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Show UTAH BUDGET AVord has l)eLu rocolvoil nt I'rice of the wounding in .Francs of Guy Thomas, the first I'rit-o soldier who is known to hove suffered injury in the v.ar. Hennnn (Jorman, an interned enemy nllon who died nt t lie war prison camp hospital after a i.mg illness, was buried In the post cemetery at Fort Douylas. July 17. Davis county, always one of the largest exhibitors at the I'lali state fair, lias announced its intention of having a larger display than ever at the Institution this year. The four .soda wafer manufacturers Of Ogden will use honey instead of sugar in making soft drinks hereafter, according to Irving Kmniett, represent-lny represent-lny the food administration in Ogden. Joseph Howell, a member of the United States house of representatives from Utah for fourteen years, a prominent prom-inent l.ogan business man. died July IS at his home at Logan following an attack of heart failure. Official word has reached the parents par-ents of Wagoner Edwin 51. (iray of Klsinore, that he was killed in a railroad rail-road accident in France. July 3. The young man was attached to the 31Sth engineers' train. He sailed for Europe May C. William Curtis, an employe of the Standard Fuel company, was killed ut Rains, when a boxcar under which lie and fifteen others had taken refug, from a storm was jarred loose from the tipple of the Carbon Fuel company, crushing him. Restriction in varieties of ice cream manufactured to three and confining the use of flavoring extracts to ten kinds is requested in a circular sent out by W. F. Jensen, commissioner of commercial economy, to all dealers in these commodities. Declaring that she couldn't knit or make things for the hoys "over there" on account of failing eyesight, and still wanting to do her bit for the Red Cross, a woman who didn't disclose her identity sent a check to the Ogden Red Cross Chapter for $50. Plunging head first into a barrel of scalding water which had been used to scald the carcass of a hog, Jane Evans, aged 6, of Spanish Forlt, was badly scalded. The child had closed her eyes and held her breath, however, and there were no interior burns. While the rains of the past week delayed de-layed haying, harvesting and fruit picking, according to the weekly report of J. Cecil Alter, meteorologist in charge of the Salt Lake weather bureau, bur-eau, the showers were beneficial to the ranges, potatoes and the late grain. The Skull valley-Rush valley section experienced one of the most remarkable remark-able hail storms of its history one day last week when a twenty-minute barrage bar-rage of hailstones left hardly a whole window in the town of Vernon. Vegetation Vege-tation was cut down In many places. Advertising signs of various kinds, which have been marring the beauty of the scenery leading to Ogden canyon and those in the canyon may soon come down. The owner's of the signs will first be appealed to remove the signs and if they, do not do so, other steps may be taken. More than 228.000 acres, a portion of the Dixie National forest in southeastern south-eastern Nevada and southwestern Utah, have been thrown open to homestead home-stead entry by a proclamation issue'l by President Wilson. The area Includes In-cludes about 220,379 acres in Nevada ad 713 acres in Utah. Salt Lake and the intermountaln region re-gion is practically assured of a graded scale of freight rates as a result of the recent conference in Chicago between representatives of the Intermountaln Rate association and members of the regional freight committee of the federal railroad administration. Justice Lund at Salt Lake dismissed the charge of manslaughter preferred against William M. Ferry Jr., and Miss Gertrude Thomas, who were in the car which struck and killed Pearl Hudson, at Salt Lake on June 10. The evidence showed that the car was not being driven at excessive speed when the accident occurred. It is now asserted that the Merchants' Mer-chants' bank at Salt Lake will reopen with a capital stock of not less than $250 000. It will pay to every depositor 100 cents on the dollar. The new hank will be in full membership of the Salt Lake Clearing House association and a member of the federal bank reserve re-serve for the Twelfth district. AVhile Governor Simon Bamberger has made no official announcement about the matter, it is understood that he is opposed to calling the members of the legislature away from their work at this critical war period for a special session of the legislature especially es-pecially when the next regular session of the legislature is only a few month? away. The survey for the projected railroad rail-road from Lund to Cedar City and on I across the Kanarra mountain through the immense Kaibab forest to the brink of the Grand canyon, is now practically completed to Cedar City. |