Show UTAH AND Tho The convention ll of t th the tiro Utah Ulan Shorthand n Reporters Reporters' association 1 was 1111 held 1 at ot Ogden last week Nearly on life uto insurance t policies was paid to beneficiaries belle III in I Salt Lake Laka during the past past year according accord accord- last week weel ing lag to statistics received Road work worl between tire east cast end of ot Ogden canyon and Eden Junction J has lias as been suspended e l for two weeks to allow the w workmen to harv harvest t their crops The TIle road Is nearly completed Vt lan ian the year old son on of Mr and Mrs 1 P. P L. L Ward of IS in Ina a critical condition from being kicked in In the abd abdomen men by a horse while playing with children at the home borne of a neighbor Utah housewives unable to purchase sufficient sugar sugar for the annual fall fuU canning of fri fruits are requested to apply apply ap ap- ap ply for sugar sugar cards at the tIto headquarters of the state food adminis administrator ls at Salt Lake Following a n six day trip through and ornery mery counties Governor hamberger reports that the roads arcIn are arc In fair shape and that satisfactory pro pro- gross is being made in construction work everywhere e he went Joseph a Salt Lake barber who has ha been held in the county Jail jaU for several weeks has been paroled Strack was was alleged to lu have lue e remarked to a customer that he was glad he be did lid not have to go over to France and fight During the he first year ear of prohibition in Utah wholesale permits for alcohol were I issued to drug stores assayers hospitals hospital laboratories and factories Nearly retail alcohol p permits were issued by Justices of the peace pence The entertainment committee of the Logan n Commercial club has planned the annual auto junket trip of the club This year the trip will be made on Monday August 5 to Garfield and Bingham to visit the large smelters and mines Taking a n seventy-foot seventy plunge in an automobile down the bed of Parleys ParleY's canyon creek William M M. 1 Harman of Salt Lake is in a precarious ous condition He lie Is suffering from a fracture at nt the base of the tire skull and numerous minor scalp injuries Utah's legislative delegation delga on has taken up further with the war Industries industries indus Indus- tries board the matter of government establishment of coke cole ovens in Utah not only for the ma manufacture of coke but the products by-products us used d in the making of explosives In August 1917 the first month mouth o of the dry law more than 75 1 gallons a lons or of alcohol were sold by the state exclusive exclusive sive save of retail quantities purchased through Justices of the peace M More More- ore alcohol was sold last last August Augus than thai in any month since J. J JO J. 0 Read of Ogden has been made ade chairman of the leather committee of the Utah war industries board His Ills duties he the was advised will vill be to keep the tite leather Industry on a proper foot foot- Ing lag so so sons as ns to render the greatest ale aid aleto to to the government Determined after brooding over hISson's his hisson's hisson's sons son's de death l that it should not be in vain L. L Beauman formerly constructIng constructing constructing construct construct- ing engi engineer eer of the Bingham Garfield Garfield Gar Gar- field railroad is now v on his way to France as captain In the American expeditionary forces The big Saratoga Springs encampment encampment encampment encamp encamp- ment of the citizens' citizens military training class which holds hoWs forth at the University University University Uni Uni- of f Utah will be one of the tile Brest livest military events event of recent years The encampment will be held August 31 31 September 1 and 2 The wafer wafer five thirty five second feet the Strawberry valley project has hag h now been turned Into t lateral latem canal and is being used being used for irrigating g acres of or land on which winch the crops for this year ear are thus assured In this area are many acres of sugar beets That an nn attempt of dealers to stimulate stimulate late Inte r a-r arising a sing market by egg storing is reflected in figures of the tire re recent ent state food storage report Is the opinion of Walter M M. Boyden state dairy and food commissioner The egg quotations quotations quotations quota quota- have alte already advanced 5 cents or more ore From Russia where they were taken prisoners prisoner while fighting with the Austrian Aus trian army soldiers Italian passed through Salt Like Lake last week They are on their way to an eastern port from which they will embark for Europe Europe Europe Eu Eu- rope to participate further in the war but on on the side of the allies this t time me Horticulturists of of Utah are advised by J J. J B. B Walker state crop pest commissioner commissIoner commissioner com com- missioner to not rush into the market this year with their peaches penches Mr Walker Walker Walker Wal Wal- ker says says that he be does not suggest that they hold out for an e. e exorbitant price but that th they y exercise sufficient wisdom wis dom door to Insure insure them fair figures for their fruit In an effort to bring about an nn adjustment ad ad- nt of th the differences between en the warehousemen and the farmers of or Utah relative to the market prIce of wheat and thereby avert possible serous ser ser- ious ous losses of ot wh wheat at I In tIle tike state Senator Senator Sena Sena- tor W. W H H. KIng rang will go from Washing tonto ton to New York to confer with with- the federal grain corporation With the flooding df of f cellars and war gardens through the dr draining of the big lake at Liberty park at Salt Lake In the hope of finding the body of G- G year old Lester McAllister who disappeared die dis- appeared July 4 4 the city will likely confront several damage suits Many graves of Utah Indian war veterans vet vet- erans in City cemetery at Salt Lake are practically unmarked according to Miss Emma E E. E Lindsey s secretary of the Daughters of ot Indian War Veterans' Veterans organization A movement Is on foot now now Miss Lindsey says to remedy this situation |