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Show THE MIDVALE JOURNAL Vassar Sophmores With Their Daisy Chain •••••••••••••••••••••••••• Traders Who Seldom See Civilization News Notes I It'• a Priuil•ge to Liue in Utah ~ o••••••••••••••••••••••••• BRIGHAM CITY-Utah potatoes are grown principally in the counties of Salt Lake, Weber, Utah, Cache, Boxelder, Davis and Sanpete. PROVO-High quality,' exceptional ftavor, color and size of fruits and vegetables have made Utah agricultural products famous throughout the United States. VERNAL-Fishermen angling in the Uintah mountain streams report only fair success, due to somewhat muddy condition or the water. Recent rains in the mountains have caused no abrupt raise in the creeks, but the pre· clpltation did cause a rolled condition. AIRPORT-Several Salt Lake planes w!ll co to Ogden June 30 to be used there In the celebration marking the dedication of the Junction City's new municipal airport. The Ogden com· mlttee Is puttlnc on an aerial program and Salt Lakers will compete for prizes. LOGAN-Forty farmers from Rich county conducted a dairy tour of the ~!1·. and ~Ir~ ..J. \\". Au~tlp and t11e crPw of tlwir ship St. Andre phetogrnphed at S~·dney, Australia, where city and Cache county recently, accord· 1 they wE're spPnrlin;:: a holida)". The Austins nre traders in the south Pacific and this was their first sight ot lng to Robert L. Wrigley, county agrl· civillzntlon In seyerul years. cultural agent, who accompanied the party. The purpose of the excursion, Agent Wrigley stated, was to gain ad· ditional Information on cow testing, breeding and also sweet clover pasture. HEBER-Wasatch county was vls· !ted by a ktlling frost recently, the mercury dropping to 26 degrees. Potatoes, corn and flowers were de· stroyed, even where the gardens had been covered with heavy guilts. It was cold enough to freeze ice a quarter of an inch thick. Damage to peas and grain was slight, only the peas that were in bloom and the the grain which was in head being damaged. GUNNISON-Fifty-two full grown pheasants have been received and l!h· erated in this section by Sidney Baxter anti Ernest Baxter, members of the local fish and game commissio.'ll. The birds were shipped from the state game farm at Springville. The birds were liberated about two miles east of here. The Gunnison commission is also expecting a shiJ)ment of trout from the game farm with which to stock the streams near here. Ogden-B. J. Finch, district engln· eer for the United States bureau of public roads, anounced that bids would be opened, June 28, in his ol!ice in this \"lew of the r.e1·emoulps at Princetown, En gland, dming thp umeillng of the memorial gateway and tablet city, on three contrMts for gravel sur· to the nwmory of the ~18 Amrricau prlsmwrs o• :-.•ar who !lied at l'l~·mouth prbon during the ~-cars 1~13 and 1815. racing, as follows: Seven-mile stretch The ceremouies we1·e led hy ~frs. :::iamuel \\". r:arle, honornrr Yke vresitlent of the Xational Society of the west of Fruitland on the Victory high- L'nited States Daughters of 1Se. "1\·ay; nine miles from North Fork to Gibsonville on the Salmon, Idaho, to Montana line road, and two and four· WINS STORY PRIZE tenths miles on the Alpine scenic road t1l Utah county. OGDEN - Seventy· five pairs of pheasants, furnish~d by D. H. Madsen, commissioner of the state fish and game department, have been planted west of Ogden by otficers of the Weber County Fish and Game Protective as· sociation. Sixty-five pheasants eggs under incubation at the farm of H. H. Hodge, east of Ogden, will be hatched this week. The birds wlil be turned on the wilds when hatched, which gives promise of an open pheasants season for Ogden hunters. HEBER-The Heber tourist camp, owned by the county and improved "':! . f.