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Show THEJORDANJOURNAL.MIDVALE.UTAH ••••••••••••••••••••••••••: Cologne Girls Greeting President Von Hindenburg ~~!!~~?L~~~ I Utah i .......................... Homes Wrecked by Explosion 1 Salt Lake Clty.-Egg production for March in the Second Utah Intermountain Contest was cQnsiderably better than for February. The hens averaged 19.1 eggs each, or 63.6 per cent. This brings the average for the five I months to 74.7 eggs each, or a produ" j tion to date of 49.6 per cent, as cow pared with 58.6 per cent for the same period last year. Washington.-The condition of winter wheat on April 1 was 84.1 per cent of normal, increase of 1.4 points from December 1, last, the department of agriculture announced. Payson.-At a meeting held last Wednesday by the chamber of commerce, the problem of procuring more sugar beet acreage was discussed by _German girls cheering the arrival of President Von H lndenburg at Cologne for the festivities marking the de- Lee R. Taylor, John Lewis, Rastus Uverllllce of the Rhineland from allled mll!tary control. The flapper type and the bobbed halr fashion have not Robin<>on and Albert Powell. yet !m·aded the ranks of Germany's girls. Richfield.-Much interest is being taken by tlhe schools throughout SeYler county in the final scoring being made by the contest jtfd.ge, James H. • Wallis, executive secretary of the Utah Public Health association. ·' A moYlng picture show at Braddock, Pa., probably saved more than a score of people from death as their homes were wrecked by an explosion while they attended the theater. The plctuN shows the wreckage ot the homes. Passion Play A;;ted by Ulinois Masons ,~ }, ... ·::· ;.. :· ;.; ... " :0:: ., + I... 1 Spanish Fork.-With the awarding of more than $500 in prize money and the settlement of all sales accounts, one of the most successful exhibl· tiona of livestock ever held in this sec· tion came to a close. Despite the handicap stormy weather put upon the efforts or the mauagement of tho Second Annual Utah County Livestock show ami exhibitors, the show was pro· nounced a success. Pl·ice.~A meeting of farmers and business men called by Clayton Negus executive secretary of the Eastern Utah Credit association for the pur· 1 pose of effecting a cooperative association between the farmers and business 1 men of this part of the state was held Friday at the courthouse at Price. A hrge group of men from Carbon, Emery and Duchesne counties attend od the meeting. 1 New Airplane View of Muscle Shoals Plant A recent photograph made by tJnit· ed States Army air service of the 'Vilson dam and power house at Muscle Shoals, Alabama, where some day either a government or prlYately owned nitrate or hydro-electric pmject w111 be in operation. I i-'rotti><h Rite Masons of Bloomington, Ill., have followed the lend of the people of Oberammergau and produced the Passion Play in a way that has elicited warm praise. The photograph shows the crucifixion scene. Gunnison.-Sufficient acreage ol I beets has been contracted by th( farmers of Gunnison and Sevier val· leys to permit the running of the sugar plant this fall. Price.-1\1. Housecroft, state bridge engineer, and L. M. Huggins, bridge engineer for the bureau of federal roads, are in Price making their ex· amination of the progress on the new steel and concrete bridge over Grassy Trail creek, sixteen miles southeast of this city. Before leaving this sec· tion of the state they plan to e:~:am· ine all bridges from here to Moab and go over the entire line. Salt Lake City.-Work on the first stage construction of approximately twelve miles of the federal aid road j between Salina and Richfield, in Se· vier county, will begin in the near fu· • ture, It was annouuced following a ' conference between the state road commission, Ira. R. Browning, chief engineer for the commission; B. J. Finch of the federal bureau of public roads and Joseph F. Peterson, Carl Tuft and Abe Hansen, Sevier county commissioners. ·::~ ·: RULER IS IN SCHOOL · Elopers Had Only Half a Dollar Myton.-During the past week work· men in the employ of the :Maud Ellen , Oil company of i\eal Dome, five miles north of Vernal completed the derrick. They expect to spud it in this week. Another der!ck ll"ill be constructed at I Dog valley seven miles fl'Om Vernal. I Miss Minna Lee Jones, of the class · of 1D27, who has just been elected president of the Students' Self government of Bryn Mawr college, the high est office in the gift of the students. Ogden.