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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE Need of school cafeterias, which are found in some districts of Utah, is shown, educators say, in the public schools of Oi'den, whore, according to figures prepared by the superintendent superintend-ent and given to State Superintendent George N. Child, there are S9ti pupils who eat cold luncheons every day. Timber sales out of the ordinary are being nmtle on the Mantl forests of southern Utah, according to word to the local forest service at Ogden. It is stated that oak and maple brush is being sold to meat-packing companies compan-ies to be used in connection with meat-smoking meat-smoking purposes. The county commissioners of Summit Sum-mit county have applied for assistance from the forest service in constructing construct-ing the road between Oakley and llay-den. llay-den. The road is to be thirty-six miles l long and will cost approximately $120,000. The promoters of the Ogden livestock live-stock show to be held in Ogden Jan uary 8, 9 and 10, report that the stock-racers stock-racers from the iiitermountnin slates have announced their intention of having hav-ing exhibits on hand for the event. Utah's gobs are making good, their record for promotions being better than that of any other state in the intermountain region, is the statement of Lieut. Com. L. R. Mann, head of the local navy recruiting office. In his report to the board of education, educa-tion, Superintendent C. H. Skidmore says there are 1S46 students between the ages of 13 and 17, inclusive, in the Boxelder school district and that 200 are not attending school. Efforts of Supt. George N. Child to have a parent-teacher organization formed in every school in the state is meeting with the hearty approval of educators, according to letters received at the superintendent's office. "Practically all the live stock in Utah has left the summer range and the movement to winter range is in rapid progress," is the view of M. M. Justin, agent of the department of agriculture agricul-ture for Utah. Utah sheepmen, fearing that the sale of Australian and New Zealand wool in America during the latter part of No-vomber No-vomber will cause a depression of the market, have protested to the govern-neiit. govern-neiit. Several families in Brigham City are Quarantined for smallpox, and new cases are being reported. The health officers are doing all in their power to prevent further spread of the disease. dis-ease. At a meeting of the stockholders of the Lebi Irrigation company last week the articles of incorporation were amended so as to provide for the purchase of more water for the system. sys-tem. The digging of beets and potatoes progressed with some difficulty through the week in the northern agricultural agri-cultural regions, particularly the Cache valley, because of the snow. The county commisslonei s declined to build a central institution to care for the indigent, aged, infirm and feeble-minded, at the suggestion of the Merchants of Ogden association. Fourteen-year-old Irving Waterfall will recover from the injury suffered when he was accidentally shot by a pla;mate at Salt Lake, unless some in-fetyiion in-fetyiion should develop. itfintah county was the first to send Ik to the state treasurer the taxes col-ytcG& col-ytcG& under the 1919 levy. The total tax collected for remittance (to the state was $4544.31. Carrying the wishes of the Utah American Legion embodied in fifteen resolutions three delegates to the national na-tional convention in Minneapolis were sent from Utah. City firemen of Salt Lake have petitioned peti-tioned the city commission for an increase in-crease of wages which amounts to $35 a month for firemen and $5 monthly for lieutenants. Patriarch John Duke died at Heber City at the age of 82. Mr. , Duke was one the the pioneer settlers of that locality and was the father of the mayor-elect. A grocery store at Hyde Park was destroyed by fire. A large coal oil can in the store kept people from entering en-tering the building after the fire was discovered. Water survey of the state under the law enacted by the Thirteenth legislature legis-lature is to begin at an early date under un-der the supervision of the state engineer. en-gineer. From the estate -of the late Mrs. Russell Rus-sell Sage, who died in New York on November 4, 1918, the state of Utah will receive $74,200 in inheritance tax. Morgan county teachers held their institute last week. Ninety-five per cent of the teachers were present. About 85 per cent of the coal miners in the Carbon county coal fields are now at work. The war mothers of Park City are forming an auxiliary to the American Legion. The government does not intend to abandon the Helper-Duchesne road as a mail route, according to officials who have been in Duchesne to investigate conditions. A rumor has been current that the road would be abandoned in favor of the Price-Myton route. To offer the co-operation and sup port of Moffat county, Colorado, in the movement of the Commercial club and Governor Bamberger for the construction con-struction of a railroad Into the Uintah Imsln country, a delegation of citizens of Moffat county will visit Salt Lake, November 10. |