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Show ! News Notes ! From All Parts of : UTAH Salt Lake, Ambrose Noble McKay general manager of The Salt Lake Tribune for the past fifteen years, nationally recognized as one of the most able men in newspaperdom, died at the Holy Cross hospital j after an illness of two weeks. I Duchesne, Irrigation of 6GS0 acres of land near Boneta and Alexander in Duchcjne county is contemplated by the Farmers'' Irrigation company of Bluebell, through a water filing made at the state engineer's office. The company asked authority to use 205 acre-feet of water from Deer lake. Salt Lake, The Utah-Idaho Sugai company has decided to erect a new sugar beet factory in the southern part of the province of Alberta, Canada, to replace the one in the Yakima valley, Wash., which is to be discontinued according to a statement state-ment made by Walter T. Pyper, secretary-treasurer of the Utah-Idaho Sugar company. This is in line with the policy of the company of discontinuing dis-continuing factories which are located lo-cated in poor sugar beet territory and moving them to more productive regions, re-gions, Mr. Pyper said. Moab, The Aulomobile club of southern California has completed the placing of signs on the tourist highways' leading from Colorado into Monticello, San Juan county. Eighty ornate steel signs have been placed on the highway from Cortez to Monticello Mon-ticello and during the summer months the California concern placed fifty-two fifty-two similar signs on the highways from Monticello to Green River via Moab. Spanish Fork, Work has been begun be-gun on an apartment house at the corner of Second North and Firs-t West streets. The building is be ing put up by Horace Fereday and will consist of six four-room apartments apart-ments heated from a central heating plant. The building is being erect-sd erect-sd at a cost of $19,000 and will be ready for tenants some time in February. Feb-ruary. It will be the first apartment apart-ment house in Spanish Fork. Logan, A luncheon for farmer and business men is being planned by the agricultural and industries committee com-mittee of the Logan chamber of commerce for December 12, when an effort will be made to promote a better feeling between the two groups and encourage them tc greater cooperation. co-operation. Provo, Bonds to the amount of $225,000 have been sold to the Palmer Pal-mer Bond & Mortgage company of 'Salt Lake City by Utah county, the money to be expended in the completion com-pletion of the city and county building, build-ing, and to make other improvements in 1he county. Salt Lake, George A. Storra), president of the Great Western Coal Mines company; Earl J. Weljh, Char les' M. Croft and Joseph S Welch, former fiscal agents of the concern entered pleas of not guilty to using the mails in a scheme to defraud when they were arraigned before Judge Tillman D. Johnson m the United States district court. Date of trial has not been set. Salt Lake, As a fitting token to the thirtieth anniversary of the founding of St. Mark's hospital training school for nurces, the alumnae alum-nae association of that organization intends starting a trust fund for building a new non-sectarian hospital in Salt Lake. Provo, The Utah County Farm bureau has' just issued a publication entitled "The Utah County Farm News." The first number is an eight-page eight-page magazine, which contains special spe-cial articles of interest to the farmers of this section. C. C. Child, in charge of the local office of the county or ganization, is the managing editor. Richfield, Laurence Johnston and William Jackling, deputies of the state fish and game commissioner, are taking spawn at Fish lake. The brook trout are spawning in great number and no difficulty will be experienced in obtaining ample spawn to stock the plants at Glen wood, Logan and Murray. Salt Lake, In an executive 'order issued by Governor Charles R. Ma-bey, Ma-bey, Adjutant General W. G. Williams Wil-liams was designated brigadier general gen-eral and assigned to the command of the Sixty-fifth field artillery of the Fortieth national guard division of the army. General Williams will continue con-tinue as adjutant general of Utah, his appointment as such being at the nleasure of the governor, and there being no legal obstacle in the way. Salt Lake, Utah's estimated corn production for 1924 totals 572,000 busheis, in terms of grain, as compared com-pared with 772,000 bushels in 1923, according to the monthly report is-sueo is-sueo by Frank Andrews, agricultural statistician. Provo, An effort to bring fifty elk from the Jackson Hole country to populate the Timpanogos district is the latest movement of Provo Ki-wanis Ki-wanis club members, who find that it will be impossible to procure that numbei from the Mt. Nebo district |