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Show : WIDOW PROVIDED ' WITH HOME BY LIGHT COMPANY To provide Mrs. Rachel Long of Ogden, with a home, the Utah Light and Power company will pay her the lump sum of $2250, as compensation for the death of her husband who was killed in the employ of the company by the explosion of a gas meter. This decision was mado yesterday by the power company and will enable en-able Mrs. Long to purchase a homo outright. Payments have been made her of S 1 G a week since November C. 1919, and after deducting these payments and the company will continue the payment of $1G a week until tho total of 55000 is paid A. P. Merrill, Mer-rill, division superintendent for the Ogden district, said today that the payment of a lump sum in such cases was unusual, but was j granted in order that the prop-I prop-I erty can be procured at once by I Mrs. Long. oo |