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Show THEJORDANJOURNAL.MIDVALE,UTAH - State Insane Asylum of North Carolina Burned Wedding of Midgets Draws Great Crowd in Savannah •••••••••••••••••••••••••• NewsNotesi It'• a Privile,e to Live in : 'l'he North Carolina State Insane Asylum at Raleigh burned with a loss of appr~ximately $890,000. Two patients were burned to death but the others were saved by the heroic work of the nurses. The lllustratlon shows the ruined west wing. The central part also was destroyed. Utah fl .......................... Price.-Dr. C. L. Jones of the United States bureau of animal industry and Orson P. Madsen, county agricultural agent for Carbon and Emery counties, returned to Price from Em· ery, where they tested a shipment of thirty-eight purebred cows for tuber· culosis. The cows, all high-grade Jersey stock, were shipped in from Iowa. The tests were made recently and observations showed there wero no reactors among the herd. j Salt Lake City.-A sh eep and dairy calf club has been organized at Manti 1 for the boys and girls of that communi· ( ty interested in practical agricultural and· livestock studiel:l, reports C. 0. Stott, county agricultural age nt. Each I club member will commence the pro· Fully twenty thousand people attended the wedding in Savannah, Ga., of Matjus MaUna and Miss Marguerite ject with at least three bred ewes or I Nlckloy, two of the world's tiniest people. The little couple were married by Mayor Hull on the bantlstanll one dairy calf, and will keep a com· Savannah miss of plcte record of expenses and receipts. !fin Forsyth park. The best man was "Mike,'' twin brother of the groom, and little Miss Otto, a Each boy will be expected to show , ve years, was the bridesmaid. The pictures show th~ wedding and the newly-weds at home. ( 1 his best animal at the Sanpete county ' --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------fair this fall. 1 Gathering Mileage and Photos All Arotmd the World ! I Place From Which the Wilkins Polar Flight Starts Price.-A showing of g8s and oil in the well drilled ht>re by the Price Petroleum compr.ny which has been In evidence since the drill first struck the solid forma\JO";l.. is an indication of possibilities of the Price structure, according to John C. Crapo, geologist, who worked QUt the geology of thG structure in detail last summer. 1 I I , j I Myton.-The Uintah Telephone com· pany, J. R. Bullock, president, has be· ' gun a work of reconstruction, which : is progressing in a satisfactory man· ner. The company is strjnging a new copper toll line from Vernal, by the ,. way of Roosevelt and Myton, to Duchesne. It is following the old line 1 as nearly as possible. Salt Lake City.-Grazing lands in 1 acreage, 55,000, in Emerey county, will be offered for sale by the executive secretary of the state land board, the offer to be made at Castle Dale. The lands are appraised at $2.50 to This is the automobile in which Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Richards are making n trip around the world, photo$3 per acre. Salt Lake City.-The state road graphed in Washington, the- home of the tourists. Their journey began in Los Angeles June 1, 1919, and will end commission, accompanied by c. E. I there in 1931, when they wlll have covered more than 500,000 miles. Their mileage already exceeds 350,000. ! j .. 'I'nis photograph shows Point Barrow, Alaska, its general store and <·hurch, the most northerly church in the world, on the most northerly spot cf the United States. It is from here thnt Captain Wilkins, head of the Detroit Arctic polar fiight, Is assembling all his supplies as a base for the uerlal dash to the pole. OYSTERS HER FIELD Latest Vessel to Be Added to Navy Knowlton, maintenance engineer, left on a tour of inspection of the high- ~ ways in southwestern Utah. Zion national park and St. George will be visited. Moab.-J. H. Young, highway engin· eer for the bureau of public roads, and H. S. Kerr, chief assistant state road engineer passed through :Moab last Wednesday on their return from San Juan county, where they made an in· vestigation and definite location of the highway from i\Ionticello to the • < state line. Washington.-Part of the appropriation for the Salt Lake basin irriga· tion project carried in the interior department bill, on which a conference ' committee reached an agreement, can be spent on Utah lake control if the surveys of that unit show it to be wholly feasible, and the secretary ot the interior can come to a complete understanding with the land owners as to payment of the costs. Ogden.