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Show ? , r i u I , 1 he . ri- - f Cl r ,f! ro- -, ien me de- - ' ial 1. es, he t ive fOLUME XXVII LoofbourowReturns Home for the Summer BANQUET HONOR - .KAYSVILLE; UTAH FRIDAY NIGHT APRIL 16. 1931. THURSDAY, Four Davis County Banks That Have Made Improvements -- Loof-bouro- . f , Congressman .Frederick C. Loof bourow returned to Utah Wednesday, he will remain pntil November, Students Who Have Excelled in where lie reports that Utah fared rather well at the short session, although there School Activities To Be are many things yet to be done for I Guests of School labor, mining' and agriculture which could not be reached because of lack of annual honor banquet for time.Industrial ;ih who conditions in the east have represented Davis (Yoe school in the different activities are greatly improved," said Mr. I "I confidently expect things school during the past year will (I the continue on the mend and that by 17, held be April night, Friday ill Salt Lake City. fall' the country will be back to norrt the Cactus club intalent and ambi-t'a- n mal. Vhis recognition of made was first publicly at the school six years ago, and the OCCUPIES nor banquet has become an added ; entire for greater effort in school : Ttivities of all kinds. NEW-QUARTERS .The program this year is as follows: : nutation and introduction of toast r nster, Student Body President Max New Building Is Credit to ComIch; response, Toastmaster Calvin imp ton; talk, Superintendent Ii. G. munity And Is Attractively srton; talk, Coach Jack Croft; st to faculty, LaRue Robins; talk, Furnished . nncipsl Samuel Morgan; toast from , timni, Sherman Clark; talk, R. W. On the thirty-nint-h anniversary of . jams, president of the board of ed-- r its Lhifounding, the Davis County Bank Mareelle )ation; toast .to boys, of Farmington moved into its nqw rd; toast to girls, Allen Rice. The honor guests for the evening home, one of the most modern bank; Max Rich, Mareelle Linford, ing buildings in the state. Work on , Ikornley Swan, Lawrence Sessions, the new structure was Commenced October and athough there are j ixident body officers; William Weav- - ast sti a Merle f- fewfinishing touches to be added, Elbert Sheffield, Bennett, , ; German Clark, Mary Alice Rodgers, the bank opened' for business in the (I Ary Wilcox, Genieve Lee, Sylvia new building April 1. The new edifice, diagonally across ( irr, Vee Call, Norris Knighton, Dav-- ji Hughes, Janette Ford, Ruth Layton; the street from the new Davis county tth Evans, Albert Mann, Clyde Mo- court house is finished in the latest il ityre, Cecil Carr, Lorraine Wine-l- f manner, with all the impressiveness tr, Calvin Rampton, Myrtle Jack-x- t, which should be attached to a financial Warde Tolman, Ray Smith, institution. The exterior is of cast eith Stahle, Elmer Young, Evelyn stone, with the large windows affordlood, Martha Holt, Mary Holbrook, ing ample light for the interior. Isle Steed David Steed, Helen Wil-cThe inside walls are of Travatine Melvin Burningham. which presents the appearance of a Allen Rice, Beth Moon, Noal Clark, or Italian stone. This makes I kilo Dibble, Elaine Pack, Ralph Tan aSpanish and beautiful invery impressive srw, LaRue Robins, Luana Mercer, terior and is a comparatively recent I kanor Steed, Fern Richards, Howard improvement for public buildings. jith, Joe Whitesides, Herman Nel-d- t,- Behind the marble counter a Gordon Thomley, Merrill Peteriron staircase leads to the p, Lawrence Bangerter, Knewcl wrought floor at the rear of the buildI tshforth, Giraud Whitaker, Frank second 3 jrwick, Jex Stringham, Leland May ing where are located the directors rest room facilities, and storage 1 I Howard Lange, Jack Thornley, room, for the use of the bank. space I wnk Walker, Hugh Cannon, Junior The bookkeeping room is located at 3 I bey, Dale Tolman, Dean Swaner, I aiis Briggs, Carlos Clark, Bill Cow the rear of the consultation office on 1 building. Every i, Roy Beazer, Alvin Hart, Don the east insideuseof inthethe most modem facility I. Itch, Ray 'Evans, in in.. home of found I Ernest Smith, new banks, the EltonWilcox,Virgil 1 dson, Harold Wilcox, Carl Fornel-- I the bank, including the latest 'steel t, Seymour Burton, Jennis Williams, furniture of matching design which I amett Simpson, Karma Knowlton, adds much to the impression of modt tna Sheffield, Virgie Williams, Mar- -j em efficiency. lie Evans, Louis Duncan, Cleone Not all the space in the new buildr lams, Ethel Lloyd, Leo Eggett, lore ing will be used for banking purposes, Mias a room on the north side of the structure will probably je used for Li NUMBER ? v. BANK