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Show Intermountain News Briefly Told for Busy Readers CITY BEAUTY PLAN. ' FREE STOCK FEED. FIGHT INSECT PESTS. DOG CAUSE OF SUIT. GRAIN ACRES INCREASE. ST. GEORGE, UT. The beatification beati-fication of the streets and public grounds of St. George is underway In earnest, with a concerted movement move-ment on foot to uproot the old Cottonwood Cot-tonwood trees and replace them with trees recommended by the city shade tree commission. EPHRAIM, UT. Disturbed by the reported presence of large numbers num-bers of grasshopper eggs in the fields and )long ditch banks, officials of-ficials of the irrigation company are taking the lend in starting a community drive against the pests. The hoppers came out in greater numbers last spring than usual in the brush lands on the west side of the valley. OGDEN, UT. Grain acreage in northern Utah and southern Idaho will be approximately ten per cent higher this year than last, according accord-ing to the manager of the intermountain inter-mountain district for the Farmers' National Grain corporation. MURRAY, UT. Effie Hawkins has filed suit against Samuel Goff, who runs the dog pound in Murray, for $1,500 as a result of having been bitten by a roving dog last December. The complaint asks for $500 actual damages and $1,000 punitive damages on the ground that the city and its dog catcher were negligent in permitting a dog, she alleged was a vicious animal, to roam the streets without a muzzle and permitting the canine to bite her. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Livestock Live-stock in ten western states where drouth and winter storms have robbed them of their feed will be kept alive until spring by free government gov-ernment wheat. A list of distressed states was given the Red Cross by the agriculture department. It included in-cluded North and South Dakota, Montana, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Ne-braska, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah and New Mexico. Farmers in those districts, dis-tricts, hard hit by crop failures and low prices, have found it difficult dif-ficult to tide their stock over the winter. The wheat, taken from the 40,000,000 bushels donated from farm board stores by congress, will be shipped as soon as farmers have made known their needs and arrangements ar-rangements have been made with railroads for transportation. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. There was a decrease of $15,283,610 in the amount of wages paid by companies com-panies reporting to the industrial commission in the fiscal year 1931 as compared with the amount paid In the fiscal year 1930, it is announced an-nounced by the chairman of the industrial in-dustrial commission. BOISE, IDA. It is reported that the tonnage of the 1932 sugar beet crop is expected to approach that of last year, and that hopes are held that the prevailing low prices for refined sugar will not continue. BOISE, I D A. Idaho produce shipments were 2733 carloads during dur-ing February of this year, a considerable con-siderable reduction below February of a year ago, a report of railroads to the public utilities commission discloses. Total Utah and Idaho shipments for the month were 3010 which compared with 4G04 for 1931, a reduction of 1594. Shipments for the two months this year were GG49 and were 9910 carloads in the same period of 1931. A large part of the reduction is in theiovement of the potato crop. ' NAMPA, IDA. The 1932' potato crop area in this district is estimated estimat-ed by potato dealers at 3000 acres, or the same as that of last year. It is reported that the area of the ' crop in the United States will be more than 30 per cent less than that of last year. CALDWELL, IDA. J. Middle-brook, Middle-brook, Nampa citizen, commenced serving out a sentence of 15 days imprisonment in the Canyon county jail here, for spanking his wife. GUNNISON, UT. The Gunnison Sugar company will be the only sugar su-gar manufacturer in Utah to pay beet farmers a guaranteed mlnim-, mlnim-, urn in 1932, it was decided at a I meeting held by company officials with directors of the Gunnison Beet Growers' Association, providing the farmers grow 7,000 acres or more. BOISE, IDA. The bureau of highways have advertised for bids on grading and surfacing two miles of the north and south highway, north from Riggins in Idaho county. coun-ty. Bids will be opened soon. BURLEY, IDA. Indications are that nil surplus hay on the Minidoka Mini-doka project will be disposed of this winter. Baled hay is now being shipped to Utah, Wyoming and Nevada. Ne-vada. BLACKFOOT, IDA. Stockmen of southeastern Idaho have fixed $10 per month and board as the wage to be paid this season. A similar wage was decided on at the Idaho Wool Growers' convention conven-tion In Pocatello. KEXBURG, IDA. Due to unusual un-usual moisture conditions throughout through-out southern Idaho at present, it is likely that dry farm wheat acreage acre-age will he increased perhaps 25 per cent this year in the dry-land sections of the upper Snake River valley. |