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Show UTAH STATE NEWS1 Midwest Dye and Chemical company Is obtaining title to land necessary for Installation of a plant nt Tooelo. The Tremonton Milt & Elevator company Is tho namu of u corporation ust organized nt Tremonton to Install s new flour mill. Engineers' have started surveying tho proposed canal from Hear river to bo used In Irrigating land in Uox Elder and Weber counties. Utah Indian wnr veterans will hold their 1010 encampment In Sprlngvllle, August VI to 15, under auspices of the deilartments of Utuh uud Wusutch comities. During the past two months there has not been u caso of contagious disease dis-ease reported, according to Health Officer Of-ficer Peters, of Murray, who urges citizens to maintain cleanliness tibciit tholr premises. On August 20 taxpayers ot Washington Washing-ton bounty will voto on the proposed !ssut of $50,000 bonds to finance, th'i county's slmro of construction of the state road from tho Iron county boundary boun-dary tt) ist. George. M. II. Greene, manager of tho Salt Lake offlco of tho United States grain corporation, who has Just returned from n trip through southern Utah, reports that the drouth worked havoc In many ot tho districts. G Did medals were awarded at Price to seventy-five employes of the United Stales Puel company who wero In tho military son-lea during tho war. Tho men wero from Hlack Hawk, Hclner, Hiawatha and Mohrlnnd, and In tho employ of the fuol company. To Utah may como the distinction ot hiivlng thu first wnr orphan. Ho Is Mlllan V. Oledhlll, tho Infant son ot Herbert V. Oledhlll, who wus killed In Prance, Juno 1-1, 1018. Tho Infant hoy's mother died at Sigurd, Utah, November No-vember 3, 1017. The public utilities commission of Utah Inst week, after u conference with prominent officials of tho Mountain Moun-tain States Telephono & Telegraph company, decided to order u pliyslcul valuation of till tho proiM-rty of tho company In the state. Mrs. Elizabeth Molsncr, Si .years old, and wlfo ot Samuel Mclsner, 80 years old, of .Morgan, commuted stilcldo by hanging herself to a mftr on tho second sec-ond floor of her home. Temporary aberration, coupled wltli Infirmities of uge, caused tho net, neighbors say. Tho proposition has -bem made nt Cedar City to construct n road up Pnr-owiui Pnr-owiui canyon tu Intersect with that up Cedar canyon us u menus ot opening wenlc attractions far tourists. Thu highway will seno tho added pilrposo of Improving travel for local Industrial truffle. .'nrnest nnd nt times' strenuous protest pro-test was mado by largo delegation from Davis county last week against tho proposal of the state board of itjuullioitloii to rolso tho assessment of farm lands In Davis county by a flat ralsu of 15 per cent, und the usesed valuation of merchandise In the county by an oven larger uuiounU President Wilson was Invited to tho confereiict! of governors, twenty-two 'invlng signified their Intention of being be-ing present In Suit Lake, August 18 to August, 111. He was also Invited to accompany tho Kovernors on their trip to Yellowstone uatloual park. Tho Invitation In-vitation was sent by Governor Ham-herger Ham-herger by wlro at tho suggestion of former governors of the Muto who with Governor Hamburger .aro urranglng u program. , Prof.. J. C. Hogenson, who for tho past seven years Iiiih been connected with tho Utah Agricultural college us state leader ot Junior vocational work, extension and as such established an International reputation fur expert and efficient work, has accepted a new position po-sition with tho college. Henceforth ho will be In charge of armors' Institutes, In-stitutes, handling agricultural correspondence corre-spondence work. Somewhat of a departure from the practice of former yenrs will bo imulu In tho convention of district school superintendents of Utah, to be held at tho cupltol, August 8 ami 0. Heretofore Hereto-fore speakers from among tho superintendents superin-tendents have been assigned to various subjects of Interest. In tho present case tho principal resposlblllty for presenting pre-senting subjects will bo placed on tho statu supervising staff. Tho stato road commission Is advertising adver-tising for bids for construction of about three miles of cement road lu Provo canyon, commencing at a point In tho ennyon it little below tho first high dugwuy in Wnsatch county and ending .at tho Deer Creek bridge, a dlstanco of 2.02 miles. On account ot tho heavy traffic this year the roads have become very poor, The Moubtaln States Sugar company com-pany of which Ernest H. Woolley Is president and Hen O. Well, secretary, has decided u chango Its' nnmo to All-American corporation, according to intended article filed with tho secretary sec-retary of stato. ' Prof, P, E. Peterson Is auditing thu books of Cache county from January 1, 1013, to July no, 1010, beginning In the office of Leslie W. Hovey, coiiuty 'reusurer. Huslness men of Ogdcn, through tho merchants of Ogden, have taken up tho matter of raising n fund of $11000 , 'nr., the Mnrtlin sndpty'fj . twj.rjw.jkir mltorlcs and cottago for tho matron ot tho homo. Tho decision of tho merchants mer-chants to render aid nnd support to the well known organization, which maintains tho homo for children, was Vmounced recently. |