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Show I THE BEE HIVE STATE 1 ! Salt Lake has established a reputation reputa-tion by sending DOS men within sixteen six-teen days to the munition plant at Nitro, W. Va. The twenty-eighth annual convention conven-tion of the Women's Christian Temperance Tem-perance union of Utah was held at Ogcleii last week. L'tahns have saved 100 hours of daylight within the last seven months under (he revised time schedule, according ac-cording to J. Cecil Alter, local weather weath-er observer. Once reported as missing in action, Pvt. Leslie Thompson of Rrighnin City has-been found in a base hospital severely se-verely wounded. He has been over-sens over-sens since June, 1017. Caught under a caving bank of sand, John Hampton Buckley, 4 year-old son of John Louis and Laura Fay Rackley, of Salt Lake, was smothered, to death. An older brother was rescued just in time. While inspecting the Eldorado mine at Eureka, Seth Langbauch of Paysoii fell from a ladder and was severely Injured. Ilia skull was fractured, his nose broken and he was otherwise bruised. An appeal is being made to the patriotic pa-triotic women of Salt Lake for the loan of blankets and quilts for use by the students' army training corps of the university, pending the arrival of delayed government supplies. Fifty Utah boys whose patriotism brought them to the University of Utah to be trained for military service serv-ice are sleeping there without bedding as the result of a delay in the arrival of equipment provided by the government. govern-ment. The registration card of John G. (Hording of Ogden was received from Shanghai. China, by the city exemption exemp-tion board last week. The young man Is doing missionary work in the province prov-ince of Kiangsu for the Seventh-day Advent ist church. That the city building department has no right to Interfere with the city-board city-board of education in restricting it with reference to the character of school structures it shall erect is de-elded de-elded by the state supreme court in a case at Salt Lake. State road bonds aggregating ?100,-iXK) ?100,-iXK) have been purchased by the state land board for the benefit of the state school land trust fund. This reduces the fund to about $200,000 and will add $-1.1(K) per year additional to the Income of the schools in L'tah. Aside from offering wages of $120 a month and up, the Utah-Idaho Sugar company is seeking laborers for Its factories by appealing to their patriot-Ism. patriot-Ism. The war industries board has placed the company In the class of those conducting necessary war work. The residents of Plain City turned nit en masse to harvest the crop on '.he farm of Sterling Thompson, the young man who suffered the loss of Ids right hand October 1, while hunting. hunt-ing. Thompson is in the hospital, recovering re-covering from the effects of the operation. oper-ation. Utah has once more gone over the '.op for Uncle Sam. This time In the matter of sales of United States treasury treas-ury certificates of indebtedness, issued is-sued In anticipation of the successive Liberty loans, to provide money to arry on the war in the Interim be-'ween be-'ween loan campaigns. All retail grocers within the state will be required lo sign pledge cards which are being mailed by the United States food administration to local Food Administrator W. W. Armstrong, in signing the cards, the grocer pledges that he will abide by all rulings rul-ings of the food administration. Yielding to the protest against an order or-der Issued on July 1, making it nbligi lory on retail coal dealers to deliver coal without either screening or forking, fork-ing, W. W. Armstrong, fuel administrator adminis-trator for l'tah. has addressed a circular cir-cular Idler lo ihe retail coal dealers of the stale rescinding Ihe order. A sco'v of Salt Lake dealers who have been actively resisting the passing pass-ing of a revised city ordinance requiring' requir-ing' their meats to pass through a slaughter house Inspection won their case when Ihe city commission by a vole of I to 1 refused lo pass the ordinance or-dinance guarding against unsanitary meat. I lull is ihe fiist stale in the union lo have at least ,'U per cent of its w ork from the September regis; ration already c : tplctcd. The Utah boards are exerting all possible- aciivlly to classify quickly Its 5:t '.Y!' registrants, this state was the first lo finish work for Ihe first registration on June 5, 1017. Total reg'slralion al Ihe University of Fiah al the ch.se of I lie regular session ses-sion Friday of li'.st week was loo:!, which number far exceeds any pre ious registration at Ihe slale Institution. Institu-tion. The first ear of Belgian relief clothing cloth-ing was shipped from Salt Lake October Oc-tober 7. Sail Luke's allotment was portioned al (i.i.000 pounds, but her contribution amounted lo over 100,000 pounds. Appllcallons may now be made by L'tah men for voluntary Inducllon Into I lie navy or marine corps. It Is probable prob-able Ihal branch recruiting stations l':.r toe navy and murine corps will remain re-main open until IVcemher 1 to receive appl lea lions. lu an effort to complete organization organiza-tion of ihe new national guard of I'lah as quickly as possible and have Ihe slale regiment mustered Into service serv-ice before a federal officer, a series of enthusiastic recruit Ing rallies arc '.chediiled tills week throughout t'ltf Wale. |