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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE The Utah State Automobile association associa-tion has Inaugurated a campaign for a reduction in the price of gasoline. A 1-cent reduction on the sale price of gasoline would save the autoists S200.000 in the coming year, it U claimed. When his sled collided with an auto as he was coasting down hill, Vernon Kirby, of Hyde Park, Cache valley, sustained injuries which resulted in his death, while a companion suffered severe scalp wounds. Notice has been taken by the government gov-ernment of the annual climb of Mt. Timpanogas. This year the supervisor supervi-sor of the Wasatch forest will co-operate with tbe club and make moving pictures of the hike. Cache valley is to have a baseball league the coming season. One of the rules will provide that no player will be allowed to play in the league who is not a resident of tbe town for which he plays. A novel method of lowering the high cost of living has been adopted by ten families of West Tintic, who by buying in bulk from wholesalers are making considerable progress. . Sevier county school teachers will demand early consideration for their plea for increased salaries, but have concluded to discountenance any breach of present contracts. Price has put In a bid for the state Republican convention, and the representatives repre-sentatives of the "biggest little city In Utah" declare the next convention will be held in that city. Peas canned iu Utah rank highest of any produced in the Union. This is shown by the analysis of twelve different differ-ent samples of peas from that number of canneries in the state. Rotarians of Salt Lake have adopted resolutions favoring the immediate return re-turn of the railroads of the nation to private ownership and placing them on a pre-war basis. About a hundred Provo hunters took part in a rabbit drive in Goshen valley val-ley one day last week, the rabbits killed being distributed among the people peo-ple of Provo. The first report of the Community clinic at Salt Lake, shows that from June 1, last, until January 1, there had been 10S2 persons treated at the dispensary. Three Mexicans held in the county jail at Logan on a charge of grand larceny lar-ceny and shoplifting, broke jail one day last week, but were captured a few hours later. More than 300 managers of the J. C. Penny company, operating stores throughout the country, will hold their annual meeting iu Salt Lake on February Feb-ruary 1. The telephone companies that operate oper-ate at Fillmore and Delta have been granted permission to make a 25 per cent increase in the rates they charge. The tire chief at Provo reports that there were thirty-seven fires in Provo during the past year, but that the loss from fire was only $3,701,311. According to a report submitted to the Cache county commissioners, the poor farm of that county had an income in-come of $1644 the past year. War is being waged on the local companies' of Ogden by the officers of the state for cruelty to animals in overloading fuel wagons. Women of Utah are subject to all the provisions of the federal income tax, according to the collector of internal inter-nal revenue for Utah. Arrangements have been completed for the industrial dinner to be given at Logan, February 10, by the Utah Associated Industries. All books containing recipes for making mak-ing fermented beverages have been removed re-moved from the shelves of the public library at Salt Lake. Wireless telephones are to connect the Ogden office of the Portland Cement Ce-ment company with its plant north of Brigham City. Frank L. Naisbitt, city poundmaster at Ogden, died last week of ptomaine poisoning, having been poisoned by tamales. Unqualified support to the Utah educational ed-ucational campaigu has been voted by the Home and School League of Salt Lake. A Commercial club has been organized organ-ized at I'nyson. the members representing repre-senting every business interest of the city. The Ogden Chamber of Commerce has been formally launched as a successor suc-cessor of the Ogden publicity bureau. The forty-ninth annual communication communica-tion of the grand lodrre of Utah Masons Ma-sons was held in Salt Lake last week. Possession of liquor cost a Smith-field Smith-field man $125, in addition to tbe almost al-most prohibitive cost of tbe whisky. It is said that Carbon county is short of school teachers, there being a number num-ber of vacancies at present. Salt Lake has had forty-one inches of snow fall since October 1. An artificiu! Ice plant is being In-utalled In-utalled at Brigham City. |