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Show • THEJORDANJOURNAL,MIDVALE,UTAH - •••••••••••••••••••••••••• I Official Photograph of "Nick and His Gang" f News Notes i Model of St. Augustine Shows the Additions 1 •% it's a Privilege to Live in : Under the direction ot Fred W. Leist, Australian artist, a group ot girls have been making a remarkable model ot St. Augustine, Fla., showing the old clty and the new additions that are being made by real estate men. The Matanzns river and the ocean are represented by ten tons ot real water on o.lwhlch boats ot all kinds move about realistically. Salt Lake City.-·Wayne Connty cit· izens are anxious to locate and con· struct a highway between Torrey and I<'ruita and a delegation appeared be· fore the state road commission to as· certain if any help cou](J be bad from the statn. It was informEd that the financEs of the commission were ruch that no help could be giyen for either betterment or construction. l... U tah ..........••••••e•..••.. Salt Lake City.. Nin •ty per cent of the asses~ment for 1n5, levied on the Plute project has been p:dd and the other 10 per cent is expected in a few days, according to John T. Old· royd, secretary of the state land b rd who has returned from a trip to that section of the state. The company has $6000 on hand and It declares that the payment to the ~tate duo this spring will be paid In full. TJl"e first officlul photograph of the speaker of the llou se with his ofllclnl famlly. They are called "Nick and His Gang." Lett to right are shown: Speaker Nickolas Longworth, Miss Mlldred E. Reeves, secretary; Luelle McArthur, assistant secretary; Wlll1am T. Roy, clerk to the speaker; Nehr Fess, clerk at the speaker's desk; Robert B. Parkham, clerk at the speaker's desk, and Lewis Deshler, clerk. ... i Salt Lake.-The question of sugar beet prices for the crop of 1926 will be taken up by the board of directors of the Utah Sus;ar Beet Co·operaatlve at a meeting to be held In the offices of the Utah State Farm Bureau j F'ebruary 15, it was announced . Here Congressmen Keep in Touch With Their Districts 1\fyton.-Sumison and Clyde :Jf who have the contract for 'j the construction of tho unit of the federal aid road from Myton to Ante· 1 lope, have a force of ten men and ten teams at work grading the highway through the swampy area. The ground is easier to handle in cold weather_ I Springville, !: ' Sight in Boston That Would Have Pleased Gen. Gage I 0 l ! i Salt Lake City.-The Utah Exten· sion s.~rvice of the Utah Agricultural college will conduct Farmers' Institute during January, February and March, In Davis, Piute, Garfield, Mil· I lard, Washington, Wasatch, Morgan, ' \Iieber and Emery counties, accprd· "" ' !ng to Assistant Director \V. W. Owens, who has practically complt~ted the schEJdule of meetings and the assignment of speakers_ In planning these institutes, he says, counties regular agricultural agents have been included, as well as ,~ounties with I agents. In the lobby of the house of representatives In '\'ashington are racks containing the latest copies of 300 newspapers from all parts of the country, which keep the members of congress Informed as to how things .are going In their home districts. NEW WAR TERROR GIVEN NEW OFFICE •• I :.:: I 1!11 •· .. II '.· I. I l\llss Elsa Granger, !'tar of the "l'el' per Box Hevue,'' was probably disfig ured for life at San Francisco when MrR_ ~!abel ~layer lured her into the ladles' rest r0om of a hotel and threw Carl Akeley, naturalist and sculptor, with one of the three bronze group;; a vial of acid in her face. ~Irs_ :!\layer he has just completed for the new Afl"ican Hall ot the American l\Iu'leum vf ls the wife ot Lee Mayer, head of a Natural History, Kew York city. The three groups typify a native lion hunt, motion picture production company of the first (shown above) being three natives advancing on the animal, on~ Los Angeles. Miss Granger has been just launching a spear. ?tit-. Akeley and his wife have just left for another employed by Mr. Mayer and the act trip In Africa. was caused by unwarranted jealousy, according to Miss Granger. TJ1e lllustratlon shows the two women, Miss Granger below. Girl Rulers of Paris During 1926 SHE'S JOURNAL CLERK racific. Two Fitzgeralds Who Represent Ohio . The name of Fitzgerald is popular In Ohio, judging from the roll the Sixty-ninth congress, which contains two members with this Irish They are Roy G. Fitzgerald (lett) Republlcan, trom Dayton, and lam Fitzgerald, R.epubllcan, from Greenville, who was a practicing before his election to congress. '· Salt Lake City.-Nevada will cooperate with Utah in enforcement of the gasoline sales tax pro1·isions of each state, it is au!.ounced by Charles Heiner of the office of H. E. Crockett, Secretary of stall-!. Mr. Heiner hao just returneu from a trip to Carson City and Kevada points. He has charge of the gasoline tax collections for Utah unuer Secretary Crockett. Salt Lake City.