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Show SURE, UTAH LEADS In connection with the data recently re-cently published showing the western west-ern states had a smaller percentage of illiteracy than any section of the United States, the bureau of the census cen-sus issues a report regarding school attendance. This report shows that six western states lead in the percentage per-centage of Bchool attendance. These states are Utah, which has the high-! high-! est percentage of school attendance of any state in the Union. Iowa. Nebraska. Neb-raska. Montana, Idaho and Oregon. This is on the basis of the school j population between the ages of five ; and twenty. For the school age I group of seven to thriteen. Massachusetts Massa-chusetts leads, wiih a percentage in ! attendance of over 96. Several other states have a percentage of over 95 per cent. They are Rhode Island. Ohio, Iowa. Deleware, Idaho and Utah. ' . . |