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Show THE MIDVALE JOURNAL • Session Republican National Convention m •••••••••••••••••••••••••• News Notes a Liu• Utah It'• Privilege to Friday, June 22, 1928 Champ Clark Memorial Bridge Is Dedicated in ••••••••••••••••••••••••••• DUCHESNE-Millard, Uintah and Duchesne are the heaviest producers of alfalfa seed in the state. LEHI-The augar industry ie a source of great wealth to Utah farmlrs and business IV,en. Last year 105,465 tons were produces in the state, having a value of $14,404,368. OGDEN-A fund of $27,726 has been set asiie for maintaining and improving the Uintah forest during the fiscal year begining July 1, it has been. announced by officials of the district forest service here. The allotment for improvements includes $7470 for minor roads and trails, and $1270 for range improvements. RICHFIELD Richfield will be the scene July 14 of the second annual midsummer meeting of the Utah State W oolgrowersl association, it was announced recently by James A. Hooper, secretary. Following business session• • in the morning and afternon, as'Sociation member will be feted at a banquet and celebration at Fish lake. This picture gives a general view of the Republkan national conv.ention In Kansas City. ~'he photograph was LIBERTY-Bear Lake valley's taken shortly after the convention was called to order on. the opening day of the session. lt gil'e~ a general Black and White day this year was unquestionably, according to res'idenh lc!ea of the seating arrangement for the delegates and shows the lal'lsh display of 1lags and bunting that decothe interior. hare, about the most successful dairy show ever held here, and one of the features which provided perhaps as much food for thought to the dairy fanner was an exhibition of nine dairy cow& owned in this immediate vicinity. These animals had made outstanding records in cow testing as'Sociation work. PLEASANT GROVE-Utah's strawberry crop now being harvested is expected to amount to 2,800,000 quartH, as compared with 2,544,000 a year ago, according to the estimate of Frank AndreWl!, agricultural statistician for the United States department of agriculture, released for publacation Tuesday. The n~port of Mr. Andrews shows that there are 1400 acres in bearing this year, an increase of 100 acres over 1927. PANGUITCH-A special butterfat test was run on every can of milk taken in at the local cheese factory early in the week. The test, taken as a cheek !or the regular empl<Jyees of John Adams junior high school in Los Angeles, Calif., forming the the factory, showed variations of 2.2 making it plain that they are in favor of a proposed $29,400,000 per cent to 6.3 per cent. The factory Is now receiving over 3500 pounds of milk daily, while the figure should MADE OPENING PRAYER more than double when Panguitch Lake and Hatch are !Jut on gathering routes. EPHRAIM-Recently eight cars of wool were shipped from Ephraim, to. taling 363,272 pounds. Five cars of wool were purchased by James Monsen !or a Philadelphia firm, while the other three cars went to Boston. They received 33 1-4 cents per pound and toe sale will bring about $117,463 to Ephraim sheepmen. Four cars of ewes and lambs were recently s·hipped to Arch Swapp of Wolcott, Colo., by Faben and Milten Larsen. OGDEN-Ogden's new airport is the scene of much activity daily, when men with tractors, graders and other equipment are at work putting the field into shape for accommodations of tlle airplanes, which will soon be in Present activities are evidence. under supervision of crews• from the city street department, under the direction of City Street Supervisor Harold R. Tripp and City engineer Harry ~- Errett. OGDEN-Sixty cars of Idaho fat lambs, 18,000 in number, from the di!tricts of Ketchum, Hailey and Hill left for eastern markets in a City, Bishop S.C. Partridge of the diocese special stock train recently. Twelve of West Missouri, who opened tho Releft with the shipment and were men publican national convention with given accommodations in a special prayer. coach attached to the train. The s·hi pScene in the cellar of police headquarters In New York when officials ment was one of the largest that has BEST AT ANNAPOLIS burned up morphine, heroin and other seized drugs valued at about a ever passed through Ogden. The million dollars. lambs were unloaded, fed and watered at the Union Stockyards in this city. SALT LAKE-"What is so rare as a day in June" may have properly been the lament of the city dweller during the past few days, but to those engaged in agricultural pursuits, the weather has been all to their liking. Utah ranges and crops have been !Jreatly benefited by the storm, according to J. Cecil Alter, meteorologist in charge of the local United States weather bureau. The rainfall for the storm as• measured at the Salt Lake station was .35 of an inch. CEDAR CITY-Crop conditions in Cedar and Parowan valleys are well above average for this time of the rear. Although cold weather persisted unusually late this spring, the sub!fllquent warm rains and excel!en t growing weather have compensated :for the retarded season. The alfalfa crop promises to reach a new record and the outlook for a good alfalfa seed cro-p Is evident. Range conditions are above average, according to reports. The fruit crop, however, with the exception This huge sea turtle, believed to be about 200 years old, was caught lhe of berrleM, was materially damaged by other day at Daytona Beach, Fla., by W. E. Blodgett. It weighs almost 000 Midshipman Charles R. Watts of late frost!!. pounds, Is four feet wide and six and one-half feet long. Zanesville, Ohio, who graduated with HEBER-Utah's winter wheat ero~ first honors from the United States Naval academy this year, is estimated by the bureau of agriculCarried Snake in Fur Birds Adopted by State• tural economics of the United States The mystery of a "live" fur that has The National Association of Audu· department