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Show rr I chance to register last October 29th, will be the Tuesday, day for registration. registered you cannot your name is on the Arnold M. Barnes and last chance to register last If you are not xote. See October 29thnill Tuda)7 for be the last registration. If you are not .registered you cannot tote. See that your name is on the list of voters. Arnold M. liarnes'and Mrs. Emma J. It. Stronjpare the registration agents. that day list of voters. Mrs, Emma J. I). Strong are the registration agents. VOLUME XIV KAYSV1LLE, LAYTON AND FARMINGTON, THURSDAY, 0CT011ER 21, IMS $ S- - K - ' w Word was received from Leo P. Green at Washington, D. C., on the 16th that he was to embark the following day for overseas. No further woro has been received to date, but it is supposed that he is now in France. Bob Marshall, former captain of the Davis football team, has been promoted to corporal in the motor supply service of the Quartermasters corps. He is stationed at Camp Holabird, Maryland, at present. NELLIE GREEN SAYS THEY FEED EM GOOD IN THE ARMY France, Somewhere, September 20, 1918 Dear Folks: Just returned from noon mess and " have a few minutes to spare. Thought I would write you a few lines to let you know how life in France goes. We have not been settled anywhere yet. It Beems like we just get settled and the order comes to move. I am getting tired of 60 much moving around. Well, they are sure knocking the Germans in the head now. It sure is good news to hear about the Americans busting through the line. I think we have them whipped now- - just a matter of time. Well, father, we are getting feo good. We get all we can eat of the kind we usually gel'- all the bread we want and white at that. We have been unable to get candy or any sweets until we arrived here and the Y. M. C, A. is pretty well supplied and the boys are sure eating it up. I saw a clipping from The Reflex concerning the draft. It sure looks like they are drawing pretty hard on Layton. That is sure' too bad about Bill Layton. They read his name out as one of the casualties from a rail. road wreck. has blown, so I will call Well, drill have to close until 6ome future time. With love to all, I remain as ever PARNELL. - , . , OUR RED CROSS NURSE TELLS OF FRANCE AND ENGLAND The following letter to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Swan, from Miss Mary Swan, who is a Red Cross nurse on active service, will be of interest to Davis county people, especially in view of the fact that so many of our hoys are now with the 145th in France. Dear Folks: We are settled and are very comfortable. Our quartos are much nicer than I expected to have. We have sheets and pillow cases and I have had my electric iron fixed to work on the current here and have been ironing today. I am so sorry I didnt bring my electric stove, but" of course thought I was taking one chance in a hundred in bringing my iron, but thought I might be able to use it somehow, even if I had to heat it on a camp fire. We had lots of experience on our way. I didnt enjoy the sea voyage, but we were very fortunate in having no storms, I think I will come home in an airplane if they dont builcTa bridge across the Atlantic. We enjoyed our trip through England so much. It was like one large, park. Every spot was cultivated. The hedges and fields are so well kept and every. - thing is finished up and the corners rounded off and their grand old trees, n and banks and , of ferns and flowers. The little farm houses, lots of them , with thatched roofs and covered with ivy, fitted into the landscapes as well as the old castles and houses on the big estate. All the hay and straw stacks were thatched and all the roofs that are not thatched are of red tile In the villages and cities all the houses are built on the same general plan. Block after block of terraces are just alike. The streets are very narrow and run in all directions, both in Eng land and France. The thing that Rtnased, j&st tnostwas the English the holly and tiacFeff?1iedger and" alt grow along the rlghDof-wa- y kind3 of flowers and grass. There is Etas3 and moss, even, between the track? and rails in the yards, so you ran tell how slow they are. Their freight car3 look like dry goods boxes on cart wheels. They are a good deal like the old fashioned farm hacks the frock gardeners used to drive to town. Most of them are marked capacity 6 tens. The engines match the cars and they look like toy trains