist for elevating the sand, gravel and cement for mixing. and is moved alang the of the roadway under its own power. One hundred and five yards of concrete is reconed as a days work, in which is containfd one hundred and forty yards of dry 'sand and gravel and six hundred and ninety one sacks of cement Six inch steel channel beams areusedfor side forms for the concrete and these beams are used for side forms for the concrete and these beams are provided with a special joining device whick prevents all leakage. So well are the forms placed and joined, and so expert have the men become, that practically none of the material is wasted. With but few exceptions, ' prison labor is exclusively employed in operating the mixer and so expert have these men become that twelve of these twenty-fiv- e foot sections (300 feet) has become a regular days work. Frank Wood of Layton and three or four other free men are about' the only men employed about the mixer and the mixing crew. The night watchmen, who look after the pumps and the newly laid concrete, are necessarily free men. The completed concrete on Tuesday evening was about 4,000 feet south of STEWART-PIIILLIP- S the Davis County High school buildMarried at the home of the brides ing and if the weather, money and luck holds good the job will be com- - mother, Mrs. T. H. Phillips, on Wednesday, September 20, 1916, at 7:30 p. m., President Henry IL .Blood officiating, Miss Hollis E. Phillips and Mr, Earl W. Stewart of Ogden. The newlyweds will residejn Ogden, ? ..... machinist-ithe where Pacific of the Southern Railway shops one-four- NUMBER 2 K ViUkUttAMUUJ O B- - ' d'-e- fN V 7 - v A v ' 'y ' ! |