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Show Pithy News Notes From All Part of UTAH I Logan. 'I'lant Sugar Beets" Is tha slogan the Cache County Farm Bureau Bur-eau adopted at a meeting called to discuss the beet situation. Provo. A permanent organization consisting of the directors of the Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary and the Kiwanis club, with the three presidents acting as a steering committee, com-mittee, has been formed- The purpose of the new organization is to unify all civic bodies, to act aB a clearing house for ideas originating in these three clubs, and to secure as far na posible the economic and civic advancement ad-vancement of Provo. American Fork. After discussing with the Furm Bureau committee the budget for the coming year, a reduction reduc-tion from S17S.0OO to ?145,000 was made by the Alpine district school board. A 9 per cent blanket cut in the wages of teachers and 10 per cent reduction in the number of teachers teach-ers n-U be made. Salt Lake City. The State Life Insurance In-surance company of Des amines has been granted permission to operate in Utah. The company has a capital of $204,405 and a surplus of $400,000. Salt Lake City. With the adoption by the county commissioners of a new salary schedule, a saving of $40,000 a year will ba effected, according to County Commissioner S. J. Lindsay, who introduced the schedule find moved mov-ed that it be passed. About 75 county employees are affected by the new schedule. In the majority of the cases cas-es a cut of -flO amonth has been ordered, or-dered, in a few cases the cut amounts to $25 a month while in others it is only $5 a month-Monroe. month-Monroe. Forty men and teams and 2G good citizens, witli seed and farm implement's, went to the Martin Sim-monsun Sim-monsun farm, - prepared the ground and planted 40 acres to grain and other staples. Mr. Simmonson and two small daughters died of Injuries received re-ceived Friday, in a gasoline explosion in a brooder house. Richfield Resolutions protesting against reduction in salaries for next year were adopted oy tne executive committee of the Sevier County Teachers' Teach-ers' association at a called meeting. The resolution declared salary cuts at this time would lower the standard of teachers in the district. Salt Lake City. Within thirty minutes min-utes after they had appeared before City Judge Ban Johnson, Leslie M. Parker, former purchasing agent for the state road commission, and Horace M. Haley, former bookkeeper and accountant ac-countant for the commission, were sentenced to one year in the county jail by Judge W. M. MoC'rea in the Third district court, for altering and falsifying a voucher. Salt Lake City. Deputy sheriffs at the Oregon 'Short Line depot took into in-to custody two girls, Thelma MeXulty and Grace Loske, who ran away from their homes in Pocutello, Idaho. The arrests were made on the advice of the father of the McN'ulty girl who Is foreman in the Oregon Short Line yards at I'ocatello. Property valued at ?S3,71 lj.w, which has hitherto escaped taxation, should be assessed according to an exhaustive exhaus-tive report, rendered to the state board of equalization by the tax committee of the Utah State Farm Bureau. The report gives a detailed valuation ol railroads and public utilities in Utah. Salt Lake City. County Treasurer E. J. Groesbeck has filed suit for 75,000 against the Fidelity and Deposit De-posit company of Maryland. The $75,-000 $75,-000 is the amount of a bond given to Salt Lake county by the defunct National Na-tional City bank to insure the safety of county deposits. The company has announced its willingness to pay the $75,000, but has demanded an unqualified unqual-ified assignment to a portion of all dividends paid by the bank without it first being determined if the baulc will pay sufficient dividends, with the amount realized on bonds and securities securi-ties given to the county, to reimburse the county for the money it had on deposit when the bank closed its doors. Price. The Carbon county schools will close on Friday, May 5, this decision de-cision having been taken, because of a shortage of funds. A major part of the teavhing force will be offered contracts to return to tho Carbon schools. Contests in the four divisions divi-sions of the district are being staged. At this time the winners in the divisional divi-sional meets will assemble at l'rice. Tiie art and project work now on display dis-play at the four divisional headquar ters show the painstaking care with which this part of the schoolwork has been accomplished. I'rovo. The annual, cleanup campaign cam-paign showed 00 street captains appointed ap-pointed to supervise the spring activi-ties. activi-ties. All stores closed one afternoon in order to give the employees an op. portunity to clean up their home premises. "Girls day" was observed at the Provo high sc'Koi one day recently. Girl students of the institution had been working for weens to make the day a memorable event in this year's school bisory. |
