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Show THE JORDAN JOURNAL, MIDVALE, UTAH .. --·---. Smtshine City Badly Damaged by Hurricane .......................... ----- Monster Ray and Shark Hooked From Same Boat I News Notes ii ~ It's a Privilege to Live in Utah t I !1 .......................... ! Riverton-Sixteen thous,and feeder lambs will be fattened in this vicinity up until January 1, and Jordan valley, I from Midvale northward, will furnish 1 feed !or a total of approximately 30,000 lambs, according to information 1 Sunday from H. R. Hurren, cashier of I the Jordan Valley bank at Riverton. I Provo-Utah figures prominently in the canning industry of the United States, according to a bulletin just is· sued by the National C:mners' associa·J tion, portraying the prodiguous scope , of the industry. The total value of the II 1 output of commercially canned foods 1 in the United States, in 1923, was ' $574,465,398, not including the 6,895,747 cases of pineapple packedin Ha· waii. The tota.l in 1923 was made up , of, vegetables, $187,579,965; fruits, Slx men battled for three and one-halt hours off the coast ot Daytona Beach, l<'lu., recently with a 2,400-pound , $80,223,510; fish and oysters, $72,758,908; soups, $27,134,649; meats, $42,· ray straining .. t one line and a 2,000-pound hammer-head shark on another. Finally the monsters were kllled, and 481,866, and milk, 164,702,226. they are shown above with their conquerors. 1 Salt Lake-Forecasts on carlot ship1 menta of potatoes from Utah and Ida· ho are made by the Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad. This road forecasts 1000 carloads from Utah, compared with 1109 carloads moving in 1925 and 72'/ moved in the year pre· vious. VernaJ-Seedp;rowers of the Uintah basin are planning to institute an an· nual seed show in tribute to the big Although the hurricane caused no lo~s of life in ~l. Petersburg, the property damage in that beautiful city alfalfa seed indus try in the basin. The was very large. The~e pictures, sE:nt over the A. T. & T. wires, give an Indication of the devastation In the show this season will be held in Ver· I "Sunshine City." nal In January. 1 Blufflhle-A frost heavier than has occurred in September in this vicinity for many years, visited this commun· ity. Monday morning the ground was white with crystalized moisture, while at watering troughs a film nearly a quarter of an Inch thiclr covered the water. 'l'he frost marked the termina· tion of the tomato crop, and froze PO· tato plants and the tops of alfalfa. It Is not believed that the alfalfa crop ·was seriously damaged. The frost, Commander John Rodgers, who was I howe\ el, terminates the growing sea· killed when his plane crashed in the Delaware river, was buried with full son for potatoes. mllltary honors at Arllngton National Myton-W. J. Stewart of Myton is cemetery. one of the heavy honey producers in 1 ~-------------------------------.:.,__ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ this part of the Uintah basin. He is HAS WON 69 BADGES just finishing up the season's work, and is well satisfied with the results. For the season of 1926 he will have 700 cans of strained honey and 11000 oases of honey In the comb. All the people who are engaged this year In raising I honey report a good crop. Midvale- Approximately $15o.ooo will be expended In improving the highway entrance into Parley's can· von and widening the cement road from Murray to Midvale, the pavement between these two points being only eighteen feet wide, providing the state J road commission and members of the I county board of commissioners deciue This Is the first anti exrlusiw pltotog1·avh to c·ome irolll the Azores since the earthquake that did such great that way. 1 ctamage in those islands. It shows some wrecked buildings in lfayal. Bingham - Damage estimate~ at $1100 was done to a home owned by A. L. Heaston, corner of Main street and Mark.ham gulch, by fire of unde· NOVEL FLAG DEVICE termined origin, which broke out Thursday morning. Most of the dam· age was done to furnishings of the home and was caused by water. Salt Lake-Widening of Highlanrl drive, between Twenty-first and Twen· ty-second South streets was completed recently. The Sugarhouse business district, along Highland drive, now has better traffic facilities. The work com· pleted finishes the widening program for this season, but there are possi· bilities that