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Show I News Notes 1 It' a Privilege to Live in i Utah f LOGAN Oregon fir trees, which were ordered by the merchants' committee com-mittee of the Logan chamber of commerce, com-merce, arrived here. The trees, which are to be used for Christmas street decorations and are of uniform size, will be placed in the flag receptacles along Main street. These, together with colored festoons, which will be strung above them, are expected to make the business section of town r very attractive and also stimulate early Christmas shopping . OGDEN Members of the county commission discussed with Kenneth C. Wright, district state road engineer, the hard-surfaced highway program of the county for 1928. For this purpose $70,000 has been set aside in the budget. bud-get. Mr. Wright said that the state road commission would be willing to pave the two-mile stretch from the terminus ter-minus of the present hard-surfaced highway in Ogden calley to Huntsville. PANGUITCH Fifty thousand dollars dol-lars is the estimated value of the certified cer-tified seed potato crop of Piute and Garfield counties, according to Morgan McKay, county agent for the section. Although many will be kept for seed approximately sixty carloads, valued at $36,000, will be sold from the section sec-tion before spring. JUNCTION Land totaling approxi mately 120 acres at Koosharem in Sevier Sev-ier county near the Piute county line was set aside for homestead filing by the government for use of thirty-four Indians who have been living on the property for several years, according to Eli F. Taj'lor, register of the United States land office in Salt Lake for the district of Utah. OGDEN Actual construction on the hangers at Holther field, Ogden's avia lion depot, was begun under the di rection of Ora Bundy, contractor. With the prospect of good weather, rapid progress on this work is expected, and within a few days. most of the wors ; will have been completed. I DUCHESNE Several bridges were washed out. headgates and irrigatioE I ditches damaged and a number oi ranches inundated when the new enj bankment of the Farnsworth Canal jfc Reservoir company's reservoir, sever miles below Moon lake, gave waj sending a ten-foot wall of water dowr. Lake Fork river. LOGAN At the commencement ol the winter quarter a new four-yeai course in forestry will be introduced at the Utah Agricultural college Through cooperation of the United States forestry office at Ogden tin course was made possible. OGDEN Ogden will hold a big eel ebratlon on December 17 in observ ance of the opening of its new white way. The celebration Is being spoil sored by the chamber of commerce The new triple lighting system ex tending from Twenty-second street tc Twenty-sixth street on Washing-tor avenue will be turned on with appro priate ceremony at that time. SALT LAKE Wednesday morning'.' fall of snow in Salt Lake and viclnit; brought the total depth for the twi days of storm condition to S.2 Inch"'' The storm, which broke In the early morning hours was strictly local in character, according to the Unite I States weather bureau in Salt Lake' with only a trace of snow reported south of Salt Lake and on Prove bench, and one-half inch at IVcutollo DUC'l I ESN!".- -Federal a'd in the construction of 'highways in the slate amounting to $27. 7117. 19. was received by the state treasurer Tuesday from the bureau of public roads. Of this amount $17.0f3.41 is to lie applied on the highway from Fruitland to Du chesne and Ihe remalnd-'r f"r bridge? In Grand County. John Walker als; received from Iron county thn sum ol $50,000 taxes for the current var, and also $11,532.32 from Ihe county of Millard Mil-lard for taxes for this year. SALT LAKE- Plans for the thirty-ninth thirty-ninth annual Utah poultry show ol Utah Stale. Poultry association, to be held In Salt Lake from January 10 to 21, were formulated at Ihe monthly meeting of the unsocial ion, held In the city and county building. II was decided that during the last Iwc days of the show an unction will be held similar to those which conclude the various stock shows. OGDEN With the Issuance or the most complete premium list in the history his-tory of Ihe aieiniial ion, the Weber Poultry association announced complete com-plete plans for the seventeenth annual exhibit to be h"ld January 7 to 12. Inclusive, In-clusive, In tho huge coliseum In con-necllon con-necllon wit'- liie ninth annual Ogden Uveal ock shew. LOGAN' Approximately 19,801 arri'F 'of winter wheal were harvested In Cache county In 1927, accoi'dlng to Ihe report of the bureau of ngrlcull nral economies of the It. S. department ol j agriculture. OT (hut acreage IS. 19.1 j ncres were not Irrigated anil Hill were Irrigated. The county also had 8174 ; acres of spring wheat. |