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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE Business men of Salt Lake have decided de-cided to tour the southern part of the state, visiting Zlon canyon, Bryce's canyon, Provo, Pleasant Grove, Mount Pleasant, Gunnison, Richfield, Marys-vale, Marys-vale, Cedar City, St. George, Beaver, Fillmore and Nephi to bring about amicable trade relations with business men of that district. Recommendations for the curtailing curtail-ing of the road program in Grand and San Juan counties to the completion of work already well along, and by the elimination of improvements of the route where a good road already exists, will be made by Joseph Ririe, state auditor, to the state road commission. com-mission. The American School Citizenship league will bold its annual meeting tn the tabernacle at Salt Lake, Friday, Fri-day, July 9. This is one of the associations as-sociations that always meet with the N. E. A. and many people come to the national education convention for the express purpose of attending it. The National Geographic society, which numbers 800,000 members in the United States alone, will hold one of the most important meetings of the year in Salt Lake during the sojourn of the delegates to the meeting of the National Education association beginning be-ginning July 4. A winter wheat production for 1920 In Utah of 2,912,000 bushels as against 1,722,000 bushels actually produced last year, and a spring wheat production of 2,998,000 bushels, as against l,9bt,-000 l,9bt,-000 last year, are the predictions of the June 1 federal crop report. Land cases involving more than 65,-000 65,-000 acres of land in the Uintah basin now pending in the United States district dis-trict court will probably be dismissed under a recent congressional act and referred to the secretary of interior for final action. A lighted cigarette is believed to have -caused the fire which destroyed the moving picture show at Soldier Summit, owned by William Eddie and valued at $4500. The theatre was covered cov-ered by fire insurance to the extent of $1500. Two hundred and ninely thousand dollars have been paid into the receivership receiv-ership of the defunct Merchants bank at Salt Lake, as a result of settlements settle-ments of an $800,000 damage suit against former directors, out of court. J. T. Lake was convicted at Salt Lake on a charge of involuntary manslaughter man-slaughter as a result of the death of LeRoy Anderson, 9 years of age, under the wheels of an automobile driven by Lake, December 1, 1919. Negotiations tending toward a settlement set-tlement of the dispute between the Utah Contractors' association and the Building Trades council at Salt Lake are again at a standstill, and the union workers are still on strike. Captured in the bad lands west of Vernal while riding two horses said to be owned by citizens of Woodruff, Melvin Hackford and Philip Van, Jr., were arrested by Sheriff Wilson of Rich county. . Seventeen cadets of the R. O. T. C. at the Utah Agricultural college have been appointed to attend the reserve officers' training camps. The men will leave in time to report on June 17. Mrs. S. F. Johnson of Salt Lake, suffered a broken leg at rendleton. Ore., when an automobile in which she was a passenger was struck by a freight train. The total assessed valuation of Grand county, exclusive of the railroads, rail-roads, telegraph and telephone lines and other public utilities, amounts to $2,555,008. Wheat and alfalfa have made rapid advancement because of the warm weather, according to the weekly weather, crop and range report. Judge Tillman D. Johnson of the United States district court at. Salt Lake, was elected president of the Utah Baptist state convention. Brighum City Is to have a real live musical organization a brass band that can be depended upon to furnish good music for all occasions. The annual old folks' summer outing out-ing will he held Tuesday, June 2'i, at Sallair. Pioneers from every section of the state will attend. Plans are under way for the Utah State Press association convention to be held ut Salt Lake City, June 21 and 22. The thirty-seventh annunl convention conven-tion of the Utah Baptist churches was held last week in Salt Lake. With ?025O subscribed to cover expenses. ex-penses. It is assured the Utah Agricultural Agri-cultural College Glee club of Logan will accompany the Rotary club delegates dele-gates to the international convention of Rotary clubs to be held In Atlantic City. Former I'resident William Howard Taft was the speaker at a dinner given by the Bonneville club at Salt Lake on June 5. Mr. Tuft Is on a tour of the country preaching the needs for end the requirements of Americanism. An invitation has been extended to the Utah branch of the League of Women Voters to send representatives to attend the convention of the International Inter-national Council of Women, which will be held at Christian ia, Norway, September Sep-tember 8 to 10. First steps the Ktflte of Utah In preparation for the .'IfiOth anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers will be made at the summer session of the University of Utah when a ! class, essentially for high school teachers in pngent ami paf-ant writing, writ-ing, will I e formed. |