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Show 01 STATE IB .MMMMMMi . ' The Boy Scouts of Utah have decided decid-ed to hold their cantonment at Surato-. ga, August 17 to 24. Recent ralng and generally favorable weather" have given the beet men reason rea-son to expect an improvement in crops over last year. ' , Herman Backman of Euresa was erlously hurt when a car driven by Elbert Beeeley Jumped the curb on Main street and pinned him against the Postofflce building. , That Utah farmers are taking early steps to receive the advance guard of the annual offensive of the grasshopper grasshop-per pest, is the statement made by 3. Basil Walker, state crop pest inspector. Eight thousand dairy cattle, representing repre-senting a major part of the Salt Lake Ctty milk supply source, have been inspected in-spected during the past week for tuberculosis tuber-culosis by state livestock inspectors. On advice of council, nine Salt Lake eating , establishments have declined to close their doors at 10 o'clock m conformfty' to the latest order of W. F. Jensen, commissioner or public economy. Frank P. Wellman, postmaster at Bennett, Uintah county, was arrested last week on the charge of embezzlement. embezzle-ment. He Is alleged to have appropriated appro-priated 11217.06 of government funds to hjs own use. . Moroni Kleinrnan, 21 years of age, son of Moroni Kleinrnan, one of the oldest settlers Of Toquervllle, in Washington Wash-ington county, is ' reported killed In action in the latest American casualty list from France. Wagoner Ross W. Spencer of the supply company and son of William J. Spencer of Suit Lake, died at Camp Kearny from Injuries received when a heavy wagon ran over him and Injured his spine. Mrs. Brigumina N. Prntt, widow of the late Parley P. Pratt, and for over forty years a resident of Salt Lake, died -July 21, after having been a sufferer for several months from cancer can-cer of the stomach. . Raymond Baker, the 14-year-old son of Mrs. Ray Baker of Beaver, was severely injured when the team, attached at-tached to the hayrake upon which he was sitting, ran away and dragged him a considerable distance. With the election of John F. Bennett as tate director and chairman of the ; executive board, the selection of other officers and the approval of articles of incorporation to be filed' Immediately, ' Utah's war industries board has been officially organized. Reports from North Ogdeo Indicate the wort of harvesting the grain crop Is now well under way. The yield will be a fair one. It Is announced that the peach crop In that district will not be as big as In former years, tills being due to early frosts. , That there exists in' Salt Lake an organized gang of automobile thieves, which Includes several women In its membership, and whose activities consist con-sist principally of taking autos into the country and "gripping" them, it, Jhe opinio. Of the detectives working on the cases. ' Lawrita B. Lyngberg, aged about 18 years, was drowned at v Pleasant Green while bathing In a pond near that town. The young man was subject sub-ject to epilepsy and wa attacked by j a fit while to the water, falling forward for-ward and drowning before assistance could reach him. j Grief stricken and temporarily in- , t,ane, officers said, because he was ' transferred to the lOGth depot brigade , as physically unfit for service in France. Private Ernest McFarlane, 28 years old, of Murray, threw nnrfself in j front of a heavy truck near his qunr- j ters In Camp Lewis and was almost Instantly killed. I The Threshermen's association or Wetter and Davis county has decided on a flat rate of 14 cents a bushel to be charged the farmers for threfcV Ing oats, barley and wheat. The farmers, farm-ers, however, have failed to agree to the payment of the price, so the affairs between the farmers and threnhermen f,re at a deudlock. Utah's' first anniversary of Its dry laws, in the opinion of state officials, will demonstrate the smooth opera-1 lion of Ironclad statutes which have rendered the frtate practically non-r.leoholie, non-r.leoholie, excepting, of course, for the big volume of .spirits used by druggists and others for manufacturing and j scientific purposes. Commissioners of Sanpete conn fcr ' are requesting the state board 'tf 1 equalization to reconvene them as sn I equalization board for that county to j revise the assessment rolls of Mount l rtfusant. It Is the desire to afford j m much relief as possible to citizens ! of that town on account of the devas- tatlon created by recent floods there. I That the people of Utah are keenly j Interested In doing their share to help I I'ude Sam win the war I seen In the scores of requests being received at I the Utah Agricultural college at Logan from citizens who want to know all l sorts of things pertaining to war gnr- I (leiilng, food conservation and oilier features of war activities as they I I apply to the' home-owner, ' During the first year of Itie dry law 1 In Utah, nearly 0KK) gallons of alcohol I wns sold through state dispensary !n charge "of Oscar Lelimann. state wore-I wore-I liouse manager. These .sales, estimnt-1 estimnt-1 cd mi W per gallon, show ?no,000 ! expended for alcohol In manufacturing. That federal policies discourage construction of roads for pleasure pur-;.om-s was emphasized by 11. J, Finch ' ,'.f Siin FniniKco, district engineer of public nuids, In his announcement of ' '; proposed building of n forest road ,.ver the Wusntch range from Ephraliii tv Oruiigeville. |