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Show News Notes From All Parts of J ! UTAH Ogden, The R. A. Moyes company filed suit in the Second district court against T. 71. Beacom, receiver of the Denver & lilo Grande Western-Railroad Western-Railroad company, to collect damages amounting to $10,SO0 claimed to have-been have-been done the Moyes ranch in Weber county by fire caused by sparks from a locomotive of the company. Salt Lake, To get the viewpoint of the men regarding policies of the bureau and to explain their rights under the new rehabilitation act, Brigadier General Frank T. lines, chief do the veterans' bureau, has conferred with nearly 200 delegates to the D. A. V. convention. Provo, Lee L. Baker, senior mem ber of the law firm of Baker. & Baker left Provo this week to attend the annual convention of the American Bar association at Philadelphia, winch will convene there July 17. Mr. Baker will represent the Utah State Bar and the Utah Country Bar asso ciations. After the conventions Mr. Baker will be joined by Mrs. Baker, who is now attending the Democratic national convention in New York and they will board the S. S. Berengaria to attend the joint convention of the American, Canadian and British Bar associations at London. Provo, The thirteenth annual Timpanogos hike is scheduled to take place July 18, 19 and 20, and all the affiliated hiking clubs and organizations organiza-tions of Utah will - unite in making the affair a mountain-climbing classic class-ic of national importance. The college col-lege outdoor enthusiasts will, as usual furnish the major part of the hiking group, but; they will be reinforced rein-forced by hundreds of mountaineers from various other organizations. Logan, The annual summer camp which is being held at the Presidio at San Francisco for advanced R. O. T. C. students' of the Utah Agricultural Agricul-tural college and the Oregon Agricultural Agri-cultural college is progressing favorably, favor-ably, according to word received hers by military officials of the college. Salt Lake, Five of the men attending at-tending the R. O. T. C. summer encampment en-campment at Camp Lewis, Wash., have been made expert pistol shots, according to word recently received from one of their number. The Utah men are the only ones at the camp-to camp-to be given the honor so far. Tremonton. A meeting of the delegates del-egates previously selected at various meetings of wheat growers throughout through-out the country, was held in this city for the purpose of perfecting an organization or-ganization and completing incorporation incorpora-tion under the co-operative association associa-tion law. The corporation will be known as the Box Elder County Wheat Growers' Association, and its principal place of business will be in this city. Salt Lake City. Frank Cook was. elected to the presidency of tho chamber of commerce at the first meeting of the new board of governors gover-nors held this week. H F. Dicke was chosen vice presedent, Sherman Armstrong Arm-strong treasurer and J. H. Rayburn reapppinted to the secretaryship of the organization. Salt Lake City. Coal mine regulations regu-lations recently adopted by Utah place this state in the lead in accident acci-dent prevention measures, D. J. Parker, Park-er, chief engineer of the mine safety service of the federal bureau of mines said. The bureau is now laying lay-ing plans for a much more intensive campaign for promoting safety in coal and metal mines. Salt Lake City. Plans for the third annual conference of Utah Christian Endeavorers have been perfected. The conference wiil he held July 11 to 19 at Upper Falls, Provo Canyon, daring which time the resort will be turned over entirely to the Endeavorers. Salt Lake City. Registration at the University of Utah Summer School has equalled that of last year at this time and all ind cations point to a year which will equal if not surpass sur-pass the summer session of the pre-viou pre-viou year, according to Deal Milton Bennion. The total registration of last year reached 1,111 students for the two terms, which was an excellent excel-lent sum ner school attenianr.e. The summer school is divided ir.to two terms, 1he first term being now in progress and the second running from July 28 to August 29, including includ-ing Saturdays. Students can register for the second term and obtain a complete course of instruction, thru the usual high standards of ths school which are always observed at the University. Provo. A district court grand jury has been summoned to meet in Provo July 9 to investigate among other things the afairs of the Payson Exchange Ex-change and Savings bank which recently re-cently was closed by the state bank examiner. Spanish Fork Official call for the sixth annual convention of the American Legion, department of Utah, was issued by state officers this week. The convention is to be held at Spanish Fork this year, dates named in the call being August 7. , |