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Show pi 3 i News Notes I :.. It' 8 a Privilege to Live in A i Utah Salt Lake City. Greater Salt Lake now has a population of 161,110 according ac-cording to tlie 195 city directory. Greater Salt Lake two years ao bad a population of 146,000, making the percentage of increase In the two years greater than that of any other city in the lntermountain region. Oregon Ore-gon and Washington. The directory contains 1G00 more names than last year, which means an actual increase of 3200. Provo. The Provo canyon road project, pro-ject, which was begun more than a year ago, will be completed soon, according ac-cording to Robert Patterson, deputy state road engineer, in charge of the work. Mr. Patterson says that with the completion of tho project, the traveling public will be given the best road in the history of the canyon. American Fork. John L. Firmage, manager of thirty of the J. C. Penney company stores, and his father William Wil-liam Firmage, have returned home, after a trip through nine states, visiting visit-ing different stores operated by the company. William Firmage has five sons, who are managers for the company, com-pany, and wears an honor button by reason of that fact. Price. The Price Chamber of Commerce Com-merce is sponsoring a move to estab-Wsh estab-Wsh a community hospital here that will serve not only Price, but the entire en-tire county. It will replace an effort to locate a clinic, then intended primarily pri-marily for the benefit of school children child-ren suffering from defective teeth and diseased tonsils. Payson. To commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of Payson, a big diamond jubilee celebration cel-ebration was held here. The affair was arranged by the local Lions club and the proceeds from the various features will be used for the Boys' and Girls' recreational home to be built in Payson canyon next summer. Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City had to authorize its treasurer to borrow $300,000 from local banks on short-term short-term notes to provide cash for current cur-rent expenses until the end of the year when tax funds for the year will begin to come in. Gunnison. Local nimrods who have been hunting deer in Twelve-mile Twelve-mile canyon report that the animals are plentiful this year. The season has been exceptionally good, with feed abundant, and the deer are fat and In good conditions. Salt. Lake Municipal budget requests re-quests for 1926 indicate that the various var-ious Salt Lake City departments con template for next year expenditures aggregating some $300,000 more than they are expending this year and approximately ap-proximately one-half million dollars in excess of the estimated revenue for 1926. This means, that unless the more than three and one-half millions mil-lions requested in the tentative budget bud-get are materially cut, Salt Lake City faces an increase in either the municipal tax levy or in water rates and other fees, or both, it is pointed out. Logan Marian P. Smith was instantly in-stantly killed and Burt Lovand seriously ser-iously burned when the powerhouse engineer of the Swan Creek Power company turned on the power hall an hour ahead of time, catching the two men as they worked on the line at Ideal Beach resort near Randolph. Myton Because of a general shortage short-age of turkeys throughout the country coun-try this year, turkeys are in good demand de-mand and buyers have already been in the basin making plans1 for shipments ship-ments for the Thanksgiving trade. Salt Lake The pari-mutuel section sec-tion of the 1925 Eedd horse racing act is unconstitutional, and the city is privileged to take steps to enforce its antigambling ordinance, Judge L. B. Wight held in the Third district court. He denied the injunction requested re-quested by the Utah State Fair association as-sociation and others who sought to restrain the city from interfering with the races. Salt Lake Citv. Ralph W. Seybolt, for whose execution the district court has four times fixed the date did not face the firing squad. Acting Act-ing Governor H. E. Crockett in conference confer-ence with the state board of pardons of which he is chairman decided to grant the convicted murdered of patrolman pa-trolman David Crowther his second reprieve. Park City. Drilling into a missed hole while working at the Silver King Coalition mine, Fred Sundell, 25, and Riley Lake, 26, were injured. Sundell was taken to a Salt Lake hospital. The charge struck him in the face, injuring his eyes. Lake suf-ferred suf-ferred slight injuries. Monticello The state road commission commis-sion and San Juan county have ordered or-dered the Verdue hill on the state highway cut down. This hill is the steepest place on the road from Salt Lake to Bluff. J. H. Neilson, district road engineer, has just returned from surveying the' proposed road. The state and county have appropriated $1400 to build the new grade. County Coun-ty Road Agent Heber Frost will immediately im-mediately put a force of men to work on the new road. This will make travel south much safer and faster. J |