running on toy tracks, bat then there wouldnt moss-grow- ivy-cover- ed , rr -- rail-road- s, be room in England for one of our big sure like to hear a American western freight trains. They would 'band too. I can see good 1 under-reall- y that. have no use for them. The load- stand now .about all we have to do is ed pars were all covered with mackin- to go to such places as this over the toshes like all the people. , country and be used as a. means of We went into a shop in ah English entertainment and to work in the field town and the only coats we could see hospital behind our own men. for sale were fain coats. so we decided ing litters we are . to do no Carrymore, that that was all those people ever praises be to General who Pershing, needed. Both the English and French suggested that a litter bearer could be have first, second and third class made in a few days while it took coaches. years to make a musician. So were The boys say these trains can make tying into things proper now what ten miles an hour down hill, but they if we should make such a name that dont go down hill very much and they wed be sent to tour the U.' S.? Heard stop every time the engineer or fire- of one band that accomplished that man want a smoke or a drink of wine. Which reminds me that my lip ia in They collect your fare when you get much better shape for playing now off. Everything we saw in England than ever before. -was pretty clean, especially the back . Well, I wish I had somemail to an, yards, but if you should see an agent we-r-. Not a sign of mail sine that selling street sweepers you might sug- last letter you wrote on August 14. gest that they were very badly needed But don't stop writing. Our mail will in Liverpool, but the sanitary condi- find us sometime someplace. Must he tions in France ire awful. They carry blocked and we up expect it every day. bread and meat through the streets I wonder if all my mail is getting unwrapped and the flies swarm every- through to youf Weve been in Europe where. The people in the villages over a month now, , but reckon weve live in one part of the house and the traveled faster than the. mail could animals in another. The Americans overtake us. I are forbidden to drink anyjwater that Next Day. Isnt it perfectly lovely is not inspected and approved for to wish for something and get It Y drinking by the U. S. Government. A Last evening after our concert we j bath in Europe is a luxury and is were given our second bunch of mail. charged as an extra everywhere. The Think 1 scored this time with 6 letters. English are as popular as a skunk in Tell me there isnt something to this a hen house. Over here neither the life. There is nothing in the world Americans or French have any use that is exactly like the receiving ol for them. mail in a foreign land. Hardly anyThe Americans and French get one slept last night. Got one fine letalong very nicely. and our boys seem ter from Mrs. Shepard. May send it to like the Canadians, Australians and home sometime. There were three bags all the other British except the Eng- of mail for- the regiment and we ex lish. I havent been able to decide pect more letters today. just what the trouble is yet. However, The fellows were quite pleased with the English treated us well of course our concerts yesterday and no doubv they put their prices up when they when us a rousing send-osaw us coming, but they are no worse theyll give we leave here. Have no idea where than anyone else for they sure stung we will go. us in New York, and here in France Believe me we get some great storthey charge us 30c a pound for gTapes of the war from some of thesa ies that I wouldnt eat and 10c for apples fellows. These youd not have poor that our pigs would be insulted" at, but they dont get much ahead of the me write in a letter. They would not look. good in print, but after we all Yankees. back there will be such stories get The French money is mostly fancy told as were never heard before. You paper and not unlike 6ome of our to- know the best way to realize what war bacco coupons and the American boys to visit a" big hospital like this. is is, have been passing some tobacco couYet St cant last forever and someday pons as American money. old world will sail peacefully along the Miss Osborne and Miss Nelson and in as bygone days. Miss James are all close, but not in Now about our visit to the big city the same hospital, but I am glad they much larger than Salt Lake, howare near, as I visit them every day or ever. It rained so much that evening two. had to play on the balcony we Well, the chaplain will be pretty that M.