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Show UTAH AIID UTAHIIS State Paragraph Newt Items of Interest Ft Douglas. II. Scholtcns, former . conductor of the Queen of, Holland's v band and now a warrant officer and i " , handmaster la the United States army, will direct thie triweekly band concerts con-certs at Ft. Douglas ordered by General Gen-eral U. G. MacAlexnnder for every Tuemlay, Thursday and Sunday after, noon during the summer months. Sdholtens Is a graduate of the Koyal ' ' Conservatory of Music at The Hague and of the Institute of Musical Arts of New York. Before coming to America, he was for seven years conductor con-ductor of the royal Holland cavalry I band, known as the "Queen of Ilol- land's Band." DeltaIIyram A, Knight, farmer var here who had a badly water-, togged farm prior to the Installation) of the drainage system, reports that' , he now has one of the most produc-, the farms in the county. He sayei v that this year he has eome of his' best crops on tracts that last year and) the year before grew nothing ana were considered worthless on account of waterlogged condition. Throughout V the various drainage districts in Uhls ' country it is said there are numerous farms under cultivation this year, which were abandoned years ago. ! i Salt Lake In order to work out the possibilities of using the vast amounts of salt that are available In 'Utah, Ih , the metallurgical treatment of largs -deposits of low grade and complex ones as well as other problems, six fellowships have been awarded by fchej University of Utah department of me- tallurglcni research. Six out of thirty-, , five applicants were awarded the fel- lowshlps. These were the men wlthj . the highest scholarship and belt references, ref-erences, and they represent the states of New York, Pennsylvania, Iowa,1 Missouri and Utah. ! " Price. Miss Josephine Olson of Price is ,nnnotinoed as the wlnuer of first place in an essay contest, conducted by the Women's Chris, tlan Temperance union among the Juniors Jun-iors and seniors of high schools! throughout the state. In a con best ' for students of the ninth and tenth grades Miss Gertrude Ilehiectoa k) Salt Lake won first prize. The sub-, Ject given far the essay was "Why the! High School Student Should Fight the Cignretto." I Beaver Tariff rates on transporta-' tion of freight between Mllford andj Bewver have been reduced to 33 rents per hundred pounds by the public utilities commission, tbe order to this' effect having Just been made. Delta. The people of Delta are now being entertained In th evenlngj by! the radio station set up In the Mercer building by D. II. Miner and M. V.' Parshull. i , Salt Lake Over three Umos as many births were reported to the city board of health ns there were di-eths ihirtnir tlm mint week. Births totaled 8.'! und deuths 25. . Ilolllday. Fire etarted by an alum- tnum die castlng'muchlne In tine Baldwin Bald-win Itadlo factory In East Mill creelto damaged the plant to the extent Of $5000. Salt Lake, Meetings are being heloV to lay plans for the great Diamond Jubilee celebration of the arrival of the pioneers in Salt Lake valley. V."1uterquarters The postoffloe was robbed of $er3 by bandits according to a report to Denver police. Hinckley Farmers in this section expect to produce large Quantities of seed this season. Plasant Grove An annual Strawberry Straw-berry day was inaugurated here this wek. Salt Lake Early erection of a fed- j rai t&Hitx; bunk tuHI'fg nctea i hare. - ' Logan. "Race suicide of the intellectual intel-lectual classes Is overwhelmingly tha problem of time, declared Dr. Lewis M. Terman of the Lelnnd Stunford . , university, In bis opening lecture be for tbe summer school students of th Utah Agrlcultuial college Brigham City. Special lectures and demonstrations on health problems ar being given In Itoxelder county by Mrs. Victoria Chrlstensen fit the Utah, Agricultural college. Brigham City. John Hodges waa terribly burned about the face, necK and hands In an explosion at the cement plant. . ' Frovo The chamber of commerce la making udrlve for new members. Sandy New Water mains are toeing toe-ing laid throughout the city. Salt Lake. During a four days' period, visitors who viewed the Capital Capi-tal and the mountains rind valley ami sea which can be seen from the portico por-tico of the structure represented twon-ly-ekht of tbe states of the I'nton, and from foreign lands were .rcpre- seniheB of Australia, l.ngmml, Holland, Hol-land, Canada, Switzerland, Sout.ti Ar-rlca Ar-rlca and China and the Brazilian ona slon to the United Stato from Wosh, lpgton......... . . . ....v. . . ... i |