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Show Intermountain News Briefly Told for Busy Readers POOL IS HELD OVER. WORK LET IN IDAHO. U. S. TO BI ILD SOON. DROUTH MEET PLANNED. HEAVY SUGAR PAY. IDAHO FALLS, IDA. $1,230,000 - was paid by the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company to growers of the Upper Snake valley for beets delivered this season with an additional labor lab-or payroll of ?400,000. BOISE, IDA. A conference of western states irrigation districts affected by the drouth, will be held in Boise soon to draw up plans to request from congress a moratorium morator-ium on payments of interest and principal for reclamation works. TWIN FALLS, IDA. Construction Construc-tion on the municipal swimming pool, located in Harmon field on the east edge of town, was originally j planned to start this fall, but has been postponed until next spring I because of lack of funds. BOISE, IDA. Construction of public buildings is going on steadily in Idaho to assist in relieving the depression. Building operations aggregate ag-gregate more than $750,000, according accord-ing to a report issued by the gov-j gov-j ernor's office. PROVO, UTAH The 40th anniversary anni-versary banquet of the Provo Congregational Con-gregational Community church was held here recently, with the Rev. J. F. Walker of Pocatello, Idaho, superintendent sup-erintendent of the Intermountain Congregational churches, as the principal speaker. TWIN FALLS, IDA. A total of 225 carloads of apples have been shipped from the local O. S. L. depot de-pot this season. OGDEN, UT. Construction of a chapel for the new Twenty-first ward in Ogden stake will begin in the spring if sufficient funds can be raised in a campaign which has been inaugurated. The chapel is to be built on Jefferson avenue near Twelfth street. TWIN FALLS, IDA. Death of Thomas A. Edison has recalled the fact that the street cars operated in early days by a company headed by I. B. Perrine, eminent promoter, promot-er, were the first to use the Edison storage battery for that purpose. OGDEN, UT. Announcement has been made by L. S. Hodgson and Merle MoClanahan, Ogden architects, archi-tects, that orders to proceed with the work of drafting plans for the United States department of agriculture agri-culture building, to be erected on property formerly owned by the Kie. sel estate, Twenty-fifth street and Adams avenue, have been received from Washington, D. C. TOOELE, UT. Edson Bevan is the possessor of a large bobcat, which he recently caught in a trap on Soldier pass at the head of Settlement Set-tlement canyon. Mr. Bevan states he is keeping it until he finds a way to take it to the zoo in Salt Lake, should the officials there desire de-sire the specimen. PROVO, UT. A gift of 15,000 specimens of insects and spiders, collected by E. Elden Beck and Ara Call, former students of Brigham Young university, has been received by the zoological and entomological entomologi-cal departments. The specimens were collected last summer in Iowa, I Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona, Ariz-ona, New Mexico, and old Mexico. OGDEN, UT. The city commission commis-sion announced recently that, in cooperation co-operation with Scott Zimmerman of i the U. S. biological survey, a rat-poisoning rat-poisoning campaign would be put on in Ogden about November 5lh. MIDVAI.E, UT. Berl and Austin Cook, who reside on the Bingham highway five miles west of here, drove a flaming automobile school bus from their home to the Mid-vale Mid-vale fire station, where firemen applied ap-plied extinguishers to a blaze burning burn-ing beneath the hood of the vehicle. Damages to the 1ms were nominal. LOGAN, UT. The Cache national nation-al forest insect infestation report i has been submitted to the regional office in Ogden, and shows Unit during the spring of l!):n, there were 0,15.) infested lodgrpole pine trees treated by burning at a cost of !?!!,-i;7. or $1.04 per tree. This is a material improvement over conditions in I'.V.V), when 17,000 trees were burned. OGDEN, UT. Fifty-one representatives repre-sentatives of water users of the lower Ogden river recently held a meeting to initial". 11 movement looking to the settlement of their conflicting water claims out of ci'tirl in order to prevent extensive hearings ami litigation in connection connec-tion wi.th the pending adjudication of the entire Weber river sysfem and to create an amicable situa-ti'-n to continue until storage is created at the Huntsville or Magpie Mag-pie sires, or both. Mil. I. CREEK. I T. U a meeting meet-ing of stockholders of the Miller liiuh company, which supplies culinary cul-inary water to over 10U families in this vicinity, it was decided to form a town-hip as the only possible pos-sible means of installing a new pipe line. GUNNISON. UT. Final payment pay-ment by II ci'y of Gunnison on 11 v.'at r b. ::rl is-,ie created U0 j-,.iirs ;:g 1. !iiii'i;irisiz to ,:;2.(i!Kl. lias been made re en'ly by paying . I.TOO, according ac-cording in I',. A. Mu':S"n. city auditor. |