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Show Intermountain News Briefly Told for Busy Readers 4 II CLVBS SCORE PIONEERS HONORED FINDS ANTIQUE .MAN INCOME TAX ATTACK ST. GEORGE, UT. An almost Intact skeleton of a prehistoric man, estimated to have lived ten thousand thous-and years ago, has been discovereil by Dr. L. F. LeBuron, an archeolo-gist. archeolo-gist. SPRINGVII.LE, UT. In honor of the eighty-first anniversary of the settlement of the city the twd camps of the D. U. P. honored the pioneers at a camp fire dinner and program on the historic spot where the camp was first made in Spring-ville. Spring-ville. TWIN FALLS, IDA. A golf tournament opened the first day's session of the Southern Idaho Laundry Owners' convention held here recently. About fifty laundry-men laundry-men and laundry supply men attended at-tended the convention. The main address was given by the National, Laundry Owners' association president. pres-ident. SPRING VILLE, UT. 4-II club summer work presented an interesting inter-esting display in the community fair held here recently. PROVO, UT. Work on the Lost lake dam, near Kamas, is progressing pro-gressing rapidly and construction is to be completed by October 1. BOISE, IDA. Atty. Gen. Bab-cock Bab-cock stated recently that he had been notified that a suit is being prepared to test the income tax law passed at the special session ses-sion of the legislature last winter. BLACKFOOT, IDA. Building on a new structure at the Blackfoot asylum and the installing of a new heating plant and sewer system will begin soon under contracts awarded recently. Total of the contracts, con-tracts, including cement to be supplied sup-plied by the state, was $180,357, leaving a balance of about $70,000 of the $250,00 bond issue authorized authoriz-ed by the last legislature. OGDEN, UT. D. Parkinson, assistant as-sistant regional forester of district No. 4. has returned to the city after assisting in making a survey of the forest fire damages in Idaho. The fire area, according to Mr. Parkinson, Parkin-son, embraced 100,000 acres of timber tim-ber lands and the cost of handling was $410,000. This was in addition to $50,000 expended by the Southern South-ern Idaho Timber Protection association asso-ciation in its efforts to extinguish fires in the vicinity of the Boise basin. The loss in timber is estimat-edat estimat-edat $1,5000,000. CHEYENNE, WYO. The Utah Construction company is suing the irtate for $350,000, which the company com-pany alleges is due it for construction construc-tion of a road through the Wind Kiver canyon. The company claims the plans for the road were changed chang-ed after its bid had been accepted and is asking the .$350,000 for extra work which it claims the alterations altera-tions necessitated. HYDE PARK, UT. Poultry producers pro-ducers of Hyde Park, North Logan, Smithfield and Benson district met at the schoolhouse here recently to discuss poultry account records. C. Frisehnecht, extension poultry specialist spec-ialist at the Utah State Agricultural Agricul-tural college, explained this project pro-ject OGDEN, UT. 600 bushels of peaches were hauled to this city by city trucks and distributed to needy persons. The peaches were donated by orchardists throughout the county and picked by unemployed unemploy-ed persons. MYTON, UT. The local lumber concern was destroyed by fire of unknown un-known origin. CBNTERFIET.D, UT. The local sugar company here, has commenced to test machinery before the fall run. The company will employ 200 men when it is put into operation about October 15th. Men are now working in twelve hour shifts to place the factory in readiness for the crop. ST. GEORGE, UT. A new high record for the first few days enrollment en-rollment has been set at Dixie college, col-lege, with 315 enrolled students. RUPERT, IDA. Potato harvest in Minidoka county is beginning to get under way and the average shipment ship-ment of car lots from Rupert are showing well. At present 72 cars of this season's crop have, been shipped ship-ped as against S3 cars at the same time last season. CALDWELL, IDA. A slight decrease de-crease is shown in the registration at the College of Idaho. A total of 342 students have reported for recitations. rec-itations. TWIN FALLS, IDA. A sale of apples in open-top boxes at a price of $27.50 a ton to the grower has given rise to optimism that the 1000 car load crop of prime fruit being harvested in this district would find a favorable market. KAYSVILLE, UT. The problem 1 if unemployment in Davis county is to be battled by the county commissioners com-missioners and the state road commission. com-mission. The officials are planning a campaign of construction that is to greatly aid in giving work to residents res-idents of the county. POCATELLO, IDA. A meeting of the Idaho Potato Dealers' association asso-ciation will be held here soon. Methods of marketing, advertising, styles of pack, as permitted under the modified grading law and other problems will be discussed. |