Bo-Pee- Are (Continued on page 6.) To Cut Acreage FORD AGENCY TO Potato growers were warned re-- t fttly by C. C. Teague, vice chairman the farm board, that unless acreage reduced they may expect the lowest Ices they have had for years. Farmers intentions to indite a 10 per cent increase plant in acreage late potatoes over last year. This uld mean a yield of 430,000,000 Ihels, as compared with 361,000,000 1930, when Teague said great was experienced to sell at a isfactoiy price. Je advised a 10 per cent cut, bring-- f the 1931 production within the tge of last year's crop, league described potatoes as one of 1 countrys important crops, with an lual value of over $400,000,000. J Bysville To Have A New Enterprise Hr. and Mrs. Roy F. Qualls have the home of the late Mr. and J I- - E. W. Layton, where they will a hand laundry the first of J 1 week. ih I rs. Qualls has spent the frs in a similar business past three in and is experienced Holly-Californ- ia, g this line of work. service will be given -- will be picked up and hered when finished, I three-da-y I laundry Lajrton Saturday Foliowring the completion of a $3000 reconstruction program, Inc., will celebrate the opening of their Ford agency in Layton Saturday and Monday. Talking motion pictures will be shown continuously from 2 p. m. to 10 p. m. both Saturday and Monday. These pictures show all the details of the wonderful system of mass production used at the Ford plants. The new agency is in the building formerly occupied by the Layton Auto company. George Briggs and Leonard Lay-tomembers of the new firm, inform us that a full stock of Ford parts will be carried and equipment is being installed to furnish complete authorized Ford service. Additional factory-trained mechanics will be on duty at all times. Mr. 'Briggs and Mr. Layton invite all Davis county people to attend the celebration Saturday and Monday. Briggs-Lay-to- n, n, ksides the washing machine an FLOOD COMMITTEE MEETS !tnc mangle has been installed John G. M. Barnes, Joseph I all flat pieces' will be delivered Amasa Williams, O. E. Clark, Muir, and Roy the customer ironed at no extra Cook, committee . on a comprising m-flood reclamation work, met at the Davis county courthouse Wednesday. The land committee decided to use $200 of Co. the money subscribed by county peoStockholders ple in repairing some of the damage caused by the flood. The county comN missioners have offered to furnish the equipment for this work. The work ic shareholders of the Inland was reported as progressing rapidly. lung company held their annual ng in the offices of the company SARAH UNFORD nURT Mias SarahLiijford, evening. The annual report of jpwagemenb "showed art Increase Mr. arid Mrs. Edward L. Linford of over the preceding Kaysville, dislocated her left hip and e.P.r08Pect for the coming badly strained the ligaments while J looks bright for an increase over practicing high jumping at the Davis P.T5Pects,and.business biyh . school --Tuesday morning She will be confined to her bed for some bbe plant. lW lollowing directors were elect- - time. rnes, James E. . w G C. A. Ep-fr- u Legion Radio Program J' 9a51ey' Uenry IL Blood, 'The American Legion of California I V. K. Saxton. John G. M. will sponsor a radio program over the elected president of the Columbia Network broadcast Saturu F of. rectors; James E. Ellison, day evening April 18, from 6 to 7 p. m. 'president, and Chas. V. K. Sax-- 1 Pacific States time. This program is secretary-treasure- r. in commemoration of San. Franciscos fire. Among the speakers will be B. m Sunday at 12:15 a testimonial W. Gearhart, California, department . Ik Layton ward commander of the Legion; Governor of Elder. Lewis Wea- - of California; Mayor of San Froncis-cI onm f Mr. and .Mrs. David Wea-iT- 1 and other prominent men in public leaves April 30 for a mis-jt-o life will speak. Listen in; help prothe atates. mote, conversation a Legion activity. -- Printing ew tf- d Elect Directors rs d - -- - - 1 o, East-Centr- al Four banks in the county have within recent years improved their buildings. The most recent improvement was the new building of the Davis , ' County bank. The First National bank of Layton a year ago last fall remodelled the interior with modern marble counters, affording privacy to customers at each opening. This improvement added materially to the attractiveness of the county have practiced a wide diversifi- cation 'of crops on fertile, land with such success that Davis is well termed, the garden spot of Utah. It is only natural to infer that, these modem agricultural methods which have proved so profitable should result to, a similar condition