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Show I News Notes : From All Parts of I UTAH i Delta, Fire gutted the A. C. Nelson Nel-son school, ten miles from this city, between Oasis and Deseret for a damage dam-age of several thousands of dollare Wednesday morning. The school had been unoccupied for the past two weeks, no school sessions being held because of the boiler plant being out of order. Origin of the blaze has not been determined. Provo, Utah county pea growers have determined to perfect a County Crop association, and to the necessary neces-sary formalities prior to incorporation are now being attended to under the direction of temporary officers. Logan, Final tryouts for debating teams at the Utah Agricultural college col-lege were held recently and students selected to represent the college in debates with the University of Utah, and the Brigham Young college. Manti, In pursuance of a plan set in operation a year ago at Ephraim, the livestock men have recently reorganized reor-ganized the Cooperative Livestock Marketing association. Salt Lake, Even if the state agricultural agri-cultural inspection fund should run low, agricultural inspection work may still be financed by contributions from the general fund of a county, it Is held by Harvey H. Cluff, attorney general, in an opinion rendered at the request of A. A. Hinckley, commissioner com-missioner of agriculture. Bait Lake, Federal warrants totaling total-ing $30,4-10.09 were received by the state road commission in part payment pay-ment of the government's share of road work as follows : Emery county-Castle Dale-Ferron road, $12,5S9.-31 $12,5S9.-31 ; bridge over Price river at Wood-side Wood-side $3343.82; Uintah county, $2345.20 Sanpete county Moroni Juab county line project $18,071.76. Salt Lake Eighteen were admitted to practice nurses as a result of examinations ex-aminations conducted by the examining examin-ing committee named by James T. Hammond, state director of registration. Salt Lake, LeGrande Jensen, 22 years of age, was instantly killed when he fell from the tenth floor of the Continental National bank building, build-ing, now under construction. Jenson, who was employed as a mason, was working on a beam when he slipped on an icy support He fell entirely clear of the building. Ogden. A. R. Mclntyre of Ogden, formerly member of the Utah legislature, legis-lature, who is going to St. Louis to live, has presented to Governor Mabey his resignation from the board of trustees of the Utah Agricultural College. This will require an appointment appoint-ment by the governor for the remainder remain-der of the term, which expires? in 1927. The appointment will be subject sub-ject to confirmation by the next state senate. Moab. The board of commissioners commission-ers of San Juan county has received a communication from the state road commission that bids for the construction con-struction of project No. 7, the highway high-way from La Sal Junction south to Monticello, will be let as soon as the survey of the project is completed. Ogden. Dead since Sunday, the body of Mrs. Margaret Sage, 41, was found stretched across a was-htub, in which she had been washing her hair, when taken with a stroke of apoplexy the police say. Salt Lake. From the bureau of public roads in Washington, tne state treasurer has received warrants on the treasury of the United States the sum of $44,317.70 in payment of the government's portion of federal h ghway construction work done in Utah recently. Ogden. Ground was broken for the wholesale plant of the TexaB Oil Company of Utah on a tract of land leased from the enver & Rio Grande Western railroad. Salt Lake. The board of directors of the Utah-Idaho Sugar company has announced resumption of dividends divi-dends on common stock. The first will be 1 per cent for the last quarter quar-ter of this year, and will mean the expenditure of approximately $140,-000. $140,-000. Price. The corner stone for the new Masonic Temple at Price was laid December 15 under the direction of Most Worshipful Grand Master Leroy A. McGee. Salt Lake. Headqearters of the Western Tarrif association, formed at a meeting of tariff prcpenents at Denver last October, will be established estab-lished at Salt Lake within a short liine. |