-- C. A. building. Yet a Y. of the tired by the time he has read all this, undei crowd below us gathered so I will close. Keep on writing big and cheered umbrellas voiciferously. whether you hear from me or not. You see we (some of us) got a shot With love to all, of American ice cream (our first MARY SWAN. we before such a luxury) sight of into ourselves started. We sure blew LESTER GLEASON SEES .MANY a real tune. Why! the effect was very SIGHTS IN LA BELLE FRANCE noticable. We played until dark, then r Somewhere in France. strolled about the streets in our slickers and small caps while it rained. Dear Mother and All: 'Now for a real letter for this will Most stores were closed and only a be censored by the Base Censor. We few lights shone, but got a fair idea get a blue envelope once per week of a French city. On one half block I that takes our letter through him in- saw four huge cafes, or wine rooms stead of Lieutenant Hawkins. wed caR them, and they put chair? Well, this finds me and the rest ot out under a canopy all, over the side the gang in the best humor yet. We walks, so you have to get out in the left our little village yesterday and street to pass. And such swell places came a few miles nearer the big city for eating and drinking just regular to a huge base hospital, to remain here palaces, for it seems to be the delight awhile and play concerts for a few of a Frenchmans heart to sit at a Say wine table with a fair lady and just sij thousand wounded Americans. but it "does seem good to see real and talk and drink. Saw a number of American nurses for once. Weve been fine fruit stores, so neat and clean. knocking around the jungles jso long Ilerewere fresh peaches; 5 very small that this, you may well believe, is a ones for 3 francs or about COc; and real treat for us. We sailed in and one fairly large peach could be had for and 5 francs or about a dollar. I passed played a good concert this p. m. made quite a hij. We have a practice on and recalled the old peach orchard in a- - m. and a concert in p. m. and at at home, and how good they tasted on night. And such eats! Say, they are a cold morning. There are many fin statues in this sure great. Vastly superior to have had since we left city and places of interest and we hope Kearny. Field rations you know are for a chance to visit them all under never up to very (foch. You asked more pleasant conditions than a rainy we had a how much I weighed. I tipped the bal- night. At the Y. M. o minutes that! Think 15 life for lbs. 172 American of bit at ance today since American on food, leaving we feasted while 12 pounds A gain .of ! No need to worry about me at which is sold there to service men very Kearny that rate. And had no coat on either, cheaply. Wish I could tell you more that Ive We are on straw ticks in double deck seen beatthehard and figured out, but doubt If it sure and bunk3 they told I would you tent .a of pass the censor. Due to the fact boards dirty all It is. ell, of these fellows have had, a most that this locality how pretty trees .wilLEfitara goolbngiT'g,-iyp-they,are among . large these buildings homesafe and sound, and not so much and elme coveeed-wit- li simply grand here to other easons that we. read about in vines,.. soon gen eR magazine articles. You remember how should and the fellows a is dandy k . M. you used to read the Good Book to me There at this place. well supplied. every Sunday morning when I was a are canteens C. A. and not kid ? Because you saw fit to do that, all along, trouble our That's been oi my mother, you may reap your harvest much or to get candy being able in of joy in seeing me return to the ola is training anything. Oar regiment here- U. S. and to you and I shall want you these over ad scattered here, but abouts. The old band sticks together to read to me again too. For as y sow, so shall ye reap and I may come and we have some great old times. conditions home much about again to prove it to you. Well learn fellows a Reflex would look good and these all Well, for at the front too, one finds its way over here be- I there. They hope to pieces have been shot 1 - ff v. any-thing-- C-.- tc.Itia NUMHER N? A I fore long. Cut out the news? anyway and send it in your letters. Weve encountered quite a lot of rain recently and enethinks well be in a more severe winter than we had-- tn Southern California last year. Now I must close. 