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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE One death has resulted from tlu? automobile au-tomobile accident north of Beak's Hot Springs Sunday night, when a Cadillac driven by Curtis B. I.Iawley, Jr., ran into a Ford occupied' by W. J. Thayne-of Thayne-of North Farmli:glon, and family, injuring in-juring all seven of the occupants. Dorothy Thayne, infant child of Mr. and Mrs.. W. J. Thayne, whose skull was fractured and who also suffered internal injuries, died at St. Mark's hospital. , Preliminary plans have been held in the office of President E. G. Pel.! of tti Uih Agrieu'tn.'-a.C'OYfege to organize or-ganize a mavkeTT'eporfing service for the farmers- of Utah to keep them in constant touch with the fluctuating prices of farm products. The Utah Agricultural college, the state farm bureau and the federal bureau of markets mar-kets will co-operate in supplying and distributing this information. Accompanied by their attorney, W. W. Ray, formerly United States district dis-trict attorney, various seed merchants of Salt Lake and Utah met with the elate crop and pests commission to protest against the enforcement of certain cer-tain features of the "p"ure seed" law passed by the 1919 legislature. The law requires that the label on packages pack-ages of seeds sold on the Utah market mar-ket shall explain exactly what is being be-ing sold in the package. A. A. Mease" of Shoshone, Wyo., has applied to the state land board for a lease on a section of land in Emery county, where he expects to drill for oil. Chris Nielson, also of Shoshone, is asking for a lease on 920 acres in the same locality. The applications were considered by the state land board and were taken under advisement. advise-ment. Since' January 1 automobile accidents acci-dents have been responsible for the death of twelve persons within the city of Salt Lake. In the first half of the present year the number of deaths from these accidents was more than double the number for the entire year of 1919. Alfalfa seed producers in Carbon and Emery counties are planning on one of the biggest seed harvests in years. Weather conditions so far have been the best and if nothing unavoidable un-avoidable happens within the next month a wonderfully big crop will be harvested. E. W. Robinson, recently appointed as county leader of the boys' and girls' clubs of Weber county, has begun the task of getting the work of the clubs lined up for the remainder of the year. The best products raised by the boys and girls will be shown at the state fair. Farmers who use the Weber river for irrigation purposes are benefiting from a volume of water three times as great as last year, according to A. B. Purton, district engineer of the water wa-ter resources branch of the United States geological survey. The street department of Ogden will lend its aid in the fight to exterminate extermin-ate noxious weeds. G. E. Pettigrew, crops pest inspector of the county, has been making a campaign against weeds and his request for .aid in the city was granted by Commissioner Flygare. A pension of $12 a month, dating from March 4, 191", has been granted by the federal government to Mrs. Sarah Ann Morrill of Richfield, whose late husband served under Captain James Andrus in the Blackhawk Indian In-dian campaigns. The proposition to issue $00,000 in bonds carried at Murray by a vote of l'!X to 53. Of the total, $50,000 is for street improvements, including $15,-94-1.75 now owing for paving on Vine street, and $10,000 is for the waterworks water-works system. Ogden's half'-million-dollar paving program is now in full swing, with three steam shovels working in various vari-ous districts of the city and aspbaltum being laid upon the streets where the concrete base has been laid. Sheriff J. T. AVilliams has gone to Alameda, Calif., to bring back George Knight, who is charged with committing commit-ting many robberies in Utah county. He has confessed to all the robberies charged against him. David Ellsworth Burley, 71 years of age, former general passenger agent of the Oregon Short Line, died last week at St. Mark's hospital of septicaemia, after an Illness of two months. Pour Denver & Rio Grande section workmen were killed as a result of an accident at Castilla Springs Tuesday morning. July was the banner month in the history of the Salt Lake army recruiting recruit-ing station. During the month a total of 161 men were enlisted in the various departments of the army. The month ended with the highest peak attained, at-tained, when fourteen men pledged themselves to Uncle Sam's service. In the week ending August 31 fifty-one men were enlisted. Scenes of Salt T-ake. Bryce canyon, Zion canyon and other Utah scenic sections, together with views of Utah irrigation projects in operation and some of the farms which they have caused to grow out of the desert, will j be exhibited next fall and winter in j the public schools of Chicago. Mrs. May Sullivan. 30 years of age, j who took antiseptic tablets at the White House hotel last week after her husband, Frank Sullivan is said to iave deserted her. died at the Salt Lake county hospital Saturday. j |