in thej banks serving thesp 'communities. t One of the greatest, in the steady and consistent growth 5T7th c Davis county banks is the conservative management which characterizes the financial institutions of this coun- well-irrigat- v interior. The Farmers State bank and the Bountiful State bank are both situated ty.j ip modern buildings. . Although Davis is the smallest county in the state, the financial statements of. Davis county banks reflect g of the comthe general munities which they serve, which is a direct result of the thrift and industry of the people of this vicinity. For years the progressive farmers of this well-bein- jowever, thejbanks of Davis county aie continually' giving examples of their progressive spirit in keeping step with the times by cooperating to the fullest extent in whatever is best for their communities, realizing that their prosperity depends entirely upon that of their depositors. Our Davis county banks are in a Home News dif-fcl- ty id (1) Beautiful new building of Davis County Bank. (2) Home of .Farmers State Bank at Bountiful. (3) The large banking house building of the Hount iful State Bank. (4) Remodelled interior of First National Bank, Layton. I HOLD OPENING , Stewart Smith; Little Jack Horner, IeRoy Manning; Little Black Sambo, Edna Mae Calvin Smith; Little Clark; Little Miss Muffet, Afton Little Boy Blue, Glen Moon; Tommy Tucker, Jay Steed; Old Mother Hubbard, . Natell Nichols; Handy Spandy, Alden Spencer; Doctor, Galt McCJurg; Patient, Wanda Norman; Dennis Payne, and Hylon Smith, and Edward Sanders. The second and third grades with seventy children will present a Pag-eaof the School Months with the leading characters as7 follows: King, Ilobert Dumke, Heralds, Robert Walsh and Max Hess; Miss September, Keller; school health child, Cleono Johnson; Miss October, Elizabeth Clark with a march of Halloween characters; Miss November, Ruth Clark; Indians, James Hess, Carl Shrope, Beverly Schwagler, and Faye Ball; Puritans, Wilson Barton and Edith Lloyd; Red Cross nurse, Bernice Smith; Soldier, Niel Welling; Sailor, Jesse Fuller; Miss December, Geraldine Huntsman: choirboy, Steven White, Orvia Pollack anjTiasipr Johnson; Miss Janino uary, J h; - County Agricultural and ton, Inc., to Celebrate Grand Opening of Agency in p, Rub-a-dub-d- position to offer a number of services that are not given by the larger city institutions. The officers of our banks are in nearly all cases intimately acquainted with their patrons and there fore understand their problems more thoroughly than do the heads of the city banks.'Davia county citizens have always found their tmkers wliling and eagre to advise them o any of their financial problem and have also found their banker ui'oqiys glad of the opportunity of talking thinw "YTr with them. The bank atatements of March 23 show total resources of all the banks in the county to be $2,656,243.64. The total capita! stock, surplus, and undivided profits of the banks amounts to $619,552.31. Total demand or checking deposits are $720,113.6H, and the total savings and checking deposits approach the two million dollar mark, being listed aa $1,866,071.00. UTAH Briggs-La- y ur Hep-wort- 1 Growers rDtato Told Farmington Grade School to Present Annual Program . At Opera House Jack-Be-Nimbl- e, ? - TOGIVEPROGRAM thir-tv-fo- . h, SCHOOL KIDDIES The first, second, third and fourth grades of the Farmington grade school under the supervision of their teachers, will present their annual program at the Farmington opera house Friday evening. The program, as outlined, is as follows: A Mother Goose Health Play, will be given by the first grade witlr students. The characters are: Mother Goose, Doris Sessions; Johnny, Neal Secrist; Jack Mayfield; sun bonnet . babies. Mary Robinson, Norma Robinson, and Katherine Steed; little girl, Cleo Phillips; overall boys, Jimmy .Knowlton, Herald Gregory, and .Keith Chaffin; old woman who lived in a shoe, Luana Pebley; scholar, Harden Bennion; boy on a stick horse, Dean Bybee; Mary, Quite Contrary, Artell Ball; Jack, Harlow Clark; Jill, Edna Rae Clayton; Little Dorothy Barlow; soldier, Blaine Ure; Old King Cole, w. i 31 DeLore Nichols, Agricultural News MANYFINEROADS Years Program Ruby Stringham, Home News uation. One has to merely observe CHANGES IN AGRICULTURE Davis county"fanns were cut up conditions. If a remedy is to be preinto smaller units during the past ten scribed, the situation must be fully years, according to the latest census understood. The drug needed for our figures quoted in the last issue of this case is a full cooperation of every inpaper. By referring to this article, it dividual