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Show VOLUME XVIII KATSVILLE, LAYTON AND FARMINGTON. UTAH.' THURSDAY. NUMBER 14 MARCH 20. 1921. THREE QUALIFY AS EAGLES GOUTS MIDNIGHT BLAZE BURNS STORE Court of Honor Awards Fire Consumes Stock of J. IV Brigance, and Building. Merit Badges to Boys Taking Examination. At a meeting of the Local Court of Ilonor of the North Davis district of tbs Ogden-GWay District Council Boy Scouta of America held at Syra- V at cuse and at which the following long-know- w mem-be- n I- - of the court were present. Chair man' L. E. Ellison, George E. Holt, c (The following article by Angus W. W. Evans, AD. Miller, 0. IL the counDavis of Smedley, manager and Jesse D. Barlow, the follow ,4 ty district for the Mountain States ir.g first class scouts of Syracuse troop Vie phone A Telegraph company, and No. 1 were awarded merit badges ii published in the Mountain States Monfollows: 1 i William A. Bearer, agriculture ath- itor, Denver, Colo will be of interest v to our readers. It is such advertising, letics, camping, poultry keeping, as this that is most beneficial to our handicraft, swimming, people. Editor Reflex.) cooking, and hadge as Eagle scout. William P. Miller, poultry keeping, Jim Bridger, the great Western would consume but cooking, camping,' markmanship, rapper, little realized the possibilihandicraft, agriculture, swimming, ties of. the Great, Salt Lake Valley crop. Our biggest producers in conjuncand hadge as Eagle scout. when ho offered 41,000 to the piontion with the county agent took up a Dell W, Cook, poultry keeping, ath- eers of 47, as they were entering the for that purpose, asking letics, agriculture, cooking, gardening, Talley, for the. first bushel of corn campaign from the Sait Lake comassistance swimming, and badge as raised on this uninviting tract of land, mercial state communion of the club, Eagle scout. hen the land was dried to a scale and and the Union Pacific David Wilcox, swimming, marksarren beyond belief, except for the Agriculture, Railroad. Samples of the crop wer? manship, which sent to 609 firms of the United sage brush and grease-woo- d States, Homer Bodily, bird study. grew scantily for want of more mois- followed by a letter to eaih, giving ture. Ralph Walker, music, in detail an account of the crop as Harold Wilcox, swimming, As years passed and the cultivation to acreage, yield, size of product, ' r ' tng. of thia once uninviting tract went be and to and furnished grades Wallace Bybee of Westpoint, Troop steadily on we have noted the tran- brands of each grade. This mode of No. 1, bird study, botany. sition with wonderment and pride. campaign was very successful, mary William Foxley, of Kaysville troop Crops of 'almost endless variety, al- firms sending in lids; but a local firm No. 1 signaling. most every kind of garden product, Hancock Brothers, of Salt Lake Citr, On February 28, 1924, this same loruits and flowers that can be raised offered the best proposition and the cal court of honor mkde the following n a temperate xone meets our gaze, crop was delivered to them, which awards to first class scouts of the f Jim Bridger could once more return aggregated 85 car loads. Kaysville Troop No. 1. and gaze upon the sacks of burlap In grading the crop for shipment mux: z,. ; 1 ji wrencs rtn.g, dhaA- -t swimming, first aid, and pathfinding. ting upon the acres, he would aurely then established was known as the Verdon Thommassen, signaling, e astounded and wonder where they U. S. No. 1 Large, and consisted of first aid, pathfinding. came from, and if told that each one onions from 2U inches in diameter Arthur Thommassen, first aid, pion- of these acres produced from 1,000 to and up, and it was here discovered thst eering, camping, pathfinding. ,600 bushels he would wonder how a much better grade could be packed. J. Fred, Sheffield, first aid, path- the transformation came about. The Federal Commission of Agriculfinding, camping, civics. been ture was requested for a better grade, Davis known has long county Scout Master, Kenneth II. Sheffield, or her production of the onion ui and upon Inspection by a member from first Aid, personal health, public lavor, size and yield, but instead of this commission from Washington, 1). swimming. , health, one of the staple crops it has Ch, a special grade was adopt d, to et Keith Birkin of Layton troop No. eing and little known as "Uuih Taney, iriJ wu!.l een raised as a 2, badge as life and star scout. and effort put forth to find an outside carry a grade of 3 Incles and were cars Si harof the 8i cars shipped market until the 1922 crop was In thi rstaLliekn.o it Mr. been an which of this grad-:- . had vested, exceptions! Subscription Uiah Fancy, it wa year, both for acreage and yield, and of this grad 3, Mrs. had ns competitor we that to realize a profit a new market had given out for United local States o be opened as our it, that our market in the t the fire before Early this morning, which swept away the stock of goods and most of the household belongings f Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Brigance, had hardly cooled a free will subscription was started for their benefit. Tb movement was sponsored by Mayor J. G. M. Barnes and J. J. Bowman, of the Kaysville Golden Rule store, and has already grown to a substantial ' amount. All the people of Kaysville and vicinity are invited to subscribe to this fund. Mr. Brigance needs tools ami materials to carry on bis trade of painter and psper hanger and household articles for himself and wife. He mechanic and will apis a first-claenpreciate any work which may be, trusted to him. Subscriptions should he left with By-be- e, 4 . life-savin- life-savin- g, life-savin- g, g, 1 . life-ssvin- g. life-wa- v fit-vo- twa-Mrtid- life-savii?