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Show ; Intermountain News! ' Briefly Told by Busy Readers I FIGHT DISEASE IN IDAHO. IIONOK OI.KST SOI.niEK. FAVOK MARRIED MEN. FIGHT FOREST FIRES. i VTAH MAN WINS. MERIDIAN, IDA. An educational educa-tional demonstration of the use of chlorate weed k.llers will be given near here in a few days. BOISE, IDA. The Payette for-orest for-orest headquarters will employ 35 men for fire lookout work and 40 for road and trail guards. These are to guard against destruction of the forests from fires started by tourists or others. BOISE, IDA. A campaign for reducing the tuberculosis death rate among young people is under way. This disease is still the principal foe of youths of 10 to 25 years of age. IDAHO FALLS, IDA. O. W. Tarry, Ogdcn, w-on high individual honors of the T'tah-Idabo bowling tournament held in this city. BEAVER, L'T. Many of the farmers far-mers of Beaver county are reporting report-ing damage to crops by field mice. This is especially true in sections where ditch banks are becoming honeycombed to such an extent that It is difficult to control irrigation water. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Women Wom-en whose husbands have work will be removed from their jobs with the Denver & Rio Grande Western Taeific railroad clerical department and be replaced by unemployed men with dependent families, railroad rail-road officials announce. Fifty women wom-en will lose their positions, it is estimated. es-timated. KAYSVILLE, LIT. Davis county made a gain of $5,003,000 in valuation valua-tion of farm land and buildings from 1925 to 1930, more than any other county in the state, according accord-ing to the department of commerce census. CHEYENNE, WYO. Wyoming has doubled its farm acreage In the past ten years, according to an-nouncemeut an-nouncemeut made by the census bureau. TWIN FALLS, IDA. Honor guest at the American Legion meeting meet-ing here was S. O. Sexton, aged 96, of Vancouver, said to be the oldest man in the military service in the late war. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Tin big wind storm which prevailed in this district recently reached a velocity ve-locity which has beqn exceeded only once since 1S74, according to weather weath-er bureau records. The maximum for a five minute average was 54 miles per hour. LAS VEGAS, NEV. A gold coin commemorating the start of work on the Boulder canyon project has been presented to President Hoover from the chamber of commerce of Las Vegas. PANGUITCH, UT. It Is reported report-ed at the local fish hatchery that two hundred thousand three to eight Inch trout, and 750,000 Eastern East-ern brook, are ready to be planted in the local streams at an early date. MORONI, TJT. Frozen assets are the alleged cause of the closing of the Bank of Moroni. The bank officals and the State Bank Commissioner Com-missioner are endeavoring to untangle un-tangle the affairs of the Institution. AMERICAN FORK, TJT. Annual Poultry Day will be held here on June 24th. LOGAN, TJT. All cattle owned by members of the Cache Valley and High Creek associations must be dipped before going on the Cache National forest this season. LOGAN, TJT. 4-H club work Is reaching the remotest sections of Utah according to the state club leader. It is reported that four of the 4-H club units have been established es-tablished in Boulder, Utah. The town is eighty miles from the railroad rail-road and this is the first year in which the work has been undertaken undertak-en in that locality. IDAHO FALLS, IDA. New record re-cord Idaho potato shipment was practically assured for the 1931 marketing season in an estimate released by L. S. Tate, representative representa-tive of the market service of the U. S. department of agriculture. PLEASANT GROVE, UT. The tenth annual "Utah Strawberry Festival," held in June of each year, will be given two days this year, members of the Pleasant Grove chamber of commerce, sponsors of the event, have decided. AMERICAN FORK, UT. A concerted con-certed drive on magpies and magpie mag-pie eggs has been initialed by the American Fork Fish and Game association. as-sociation. It was decided to offer a fishing rod to the boy who brot in the largest number of magpie heads and eggs, and a bounty of five cents on heads of grown birds, two and one-half cents on baby birds and one cent per egg. LYMAN, WYO. What hit the turtles is one of the things Smithsonian Smith-sonian institute excavators hope to discover in future examinations of fossil fields of the Bridger Basin, Ba-sin, Wyoming. In its recently published pub-lished report, tbe institution's fossil fos-sil party describes a vast turtle death spot where one vast outcrop fifty feet long was composed almost exclusively of turtle shells side by side. OGDEN, UT. Salt Lake City entries en-tries are being received for the Og-den Og-den Horse Show. |