in the county. An agriculwill be noted that there were 311 tural program should be planned and farms in the county under 20 acres in understood by all. Leading farmers farms in 1930, an should meet with bankers, business 1920, as against 569 ' increase of 258, nearly double the men and men dealing in farm comnumber of small unit farms of 1920. modities in planning such a program. There are now 38 per cent of Davis It should be fully understood that farms under 20 acres. farming is the big business of this The above figures seem contrary to county, and as long as this is the case modern tendencies in agriculture. Eco- prosperous farmers make better businomists have compiled much data to ness for banks, merchants and all who handle consumers products. The farmprove that larger units of farming are more practical and more profita- ers should be made prosperous by beble by the use of modern machinery.-The- ing properly advised and financed show that tractors and combine that he might follow the program as harvesters replace a certain number planned by the leaders. Who can of men and horses. The question now mould sentiment better or who is in is: is the reduction in acreage of a position more suitable than the farm units in our county natural or an banker to give advice. He is already unnatural tendency? Will it be prof- considered as the financial adviser of Permanent the community, and his opinion is takitable or unprofitable? en at full value. 'The successful busior temporary? The answer to these questions will ness men is also rated at one hundred. Our first step to county agricultural be the conditions we will see in ten, progress rests, then, in. the hands of now. The or from twenty, thirty years to cooperate. Farmers, person who ventures a statement to those willing bankers, business men, editors, teachthe public will prove to be a forecaster of events or a false ers of education, citizens let us look prophet, depending on the outcome. It forward to future Davis county with is folly to drift when there are oars at full cooperation. Let our agricultural hand and light to clear the vision. program be decided and guided, by unShall we row toward the sunrise or ity and by vision. the sun set? Shall it be up stream or down? Drifting results in flabby Food Caaned at Home Safe If It Is muscles, stagnation, contentment to Canned Right sleep on while pushing forward The. following article written by against the ripples means - develop- Meta Given was published in the Chi- -, ment. For us, what shall it be? ... Daily .Tribune, . Frida eagp think li ahead with preparation. The Boun- asked1931. Several questions bad been concerning botulinus poisoning, tiful and Woods Cross fruit and veg- its presence etable districts no longer have a mon- method of in home canned foods and preventing or controling it. opoly on these crops. Hundreds of JBotuin,ua .poinoning. ia eausedby fnilt trees ere- being planted' irf the eating canned vegetables or fruits in north part. A larger acreage of green which the bacillus botulinus peas will be picked in the pods this has grown organism and a toxin of produced of demonstrations last year, following Cans or poison. agents prese ving year, instead of mowing them and are not The bacterial responsible. tor threshing canning purposes. So, lives In the. soil and there are certain likewise, tyith other crops. More new homes are being built in each com- parts of the country where the soil contains more of this organism than munity which reduces fruit and gar- others. The Yakima region of the den land. A small acreage necessitates cutting down livestock numbers. northwest has been the worst infested Livestock raising does not fit into of all soils. Foods that grow in these truck and fruit farming, unless there soils carry this bacteria. This is why is also pasture and hay land. This re- Washington, California, and Colorado have had most serious outbreaks quires considerable acreage which of botulism.the The records show, howseems contrary to the fanning tenin the that almost ever, state every, dencies underway. It is very easy to point out the sit (Continued on page 7.) . -- BUILDING far-sight- ed . Will Exceed Any Previous Year; $500,000 Is Paid Out in March- About $00,000 was turned over to road contractors during the month of March, and about half of that amount has been already contracted for in April, according to Henry H. Blood, chairman of the state highway commission. The 1931 construction program will outdistance the building done in 1930, which, at that time, was greater than any other road schedule. The work of the state has been supplemented by the