Show 0 La lawrence blackett formerly of eureka secures position 1 0 alawrence lawrence blackett formerly t member ot of the state legislature from juab county was on wednesday ap pointed clerk at the utah state prison succeeding walter W emery resigned the action was taken at a meeting of the state board ot of cor erections ions held at the prison at which the condition of the prison accorn s and ot of the audit now in pro progress gres I 1 were explained in some detail by mark tuttle state auditor jamea devine warden was also present at tt the meeting j there is said to be shortage of about 1500 an an mr r emery s ac counts mr emery er has agreed to pay over that s in f money A new system of leco acco n ng is to be install ed in the office mr blackett mr emery s sui sut cessor is a native of nephi and at tended school at the brigham young university at provo and the un hersity of utah at salt lake he taught school at nephi for two years and afterwards went into the mer cantile business in this occupation he spent eleven years in eureka be coming manager of the bullion beck beek store which at that time was one of the largest in tintic gintic but which later went out of business he was a resi dent of eureka when elected to the 1916 legislature four years ago he moved to salt lake and was for some time in the accounting depart ment of the salt lake hardware company subsequently he was tor for a time with the state road commis sion in the accounting department |