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Show I 1 i Pithy News Notes From All Parts of I UTAH Manti Professor J. C. Ilogenson ol tLe Agricultural college at Logan, in company with County Farm Agent C. ). Stott, has completed a tour of inspection in-spection of the wheat fields of Sanpete San-pete county for certification. Forty fields were visited, from Artell on the south to Fountain Green and Melburn on the north. It was learned that some of the certified seed shipped into the county last spring was not up to the standard, so that only nineteen fields of the forty examined were certified. cer-tified. However, the owners of the rejected fields will be able to head select seed and have this selected seed certified next season. Sixteen of the fields which were certified were Dicklow, two were Turkey Red and one Kansas Red. Vernal. In investigating weights and measures in the Uintah basin, inspectors in-spectors of the food and dairy department depart-ment of the state have discovered a peculiar condition. It appears that a farmer takes his grain to mill and in return for the grist takes flour which is put in sacks by the miller, branded forty-eight pounds net, but which in reality only contain forty-five pounds. The farmer then trades the sack for groceries to the amount of the worth of forty-eight pounds of flour, while the miller only receives grain to the worth of forty-five pounds of flour, so that he is underselling the grocer to the extent of three pounds of flour on each sack. Millers are advised to remark re-mark the sacks with the conect weight. Salt Lake. National community song week which has been carried out in Salt Lake has been made a grand success. Thousands of voices have joined in singing. In all the theatres and moving picture shows special song leaders have been appointed and led in singing popular pieces. The event met with instant approval and the idea has even been carried into the homes. Each day along with the noonday tabernacle organ recital a song practice has been held. Salt Lake. The bureau of child hygiene hy-giene of the state board of health will continue activities during the month with the establishment of clinics at Tremonton and other towns in Box-elder Box-elder county. The clinics as heretofore hereto-fore will be conducted with aid from the U. S. public health service. Complying Com-plying with the Sheppard-Towner act, commonly known as the federal maternity mater-nity bill, the government has made available to the state board of health funds for the purpose of carrying on further activities in its bureau of child hygiene. Salt Lake. 'Several hundred thousand thou-sand acres of government land in the southern part of San Juan county has been thrown open to oil filings by a recent federal land office ruling, according ac-cording to an announcement made by Gould B. Blakely, register of the local federal land office. The land in question ques-tion was withdrawn from public entry en-try in 1907 by a government order setting it aside for a Piute Indian reservation. res-ervation. This order has been vacated. vacat-ed. Salina. Dr. W. A. Stephensen, state veterinarian, lias completed tests among the cattle in the north Sanpete county region for tuberculosis and found thirty reactors. These animals have been shipped to Salt Lake City and will be slaughtered and the carcases car-cases destroyed. The cost of the state will be about $1500. Salt Lake. Charges that his wife choked, beat and otherwise mistreated mistreat-ed him were made by Frank Wilson in Judge W. M. McCrea's division of the Third district court. He was given a divorce from Fay Wilson. - Ogden. A war on weeds has been started here. The city physician is in charge of the work. Vernal. The crickets which consti. tuted a great pest in the Blue mountain moun-tain country for some time are leaving leav-ing that section for the south. Provo. Provo, Springville and Spanish Span-ish Fork celebrated the completion of the concrete road which links the three cities together. Trovo. Dr. Caroline Heger, M. D., of the Elizabeth McCormack memorial fund of Chicago, will deliver a series of lectures in the county, August 21 to 24 inclusive During the war Miss Heger was engaged with the United States relief council and comes to the county highly recommended as an authority on the proper conduct of children and home economics. Salt Lake. D. F. Willey, 23 years old, of 721 South Third East street, is reported missing from his home since July 17. His wife and his father, Jed Wiley, have asked authorities to aid in the search for him. Salt Lake. Announcement has been made by J. H. Ray-burn, secretary of the Commercial cluO, that a drive to raise $50,000 to continue and expand the Utah and Salt Lake advertising campaign throughout the country, would be started late next month. |