-The Ogden high school won the Ogden division debating championship by defeating Davis high school. The local school won from lloelder high school and will now meet a team from another division to qualify for the finals. Ogden.-Twe.nty-two head of choice Holstein cattle are en route to Utah from Fond du Lac, Wis., where they were purchased for Utah breeders by Gilbert Thatcher, secretary of the Utah Holstein Friesian Breeders' as, sociation. The purchases were made Above is pictured E. A. Brown, chief operator at Station 2CV, Richmond at the Clark classis, which is reputed 1 Hill, L. 1., at the apparatus which w111 pick up and relay calls and messages to be the greatest sale of purebred received from the navy Arctic expedition headed by Lieutenant Commander Byrd. This apparatus will also be able to repeat calls to the flyers cattle 1n the United States. in the Far North. Ogden.-Morrison & Knudsen, con· tractors of Boise, Idaho, were low bid· ders on three large road projects in northeastern Idaho when bide were opened at the district office of the United States bureau of public roads. The three bids aggregate $370,147.97, and recommendation was made by B. J. Finch,- district engineer, to the bureau's office in Washington, D. C., that the low bidder be uwarded the contracts. Manti. Mayor A. Judd and mem· bers of the city council have recently accepted plans submitted by Professor Emil Hansen, lnndscape garden· er, for the beautifying of the r.;anti city park. Spanish Fork.-With the awarding of more tl.<.n $ .~00 in wiz c m on ey and the settlem ~nt of all sales ac--ounts, one of the most su.:cesdul exl11bi· tions of livestock ever h eld 1" Lhis seclion came to a close. Desr ite the ha u· clicap stormy weather put upon the ef· forts or the management of the Second Annual Utah County Live s tock show and exhibitors, the show was pronounced a success. HEADS WALTONIANS To Keep in Touch With Byrd •,:. Miss Betsy Anne Herrold, age twenty, the only girl student enrolled 1n the college ot fisheries at the Unl· varsity of Washington, will certainly know her oysters when she graduates, for that Is exactly what she enrolled tor. She wants to know all about oysters as she declares she Is going Into business with her father who raises oysters In large quantities at nwaco, on Wlllapo bay, in southwest Washington. UTAH CONGRESSMAN • This photograph shows the U. S. S. Holland, which is the latest addition to Uncle Sam's batHe fieet. It Is a submarine tender and repair ship, and Instead of being built on the ways as usual, it was built in the navy yard dry-dock, Puget sound, Bremerton, Wash. It was christened on April 12 by Miss Betty Chase, daughter of Admlrai J. 0. Chase, commandant of the yard. She smashed a bottle of Puget sound water over the bow as the dry. dock was flooded. Many Injured by Explosion on Ship An especially posed portrait of Representative Elmer 0. Leatherwood, Republican, of Salt Lake City, Utah, who Is now serving his third term In congress. He was educated at Kansas State Normal school and the University of Wisconsin, and enNearly two score men were _injured by an explosion aboard the Standard gaged in pubUc school work and the Oil tanker 0. T. Waring at New Orleans. More than two hundred men were practice of law. He served as a disworking on the ship at the time. '£his photograph was made while flremen trict attorney in Utah eefore his elecwere trying to extinguish thP. fire that resulted from the explosion. Uon to coni]:ess. .. 14).,. .,............. - .. I I. Charles W. Folds of Chicago who was elected president ot the Izaak Walton League of America to succeed W111 H. Dllg, who had held the office for the four years of the organizations' existence. The election was the climax ot a hot fight ·against Dllg in the convention In Chicago. <r--.':l.t:-t" ~---- BUILDER OF ROADS Y oun.g Roosevelts Home Again Richfield. -The Richfield Commer· cial club held a largely attendeci inn· cheon at the clubrooms recently. The club determined to initiate aud foster a cleanup program to make: Richfield one of the cleanest and most sightly cities in the state. Myton.-The flour mill of Myton which is own~ll by the Li;;ht & Power eompany, and was managed this year by Lionel Babcock, has fini shP.d its 11eason's run. More than SOOO b11shcls of wheat was handled during tlt.ll y v\H As chief of the bureau of roads of the United States ment of Agriculture, Thomas H. Donald heads the federal enJr!n4~er:in force which, co-operating with state highway department, is uw"u''" 'l'he children of Theodore Roosevelt happily back home at Oy:;ter Boy, the federal-aid l.!!abway system at 4 year. 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