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Show UTAH BUDGET l'rei'.-iraii.iiis alv wUvi ,.,,. a( I't'Ugl,. for l:,rgel pmni,,. whirl, b Schedule, to .t.iniiiiMK-i. (he first ,, next niuiiil, ,,, ,,,., s,m(ii o(. post. A ten-mil,. ,i,.jcl. road .are is hei.u arranged for Saturday. Alav 11. ,v tin Ogden sporling goods dealers over ,h, course fro,,, ( ij,.,, , ,lu. ri.h Hn springs. The commissioner of water work.. for Salt Lake t'ily announces that tin city has undertaken to furnish fret water for all war gardens in the cit for 1!I1S. J The 4-year-old daughter of .Mr. ant Mrs. liswald K. Stewart, of Ilenjamii died at a l'rovo hospital from hum; received while playing at a bonfire al Benjamin. Some 2iXI skilled workers, enlistee at the I'nited Slates employment bureau, left Salt Lake Monday afternoon after-noon for Seattle and San Franeisec for shipbuilding work in the government govern-ment program. Appropriation 0f .f-loo was voted last week by the Salt Lake city com .mission, to defray the cost of the municipal mu-nicipal dispensary to he established by the health department for treatment ol social diseases. To succeed Francis L. Brown, whost resignation becomes effective April 30 Miss Carolyn I. Smith has been appointed ap-pointed secretary of the state industrial indus-trial commission, to assume her duties in that place May 1. A petition by which permission is sought to advance the price of gas 2C cents per 1000 cubic feet, or from SI cents to $1.01, was riled last week with the public utilities commission by th Utah Gas & Coke company. .lames II. Wolfe, assistant state's attorney at-torney general, and Miss Carolyn Williams, Will-iams, secretary of the state board of examiners, were licensed to marry at Chicago, according to telegraphic word received at Salt Lake April 10. Pavid Rosenthal, a livestock dealer of Salt Lake, suffered a broken leg and painful body bruises as a result of being thrown from his wagon, which was struck from the rear by an automobile auto-mobile said to have been driven by a young woman. A special campaign is just being started by the state food administrator administra-tor to secure the planting of 10,000 acres of white flint corn in the state, with the idea in view of producing enough corn to manufacture 15,000,000 pounds of cornmeal. The work of planting what is believed be-lieved will be the largest war garden in Utah was begun hist week at the University of Utah. Twelve acres oi hind i.i the vicinity of the east bench school was plowed hist fall and will be planted this spring. Cltiin is made by the Western Pacific Pa-cific and the Los Angeles oi Salt Lake railroad that the state utilities commission com-mission hits no jurisdiction in the complaint com-plaint of the Utah-Idaho Sugar company com-pany that freight rates on lime rock from Flux to the factories are too high. 'Champion gopher hunters" of Weber county is the title that has been won by George and Wilford Frorer, 14 and 16 years of age, of Eden. In winning win-ning this title the boys have added $18.40 to their war savings stamps accounts for 36S gophers upon which they collected the bounty. Weather conditions permitting, Utah county' will this year produce a 10C per cent peach crop, followed closely by other counties throughout the stale, whose'erop estimate is placed at SO to 90 per cent, according to an opinion expressed by J. Basil Walker, state crop nest commissioner. With the holding of the forty-fourth annual session of the grand lodge in Salt Lake last week, the ninety-ninth anniversary of the organization of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows was observed. Eighty-nine delegates and thirty-two officers and past grand masters were in attendance. The pupils of the public schools of Ephraim, together with the faculty, and the students and faculty of the Snow Normal college, led by the bands of the two schools, paraded the streets of Ephraim one day last week in the interest of gardening and increasing in-creasing the food production of that vicinity. Paying high compliment to the American troops and declaring that upon the loyalty of the people of the United States depends the imal decision de-cision of the war in favor of the allies, Lord Dunmore spoke before a large gathering at the Commercial club at Salt Lake at a banquet at winch be was the guest of honor. Allotments of $10 each were allowed last week by the state board of ex-fiminerS ex-fiminerS to 291 Utah Indian war veterans vet-erans and widows of veterans. The money comes from an appropr t on of $20,000 made by the last leg. Mature n behalf of those who aided .n the Black Hawk and other Indian war ttou bles in UUih during i860 and 1807 ' an at intermittent periods surrounding those years. |