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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE Lieut. J. Eastman Hatch has been named war savings oflicer for Cache 'county and enters upon his duties at once, l.ieiitejiant Hatch says one of his chief duties will be to urge returned re-turned service men io renew their government insurance immediately as the lies; protection they can obtain for their families. Crops in Kane county were never bettor. Then- has been no hick of rain. All the way from Pa nguii oh to Orderville, a succession of canyons ajifl valleys, the crops are magnificent. The trees are breaking down with fruit, while garden truck, melons and corn are the best ever known there. Fifteen hundred citizens of Kanarra and of Iron county have presented n petition to the commission praying that the proposed road 1" nun Cedar City to St. George be changed so as to permit the road to pass through Kanarra Kan-arra instead of one-half mile tv the west of the town. A recapitulation of the tax rolls of Salt Lake county, completed by the county auditor, shows the total valuation valu-ation of taxable property in the county, coun-ty, including the city, to be $30.!MH?,-714, $30.!MH?,-714, upon which the tax revenues for the year will total $5. 001 .'-'84.84 for all purposes. The Amalgamated Sugar factory In r.rigliaiii City will open this year's campaign on the 20th instant. The plant will be in full operation by October Oc-tober 1. The beets are testing well in sugar content and the crop is an enormous one this season. What is said to be the largest brewery brew-ery discovered since the state went dry was raided by police at Salt Lake last week. One hundred and eighty-two eighty-two quarts ami sixty pints of beer were confiscated, as well as cans, barrels, bar-rels, hose and strainer. Fines of $30 for stealing . watermelons watermel-ons were announced by City Judge D. It. Roberts in police court at Ogdon when .lames Pell, 25 years old, and Myron Hardy. 10, were found guilty of having taken melons from a patch tit Roy. Effort will be made to send a Utnbn to the convention of sealers of weights and measures in Chicago next month. The Utah Automobile association is Interested because the convention will discuss gasoline exclusively. The schools of Tintic district opened open-ed lust week with an "oirolluieut far exceeding that of any past year. The gain in attendance, as near as can lie estimated now, is about 20 per cent over that of last year. Peach day at Brigham City was bigger big-ger and better in every respect than i ever, according to expressed opinion of residents anil visitors alike. Ten thousand visitors came by automobile, train and interurban. With teamsters employed at the Globe Grain & Milling company's plant at Ogden asking for $10 per day and with common laborers asking for $." r day, 200 employes went on strike at boili plants. Carl E. Petersen of Ogden has 0o appointed to succeed Hans ,T. Christiansen Chris-tiansen of Salt Lake as president of the Scandinavian mission of the L. I. S. church, with headquarters at Copenhagen. A big carnival will be held at Cedar City September 23, 24 and 25, during dur-ing which horse racing will have a prominent part, as well us foot and automobile au-tomobile races, boxing and other athletic ath-letic sports.1. Eliminr.'.ion of profiteers in Utah food products through a system of cooperative co-operative marketing of crops was the dominant theme at the annual convention conven-tion of the Utah County Farm Pitreau association. Slaterville farmers have notified the city commission that they would serve an injunction, against the city of Ogden Og-den to prevent them from carrying out the flew sewerage extension. Leroy Freeman, 10 years of age, was instantly killed when he took hold of a high tension electric wire on a -Denver & Rio Grande trestle, three miles southwest of Murray. President Wilson will slop in Ogden for one hour on Tuesday, September 23, but it. is announced ho will make no addresses in (he Junction City. Houses are in great demand at Logan Lo-gan on account of the arrival of so many temporary residents coining for the opening of the colleges. Luella Herg, aged II!, was run down by an auto at Murray as she was going go-ing to the school building to register, and was fatally injured. The annual convention of the Utah county farm bureau was held in Lehi September 1 with more than 200 farmers farm-ers in attendance. One of the biggest celebrations in the history of Park City was the Welcome Wel-come Home on Labor day. Joseph Anderson of Lehi bus boon chosen president of the I'lali Stale Post must ei s' a.ssocia t ion. South Summit School district census report shows iH5 fewer pupils than last '! r. rc For the purpose of taking care of the guns and oilier equipment that has arrived til (ho University of I'lali to be used in (he field arlilbu-y corps, the war depart moot has granted authority for the enlistment of twenty yoitn men at a monthly salary of SOU. John Lynch, 42 years of iil-c. a returned re-turned soldier of the Canadian overseas over-seas forces, sustained injuries v. lien he fell from u rear window of a hotel at Salt Lake, striking his head on the pavement of the alley twenty feet below, be-low, which caused his dcalh Hires hours later. J |