it will be continued south· 1 ward next year. Space for the widen· I ing 'of the street has been allowed for Col. Osborne S. Oltlrord, owner of the famous Lincoln collection of in front of new buildiz:gs erecte~ dur· ln 'Vashlngton, 't'ecelvlng from Capt. Harris Jones, assistant director of ing the last year on Highland dnve. lie buildings and grounds, a check for $50,000 in payment tor the East Crescent-Further damage to relics, the buying ot which was authorized by congress at the last the Draper watershed occurred Wed· Colonel Oldroyd has devoted the last sixty years of his life and most ot nesday morning when a brush fire, money he has been able to earn toward building the collE'rtlon, which which has been burning in a desultory housed In the old mansion at Washington where the martyred manner since the original blaze ceased Ira Wall of Des Moines, Iowa, is con· died. to be a menace, flared into life and sldered America's most versatile boy He holds 69 of the merit swept through a heavy batch of brush. scout. badges presented by the boy scout An immense volume of smoke arose organization for proficiency in varl· and for a time it appeared that flames George hl. Griffith of Washington, \ 1 ous accomplishments, and has only 1 had entered thick growths of pine blind veteran of the Spanish-American I those tor interpreting and bugllng to growing on the mountainside. The war, has Invented a revolving disk win to haYe every one on the llst. !~ ttandard which will keep the Rene Fonck's New York-Paris fiight plane wE:nt up in smoke when it flames quickly subsided, however, and er can fiag always floating In the attempted to take off tor the long ocean hop. Fonck and Curtin were unln · the damage was comparatively small. Wall, who became a boy scout In breeze and not entangled around the jU'I'4;d, but Clavier and Ismaloff, the two other members ot the crew, werEo It is estimated that hundreds of acres 1917, was given the highest honor supporting pole. In this photograph k1lled. of watershed has bt>en destroyed by ot scouting, that of Eagle Scout, in Ir. Griffith Is shown demonstrating the fire since it first began about ten 1922, when he completed the requirehis invention. -------------------------------ments by winning his twenty-first days ago. merit badge. His ambition is to be· Brigham City - Boxelder county come a scoutmaster. ~ opened its annual fair at Tremonto~ MARKO NINCHITCH I with a fine showing of agricultural and JUDGE CHATI horticultural products, livestock, poul· try, dairy products and other displays. The fair will continue three uays, : closing Saturday night. Price-The entire town of Scofield, a mining eamp of !)00 inhabitants, about twenty-five miles we'>t of Price, ,. came near bPing wiped out early Man· day morning when fire of uudetennin· ed ongin swept a part of tho business section and was brought under con· trol only after the entire populr.tion had turned out to fight it. Fnneral of Commander John Rodgers at Arlington Scene in the Azores After the Earthquake - Lincoln Relics Acquired by Nation I I Two Die When Fonck Plane Burns I• I ,.. I 1 I I I Chief of Finland and Daughter I I I American Boats Fired on by Chinese I Price-The big Horsley dam in Pleasant valley, near Scofield, was formally accepted at a meeting of the "thrE'e directors of the Price River 'Vater Conservation district, promo· tors. Price-Improved road projects in 1 of construction, aggregate more than $650,000, according to Ira R. Brown· ing, chief engineer, of the state road commission, who gave an outline of Recent portrait ot Dr. Marko ~In-~ TheRe two .-l.tlH'rirru w:mships, t·tntlonL•cl on the Yangtse river, were fired highway improvement in eastern Uta.h ~hitch of Yugo-Slavia, president o:! on by nut! YO • o!tl!PI':; ut llanJuug, anu retur•1cd the fire. Above ls the Paloa ln answer to an inquiry from the Pric4t 1 chamber of commerce, t.b.e IA'aJ'Ue o! Natlona assembly. and below tht' Isabel. County Judge Orville Chatt of Teka· mah, Neb., who has come into national prominence by imposing bread and water sentences on NebrllSka bootleg- len. Above are pictured Dr. Laurl Kristlan Helander, the Pre~itlent Finland, with his daughter, Miss Maja Lisa Relander, at their summer on the island ot Kultaruntu, which means the ''Golden Coast." Three ot every year the Finnish President resides at this summer palace, aurrounded by beautiful gardens and Is close to the ~a. |