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Show j News Notes g It's a Privilege to Live in I Utah is g Salt Lake City. Comparatively cheap chicken feed and particularly god prices for eggs are proving stimulating stim-ulating to the poultry Industry in Utah. This, situation has created a strong demand for pullets, which tha market cannot supply. All poultry-men poultry-men who have what in other years might be considered surplus numbers of pullets are holding them and wondering won-dering if they can obtain more. Salt Lake City. Gasoline taxes collected col-lected in September by the motor vehicle ve-hicle department of the secretary of state amounted to approximately $103,000, compared with $64,000 in the same month in 1924 and with $87,-000 $87,-000 in August and $139,000 in July. Brigham City. Paul Johnson, 21 years of age, of Collinston, was killed kill-ed when -his gun was accidentally discharged while he was in a blind duck hunting. Companians with Johnson John-son found the body In the blind, and, according to their version and belief, the hunter met his death, when the trigger or hammer of his gun became be-came entangled in weeds or brush In the blind. Spanish Fork. The Spanish Fortf schools have closed for a two weeks' Industrial vacation to aid in harvesting. harvest-ing. If the weather continues favorable, favor-able, the majority of the beets can be dug In that time. Cedar City. Main street paving is well along, and has been completed from the south end of town to the Es-calante Es-calante hotel, a distance of three-fourts three-fourts of a mile. The block from the tabernacle to the Escalante hotel has been paved from curb to curb, while the street for two blocks south has but an eighteen foot pavement, directly di-rectly in the center. There remains to be paved two blocks in length to the northern limits of Cedar. Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City's construction activities during the first nine months of the current year was 15 per cent above the comparable figure fig-ure for last year, 8 per cent less than that of 1923 and 70 per cent above that of the year before, according to the S. W. Straus & Co. building survey sur-vey of the Pacific coast section for the first nine months of 1925. The greatest volume of building ever projected pro-jected in nine months has been experienced exper-ienced by the Pacific coast area this year, or 6 per cent greater than last year, 5 per cent heavier than in 1923 and 31 per cent more than in 1922. Salt Lake City. Homer P. Chris-tensen, Chris-tensen, 39 years of age, basketball and track coach at the West , High, died at a local hospital following a long illness. Christensen was born at American Fork, May 3, 1886, a son of Neils and Phoebe Chipman Christensen. Christen-sen. Salt Lake City. Owing to the lateness late-ness of the fall season, the city commission, com-mission, on recommendation of H. C: Jensen, acting city engineer, decided to defer waterproofing of the upstream up-stream face of the old structure of Mountain Dell dam until next spring. The action was announced following a meeting of the commission In closed clos-ed session. Springville. Springville has voted $75,000 improvement bonds. $60,000 for repairing and enlarging the water system and $15,000 for improving the city's electric lighing system. Salt Lake City. All exhibitors in the Manufacturers Building, 1925 State Fair, advised that they ' felt generously repaid for their efforts in making an exhibit. As predicted previous pre-vious to the opening, the attendance exceeded that of 1924 of more than 100 per cent. Approximately 125,000 people visited the Manufacturers Building. The Ostler Candy Company secured first prize for the most artistic ar-tistic booth; Utah Canners Association, Associa-tion, first prize for the most effective effec-tive advertising display; the Associa-j Associa-j ted Sugar Companies, first price for I the most novel booth, and the Clover Leaf Dairy, first prize for the most educational booth. Brigham City. Lewis Nathaniel Boothe, 93, one of the early pioneers and a resident of Boxelder county since 1853. died at his home in Honey-ville Honey-ville of ailments incident to old age. He had been ill about eight weeks. He was one of the oldest men in the county. Richfield. The Richfield commercial commer-cial club is seeking to induce the Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad rail-road to increase its present facilities in handling tourist traffic for southern south-ern Utah. It is urged that large numbers num-bers of tourists could be expeditiously expeditious-ly routed through the area and that facilities should be supplied at Marys-vale, Marys-vale, the present terminal of the sys-I sys-I tem, to transport tourists to the scenic wonders readily accessible j from that point. I |