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Show l News Notes 1 a It's a Privilege to Live in ' J Utah 11 Salt Lake City. Indications point o a remarkable attendance from tax-layers tax-layers all over the state to the Utah Taxpayers Association convention to i )e held at Salt Lake City on Decern-ser Decern-ser 7th. Governor Dern will give an iddress of welcome and tax problems A'ill be discussed by leading taxpayers !rom different parts of Utah. i Price. Greek residents of Carbon jounty have volunteered their finan-:ial finan-:ial support in the equipping of the jperatiug room of the Price hospital. Provo. The youngest bride during Wallace M. Hales' tenure as county :lerk of Utah county appeared to aave the nuptial knot tied recently. She was Myrie Bird, 14-year-old laughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Bird 3f Mapleton, who was married to Richard Perry, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mark L. Peery, also of Mapleton. The bride's parents acquiesced in the mar-Mage. mar-Mage. Provo. Probably the largest check received by Utah county for taxes of -ne concern reached the treasurer's iffice from the Tintic Standard Mining Min-ing company in the sum of $23S,340.-H. $23S,340.-H. Fort Duchesne. Three representatives representa-tives of Indian tribes here, accompanied accom-panied by Superintendent F. A. Gross of the Uinta and Ouray agency, have left for Washington, D. C, where a conference is said to be planned to consider grazing fees and lands In which the Indians are interested. Logan. More than 160 farmers, business men, manufacturers, cattle? men and special guests representing all of Cache Valley's industries, gathered gath-ered at the Hotel Eccles here for the becond annual harvest dinner given by the local chamber of commerce. Vernal. Following an agreement between the city of Denver and the Northwestern Terminal Railway company, com-pany, a subsidiary of the Moffat railway, rail-way, in regard to the settlement of unpaid taxes aggregating $260,000, negotiations are now under way in New York to secure the underwriting of the reorganization plan of the Denver & Salt Lake railway (Moffat road), it has been learned here. Salt Lake City. Before the greatest great-est crowd ever assembled to see a scholastic football game in Utah, the Red and Black elevens of the East and West high schools battled sixty minutes to a 0-0 tie on Cummings field. The result finds the Salt Lake division without a champion, as both elevens have won all other .games. Price. Discontinuance of the ninth and tenth grades of the Wattis school has been ordered by the Carbon county coun-ty board of education. The reason for the action is that the enrollment of the two grades has been reduced to nine students. The order for the dropping of the two grades will not become effective until the close of the first semester next month. Nephi.- Thirty-four thousand fin-gerling fin-gerling rainbow trout were planted in Burraston pond under the direction . of the Nephi Fish and Game club. The fish were received from the state hatchery hat-chery at Springville and is the first consignment to these waters for a number of years, due to the fact that no screens were at the outlet to hold the fish from going into the Mona reservoir. Richfield. A festival was held In the Anona to celebrate the end of the harvest season. The crops in this locality lo-cality have all been harvested and the profits therefrom represent the best obtained since the war. The most bounteous crops in years were grown in Sevier county this year. Salt Lake City. A state wide convention con-vention of the Utah Taxpayers association asso-ciation will be held on December 7th at the Newhouse Hotel, Salt Lake City. The taxpayers committee from all counties of the state will join with the General committee to discuss the problems which confront the taxpayers taxpay-ers of Utah. The sessions will be held at 10 and 2 o'clock with a big dinner meeting at 6:30 p. m. Salt Lake City. Automobile mileage mile-age for employes of tho state has been fixed at 7 cents to 13 cents a mile, the latter figure when more than 45 cents is charged for gasoline per gallon. When no receipts are turned in with the statement of the mileage, the lowest schedule will be applied and this means no receipts are required when the price of gasoline gas-oline is 25 cents a gallon or less. The new schedule means a reduction in the amount which has been allowed heretofore and no figure is given for the high priced cars, the director of finance and purchase holding that t3 big cars are not necessary for the service of the state. Provo. The 1923 school census of Frovo has just been completed, showing show-ing a total of 3911 boys and girls of school age in Provo, a gain of twenty-one twenty-one over the census of 1924, which showed a school pupulation of 3S90. The census shows a total of 1975 boys and 1936 girls of school age. Ogden.- Building of extensive ad ditions to the Ogden Union stock' yards to meet the demands of increasing in-creasing growth, will begin early in the spring of 1926, Lester F. Whit-lock, Whit-lock, general maneger of the stockyards, stock-yards, announced. |