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Show I News Notes t I From All Parts of I UTAH 2 '. Provo. Hundreds of relatives and friends of Charles F. Decker paid their last respects to Provo's former mayor and business man at the stake tabernacle. Nephi. The longest hard surface project ever embraced in a single undertaking un-dertaking was accepted by "the state. The project is the cou Crete paving over the 15.f miles of highway between be-tween Nephi ana the Utah county line in Juab county. Salt Lake City. The Utah State Beekeepers' association will send a delegate to the convention of the National Na-tional Honey Producers' league in St. Louis, next February. Ogden. Bids lor 02,000,000 feet of lodge pole pine, timber located In the Targhee national forest of Idaho are Invited at the district offices of the forest service in Ogden. Ogden. Physicians are now entertaining enter-taining hopes for the recovery of O. B. Fritz night watchman who was shot by bandits. Logan. On January third the Thatcher Brothers Banking company observed its 40th birthday. Provo. Two youths taken into custody have confessed to thefts of overcoats and musical instruments from locker rooms of the B. Y. U. Price. Five year old Robert Wilsen was frightfully mangled by the explosion ex-plosion of a gaint powder cap. His left hand was blown off and the sight of his right eye destroyed. Spanish Fork. Approximately 60!) descendants and intimate friends gathered here at the annual reunion of the Jex family. Ogden. Ashlane Farms, Pleasant Grove, showed the champion tat barrow, bar-row, and breed, on a purebred Berkshire Berk-shire and the same firm won on best pen of fat barrows at the Ogden stock show. Ogden. The Rotisserie Inn, of Salt Lake paid 21 cents a pound for the champion beef steer of the Ogden stock show. Salt Lake City Right to possess liquors for personal use under the Volstead act were denied in Utah by an opinon handed down in the supreme court. Price. A small boy, playing with an airgun, shot Mrs. O'Powell in the eye, her physician thinks the sight will be saved. Ogden. Willard Brooks was returned re-turned to the industrial school after he confessed to the passing of a number num-ber of bogus checks. He was recently recent-ly paroled. Provo. A program has been completed com-pleted and the drive started for the raising of money to purchase the plant site of the Columbia Steel Co., it is announced. Ogden. Playing "wild west" with a supposedly unloaded rifla caused the death of Daniel Furl; age 2. Washington. Both Senators Smoot and King, are working to get an appropriation ap-propriation thru this session for the bui ding of roads in Zion National Park. Ogden. At an estimated cost of !? 10,000, the former quarters of the First National and Ogden Savings banks, is being remodelled. The large room is being converted into modern offices. Draper.' The Salt Lake county farmers' organization have gone on record re-cord as being opposed to the "present costly system of district road supervision." super-vision." Salt Lake City. The enforcement of the national prohibition law in Utah is going to be a fact and not a theory according to Thea Schweitzei, uivi-sional uivi-sional chief. Brigham City. A fall on the slippery slip-pery pavement resulted in Miss Lenore Romer suffering a fracturo o: the right leg above tne ankle. Huntington. State and city are co-operating in the work of graveling gravel-ing the state highway through Main street. The work has been going o for the past two weeks a d loca citizens are donating liberally to in sure a good road. Ogden. The refusal to pay for : meal they had eaten landed 1!. Clar anil ('has. Williams, two transient: a five day Jail sentence. Ogden. One acre of land in Kdiu ogd-n valley, yielded -lou crntci 1 i Ituce which realized $''00. The e lire crop was planted, matured an harvect1' imm c |