{ i'- ... during the past few years by the joint efforts of the Wasatch chamber of comerce, Heber City, Wasatch coun· ty and the Wasatch stake of the L. D. S. church, will receive additional lm· provements soon. A fund has been A C('lorado hi~h-sr·hool girl, ~!iss accumulated by charging campers, and Agnes Childress of Kan·al, who at· this fund Is to be spent for the paint , tends scl!ool at Orclwn,·, · or th e presen t s t rue t ures an d th e 1 ", ,has heen mg installation of shower baths and other selectell from ~nwn::: lu,OOO ro~t~s· ' tants as the Wilme1· of the natwnal . ~on vemenccs. · 1f 111 v.,a t"1ona1 · c1~amp 1ons 11i Jl 1n 111e I'" SALT LAKE-The low temperature ~feat Story contest, it was nnnoun,·ell and light frost which touched Salt bv the Xational Live Stock unll ~!Pat Lake and other portions of the inter· b~ard. 'Jhis honor carril's with if a mountain district Sunday night of last university ~chohu-ship anti n r.nsh week did not result in any damage to prize of :q.:;o. The conte>t is contluct· ~rops, acording to the United States ell nnnually nmon;.( hi.~l1-school stuweather bureau and Harden Bennion, dents of home econ,.mics th I"OU;:hout. !late agricultural commissioner. The the country lly tile nn tinnsl l>oanl. TJ.e walls eru~hed. llum(·S n•an•d md swul<e ~trcarned to the heavens temperature in the Salt Lake valley whu1 two condemned huildings in Litt'e B street ::\. \\"., Washington, were dropped as low as 40 degrees. Records sN nhlnze l.y experts of the tmrf'au of standards. ThP~e expet·ts were testing CHAIRMAN :~r the weather bureau show that this 1lie lin• re,lstiYe qualities of numerous safe~. preYiously deposited In tht irop in the temperature was not par· dot:med sti·uctmes. ticularly unusual for Salt Lake, inas· much as nearly every June on record has shown a &cld spell on or about the middle of the month, the mercury droPping In some cases as low as 32 de· g-rees. HEBER-Utah's winter wheat crop it estimated by the bureau of agricultural economics of the United States department of agriculture at 3,164,000 bushels this year; as compared with 2,888,000 bushels last year. This increase of close to 10 per cent in the Utah crop is in the face of a decrease of about 9 per cent in the nation's winter wheat crop, the bureau's fig. ures show. The nation crop estimate for 1928 is 512,252,000 bushels, while las·t year's figures were 552,384,000 bushels. l Twenty-four of the prettiest members of the svphomore class of Vassar college at Poughkeepsie, X. Y., are shown tar1rvil:11!' the traditional daisy chain, the main feature of their class day pageant. . Hoover's Home Town Celebrates His Nomination celebration which took place in West Branch, Iowa, the native town of Herbert Hoover, secre· of commerce, In honor of his nomination for the Presidency by the RepuWicun parly. Chilean Training Ship Visits U. S. JUROR SALLY M' ADOO • • • Memorial to American Prisoners Is Unveiled • Uncle Sam Becomes a Firebug ;,to A view of the Chilean tmining ship S. S. General Baqucdano, as it anchored In the Delaware river at Philadelphia, during the inspec· the midshipmen aboard by Carlos Davila, Chilean ambas~udor to M~1UDited States. Senator Curtis' ~orne in Washington Mi~s Sally llcAdoo, daughter of former Secretary of the TrPasu1·y William Gibbs Mc.