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Show 1 Pithy News Notes I N From All Parts of J ' UTAH I Ogdon. John W. Walsh ,who begnn his business career iib n newsbutcher on tho first Bamberger train, has been elected to the board Mf directors of that railway. Salt Lake City. Approximately i200 additional men will b employed by fio motive niul car departments of the Denver & Rio Grande Western rnllrond in Salt Lake -this wook, bringing bring-ing tho operations of the car department depart-ment to 100 per eont, This announcement announce-ment was nmdo by D. G. Cunnlnglmm, assistant superintendent of those departments. de-partments. Tho motive power department's depart-ment's operations will bo Increased :-. 85 per cent of its cnpaclty. WUn the additional men, Uie total muubor employed em-ployed In thu two branches will be S20. When these departments nre operating with full force thoro nre about 1200 nion employed. - Suit Lake City. Tho local lodgo of Knight 8 of ColumlAis Is planning an Knster carnival. Monb. Leo Murch post of the American Amer-ican Legion will hnvo Its own home In Monb. John Learning has made an offer to the post of n lot ns a donation dona-tion If tlio post building will be erected erect-ed thereon. Max It. Taylor has also offered his equity In a Jot If tho bnl-nnco bnl-nnco enn bo secured on tho same terms, a donation. The structure Is to bo built of adobe, which will be mado by local legion members. . Tho plans call for a building 112x80 fact in dimensions, dimen-sions, with n main floor 30x80 feet Tho cluurooms for tho post members will be on the upper floor. As many members of tlio poBt nre now out of employment, work on the building will begin ns soon ns .the adobes .c ready. Tho cost of tho building will be reduced re-duced appreciably by tho members do-anting do-anting their labor. Gunnison. The new $S0,OOO high school building was dedicated Here last week. Soveral hundred visitors from Salt Lake City and elsewhere wore present. Ogden. W. II. Hills, a former Salt Lako City business man, committed sulcldo by Inhaling poison gas nt Lou Vngeles. Salt Lake City. Thomas Redmond, secretary of Utah Cattle and Horse Growers' association, has appealed to tlio American National Livestock ns sochUlon at Now York City for help in ecurlng lower railroad freight rates. ML Pleasant. The first church bell ever rung in San Poto valley Is said to be at Mt. Pleasant Tito boll wan used at the 'time -of President Gnr-field's Gnr-field's funeral. Suit Lake City. Dehydrating fruit and vegotublcs Is recommondod ns the most economical method of supplying tho family tiible during the winter sonson. Tho government plans for curing supplies In 41i1h manner can bf hnd fjimi the Department of Agriculture Agricul-ture nt Washington. Salt Lake City. Nlbley pal has been sot aside for a municipal golf course. Tho grounds will be open to tho public this season. Prove. Tlio business houses of this city will allow employees to visit ball games here by permitting one half tho force to go one day and tho others the next but will not close all day Wednesday ns was tho custom Inst your. Ogden, Utnh. Tho odor of oboklng corn mash led o the discovery of a ivtill In this city. Much whisky wns found and the factory was closed. Ogden, Utah. Three lwys from Po-catollo, Po-catollo, IdalJo, who started out to see the world with only 25 rents between Vhejii, were taken Into custody by Officer Of-ficer D. F. Hawkins of tho police department. de-partment. The boys gave tho names of Munford Pratt, 14 years of age; Lynn Whltuker, 14 years of age, and CarrOl-. Hale, 13 years of uge. The boyB arrPJod 7iero,onft freight train. Parents of tho boys will send a man nftor tho runaways. ' Ephrnlm, Utnh. Irrigation district for improving this county is being formed. Six nearby towns will nsslut In tle projojv, Duclieano, A resolution of protest a.gnlnst tho stage sorvlce Into the Uiutnh basin, adopted at n mass convention con-vention here, has boon sent to the public pub-lic utilities commission In Salt Lake. Tho commission Is npponled to for tho purpose of giving the Uintah basin u dependable service, and the resolution resolu-tion voices vohement protOBt ngnlnst tho service provided during the win-tor. win-tor. Salt Lake City. R. S. Lovott, chairman chair-man of tho UnPin Pacific system, in nn interview here declares business 1 revival Is very much hlndrod by taxes now In effect. An alteration In form and system of tnxatlon would grontly accelerate return of" prosperity, Mr. Lovott believes. ! Salt Lako City. Tho street railway company manngvment nnnsuncos thoy will contend for a reduction In wnGOi I paid street en workers effective n ter May first. |