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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE Utah no longer holds second place In the increase of national guard forces. That distinction has fallen to Porto Rico, which in July showed an enlistment of 1307 men out of an allotment allot-ment of 1041. Utah on July 31 had an enlistment of TiTO men out of an allotted al-lotted number of 713. and is relegated to third place. From Millard county comes the information in-formation that grasshoppers have made their appearance in the region about Kunosh. Hattou. the Sink Fields at Fillmore and north of Seipio and around Delta. Farmers have begun a war of extermination by using poison. A shortage of eggs within the nexl few months and an increase in price? Is certain, Waller M. Boyden. state dairy and food commissioner says, following fol-lowing a survey of tne egg production in Utah and observation . of conditions relative to egg supplies in general. The schools of Uintah county will operate during the ensuing school year with a full corps of teachers as the result of the carrying, by a 3 to 1 vote, the special election for the increasing in-creasing of the tax levy by $24,000, iD order to accomplish tins result. The manager of the Utah State Fair association announces that work is under way at the fair grounds, which indicates that increased facilities will be available this fall, and that both patrons and exhibitors will find many improvements awaiting them. Damage in excess of .$3000 was caused by the seepage of irrigation water wa-ter from the hills one mile east of the Agricultural college at Logan to land near the mouth of Logan canyon and also to the Logan, Hyde Park and Smithfield canal. Charles Chaplin, of pie-throwing fame, has been in Salt Lake for several sev-eral days. He registered at the Hotel Utah under the name of Charles Spencer Spen-cer of Los Angeles and came to Utah in hope of dodging newspaper men and process servers. Strikes of musicians, moving picture operators and other union employees of film houses of Salt Lake are threatened September 1 by the demands de-mands of the unions for increased wage scales and other contract changes. The tax levies for the Ogden city schools, Weber county schools and Weber county for the year of U20 have been fixed by the board of county coun-ty commissioners. In all cases there is an increase over the levies of 1910. M. H. Zollinger of Providence was severely shocked when the pole of a bay derrick which be was moving collided col-lided with an electric wire. The current cur-rent rendered him unconscious for a short time. The old folks' committee of the Utah stake has announced the annual reunion re-union for September S, when all of the aged people of Provo will be taken to Springville for a fruit festival and outing. More than ll.OxiO automobile tourists passed through Utah (luring July, tic-cording tic-cording to figures compiled by the manager of the touring department of the Utah Slate Automobile association. Sugar beet acreage in Utah on August Au-gust 1. according to M. M. Justin, sta-tisician sta-tisician of the bureau of crop estimates, esti-mates, aggregated 113.000 acres, or 10.000 acres more than in 1919. In the Morgan county school there were enrolled during the year 490 boys and 378 girls, a total of 7S4, an increase in-crease over the enrollment of last year of eighty-three pupils. Charles Henry Brandley, 14 years of age. of Salt Lake, was killed in an elevator ele-vator accident at the Twin Peaks Canning Can-ning factory at Murruy, where the boy was employed. The contract for the oenstruction of the Manti-PIgeon Hollow highway In Sanpete county has been awarded to Olof Nelson, whose bid was $420,000. At the eleventh annual outing of the Utah Manufacturers' association, held at Lagoon, more than $2000 worth of Utah products were given away. The Delta Commercial club Is planning plan-ning the biggest advertising campaign In the history of the city during the coming fall and winter. John Gomoll, aged 20, a truck driver, was probably fatally Injured when his truck wns struck by a locomotive loco-motive near Salt Lake. The salaries of all members of the Ogden fire department have been Increased In-creased S10 a month by the action of j the city commission. The proposition to organize Weber county Into an Irrigation district carried car-ried by an overwhelming majority at the recent election. Charged with stealing an automobile, automo-bile, Verne Gallinger, aged la. of Salt Lake, will probably be sent to the reform re-form school. Announcement Is made that James W. Funk of Richmond, president of the state senate, has resigned as federal fair price commissioner of Utah. Isaac I Blair Evans is to have charge of the office. |