-,\'ork of restoring tTtah's world-famous resort on Great Salt Lake started when the new owners, Ashby Snow, David P. Howells and Willard T _ Cannon, visited their recently acquh ed property to personJ ally supervise initial steps in the re· habilitation ol Saltair. Accompanied uy Stringham A. Stevens, general manager, the local financiers who have undertall en replacement of the historic pavilion destroyed by fire last April were on the job early. Their announced intention to immediately commence construction and rush the program to an opening on May 29. 1 Washington.-The interstate com· '1 merce commission declined to sane· tlon Increase in the rail rates on ore and concentrates from points in California and Nevada to Utah smelters, and, at the same time, refused to sanelion Increases in westbound rates to California smelters, the rates involved being proposed by the Southern Pacific and ;veste.·n Pacific, and applying mainly to ore originating on the l\lina-Keeler branch of the Southern Carl Akeley's Latest Bronze Group WIFE THRows ACID Salt Lake City.-She1,p ranges in western Utah have been further im· proved by additional snow during the past week and moisture is now ample for ranges and grain fields, says the · weekly weather report of J. Cecil Alter, in charge or the local office of the weather bureau. 1 •L es t er I , . B ar1ow, th e "Bo nb n7lz ,. · ard" of the World war, shown above with two of his inventions, has just invented a "flying torpedo," with horrlble possibilities almo~>t beyond descrlptlou. lie has told Its powers to Ancient Egyptians, who worshiped the Nile river as a god, used to throw leaders In congress. It has- a capacity It a sacrifice of a beautiful young girl, richly dressed. The custom Is still for two tons of high explosives and a - kept, except that a clay statue is thrown In from a great boat called the range of 1,000 mlles. ••Akaba." The photograph shows the "Akaba" In midstream during the ceremony. General Gage, who admitted the right of young Bostonians to coast on the common 150 years ago, would have applauded the delight of these present-day boys and girls as they enjoyed themselves after the recent big snow. Provo.-Accordlng to. a re},ort before the building committee of the new city and county buildin!!;, marble was shipped January 23. This will be used for the in terlor and unless there are unforseen delays, work on this part of the building Fllould begin about February 5th. I , Wedding of Nile Still Performed ·' .} ~- This Is Frederick I. I<Jvans who has been appointed head of the new bureuu ot Internal revenue division known as the aclminlstratlve division. It is a consolidation of the approprla· tlons and allotments ~ectlon, the com· munlcatl1'e division and the division of supplles and equipment. :ltr. Evans has been connected with the Treasury department since 1009. Salt Lake City.-The week end supplied an additional three inches of snow at Brighton watershed, makin!!" the total depth 31 inches, according , to a report made to H. K. Burton, city I superintenrlent of waterworks. The I water content was .13 inch. Last January 25, there was a depth of 50 inches on the grounu. Suit Lake Civt.-J. J,_ Amos, asssit· ant traffic mar;ager of the Union Pa cific system, announced the running of a special demonstration train, over the following itinerary in Utah, in co-operation with the Utah Agricul· tural College and the State depart ment of agriculture. Salt Lake City. The Salt Lake post office received six new trucks built specially for post office use under specifications furnished by the depart· ment. Each truck has a capacity of 130 cubic feet, according to Postmast· 1 I Miss 1\Iary Simpson of· Craftsbury, er Ralph Guthrie, which provides a vt., who has been appointed by Sen· larger hauling space than anything of ator Porter II. Dale of that state to this type now in use_ The t~ucks wm be journal clerk in the United States be used for. parcel vo.st dell·!ery a~~ capitol at washington. Miss Simpson, plck·up service, and wrll greatly facrll who ts a member ot the state leglslatate the dispatch of this ~ype of mail 1 ture of vermont, is the first woman to the postmaster said. With the add! hold this Important position In the Uon of the new machine11 r&ceived na tl on ,s cap ltol _ . I Here are the ,;ix girls who were chosen the queens of beauty for Paris to reign during 1926. Le'ft to right, standing: :\Ill e. Llliane Clay, "Premier Cltoyenne"; Mlle. raulett4i) Pelou, ".\laid of Honor tor Thirteenth Arronuissement''; Mlle. Odette Topln, "l.\Iuld ot Honor for the ~l!u:;e." Sitting: :\Ill e. Allee Septfons, "Marianne de Paris"; Mlle. Madeleine Delmaye, "Queen ot the Thirteenth Arrondissement," and Mlle. Madeline Pelou, "Muse De La Jeunesse Republlcalne.'' _. • |