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Show I News Notes : J It's a Privilege to Live in I Utah Epliraim The battle against jack rabbits started locally last Saturday, when a group of moil and boys met and organized for the purpose of exterminating exter-minating the pJ'sts, which have (locked in large numbers into the region of Epliraim just over the Sanpitch river. A crowd of twenty-five men and hoys killed upward of 300 rabbits. A hunt will be held soon where the married men will hunt against the single men and the losers entertain for the winners. win-ners. .Myton Last' Wednesday afternoon at ihe Commercial club rooms in Myton My-ton a group of beetgrowers held a meeting to consider the feasibility of perfecting an organization for Uintah and Duchesne counties. As a result of the meeting the Uintah Honey Producers' Pro-ducers' association was organized. Another An-other meeting will be held in Roosevelt Roose-velt Saturday, January 8, when officers will be elected and further plans made. A large attendance of beetgrowers Is expected from all parts of the basin. Ephraim A mass meeting was held . in the tabernacle last Tuesday, with Mayor Armstrong in charge, for the purpose of discussing a suitable engine to augment the present light and power supply of Ephraim. A discussion dis-cussion followed and a vote taken showed a tie, for half of those present wanted an engine at a cost of $1500 and the others wanted a new power plant constructed. Another vote was taken, and it was decided to have the. city council take up the matter and see if there is enough water to supply a new plant; if not, to install a Deisel engine as soon as possible. The present pres-ent power is not sufficient to supply the demand for power in Ephraim. Salt Lake Plans for an active membership mem-bership campaign to terminate with the annual convention at Taylorsville Wednesday, January 1, were outlined Wednesday by 'the Salt Lake county farm bureau board of directors at a special meeting. This special session, attended by representative ' agricultural agricul-tural leaders from all communities in the county, was characterized by high enthusiasm over farm bureau aims, accomplishments and future. Myton Monday morning, at the government gov-ernment station in Myton, the themom-eter themom-eter registered 13 degrees below zero. This is the lowest it has gone so far this season; several mornings preceding pre-ceding this it having registered near Ihe 10 below zero mark. So far the snowfall has been light in this part of the basin, but heavy in the foothills and mountains. Provo Big dogs, little dogs, white dogs, black dogs, yellow dogs and spotted dogs hitched to big sleighs, little sleighs, old sleighs and new ::leighs and mastered by an equally great variety of boys entered the annual an-nual dog tournament here Tuesday afternoon. The event was one of the bright spots in the holiday activities of the boys of the city, and many thrilling races were run under the supervision su-pervision of Dell Webb, city recreational recrea-tional director. Vernal A Theodore Johnson government gov-ernment weather observer in Vernal, reported the lowest temperature of the winter Thursday night, the mercury falling to 16 degrees below zero. Not a trace of wind accompanied the low temperature and no additional snow has fallen since December 20. Th2 ground throughout Ahsley valley remains re-mains covered with snow and the low temperature is having a beneficial ef feet on general, health conditions throughout the valley. During the abnormally ab-normally warm weather of October and November, many cases of influenza influ-enza and pneumonia occurred in this section. Salt Lake For the purpose of disposing dis-posing of $1,200,000 in bonds guaranteed guaran-teed by Salt Lake county taxes, E. J. Groesbeclt, county treasurer, left Monday Mon-day for New York City. Of the total sum, $1,000,000 are tax anticipation bonds and $200,000 refunding bonds take up bonds that matured in a year when the tax revenues failed to fully meet the bond issue. Mr. Groesbeck is required to turn the bonds over m the eastern markets by the first of the year. Layton Two addiitonal feet of snow was added to the considerable quantity already on the mountains east of this city during the snowstorm this week. The additional snow, it is declared, eliminates all possibilities of a water shortage next season unless an unpro-ccdentediy unpro-ccdentediy early spring occurs. Provo Reports from the home of Str to Senator LeRoy Dixon are more encouraging, as his condition is slightly improved. His son. P.'.ul, who ban been laboring in th? Eastern states mission for Ihe past year, bar; arrived home. Mr. Li.-on is s'l.tYriiig n om a general in icri.ion, followed by Pneumonia, and ha:-; been confined to his bed for nearly live week's |