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Show THE UTAH BUDGET Apple day was generally observed n Utah on October 20. G. W. McGregor, of Salt Lake, is la the hospital with a broken back as a pesult of his auto overturning at Paris City. Fire believed to have been caused by a defective flue destroyed two residences resi-dences and two barns at Holliday, near Salt Lake. The strike of the union electrical workers of .Salt Lake has been seti tied, they having been granted an in crease in wages. Col. William N. Fife, builder of the Ogden tabernacle, a pioneer Utah, architect, died October 21-of general debility. He vas S3 years of age. AppU sMfvients by '.he Utah Fruit Growers association for 1914 already exceed those of last year and at that less than 50 per cent of the crop ha been moved. The plans having been changed to provide for larger structure, the plant of the Utah Cereal company at Ogden will cost $140,000 ,Ind will consist o( four stories. About $1,000,000 will be paid out to the growers of beets for the Ogden, Logan, Lewiston and Burley suga? factories on the next pay day, Noi vember 15. Archie Tatum, a negro boy 16 yearg of age who was arrested at .Salt Lake and charged with attacking a 6-year-i old negro girl, has been committed to the State Industrial school. Sweet potatoes, the equal of any In the United States, can be raised in Utah at a profit. The proof of thia has been demonstrated by C. H. Bris-tow, Bris-tow, who has a small farm near Salt Lake. It is estimated by a United States forest examiner that there is at least a billion feet of timber of commercial quality on the Duchesne watershed. The Investigation extended over 115,-000 115,-000 acres of timber land. Ethel Kelly, 21 years of age, who was thrown from a horse near her home in Springville nearly one year ago, died at a Salt Lake hospital last week of an affection of the spine, which developed from the fall. Bosilio Colonna is dead from a bullet bul-let wound and his brother, Sam Colonna, Col-onna, and Marco Conti, are seriously serious-ly wounded as the result of a battle that followed a wedding in the Italian Ital-ian colony at Magna Thursday night. Due to the growing importance of concrete as a building material, Superintendent Su-perintendent Mills has written a letr ter to each of the principals of the Ogden city schools instructing special study of the manufacture of Portland cement. Recently a " road-building bee was held by the automobile owners of Eureka. About thirty men turned out to help repair the road between Summit Sum-mit and Homansville canyon. They worked about two hours and a wonderful won-derful improvement was made. Joseph Francone, aged 21, was found with a bullet through his head. He was lying between two haystacks, on his mother's farm at Payson. He was unconscious and died while being rushed to the Provo general hospital. He had become despondent and had shot himself. L. M. Nelson, former mayor of Huntsville, is dead and four others are injured more or less seriously as a result of an automobile accideut half a mile west of Huntsville. The injured are Mrs. Nels Lofgreen, Dan Felt, John Jorgensen and Mrs. Peter Nelson, all of Huntsville. The report of the state board of health for the month of September shows that during the last month 293 deaths occurred in the state out of a total population of 373,351. Out 08 thirty-eight cases of scarlet fever no deaths were reported and forty-five cases of smallpox showed no fatality. The fame of the educational survey that was made of the Ogden public school system last winter has spread to India. A letter was received at the office of the board of education last week from the secretary of the Mysore Economic conference at Bangalore Ban-galore asking for a copy of the report. Payments of the state corporation lax are coming into the office of tho secretary of state briskly, though not Uue until November 15. October 1 Ihe office sent out notices that the tax would be due November 15, and in consequence con-sequence about $2,500 has been re-' reived already. Efficiency in housekeeping Is the keynote of a plan presented to tbe Weber We-ber county commissioners for the employment em-ployment of a public housekeeper whose duty it would be to see that the households of persons dependent, wholly or in part on the county and charitable institutions are conducted with the least waste possible. As a means of filling the great demand de-mand for more school buildings, temporarily tem-porarily at least, the buildings and grounds committee of ths board of education of Salt Lake Is considering the possibility of using small portable port-able school building3. That Cedar valley'B 100,000 level acres, lying in the west side of Utah county, just over the mountain from Utah lake, is destined to become an Important section, is evidenced from tho record of dry-farm wheat yields now coming in, one machine threshing thresh-ing 25,000 bushels. James Price, 76 years of age, and one of the oldest living pioneers of Wasatch county, is dead at his home in Charleston as the result of Internal injuries received in Heber City when his horse took fright at a load of bear hides cad ran away. |