1 send you lots of love across the sea. i. . I x . s- - LESTER. . x GOVERNOR ASKS FOR i. IRRIGATION DISTRICT County Commissioners Mill Act on 1ropoaed High Line Canal District Will Be Organized Government to Furnish the Money. The big thing now before the people of Davis county is the organization of the Weber River Irrigation district. This is the biggest proposition to confront our people since the construction of the Davis and Weber Counties canal which everyone must admit was the most important enterprise in the history of the county. The building of the Davis and Weber Counties canal made Davis county the garden spot of Utah and it will remain an enduring monument to the men who made it possible, both in construction and in management. Thousands of acres of land was made productive by the building of the canal, more than a million dollars of products are produced each year and hundreds of homes have been established. And now comes the proposition to build the Weber river high line canal which will reclaim all the remaining arid lands of Davis and Weand semi-ari- d ber counties well up to the old lake shore water mark. These lands are the best drained and richest lands, not only in Davis and Weber counties, but by virtue. of their location anil transportation, the most desirable lands in Utah. By this proposition the State of Utah proposes to secure the money for construction from the government of the United States and at a very low rate of interest the tame rate The canal paid by the government. and reservoirs will be constructed un- der the supervision of the Unitea States and will be of the most substantial character. Twenty years will be given in which to pay the cost of construction and the construction will be of such nature that the cost of upkeep and maintenance will be reduced to the lowest possible point. Realizing the importance of this enterprise, Governor Bamberger has taken the matter in hand and already two meetings have been held at the state capitol building at which the county commissioners of Davis and Weber county were present. At these meetings the commissioners signified their readiness to proceed in the mat- ter of organizing the aforesaid irri- X. X. X. x I. X. ! X x x I X X . - x - AAAAAilrAAAAAAAAAAiriritAAAAAAAAA UTAHS CONTRIBUTION The following interesting facts concerning Utahs contributions in men and money to the government was complied by E. I. Ellison, chairman of the Davis County Council of Defense: In this titanic struggle Utah has risen to the demand of the hour. Her record for response to every government call is a brilliant chapter in her history. Our men and money have been freely given, despite the sacrifices and heartaches which may have followed. In Men. Total volunteer enlistments in army, navy and marine corps, April ; 7th, 1917, to September 1st, 1918 8,562 Total drafted men in service, April 7th, 1917 to September 1st, 1918.. 9,535 Utahs total contribution of men 18,097 The above figures do not include men engaged exclusively in war work In Money. s Subscribed Allotment First Liberty Loan d..i 4 6,500.000 9,400,000 Second Liberty Loan .. 10,000,000 16,200,000 Third Liberty Loan . 10,315,000 12,531,000 .. hirst Rel Cross Fund 520.000 350,000 Second Red Cross Fund 612.000 500,000 lied Cross Membership Drive 07.000 60,000 Soldiers Welfare Fund 100,000 110,000 Y. M. C. A. War Fund ... 10.000 10,000 - TotalI 27,835,000 ... 39,450,000 3,000,000 War Savings Stamps sold to July 15th, 1918 (maturity value) Grand , Total 42,450,000 The petitipn is self explanatory and) the next movTTis up to the commission was followed on October 15th by the; By the above it will be leen that following communication and petition era and the people who own lands in. requesting the organization of the district. Following is the communication: Davis and Weber counties situated under the proposed ranal. As we underThe Letter. , October 15, 1918 stand the proposition the people of Mr. Arthur Hess, Chairman the cities and towns of the county Board of County Commissioners where the water privileges are limited Davis County are entitled to vote on the proposition Farmington, Utah. Dear Sir: well as owners of farm lands. There as 1 am herewith transmitting a pe- should be no halting in this matter.' tition requesting the organization of the Weber River Irrigation District. The waters of the Weber river are to In transmitting this petition I do not be appropriated, and if no approprithink