activities of the counties and by the national park service and national forest service. "Utah can well be proud of its record in road building in the past two Mr. Blood said. years especially, When the etra federal funds were available to the states for emergency purposes, several states were unable to make use of the money. Utah, however, thanks to its enlightened people, had established a sound highway financing system and when the state was called to match additional federal so, Many money Utah was able states have lost hundreds of thousands of dollars of federal government money in not being able to match the funds. The people, through their county commissioners, have put Utah in a where it is the envy of many of fdace states. When President Hoovers emergency road appropriation was passed by congress and $926,000 additional money was made available 'to Utah, providing that the state was able to spend it before September 1, the people of the state again functioned as usual, and Utah was among the first of the states to accept the proposal Md begin to pu$ ,Todgt When September 1 arrives there are going to be many knotty road problems solved, which would not have done for years if it had not been for the willingness of the citizens to further the road projects."''4'1' Mr. Blood explained that the road budget, of about $5,000,000, has been about half allotted,' with many other projects almost ready for the.cpfitrae-to- r. to-d- o t Some of the serious handicaps which travelers have experienced in going about, the state have been short, extremely bad pieces of road, which are expensive to improve. Through the use of the emergency funds, which must be repaid in five years, these bad sections are being completed this year. ' nt De-lor- es Gor--dULjT- x Services Held Friday For Lyle Lake Graham Funeral services (or Lyle L, Graham were held In the Kaysville ward tabernacle Friday afternoon at 2 o'- clock and were well attended. Bishop Frank Hyde conducted the services and the speakers were Bishop Hyde, James Criddle, Edward M. Whitesides and President Henry H. Blood. The invocation was by H. J. Sheffield, Jr., and the benediction by Thomas E. Williams. Music was furnished by a mixed quartet consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Redford, Mrs. Clifford D. Strong and George I Blamires, who rendered two selections, Sometime Well -- Understand, and God Moves A Mysterious Way, Mrs. Sterling Sill and Miss Melba Thomley rendered the violin-cell- o duet,'Oh My Father, and Howard Larkins Sang Old Pal. Interment took place in -- - -- the Kaysville-Layto- n cemetery, where the grave was dedicated by George W. Barnes. , j The pall bearers were Vemell Swanger, Vernon Sandall, Carl B. Cottrell, Wendell Nance, William Galbraith and Lynn Mansell Vern Back-ma- n of Salt Lake City acted as honorary pall bearer. The floral offer. Ings were numerous and very beautiful, and were carried by cousins of 61 ris'Al ir Ly Icuiidec. iam Barnes. -of At the cemetery taps were played J by Herbert I Gleason and a firing squad from Fort Douglas, consisting f.Priyte? Fedderson,. Kusovak Shu-- . stack, Austin, Davidson, DeNovellis and Rainey fired the salute. EPPERSONS RETURN A.' Eppetsori returned Wednesday from a y business and pleasure to Calitrip fornia. Mr. Epperson says that California is all right, but Utah is the place to live. Everything is overdone m Cahfornia, said Mr. Epperson. Utah offers many more business opportunities, and our weather is much better at this time of the year. . .Mr. and . Mrs.-- G. ten-da- A woman always likes to . get a onder if anybody will ever invent run for her money in everything ex- a brake that will stop a car as as a telephone pole will stop it.quickly cept a pair of hose. 'J 4 dren, Beverly llinmart, and . MaUc Steed; Miss February, Betty Steed ana Pauline Bode; Abraham I.incoln. Louis Barnett; Mias North, Irene Johnson; Miss South, Noreen Earl; George Phil Barlow; Martha Washington, Washington, Norma Van Fleet; Miss March, Margie Askea; Irish, Marietta Welling and Dale Lund; Dutch, Marie Hess, Kenneth Smith, Mary Griffith, Vem Hess, Donna Christensen, Lowell Smith, Onetia Wood, and Jack Brown; Miss April, Bernice Robinson; Easter Child, LeiU Welling; Miss May, Audrey Robinson; Japanese girls, Vera Steed, Luana Whitaker, and Dorothy Manning; Mothers Day Child, Zola Rice, The fourth grade will present a May pole dance and songs. The dancers are: Reed Stayner, Wilma Steed, Jerry Clark, Jewel Hedgepeth, LaMar Steed, Lona Udy, Darrel Mayfield, Leah Brown, Le Grande Gregory, Beth Barton, Karl Pollock, and Beth Rose. Songs will be sung by the entire grade. aunA fa |