- - g, for and Brigance StTnickdy ,r Commerce. To insure certified seed for future use a number of local gravers harvested several hundred pounds, t which will insure seed at the least minimum cost to the planters. ' N. The . , lii23cropwSl up to standard , y itevery particular with the 1922 crop, and the marketing was done with-bu- t little effort on the part of the producers, as eastern buyers were here earwas rival across Atlantic at ly in the season to lock over the fields the only and place their bids for the crop with been alone had which Valencia, Spain, with us this Utter grade. prices near double the pricea received furnishing Tins campaign cleared our local mark- for the 1922 crop. In visiting one et of the surplus and brought good re- field of three acre the owner told me turns to the producer, thus encourag- he expected to load five cart alone, ing him to plant again, as he felt that netting 4 000 per car. a new era had drawned te the onion It surely is a wonderful tight to in this look over these wonderful acre and grower locality. The "Utah Fancy, ".grade on enter- see the bulb growing they look like ing the diversified maikets of the to many small bowls pushing each United States told the story of what other out of the way, setting nearly could U produced in this valley, and out of the ground, just hanging by a a flood of orders came in from all small cluster of roots, and to cut one parts of the country for more of this open and sc the solidity is convincing special grade, but too late, as the thst they have been grown right. To see the tears standing on the open crop had been sold and delivered. So encouraged were the farmers part it tempting to taste, and when of this locality with results of last you do' you are pleased nt the mild year's crop and marketing that they flavor, and, as one woman said, "It Is at once organized themselves into an like eating mellow apples. association to be known as the Davis To test the storing qualities, severs! huibs were placed In the vault of the 'v Vo. r .f.Wi.v riation. incorporated under the stalf laws of Utah, whose duty it is to control and markrt the crop each year, that the highest result might ha and the fine results established the at beginning might be made lastoh-taine- Vo obi tin certified aeod to b used in the producing of the 1923 crop was no little task, as only a limited quant- ity of seed could be located her in the United States, and it was necei sary to import a quantity from Spain, and to do this it was necesstry to take up a correspondence with Senator Reed Smoot, who had the matter up with the Federal Department of S490 laktMNM he left Salt Lake immediately for the scene of the fire. Mr. Opbome notified Floyd Utter to hold himself and a force of men ready to move as soon as he could edvise him what would be necessary to make the needed repairs. Mr. Utter with a force of fourteen men arrived in Kaysville before dawn and prepared to commence operation as soon as light made it possible. It was found that one fifty pair cable had been burned off for about ICQ feet, fifteen rpns of hard drawn cop- per toll line, fivecrTaBS13' 200 hundred air cable, making an estimated loss to the telephone company of about All local lines to the east and south parts of Kaysville rb cut off by the disaster, hot TtHT expected that the company wvU have all lines working ur.hr own this evening cr.l.'.'i s tro-rents itrrlf. put , hi phers men are ti be ccrrmend-e- d frr C r zr s.r.i tmi. rthry art Aj J etrrrrhy o Ct j-- X body and cab mounted on the lacunas Ford One-To- a chassis Truck provide a complete all'purpoe haulage unit at the remarkably Ijw price of $490l this staunch truck la Built of heavy sheet steel, strongly designed to withstand severe usage in a wide range of industries, Generous loading space, four feet by erven feet two Inches, permit for easy handling ct capacity loads and provision fa also made aides. screen or of mounting canopy top features of Experienced driver appreciate the weather-proo- f -doer ted cab, which fa fitted with removable opening curtain aH-ot- ed . ed, ' , til Detroit, Mkhlgsa . Ixe tts m ?UnSIf41iiritrfhmril4k KsTthcyttrfftvdhylmrwmrid year, after one year they arc a solid and firm as ever, Thia Is only one result of the many whkh ran be produced In thia wonderful valley, under an educational process with the growers, by establishing grades, by standardizing crops, careful purchasing of certified seed, and cooperative marketing. to It surely would be an the old Western trapper If by chance we could load an airship with these endless verities of produce and fly Into eternity and display before him the wonders of this fertile .valley, where once he roamed In the pursuit of trapping and hunting the wild life that roamed these plains, and where he had to be ever alert to elude the lurking Redman.' He would at least be tempted to return and spend bis summer vacation with us if possible, if not n longer 'sojourn.