Show intermountain news briefly told for bus readers ELKS HONOR DIVORCES INCREASE CUPID HEATING TAX FREE CITY IN UTAH records of the weber county clerks office show an increase in divorce divo and i decrease in the I 1 from the city engineer a office indicate less building during 1931 than at any time since 1920 A total of marriages were dissolved in including divorces and four annulments CITY TIT this city hoists of being the only one in the which will levy no assessment for municipal purposes in 1932 sufficient revenue accruing from the municipal hydro electric system and alie katr system to ply all expenses and leaving a balance of unbudgeted funds of officials an bounce A total of ar rests were made in by logan city police which Is low compared with figures six years baik bai k accord ing to chief gilbert mecha ar rests in 1930 were IDAHO PALLS IDA the frozen body of ralph fikstad 21 wis found in the shelter of a kocl ledge three quarters of a mile from his rinch home near white owl butte 20 miles of rex berg LAS EGAS NEV erection of a flagpole and setting of an appropriate plaque in a prominent place above tha hoover dam project on the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of george washington the plan of members of the elks lodges of the seven colorado river basin states the visit here of harry S joseph exalted ruler of salt lake lodge no 85 is expected to result in the formation of definite plans for this ceremony in which it Is hoped that bibs fibs from colorado wyoming new mexico arizona ut nh california and nevada wil sur LAKE CITY ur general property taxes received by the state daring december amounted to 1 state treasurer A E caf R ans m announces of the entire amount will go to the general fund and 1300 to the state district school fund the total amount of represents about 35 per cent of the states receipts from this source during the car BOISE IDA there were acres of winer wheat planted in idaho during the fall of 1931 or 7 per cent more thin the 1930 total of acres a federal crop report reveals the report announces an nc reasa of SO per cent in the size of idaho s fall pig crop of 1931 over that of 1930 OGDEN UT the annual contention of public school superintendents ten dents of utah will be held here january BEND ORE when science met failure in attempt ng to stem the we of pine beetles which were making heavy inroads into a stand of timber here nature took a hind the beetles have been attacked by a aliguo which ao 10 greatly reduced their numbers and saved millions of board feet of timber it Is expected tho plague will continue until the beetles are wiped out rea NEV alth the six weeks divorce law creating an unprecedented ruh of the unhappily wed reno s divorce mill ground out divorces during 1931 to establish a record the previous record wis set in 1930 when 2149 divorces were granted SALT LAKE CITY UT alfalfa was greatest crop in 1931 bing valued at by the annual report of the utah state farm bureau sugar beeta were second and wheat inked third more thun BOO of the acoca were used for alfalfa with acres of sugar beets yielding to the growers wheat was valued at and was raised on acice SALT LAKE CITY born residents of utah in 1930 numbered as compared with in 1920 it was revealed in figures of the bureau of census recently released of the foreign born residents in there were white 12 and of other races A total of naturalized bad taken out first papers wore aliens and no record was available on 1382 AMERICAN FALLS IDA fifty thousand thou emill trout have been placed in the snake river by the of cassia county PRICE UT AN airport is being planned for this city by the chimber of commerce ROCK SPRINGS WYO abe district comprising rock springs and vicinity produced tons of bituminous coal during the year 1931 ns compared with tons in 1930 or 14 per cent less in volume other coil regions of the estate also show declines to production LOGAN UT teachers salaries in cacho county will average 83 per month this year compared to la it Is estimated in a report d from the cache county teachers association |