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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE i I'rof.. .1. C. llogenson, who for the past seven years lias been connected with Ibe I'tah Agricultural college as stale leader of junior vi -alb mil work, extension and as such eslaoli aied ull international reputation lo, ej pert and efficient work, has accepted a new position po-sition with the college. Henceforth ho will be in charge of farmers' institutes, in-stitutes, handling agricultural correspondence corre-spondence work. Somewhat, of a departure from the practice of former years will be made in the conventiyi of district school Kiiperinl eudents of Utah, lo be held at the capilol, August 8 and 0. Heretofore Hereto-fore speakers from among Ihe superintendents superin-tendents have been assigned to various subjects of interest. In (lie present case Ihe principal resposibilily for presenting pre-senting subjects will be placed on the . state supervising staff. The slate road commission Is advertising adver-tising for bids for construction of about three miles of cement road in I'rovo canyon, commencing at a point in the canyon a little below the first high dugway in "Wasatch county and ending at the Deer Creek bridge, a distance of 2.92 miles. On account of the heavy traffic this year the roads have become very poor. Business men of Ogden, through the merchants of Ogden, have taken up the matter of raising a fund of $:i000 for the Martha society's two new dormitories dor-mitories and cottage for the matron of the home. The decision of the merchants mer-chants to render aid and support to the well known organization, which maintains the home for children, was announced recently. Application was made by the Mountain Moun-tain Slates Telephone & Telegraph company last week to the public utilities utili-ties commission of Utah for a hearing In which the company will seek to have the rates established by Postmaster Post-master General A. S .Burleson made permanent Date for a hearing with the commission has not yet been set. Three hundred farmers, at a meeting meet-ing held at Bountiful last week signed a petition for creation of the Bonneville Bonne-ville irrigation district, a project which is to furnish water from the Jordan river irrigation water for approximately ap-proximately fiOOO acres of land in Ihe southern end of Davis county. Jack Dempspy, the world's heavyweight heavy-weight pugilistic champion, spoke at Bonneville park grounds in Salt Lake Inst week in the interests of the Salvation Sal-vation Army home service campaign. An interesting program was arranged for the occasion. The Mountain States Sugar company com-pany of which Ernest R. Woolley is iresident and Ben C. Rich, secretary, has decided to change its name to AU-American corporation; according to amended articles filed with the secretary sec-retary of state. I'rovo City is now suffering from the greatest shortage of water since the past fifty years. According to the tabulation and flow of the river as taken by Water Commissioner Frank Weutz on July 18. Prof. P. E. Peterson is auditing the books of Cache county from January 1, 1913, to July 30, 1919, beginning in the office of Leslie W. Hovey, county treasurer. Dr. Junius Seegmiller, 3S years old, a prominent dentist of Richfield, died lust week at the hospital following aa operation for appendicitis. At a mass meeting of the wheat-growers wheat-growers of Salt Lake county, held in Midvale last week, about 200 persons were in attendance, representing every wheat-growing section of the county. A resolution was unanimously adopted asking the government to remove all restrictions on the price of wheat, pointing out that from present indications indica-tions the wheat crop of the county would be 50 per cent or more under normal. The merchants of Ogden passed a resolution protesting against the proposal of the state board of equalization equali-zation to increase the assessment rating rat-ing of merchants in Ogden and Weber county 100 per cent and farm property prop-erty 23 per cent. The resolution will be presented to the state board at Salt Lake. Charging that freight rates on gasoline gaso-line and other petroleum products to Salt Lake and intermountain points are unreasonably high and discriminatory, discrimin-atory, the Utah State Automobile association, as-sociation, through the Traffic Service Bureau of Utah, will shortly file suit with the Interstate Commerce commission, com-mission, seeking a rate adjustment. John W. Jacobs of Williamsport, Pa., recently appointed secretary of the Utah Public Health association by the executive committee, has taken up his duties. A campaign for the improvement improve-ment of health conditions is being arranged ar-ranged by the association. Alex Hunt, 20 years old, of Roosevelt, Roose-velt, was instantly killed by coming into contact with a live electric wire, j He was at work on the Uintah Power & Light company's l:ne when the accident acci-dent happened. He had been with the company for two years. Finding that a concrete pavement varying in thickness from fi to 7 inches in the I'.righaui City paving district for this year would cosi $128.2.")1.00, while a bitulithic pavement on a crushed rock base vou'd cost only .f l.'!l..",liy.ri(i, the Brigham City council has decided in favor of the latter material. What is believed by the police to have been an attempt of t'ireliugs or radicals to burn the city of Ogden occurred oc-curred when three fires broke out al-Uiost al-Uiost simultaneously one night last week. The first call was to the Mar-ton Mar-ton hotel. |