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Show UTAH BUDGET Headquarters for boosting the sale in Utah of war savings certificates and stamps have been established at Salt Lake. Letters indicating that the Forty-third Forty-third infantry will be in France by or soon after the first of the year, have been received in Salt Lake. Ogdeu property owners who tried to prevent the city from paving streets in one of the city's districts last week lost their appeal in the supreme court. Safety features will predominate in the new book of rules governing operation op-eration of jitney busses, now being compiled by the state public utilities commission. Gerald W. Mills, train dispatcher, has assumed full responsibility for the head-on collision on the O., L. & I. at Fairview, iu which three trainmen were killed. Lance Corporal Lawrence C. Symon of the Royal Canadian regiment and a brother of Mrs. Alice McQueen of Salt Lake, has been killed in action on the firing line in France. Housewives are being unnecessarily alarmed in Salt Lake, and are wasting much good fruit, because of reports of defective fruit jars which were given out last week, it is asserted. The Ogdeu Retail Merchants' association asso-ciation has appointed a special committee com-mittee to investigate and recommend su:;h readjustment of the present credit cred-it system as may be advisable. Despite the fact that Price is known as a "coal mining town," dealers aud consumers appear to be as bereft of coal as if they were located hundreds of miles from the source of supply. Oil the charge of embezzling $49.50 from a Salt Lake firm, H. A. Sibert-son Sibert-son was sentenced to four months in the county jail. The fact that lie was in poor health and that he had a sick wife saved him from a more severe sentence. Antonia Burta was shot and killed and his wife probably blinded for life during a shooting affray at Castle Gate between Frank Montenetti and Carmen Car-men Bonacci, both of whom are under un-der arrest. The Burtas were acting as peacemakers. Master bakers, representing nearly all the baking houses in Salt Lake, made solemn promise at a meeting last week that they will abide with the very minutest regulations of the national food administration relative to the baking of bread. An electric crane 250 feet high with a lifting capacity of forty tons was installed at Salt Lake last week by the Oregon Short Line. It cost $11,000 at the factory. It is mounted on rails and will be used for lifting heavy ma-' chinery out of cars. The Thanksgiving gift of Salt Lake school children this year is to go to the stricken and suffering Armenians. The public schools of the city contributed contrib-uted through the pupils $1000, the largest sum ever raised among the school kiddies for Thanksgiving gift. George Randolph, who was twice brought before the authorities at Bingham Bing-ham by mistake as a suspected slacker, slack-er, has proved he's made of sterner stuff than the nebulous incertitude out of which slackers resolve themselves. He has enlisted in the army as a tailor. The state treasurer has received a United States treasury check from William G. McAdoo, secretary of the treasury, as Utah's share in settlement settle-ment of the government's appropriation appropria-tion for the first and second quarters of 191S of the fund for promotion of vocational education. Due to action taken by the state public utilities commission promise is given by the Western Union Telegraph company of better service at Helper. A complaint recently described poor delivery service at Helper and the commission com-mission took up the question direct with the telegraph company. Poison tablets dropped In watering troughs are believed to be responsible for the death of fifty sheep in the Chris Larson flock at Delta, and for illness that threatens to destroy more sheep on the Larson ranch and among ther flocks in this and nearby districts. dis-tricts. Special courses in telegraphy, under un-der a practical telegrapher, in gas motors mo-tors for those who want to enter the truck division of the quartermasters' lepartment, and in aeroplane engines, nd aeronautics for those wishing to in the aviation section have been arranged ar-ranged by the Utah Agricultural college. col-lege. One thousand bushels of potatoes were picked and sacked by three young women of Payson, who then proceeded to the beet fields, where they harvested harvest-ed and loaded beets from thirty-five acres of ground, which will yield sufficient suffi-cient sugar to sustain 1000 soldiers at the front with full supply of sugar for one year. Suddenly taken ill as he was relieved re-lieved from his post nt gunrd, Leroy Curtis, a private of F battery, whose home was in Payson, died twenty minutes min-utes later in the Utah infirmary at Cump Kearny. The health authorities at Brigham City state that they have met with great difficulty in their attempts to check the spread of smallpox, owing to the fact that families nfflicted persistently per-sistently refu.Te to abide by the quarantine quar-antine regulations. A schedule of increased prices for farmers' products for canning purposes pur-poses ranging from an increase of ifU for pumpkins to ?'J0 for peas, was adopted for Weber county at a meet-i meet-i ing of representatives of the fanners. I The canning companies have ,iol yet accepted the new schedule. |