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Show Intermountain News Briefly told for Busy Readers IDAHO LAMBS FINE FORT RKI'AIR WAITS C1IKRKY CR01' SMALL Tl'RKKVS AID FARMKRS WFBWOIi.M BATTI.K WON SALT LAKE CITY, UT.-13 cars of Bins mid I.iimljcrt cherries will lie shiK'il from L'tnh this season, In tlie opiiih.ii eC L. S. Feiin, shipping ship-ping fxiint inspeeli.r for the federal feder-al government. This compares -niih 22 carloads shipped last year. SALT LAKK CITY, VT. The war department program for permanent per-manent improvements at army posts, which includes an expenditure expendi-ture of $tlfi,Ojl at Fort Douglas, has heen held up hy direction of the director di-rector of the federal hudget KICII FIELD, FT. A celebration will he held here August 8 to 11, for veterans of the Black Hawk war. KANOSII, UT. Turkeys will be brought here from Flower hy Andrew An-drew Dahlquist, who plans to shepherd shep-herd his flock of 15(10 around on grasshoppvr infested farms. HINCKLEY, UT. The largest hay crop in many years is being harvested. Late spring storms and the rapid growth of the alfalfa has kept it very free from weevils. rAItOWAN, UT. Sheep men are placing their flocks on the summer range. ST. ANTHONY, IDA. The war cn crickets conducted in this district dis-trict has heen brought to a successful success-ful conclusion. MOUNTAIN HOME, IDA. The Iambs recently shipped from here to Omaha and Sioux City were the best ever received at those points, stockyard officials there have advised ad-vised local sheep men. The lambs have been in excellent condition, due to plenty of range forage in this part of Idaho, and the sheep growers grow-ers have been much encouraged by the higher prices this year, compared compar-ed with last year. OGDEN, UT. The sugar company has announced that the first, spraying spray-ing in beet fields with Taris green for the eradication of webworms has been completed. GOODING, IDA. Gooding county commissioners are supporting a movement started by Representative Representa-tive W. C. Thornton, of Bliss, to obtain federal aid for building and Improving the road between Bliss and Hill City on Camas prairie in Camas county. TRICE, UT. A'aluation of proi erty assessed by Carbon county for 1933 totals $5,803,054, according to the auditor's statement. PROYO, UT. Construction of a Standard bridge across the Frovo rier on the Lake-View-Yineyard highway is being considered. BUHL, IDA. The McClusky memorial me-morial child health camp has opened open-ed for its third year, giving eight weeks' health training to 45 undernourished under-nourished children from south central cen-tral Idaho. RICHFIELD, UT. Almost all traces of webworm, which has been infesting the sugar beet fields in the vicinity of Richfield, are now exterminated and beet crops are in promising condition. GOODING, IDA. Crops are excellent ex-cellent on all five tracts of the Big Vood irroject in Lincoln, Gooding and Blaine counties as a result of. hot weather and plenty of irrigation water from the Magic reservoir and the Milner-Shoshone-Gooding canal from American Falls reservoir. ST. ANTHONY, IDA. All C. C. C. camps in the Targhee national forest have been fully manned and Work is well wider way. MOUNTAIN HOME, IDA. Arrangements Ar-rangements are being completed here for an annual summer camp of Boy Scouts. BOISE, IDA. Authorization for enrollment, of 1.025 more Idaho men between 18 and 25 years of age, to work in the conservation camps has been received by Governor C. Ben Ross. OGDEN, UT. Oiling of dirt Streets in Ogden where traffic is heavy and the dust nuisance is the greatest, has begun. BOISE, IDA. The chain store tax has brought J10.3G0 to the state treasury in July. The tax ranges from on single stores to ?500 a year on each store in chains of 20 or more. Virtually all the major groups of stores have paid their tax. Some payments were made under protest. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Utah farmers borrowed ?13T,013 this year from the federal seed loan apirro-priation, apirro-priation, or GO per cent of the amount borrowed in 1932. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Reports Re-ports to the state board of agriculture agricul-ture are that the webworm is attacking at-tacking the sugar beet crop this year In Weber and Box Elder counties. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. IMans are being made for the annual story telling festival to he held July 19. Thirty of the outstanding persons In the literary and dramatic field In Salt Lake will he invited to tell stories to more than 30110 persons who will attend. |