it is necessary to make any com- ated for trivia and Weber counties ment upon the same as you are al- will be appropriated for lands in Utah, ready familiar with the merits of the and Tooele counties. Sanpete proposed district. We matthat our county comwill this that anticipate you give Hoping ter your immediate consideration, I missioners will act at once and that am our people will unanimously back Very truly yours, them up at the District Irrigation elecSIMON BAMBERGER, Governor of the State of Utah. tion which they will call. -- gation district and maps and plans have been prepared which are now on file in the office of the clerk of Davis REPORT MADE TO THE BANK, COMMISSIONER OF THE STATE OF county. UTAH OF THE CONDITION OF THE BARNES BANKING On the 5th day of October the govCOMPANY, LOCATED AT KAY8V1LLE. IN THE COUNTY ernor transmitted the. petition for the OF DAVIS, STATE OF UTAH, AT TIIE CLOSE proposed organization to the board of OF BUSINESS ON 'THE 5TH DAY county commissioners: OF OCTOBER, 1918. Petition Proposing the Organization of the Weber River Irrigation District In Wtber. and Daria Counties. To the Board of County Commissioners of Davis county: In the interest of conserving and putting to beneficial use the public waters of the state and pursuant to the provisions of the Laws of the State of Utah to the organization of Irrigation Districts, and upon recom mendation of the State Engineer, I hereby propose the organization of an irrigation district under the provisions of said laws to include the land shown on the attached plat, and hereby pe tition your honorable board to proceed as provided by law to call an election and submit to the qualified electors of the proposed district the question of the organization of such district. It is the purpose of your petitioner to have organized an irrigation dis trict under the Laws of the State of Utah relating to the organization of Irrigation Districts. The proposed means of water supply is the Weber River, and its tributaries, from which river and tributaries water rights are to be acquired by the district, and certain ditches or canals constructed to the land proposed to be irrigated. Th name. f gr jjucb .dhtrkt.shali.be lEeTtVebVr River Irrigation District. A plat of the land to be included in district is- - hereto attached and made a part hereof. Your petitioner hereby prays that your honorable board request that a water survey and allotment of water for the lands within the proposed dis trict be made, that the land to be in dadedin the proposed district be determined, listed with water allotment and platted, and that the question of fmal organization of the same be sub mitted to the vote of the land owners within the proposed district, d RESOURCES Loans and Discounts Overdrafts Unsecured Stocks and Other Bonds Banking House .,r Due from National Banks . Due from State Banks and Bankers Checks and Cash Items Gold Coin F ilver Coin ... Currency Expense Account - ....... $143,152.81 724.77 15.000.00 3,210.50 50,976.10 0-- 131.00 , 365.00 497.77 .. 4,890.00 .4. . r 5,886.77 53.31 Total $151,290.30 LIABILITIES Capital Stock Paid In 4 .... Surplus Fund i Undivided Profits, Interest, Exchange, Etc. Individual Deposits .... Cashiers Checks ... Savings Deposits Time Certificates of Deposit Bills Payable Amount Set Aside for Taxes, Etc .... Liberty Loan Account 50,000.00 60.000.00 23,623.23 .. 151,291.15 .. 2,716.15 .. .. .. .. .. 140,75546 5,000.00 19,000.00 2.009.09 15,902.95 Total .$ 451,20X36 State of Utah, County of Davis: John It. Gailey being first duly sworn according to law, depose7, end says that he is Cashier of the above named hank;-tha- t 'th above and Tore-- " going report contains a full, true and correct statement of the condition ef the said bank at the close of business on the 5th day of October, 1913. JOHN E. GAILEY. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 15th day of October, 1313. T. McCLURE PETERS, Notary Public. (Seal) My Commission expires the ISth day of February, 1221. - Correct Attest: JOHN G. M. BARNES, JOHN ELOOD, Directors. s VA GAILEY, HENRY II. State of Utah, Office of Bank Ccramiszlcner: I, W. E. Evans, Bank Commissioner of the State of Utah, do I rr.lv SIMON BAMBERGER, certify that the foregeirg ia a full, true and correct copy of the stater-.- : l Governor of the State of Utah. of the above named company, filed in my office this 19th day cf OcL cr, 1913. Dated this 5th day of October, 1218. ?. E. EVANS, Bank CrrmR-r-r. S t i |