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Show 13 S News Notes 1 fa From All Parts of & I UTAH I fa Logan. The Cache county tax levy tor 1925 will be 1.8 mills higher than last year, accordnig to figures announced an-nounced by the board of county commissioners. com-missioners. The total levy will be 21.9 mills, as compared to 20.3 mills in 1924. Provo. An issue of the Ulster County Gazette, published at Kingston, King-ston, N. Y., January 4,1800, has been presented to the Brigham Young university uni-versity by Mrs. Anna Craig, to be placed iu the old document room of the new library building. The inside pages are ruled with heavy black lines, an insigna of mourning, due to the death of George Washington, an account of whose funeral servises are published in the paper. Cedar City. Cedar City Post No. 74 American Legion, has named all committees and they have now mapped map-ped out the complete plans for the Cedar City rodeo to be held here September Sep-tember 3, 4 and 5. Ogden. The rumble of Ogden's next political campaign is being heard. Within two months the terms of Mayor Kirkendall, City Commissioner Commis-sioner Arthur F. Larson and City Auditor Mary E. Farley, will expire and factions are busy lining up their prospective candidates. Murray. Practically all business houses in Murray will close at noon on August 26, the day set aside by the Greater Murray league for its annual an-nual celebration which is to be held at Saratoga Springs. Plans for the event are well under way, according to Mayor Isaac Lester, who is chairman chair-man of the committee having the arrangements ar-rangements in charge, as well as chairman of the league. Ogden. -The Utah Construction company has received the contract for the building of a road from Castle Valley to Nioche through Salian canyon can-yon for the Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad, it was announced at the company's general office here. The Utah Construction company graded grad-ed this section before 1900, but no railroad was built upon it then and. soon the section graded was used for a highway. When the railroad company com-pany recently attempted to take it over -for the purpose of building a railroad line a dispute arose and only recently the litigation ended in favor of the railroad. Salt Lake City. If the state intends in-tends to collect tax on gasoline shipped ship-ped by the city in 1923 from outside the state it will have to file suit, according ac-cording to W. H. Folland, city attorney, at-torney, to whom a demand from the secretary of state for $1530.27 tax, f 3S2.56 penalty and interest was re- ' ferred. The state bases its clain on six cars of gasoline shipped in between be-tween July 2, 1923, and August 29, 1923, totalling 61,211 gallons, at 2y2 cents a gallon tax. Unless the tax is paid, H. E. Crockett, secretary of state, writes, the attorney general will be instructed to proceed to collect. col-lect. Salt Lake City. Nonresidents of Salt Lake City school district will be required to pay $50 a semester or $100 for. the school year in tuition if they desire to attend a senior high school, as a result of action taken by the board of education on recommendation recommen-dation of G. N. Child, city superintendent superin-tendent of schools. Salt Lake City. On account of lack of funds with which to purchase additional addi-tional meters, the city water department depart-ment was authorized by the city commission com-mission to cease the compulsory installation in-stallation of water meters in the third zone this year. Richfield. The officers and directors direc-tors of the Sevier County Fair association asso-ciation are working assiduously to make the county fair this year the most successful in the history of Sevier Se-vier county. Dr. I. L. Nebeker is the manager and he has spared neither effort nor expense to obtain the best attractions available. An excellent rodeo will be given, with cowboys from neighboring counties participating. participat-ing. Myton. Work on the federal aid road under the supervision of Sum-sion Sum-sion &. Clyde, contractors, on the My-ton-Antelope section is progressing in a satisfactory manner. The camp has been established not far from the river, riv-er, near the Anl elope end of the road. About twenty-five men are at work, wifh twenty-one teams. Nearly a mile of the road grade is finished, and in a short time they expect to start on the bridge. Salt Lake City. Matters of keen interest to silver producers of North and South America was concluded at the meeting of the board of directors of the American Silver Producers' association. The directors adjourned at the Hotel Utah to meet again in the near future at the call of President Presi-dent W. Mont Ferry. Price. A program of entertainment is to he provided at the annual banquet ban-quet of tiie Rocky Mountain Coal Mining Min-ing institute when the coal mining officials visit here August 20. 27, and 2S for their twentieth convention. |