- - The Mountain States Moiytor. eye-open- er have-hea- vy. Mr, Brigances household furniture, stock of goods and tools were insured but for a small part of their value and the .loss will he very aerious' to him. The building, which was owned by Mrs, W, P, Epperson was insured for 41.000. When the alarm of fire waa riven, the annual dance of the Kaysville Relief society waa in full swthg at the The dance broke up at of fire and all went to opera house the first cry the scene of many of the the conflagration where, men lent a hand in sub- - dinf lbe fUm A. C. Glee Club to Sing in Farmington The Utah Agricultural college Glee club will give a concert next Thursday evening, March 27, at the Farmington meeting house. Mayor Palmer and the city council are greatly Interested in bringing to Farmington the A. C. CU-- club. In a practice game at theOaka Any community which is fortunate training camp at Myrtledal Springs enough to be favored by the appearlast week, Spencer Adams played a ance of this excellent singing organistar game. It is reported he handled zation is indeed fortunate and should 13 chance without making a bobble be congratulated. and started four double plays. Through the efforts of a number of chosen the progressive citizens of Farming-to- n SpenManager Howard has has a he cer as leadoff man, stating this entertainment has been made good eye and is fast on bia feet. possible. It U1 not be a money makIn bunting practice he beat every ing proposition either for the A. C. ball bunted to first base. Following Glee club or the promoters, but pureIs a dipping taken from the Desert ly for the community's uplift News written by Lea Goatea. pence Adams, it jpppylar favor-it- e here. Its Adams this and Adams D. thst, all around the place. Nobody her has shown enough to even threaten the Utahn's keystone position. The On Monday, March 24th, the State Howards thing he will rank among the leading iecond baseman of the Utilities commission will bold a beareague. They like the steady manner ing In the office of T. McClure Peters with which he handle the relays from and take testimony concerning the short and his wonderfully accurate proposed closing of the Denver k Rio throws. Spence always could bit and Grande Western depot at Kaysville. thia appears to be hia banner year for The hearing will be opened at 10:13 he will be in there swinging every a. m. on said day, and all parties inbeday. Thus fsr the Layton lad has terested may appear and testify commission. fore the proved tha best hunter in camp. e Truclt At A Itcrrliablo Pries The new Ford gai. For a short time near by property was seriously threatened as sparks and burning shingles whuh fell in showers half a block to the north and west. Fortunately the night was-csland the flames quickly succumbed to the efforts of the fireman. Tha water pressure was all that could b desired and the fir boys attacked savagely and efficiently, and anon had the flames under control. This effi- clent wotk undoubtedly saved nearby buildings. If the Barnes block and the Inland Printing company had burned, the loss would havt been Playing Good Ball Phone Company Gets Busy Repairing Lines An U nioiT and Spencer Adams J. J. Bowman. AU-Pcrpc- zs d, ing. ss manage? "'Afcgui ' Smedley, for the Bell Telephone company in Davis county, phoned F. A. Osborne, plant chief, at Salt Lake, of the Kaysville ire, about 11:20 last night and night, about 11:30, the build inf opposite the office of The Reflex and Inland .Printing company, as the Johnson Hotel, buildwas totally destroyed by fire. ing, The building was occupied by J. P, Brigance as a residence and wall paper and paint store. Mr. Brigance and wife had been to Salt Lake City and returned home about 10:00 oclock on entering the house Mr. Brigance built a fire in the kitchen range and leaving hliTilfe, w?ntTip the. street to secure gasoline for hia car which he desired to use eaily this morning. Shortly after leaving home he was told that his home was cn fire. About tha same time Mrs. Brigance, who was In her bath, discovered flames and amok issuing along the baseboard and north wail of the kitchen. She hastily threw on a dress and rushed from tha building, and notwithstanding her hast came near being overcome by amoks Ion-- t IV i f &R.G. W; Hearings to Be Held Monday & Nearest Atahcrized Ford Dealer ' Utah Agricultural College c GLEE CLUB Will sing; for you in concert - THURSDAY, MARCII 27. at CAP.G TRUCKS TRACTOIUJ Farmington Meeting IIcuec, Admission 0 p r- -J n. a c. '- -3 t |