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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE Utah no longer holds second phvn In the Increase of national guanl forces. That distinction lias falien to i Porto Hico, whl-h In July showed fin i enlistment of 13U7 men out of an allot-1 allot-1 ment of 1G41. Vtah on July 31 had au j enlistment of ,"70 men out of an allotted al-lotted number of 71,'i. and is relegated to third place. From Millard county coiner the information in-formation that grasshoppers have.-j have.-j made their appearance in the region : about Ratios!!, llatton. the s:n!j Firms j Hi Fillmore and north of Scipio and I nround lVltu. Fanners have begun n war of extermination by using poison. A shortage of eggs witnin the next few mi nulls and an increase in prices Is certain, Waller M. Hoyden, state ! dairy and food commissioner says, following fol-lowing a survey of toe egg production in I'tah and observation of conditions relative to egg supplies in general. The schools of Uintah county will f operate during the en.siiing school year with a full corps of teacners as the result of the carrying, by a .' to 1 vote, the spoeittl election for the increasing in-creasing of the tax levy by $L'4,i.H)t), in order to accomplish this result. The manager of the Utah State Fair association announces (hat worl; Is under way at the fair grounds, which indicates that increased facilities will be nvallnble this fall, and that both patrons and exhibitors will find many improvements awaiting them. Damage in excess of $,'!(KH) was caused by the seepage of irrigation Witter Wit-ter from the hills one mile east of the Agricultural college at Logan to land near the mouth of Logan canyon and also to the Logan. Ilvde Park and Smithfield canal. Charles Chaplin, of pie-throwing fame, has been in Salt Lake for several sev-eral days. He registered at the Hotel Utah under the name of Charles Spencer Spen-cer of Los Angeles and came lo Utah in hope of dodging-newspaper men and process servers. Strikes of musicians, moving picture operators a-nd other union employees of film houses of Salt Lake are threatened September 1 by the demands de-mands of the unions for increased wage -scales and other contract changes. The tax levies for the Ogden city schools, Weber county schools and. Weber county for the year of D2U-have D2U-have been fixed by the board of county coun-ty commissioners. In all cases there Is au increase over the levies of 19V.. M. H. Zollinger of Providence was severely shocked when the pole of a hay derrick which he was moving collided col-lided with au electric wire. The current cur-rent rendered him unconscious for a short time. The old folks' committee of the Utah stake lias announced the annual reunion re-union for September 8, wheu all of the aged people of Provo will b taken to Springville for a fruit festival and outing. More than 11,000 automobile tourists passed through Utah during July, according ac-cording to figures compiled by the manager of the touring department of the Utah State Automobile association. Sugar beet acreage in Utah on August Au-gust 1, according to M. M. Justin, sta-tisician sta-tisician of the bureau of crop estimates, esti-mates, aggregated 113,000 acres, or 10,000 acres more than in 19J9. In the Morgan county school there were enrolled during the year 40G boys and 37S girls, a total of 7S4, an increase in-crease over the enrollment of last year of eighty-three pupils. Charles Henry Brandley, 14 years of age, of Salt Lake, was killed in an elevator ele-vator accident at the Twin Peaks Canning Can-ning factory at Murray, where the boy was employed. The contract for the construction of the Manii-Pigeon Hollow highway in Sanpete county has been awarded tu O'.of Nelson, whose bid was 420,000. At the eleventh annual outing of thn Utah Manufacturers' association, held at Lagoon, more than S2000 worth ol Utah products were given away. Tin- Delta Commercial club is planning plan-ning the biggest advertising campaign in the history of the city duriug the coming fall and winter. John Gomoll, aged 20, a truck driver, was probably fatally injured when his truck was struck by a loco- - - motive near Salt Lake. The salaries of all members of the Ogden fire department have been Increased In-creased $10 a month by the action of the city commission. , The proposition to organize Webet county into an irrigation district carried car-ried by an overwhelming majority at the recent election. Charged with stealing an automobile, automo-bile, Verne Galiinger, aged 15, of Salt Lake, will probably be seut to Hie reform re-form school. Announcement is made that James W. Funk of Richmond, president of the state senate, has resig 1 as federal fair price commissioner of Utah Isaac Blair Evans is to have charge vf the office. Many thousands of acivs of 'heaf, oats, barley and corn owned by homesteaders home-steaders in the Uintah Indian reservation reserva-tion are burning up for want of water, according to complaints made by white I settlers on the reservation. At a meeting between the board of regents of the University of I'tah, the stale board of examiners and the slate land hoard. It was decided that thu laud hoard should advance JL'IO.OOO to the university for the construction ot stables and buildings to house the equipment oT the field artillery battery tjrgan: :.vtl til the state school. I |