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Show UTAH BUDGET The American Legion post at Ogden is to have a band. Work on the highway through the treacherous gulch of Cedar canyon in Iron county is moving at a rapid pace. Articles of incorporation have been filed with the secretary of state by the State Bank of Piute, at Marysvale. Official opening of the terminal at Soldier Summit was made by the Denver Den-ver & Kio Grande railway officials on Thursday of last week. Films depicting the modern health crusade are being shown to the schools of the state under the direction of the Utah Public Health association. Banks in the southern part of the Mate are reported by the bank examiner, ex-aminer, who has just made a tour of that section, to be' in excellent condition. con-dition. Believed to have been stricken with a fit of temporary insanity, William Nielson, aged 45, suicided at Hyrum, hanging himself from the rafters in his barn. After being in a hospital in France for two months, Conrad E. Mortensen, an Ephraim boy, died September 27, it has just been learned in advices from France. Organization of the Utah branch of the League of Women Voters was perfected per-fected at Salt Lake when the old Utah Suffrage association was merged into the new organization. Youths less than 21 years old are prohibited from loitering, engaging in games or frequenting pool halls in Ogden Og-den hereafter, according to an ordinance or-dinance passed last week. Discussion of tlie sheep dipping process, pro-cess, adjustment of taxation and general gen-eral range conditions was had at the meeting of the Utah state livestock board at Salt Lake last week. The Hotel Utah at Salt Lake is to build an additional 100 rooms at a cost of $300,000, the addition being made necessary, It Is claimed, by the increasing number of visitors to Salt Lake. ' , The Merchants of Ogden association has appointed a committee which will investigate the feasabllity 6f purchasing purchas-ing the street railways of Ogden and. operating them as a municipal enterprise. enter-prise. ; A statement issued by the president of the Salt Lake Rotarlans declares that Utah Is becoming one of the worst hotbeds of Industrial Workers of the World to be found in the United States. Thomas J. Linker, charged with first degree murder for the alleged killing of Joseph Briggs at Salt Lake last January, was acquitted by a jury. Briggs was killed while resisting two holdups, ' Work on the highways in Washington Washing-ton county is being pushed, $10,000 now being available . for the steel bridge across Santa Clara creek, while 55000 is available for work on the Arrow Ar-row Head trail. Mrs. William K. Thaw of Pittsburg, mother of Harry K. Thaw, has donated do-nated $10,000 to the Westminster college col-lege at Salt Lake to aid in the construction con-struction of a boys' dormitory on tlie college grounds. It is announced that the cost of the Piute project to November 1 has been $1,044,710, to which should be added interest and .expense amounting to $350,000. making the total cost practically prac-tically $1,400,000. Three railroad men arrested at Ogden Og-den recently, charged with stealing merchandise from box cars in the 1o-cul 1o-cul yards, have each been sentenced to four months in tlie county jail and to pay a fine of $2(10. Mrs. ,T. W. Weatt was seriously injured in-jured when she was' struck by a street car at Ogden, it being alleged that the motorman lost control of the car as it was going down hill and could not check the car in time. Definite action will be taken on the sale of the Piute irrigation system to the water users in Sevier and Sanpete San-pete counties at the next meeting of the state land commissioners, which will be held December 2. Cache county good roads enthusiasts are advocating the immediate survey for a road through Wellsville canyon and from Smithfield to the Idaho line, so that work can begin early in the spring on these highways. The recently appointed commission authorized by the legislature to devise de-vise and recommend an appropriate means for the state to commemorate the discovery of irrigation has taken its first steps toward organization. Owners of wagons with tires less than three inches wide are warned by Ira It. Browning, state road engineer, that The law which makes it illegal to drive such vehicles on the public roads goes into effect January 1. and advises ad-vises them to dispose of such w;ignns or change the tires before that time Recognizing that the teachers of Salt Lake are not being paid what they earn, the board of education will do everything within Its power to In crease their salaries, it is announced. |