- The Utah Construction company was awarded the contract for grading the Kenilworth branch of the Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad between Kenilworth and Help· er. The distance of the route is about eight miles. This information was re· 1 ceived at the company's general offi· ces here from W. H. Wattis, pn;si·l dent of the company, who is at the railroad company's head office in Den· ver and attended the opening of bids. IMPEACHED JUDGE .Tames E. Fraser of New York, sculptor of the memorial to John Ericsson, Sw{'dl:-;h Inventor of the Civil war Ironclad Monitor, Is in \Vashington to complete thP monument which is being erected near the Lincoln memorial. !'resident Coolidge and the crown prince of Sweden, Gustaf Adolph, and Ills wife are expected to attend the dedication which is set for May 28. Mr. Fraser !s seen above at the monument. Salt Lake City.-County commis· sioners of Sevier county -met recently with the state road commission and discussed the question of constructing that strip of road from Salina to Richfield, a distance of 17.5 miles. In 1~2S it was agreed that the strip under dis· cussion should be build by federal aid j the road to be a two-stage gravel sur faced highway. Later the county ex: pressed a desire to have a concretf surface and the matter has been un der discussion. The county commis· sioners were informed that the state road commission was ready to stand, by the agreement of 192:1, and an.'j other conference between the county and slate road officials is scheduled I Invention Safeguards Navigation ! I<'ecieral Judge George W. English of the eastern Illinois district who has been Impeached by the house of representatives and will be tried by the senate. Samuel E. W. Haines of Oakland, Cal., has just completed a projecto"'graph by which be hopes to make safer the navigation of sea and alr at Slight during fogs. The machine is said to combine the most powerful light known to sdence and the most efficient projector of Ita kind made. The new device projeds vowerful rays which penetrate the fojf Uke gigantic needles. '• I BRYN MAWR CHIEF Ericsson Statue Dedicated Soon •,• Bao Dal, who recently succeeded his father as the emperor of Annum and who Is now twelve years old, has returned to Paris where he Is studyIng in a French high school. SUMIE YAMAMOTO Mrs. Rose Maglio and Stephen Turturici of Boston, who eloped the other day, although they had only 50 cents between them. They were caught at Stamford, Conn., and taken home. To Control Beer and Wine • Salt Lake City.-Horses for the I spring meeting of the Utrth Breeders and Racin~ associ:.tlon, ·May S to 31, 1 will begin to arirve at Lagoon this r week, according to telegrams and other dlsp:.J.tches received by William M. Murray, racing manage1·. Myton.-GE:orge Elliott, Indian farm· ei' for the Myton district, is trying to interest the Indians under his juris~ · · tl iction in the rai5ing of fruit. He re Ct;ntly received a shipment of various Sumie Yamamoto o:f Linfield college, kinds of fruit trees to be set out on located at 1\lcMlnnville, Ore., succeeds He'• Not Clever five Indian farms. Ruth Ross as president of the Older 1 "What have you been doing, Ed. . I Girls' Conference of Oregon. The state wardT' I S~lt Lake Clty.-Proclamatwns d~; older girls' conference has elected I "A clever wife never asks what her I c:larmg April 1_5 Arhor day and Aprl. her as one of the four delegates who husband has been doing." 1 IS to 24 Amencan Forest week were 1 will attend the national summer con"But a clever man may ask 1f his , Thomas W. Stone, head of the " brewery control squad," and II. K. 'Veeks, issued by Guver~or C:eorge H. Dern 1 terence at Geneva Glen, Colo. She has wife--" 1 head of the "wine control squad," who have been appointed by General ~ The latter was lssuen al conformitJ been a resident of the United States ''Ob, my dear, a clever man never draws to tighten up the spigots on wine and beer. the international policy of pre for fourteen years. has a wife." I with • serving and protecting the forests. I I I I I ! |