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Show Intermountain News Briefly Told for Busy Readers ALFALFA SEED 23c CLOSED BANK SOLVENT HISTORIC CHAPEL KAZED $'.'0,000 FIKE LOSS CHANGE ROAD COST JEROME, IDA. Farmers who have alfalfa seed held over from last fall will realize at least 21 cents a pound for It, rather than 10 to 13 cents paid last fall. The seed is cleaned at Blackfoot and shipped east, where it is to be sold for 23 cents a pound. LEI1I, UT. At a mass meeting of the depositors of the State Bank of Lehi, the president of the board of directors stated that the local bank was thoroughly solvent, but was remaining closed due to a I claim of $44,000 lodged against It I by the Alpine school board. i LOGAN, UT. A group of local business men, accompanied by a police escort and the senior high school band, made an excursion to Smithfield for the Health day celebration. cel-ebration. They will also go to Richmond Rich-mond on Black and White day, M.iy 5th. BRIGHAM CITY, UT. The Oregon Ore-gon Short Line railroad has made application to discontinue Its station sta-tion agency at Willard. , IDAHO FALLS, IDA. 13 carloads car-loads of cracked wheat and one carload car-load of flour have been made available avail-able locally by the Red Cross Bonneville Bon-neville chapter. IDAHO FALLS, IDA. Bonneville Bonne-ville county commissioners compromised compro-mised on a charge of 85 cents per day per federal prisoner lodged in the county jail, a reduction from the former rate of $1 per day. BOISE, IDA. Heavy maintenance mainten-ance and repair work will he necessary neces-sary on highways in southeast and eastern Idaho because of the severe winter, the director of highways reports after a survey of the roads. CEDAR CITY, UT. The agricultural agricul-tural department of the Branch Agricultural college, the local Wool-growers' Wool-growers' association and the Utah State Agricultural college extension service gave a program for the general public at the B. A. C. recently, re-cently, including a sheep shearing and wool handling demonstration and two films at a local theatre. OGDEN, UT. 142 persons In Weber county now are on the old-age old-age pension list, an increase from 134 on January 1. The amount paid out on old-age pensions for April is approximately 58.00 each. PROVO, UT. The highway in Provo canyon is practically cleared of the huge snowsllde of last February Feb-ruary which covered the road for a depth of 60 to 80 feet over a stretch of nearly one thousand feet. SPANISH FORK, UT. Bids for the construction of a gravel road between Castilla and Moark in Spanish Fork canyon have been asked by the state road commission. The length of the road is 5.5G miles. HYRUM, UT. Money for the actual construction of the Hyrnm Irrigation project will be available about July 1, according to expectations. expecta-tions. Congress recently appropriated appropriat-ed $300,000 for the project. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Counties Coun-ties will be relieved of the necessity of sharing in the costs of survey, betterment and construction on the federal highway system in Utah. This announcement is made by the state road commission. So long as this policy is in effect, counties are not to pay for the expense on the 1750 miles of federal highway In the state, except that of providing rights of way. Previously, counties have furnished as their share for federal highway construction from $400,000 to in excess of $700,000 annually an-nually in state road taxes, the greater part of which was used on federal highways. POCATELLO, IDA. A young man and three girls have been arrested ar-rested here, alleged to have stolen an automobile belonging to F. Hezel-braker, Hezel-braker, lieutenant governor of Montana, Mon-tana, and driving it to Downey, Ida. BOISE, IDA. Employment conditions con-ditions improved slightly in Idaho recently with the opening of spring work and Increased highway construction. con-struction. There is still a surplus of labor. The large mines continue on a three day week basis and lumber lum-ber operations are slack. Residential Residen-tial building and the unemployment relief program has reduced the number num-ber of unemployed. Placer mining has increased in the neighborhood of Boise. CHEYENNE, WYO. A resolution resolu-tion favoring modification of the ISth amendment was passed at the closing session of the annual convention con-vention of the Wyoming State Federation Fed-eration of Labor. The resolution did not suggest a definite form of modification. modi-fication. EVANSTON, WYO. Plans are being made to tear down the L. D. S. chapel, built in 1S90, at Almy, Wyoming. Part of the material will be salvaged for the building of a smaller church and amusement hall. Almy, an all but deserted coal camp, w.is cce one of the most flourishing flourish-ing in Wyoming. DUCHESNE, UT. Loe Ashton, county Red Cross chairman, reports that 500,000 pounds of cracked wheat have been shipped Into Dn-chesne Dn-chesne county with 90.000 pounds of flonr. |