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Show THrUTAH BUDGET Or a total enrollment of 22.C35 Pupils in the public schools of Salt 'al;e during the school year just close, 1 .70S were neither absent nor tardy. While the prospects of harvesting a good apple crop in Weber county are not promising, the indications are the quality of the peaches at maturity maturi-ty will be excellent. Through the extensive ise. of hog cholera serum, farmers in the Marriott Mar-riott district, Weber county, hope to stamp out the slight epidemic of the hog disease which has been discovered. discov-ered. rnoi'fieial results of I lie recent school census taken in Ogden show-that show-that there are S,3.". children of school age residing in the Ogden City district, dis-trict, an increase of less than 100, as compared with 1914. The interstate commerce commis--icn has upheld the Union Pacific railroad rail-road in its decision to close the Ogden Og-den gateway to passenger traflic The gateway has been closed to freight traffic for over a year. One of Brigham's leading crops, tomatoes, to-matoes, shows a decided decline this season, the reason for which is principally prin-cipally the unusual weak condition of the markets. This condition has been prevalent for a long time. A movement has been launched by the Salt Lake Commercial club to iiavu the Panama-Pacific expositti.ii at San Francisco and the Panama-California Panama-California exposition at San Diego remain open during the year 1916. For the first time in many years Brigham City is confronted with a shortage of water that is not alone noticeable in the irrigation supply, but is perhaps more in evidence in the city's supply for culinary purposes. pur-poses. At a meeting at Lehi last week, September 27-28-29 were fixed as the dates for the Alpine stake fair, which will embrace an exhibition of industries, indus-tries, farm products and ladies' work from all the towns in the north end of Utah county. Threshing in Cedar valley is on full blast. Three or four machines are turning the grain into sacks ready for market. In most fields the grain is turning out well, some yielding thirty-five bushels to the acre, barley and rye in proportion. The Murdock fish hatchery at He-ber He-ber City has been offered to the state for $10,000. The hatchery is one of the largest in the state. Governor Spry is of the opinion that the acquisition acqui-sition of the hatchery by the state would be a good move. When the Provo board of education added 1 mill to its city school levy, making a total of 11 mills instead of 10, it did so after the time for levy: ing school taxes, and there is now a question as to the legality of the board's action, it is claimed. Thomas Edward Childs, Jr., age 30 years, son of Edward Childs, wealthy ranchman, was shot by a burglar at the Childs home on their ranch just east of Springville. The bullet penetrated pene-trated Childs' chest and lodged near his back. He will probably recover. Word has been received in Salt Lake that Heber C. Smith, state dairy and food commissioner, was chosen first vice-president of the Association of American Drug, Food and Dairy Officials. The convention of these officers was held recently In San Francisco. Hal Lessenger, an assistant engineer engi-neer for the Southern Pacific company, com-pany, is in the hospital, two men are under arrest and the police are searching for another, as a result of a free-for-all fight at Ogden. Lessinger was cut about the face and his right ear almost severed. Mrs. John Warlund was found dead in her home at Bingham. She was engaged in preparing supper when she fell to the floor, supposedly in a faint. One of her children found her later and summoned assistance, but when a physician arrived he pronounced her dead from heart trouble. The work done by all the knitting factories in Utah during 1914, according accord-ing to the figures compiled, necessitated necessi-tated the employment of twenty men and 260 women as knitters, and approximately ap-proximately 100 salesmen, largely during the summer months, while the value of the products manufactured in 1914 was $605,000. A reduction of 15 cents per 1,000 feet in the price of gas and, an occu-mtion occu-mtion tax that will net the city about J40,000 during the life of the proposed grant are two features of the new public service franchises upon which the Ogden city commissioners and representatives of . the companies have agreed. Plans for the erection of an additional addi-tional building at the factory of the Utah Cereal Food company at Ogden Og-den have been approved by the directors direc-tors of the new concern. The new building, which is to cost about ?10,-000, ?10,-000, wll be used exclusively for the manufacture of chicReii feed and other by-products of the main plant. |