\doo, snapped us she left the District Supreme court In Washington where she was sen·tng as a juror in the criminal division. MARINE IS DECORATED Hoover's Church in the Capital Washington home of Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas, who was by the Uepublicans at Kansas City as the running mate of Hoover, Presidential nominee. ~11aiE!d OF INTEREST TO EVERYBODY ;on,~ensed milk is a popular confec· In Asiatic countries. second highest tide In the worhl Turnagain bay, In Alaska. per capita wealth of the t.:nited Is $2,800, as compared with 57 Is estimated thot In the lust few at least 7,000,000 d11cks have In this country for want ef rotu1es. An oy tcr pmtluci>S about lG,OOO,OOO tiny eggs. Bea,·crs once Inhabited the greater pa1·t of North America. Th!'re are probably more than 1,000,· 000 child lai.Jorers in the lntlustrles of China. The amanita Is a beautiful mush· room, but tts polson is so deadly that It has been clllled the destroying angel. Lieut. C. Frank Schildt of the marines, wetnin_g the congressional medal of honor with which he was decorated by P1·esident Coolid;:e for heroism In a battle between tile marines and tbe Nicaraguan rebels. Figure in Satire The Yahoos are llctlllous cborac. ters in Swift's "Gulliver's Truvels.' They ore slaves of the Houybnhnms, or horsefolk, nnd possess the form of both man and horse. They ore a sat ire oo the human rare. Bat'a lmmenae Winga Bats baTe sncb large wings In pro portion to their bodle$ that man, tc equal them. would have ro de~elop I~ foot-long fingers with webbing be tween.-l'opular Scienre &louthly ZION NATIONAL PARK-For the Beason to date, a total of 10,089 persons, representing thirty·one states, District or Columbifl, Hawaii. three provinces of Canada, Sweden, and Bouth Africa, have passed through the gates or Zion National park, It was &nnounced by E. T. Scoyen, park su· perlntendent. here. This figure is prac;ically double last year's total for the 1ame period of 5399 Pri\'ate motor .ravel, as usual, makes up the greater p.1.rt or the total with 9499 persons In 1840 aut011. The remainder, or 690, lame by stage rrom the end of the ra!11 \t Cedar City. AROUND THE CITY Forgi"l·e your enemies and they won't be so upt to get back at you. It's all right to scatter seeds o! kinduoess, but don"t throw them to th• hlrd~. It"s the easiest thing In the worirl to In ugh at troui.Jie If It comes to otber people. A man's logic Is wastf'd oo a wo1n an. She can always wash It away wttlo a ftood of tears. Dr. Hubert C. Work, secretary of thP interior, whn was !'l ect!'d cllairman of the flepuhliran national committee. . Takes Long Time to Cure Imported Swi.-s cheese is nHHle frnu1 pe1iectly fresh sweet milt;; tlmt i~. without rirwnin;:. The curin~ coYer' two stages, and is carried on In !Wl• cellars to secure the proper condition. Fine Swiss chec ·e takes about 8 or lU months to fure. Ctain Hard to Remove Smoke can sometimes tJe remo\ en trom brkks with dilute muriatic acid or with gasoline, but as n rule the soot has penl'trnted Into t11e pores of the brick so that It cannot be re moved. Malay Pirate Veasel.s 'l'he armed sailing ve ·s~''l used h~ the Maluy pirates, really large row· boats, carryl•1g two masts with hlgb triangular soils nod urme1l with a few small swivel guns, are called galllrt!tS The quaint, h·y-mantled Friends wectin~ house, nestling nmon::; the tr<•es, ,, hf't·e Recr!'tary of Commerce llerhert Hoover and liis family worshi11 while 111 Washington. It has a Fcating- capacity of nhout ~:iO nnd Is located within :t few squares of the White House. CONDENSED IN A FEW UNES Italy now has 1G<l,3~0 automobilesone for e,·cry ~;:;o pPrsons. Baboon~ live in large grOUJl~, as 11rutection ugainst thelr numerous enemies. The t.:uitcll States has G,188 cities und towns with a population of more than 1,000. 'fhe African warthog always backs into its burrow, cautiou,;iy kel'ping its eyes on possible enemies. Japan supplies 80 per cent of the silk mills ncar ::\ew rork. Automobiles ldl!ed 4,719 persons In Gn'at Brituln in 10~7-ao increase of 373 O\-cr 11l:!G. Pyrethrum flowl•rs, on Important In· geedicnt In lnsccticidf's, are obtained chiefly from Japno. •·ew Zealand nnd Great Bri(nln re· s~mhle one :mother in climate, ve~;e tation and topogravhy. .. |
