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Show Intsrmcuntaiii News ! Briefly Told by Busy Readers ( BEKKY DAY FETE PLAN j CHILD ESCAPES SNAKE j CITY NEEDS WATER RATE FIGHT IXIOMS j COWS SHOW WELL j GUNNISON, L'T. Snatched out of the reach of a rattlesnake as it was coiled ready to strike, Carlo, aged two, son of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Perkins, narrowly escaped being bitten, when he was saved by his mother as be was playing on the front lawn of the family home. PLEASANT GROVE, UT. linns are progressing for the annual Strawberry day celebration here this summer it was reported at a session of the chamber of commerce. com-merce. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. City will begin work at once on a two million dollar water supply development devel-opment project SALT LAKE CITY, UT. A move to overcome a railroad rate discrimination discrim-ination which threatens to shut out Utah business interests from the Las Vegas-Boulder City territory ter-ritory has been inaugurated by directors di-rectors of the Utah Shippers' Traffic Traf-fic association. GOODING, IDA. County Agent McConnell reports 12,000 fleeces have been signed for the Gooding county wool pool for 1931. Many more are expected to be signed. ROCKLAND, IDA. The efforts of one rancher have brought to a virtual stop wholesale slaughtering of lambs in this vicinity. E. Van Kirk has killed five lynx blamed, for most of the lamb killing, and the death rate has fallen to almost nothing. BOISE, IDA. Idaho's bonded debt has decreased from $5,213,530 on March 31, 1029, to $4,247,300 on March 31, 1931, a reduction of $966,200, according to the statement of the state treasurer. MOSCOW, IDA. The right date to plant ornamental shrubs, especially especial-ly the evergreens, is just about the time that growth starts, says the department of horticulture at the University of Idaho. Too long delay might result in lost shrubs, since it is harder to transplant after the sap starts to flow. On the other hnnd too early planting some times subjects the already weakened plant to extreme weather like wind Btorms, or too much or too little moisture, before the root system can adapt itself to the new location. PRICE, UT. Utah's first dry Ice plant that of the Carbon Diox-ice Diox-ice company at Farnham dome near here, has started to make the novel refrigeration product at the rate of six tons dally. Dry ice, which is many times colder than ordinary ice, is made from Carbon dioxide gas secured at the well. MOSCOW, IDA. A. Winslow, a wealthy Boston mining man, has presented to the University of Idaho Ida-ho school of mines his personal complete set of transactions of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. The complete com-plete set comprises almost a ton of bound volumes which could not be duplicated today. The books are described de-scribed as an invaluable technical reference work in mining, metallurgy metall-urgy and geology. CHEYENNE, WYO. President Hoover has informed U. S. Senator Sena-tor Carey that he hoped to decide by the middle of May whether he could accept Wyoming's invitation invita-tion to spend a part of his vacation In the state this summer. MOAB, UT. Road work is now In full swing In San Juan county, providing employment for practically practic-ally all men formerly without work. Crews are occupied on roads in Dry valley, Devil's canyon and Peters' Pet-ers' hill. " VANTl UT,. Cooperative agreements agree-ments which had boon prepared by the state rpad commission, ba,vo been accepted by the Sanpete county commission, providing for the oiling of three rond projects in Sanpete county during the present year. NF.rni, UT. The local sheop shearing corral Is expecting to have twenty-seven thousand head to clip I and the Jericho corral will handle over one hundred thousand, while the Rocky Ford plant has an estimated esti-mated list of seventy thousand. IDAHO FALLS, IDA. One hundred hun-dred women from nil parts of Idaho Id-aho will gather here May 12 and 13 for the annual slate convention of the Idaho Federal inn of Women's Clubs. Mrs. S. W. Wilson, of Blatk-foot, Blatk-foot, president of the federation has called the convention. BOISE, IDA. Six prisoners were removed from the penitentiary recently re-cently for transfer to the Blaekfoot asylum, all of them having leen adjudged insane. KIGBY, IDA. Conl racts from growers are exported to result In the sowing of 28,000 acres to sugar beets, this yeer, or approximately the same amount as last year. LEIII, UT. Two hundred men will bo employed in the extensloa work of running natural gas lines from Midvalo to Utah, county location lo-cation a. BEAVER, UT. This city will celebrate Us Tilth anniversary on the 22, 23, 21 and 2D of July. |