of agriculture at 3,164,000 been carried !Jy a London rociety bon societies says the following states INTERESTING FACTS bu.shel& this year, as compared with woman has been solved. The fur, hal'e adollted birds: Kansas, Western which was new and of foreign manu- meado,vlark; Florida, mockingbird; Enriched by sale of timber it owned, 2,888,000 bushels last year. This infacture, seemed bewitched. When· Kentucky, cardinal; 1\Iaine, chickadee; Urbes, France, has built a publlc gym- crease of close to 10 per cent in the ever the owner laid it down It would District of Columbia, woodthrush; nasium, theater and bath. Utah crop is in the face of a decrease change Its position with almost Im- _Louisiana, brown pelican; Alabama, An ex-officer of the United States of about 9 per cent in the nation's perceptible slown~?ss, Finally she took flicker; Ulssouri, bluebird; Virginia, navy will have control of military and winter wheaf crop, the bure'!lu's figIt to the furriers, who, after some ob- robin ; Maryland, Baltimore oriole; naval aeronautics ln Peru. ares show. The nation crop estimate The charleston, .-ttll popular ln for 1928 is 512,252,000 bushels, whlle senatloo, were equally as puzzled. So Oregon, Western meadowlark; Wisconthey opened It and found-a E'mall sin, robin; Texas, mockingbird, and France, Is blamed th>,:re for an un- last year's figures were -'52,3S4,000 usual number of sprained knees. 1nake. Nebraska, Western meadowlark. buahel1. Colleges and universities in the United States represent an investFirst Through Canal Other Man's Shoes Optimistic Outlook ment ot more than $2,000,000,000. On August 15, 1014, the Panama caAmong ancient Norsemen, when a American Y. M. C. A. schools In Man's evolution, a scientisl tells us, lla! was opened to the world. The man adopted a son, the person adopt- France have as pupils 1,300 Russians. is a reuf·t!on to bls oeceffilties. This flr~t passage after the declared opened put on the shoes of the adopter. who fled from the Soviet regime. encourages us to bope that he will Ing was made by the steamship An· The phrase, "To stand In another The number of persons inJured by e,·eutually evolve into a box turtle con of the Panama railroad servke. man's shoes," means "to occupy the automobiles in New York state last that an automobile til"€ will go over The time of the passage was nine place or lay claim to the honors of an- year was 85,8u2, an Increase of 18,041. without lnjuring.-Bostoo Transcript. hours. otber."-Literary Digest. Indians of Central America used rubber for making little images nnd Fallacy Exploded From Sheep, Not C1.1t Only Live Volcano burned it as incense In their temples. Catgut, contrary to Its 'lame, does No one Is clmmi~ully poisoned by Rome celebrated its two thousand Lassen peak, Callfornia, which was 11ot come from cats but Is prepared In eruption In 1914, Is the only vol· six hundred eighty-second birthday by cet·tain kiJHis of foorls and no one bas from the intestines of sheep, according cano in the United Stutes proper that starting excavations ,at the site of the his cligeslinn ruined simply by eating aa annwered question in Liberty. certain kiurls of ronrl.-1 lr. Logan ctltl be considered active. ancient Circus Maxim us. t'lerir!enfng In "file lluman Budx," • In the pt·esence of Mayor William Hale Thompso~ of ~hicngo, Go_v. Len Small_ o~ Il~in?is, Gov. Sa~. Baker ot Uissouri and other dignitaries, the Champ Clark Mcmonal br1dge spannmg the JI.I!sslSSil)PJ n_,·er at LoUisiana, M~., ~·as formally dedicated. The new bridge closes a gap which links Washington, D. C., w1th Sacramento, Calif. '•• \ Protesting Farmers at Kansas City Are "Telling_ the World" Farmers wearing badges and carrying banners besieged the convention hall at Kansas City In an effort to influence the" delegates in behalf of farm relief and as a protest against the nomination of Hoover, Building Big Power Station in Irish Free State • in Drugs The Irish Free State Is now harnessing the famous Shannon river for the development of el!!ctrlcal power. The work, which was entrustt'd to the Siemens Hulske company of Berlin, is extensive and will entail a total outlay of about $26,000,000. The photograph shows part of the construction under way near O'Brien bridge. HERE FOR CHURCH MEET They Told the World Big Turtle Caught at Daytona Beach -!lev. J. J. Jones, fm· thirty years pastor of the Richmond llill church In England, arrived at Boston recently with 1,200 delegates to the convention of Congregationalists. Maj .•J. Andrew White and Graham Mc:\'amee, famous radio announcers who carried the story of the convention to millions of homes. HE KEEPS THE RECORDS Wind Wrecks ·Airplane8 '· • George L. Hart, official reporter of the ~~publican national convention. Eleven planes were destroyed at Bolling field, Washington, by a terrific wind storm, The loss Is estimated at $1,000,000. No one was Injured. Our Big Neighbor FROM HERE AND THERE The Dominion of Canada came Into exlJ:?tence in 1867. The original provInces covered 350,188 square miles of land and inland waters. Today the land and water area of Canada ls 3,· 607,123 square miles. Be Careful Don't dodge resp0nslhility. When a bee comes under the windshield stop the car yourself instead of trusting to a telephone pole.-Publisbers' Syndl· cate. One of Nero's fliends often spent $15,000 on a single meal. Teeth of a gorilla are ret so deeply In the jaw that they cannot be pulled. 1\lount McKinley rises higher above its base than any other mountain In the world. An island orr the coast of Yucatan contains some 20 kinds of birds- that are unknown in other parts of the world. It takes from fi\·e to se1·en yea1·s to grow peonies from the seed. The United States exported 21 per cent more automobiles last year than in 1926. The death rate from tuberculosis of the lungs has dropped almost 60 per cent s!nce 1911. The Paci fie ocean co1·ers more of the earth's ~ur(ace than all the con· tinents put togetllet·. |