OCR Text |
Show Intermountain News i Briefly Told by Busy Readers ! BERRY DAY FETE TLAN CHILD ESCAPES SNAKE J CITY NEEDS HATER RATE FIGHT LOOMS COWS SHOW WELL J GUNNISON, UT. Snatched out of the reach of a rattlesnake as it was coiled reudy to strike, Carlo, aged two, son of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Perkins, narrowly escaped being bitten, when be was saved by his mother as he was playing on the front lawn of the family home. PLEASANT GROVE, UT. Plans are progressing for the annual Strawberry day celebration here this summer it was reported at a session of the chamber of commerce. com-merce. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. City will begin work at once on a two million dollar water supply development devel-opment project SALT LAKE CITY, UT. A move to overcome a railroad rate discrimination discrim-ination which threatens to shut out Utah business Interests from the Las Vegas-Boulder City territory ter-ritory has been Inaugurated by directors di-rectors of the Utah Shippers' Traffic Traf-fic association. GOODING, IDA. County Agtnt McConnelJ reports 12,000 fleeces have been signed for the Gooding county wool pool fr l33l Many more are expected to be signed. ROCKLAA'D, IDA. The efforts of one rancher have brought to a virtual stop wholesale slaughtering of lambs In this vicinity. E. Van Kirk has killed five lynx blamed for most of the lamb killing, and the death rate has fallen to almost nothing. BOISE, IDA. Idaho's bonded debt has decreased from $5,213,500 on March 81, 1929, to $4,217,300 on March 81, 1931, a reduction of $900,200, according to the statement of the state treasurer. MOSCOW, IDA. The right date to plant ornamental shrubs, especially especial-ly the evergreens, Is Just about the time that growth starts, says the department of horticulture at the University of Idaho. Too long delay might result In lost shrubs, since It is harder to transplant after the sap starts to flow. On the other hand too early planting some times subjects the already weakened plant to extreme weather like wind storms, or too much or too little moisture, before the root system can adapt Itself to the new location. PRICE, UT. Utah's first dry loe plant that of the Carbon Dlox-lce Dlox-lce company at Farnham dome near here, has started to make the novel refrigeration product at the rate of six tons daily. Dry Ice, which is many times colder than ordinary Ice, is mnde from Carbon dioxide gas secured at the well. MOSCOW, IDA. A. Wlnslow, a wealthy -.Boston mining man, has presented to the University of Idaho Ida-ho school of mines his personal complete set of transactions of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. The complete com-plete set comprises almost a ton of bound volumes which could not be duplicated today. The books are described de-scribed as an invaluable technical reference work in mining, metallurgy metall-urgy and geology. CHEYENNE, WYO. President Hoover has Informed U. S. Senator Sena-tor Carey that he hoped to decide by the middle of May whether he could accept Wyoming's Invitation Invita-tion to spend a part of his vacation In the state this summer. MOAB, UT. Road work Is now In full swing In San Juan county, providing employment for practically practic-ally all men formerly without work. Crews are occupied on roads in Dry valley, Devil's canyon and Tet-ers' Tet-ers' hill. MANTI, UT. Cooperative agreements agree-ments which had been prepared by the state road commission, have been accepted by the Sanpete county commission, providing for the oiling of three road projects in Sanpete county during tie present year. NEPHI, UT. The local sheep shearing corral is expecting to have twenty-seven thousand head to clip and the Jericho corral will handle over one hundred thousand, while the Rocky Ford plant has an estimated esti-mated list of seventy thousand. IDAHO FALLS, IDA. One hundred hun-dred women from all parts of Idaho Id-aho will gather here May 12 and 13 for the annual state convention of the Idaho Federation of Women's Clubs. Mrs. S. W. Wilson, of Black-foot Black-foot president of the federation has called the convention. BOISE, IDA. Six prisoners wero removed from the penitentiary recently re-cently for transfer to the Blackfoot asylum, all of them having been adjudged insane. RIG BY, IDA. Contracts from growers are expected to result In the sowing of 28,000 acres to sugar beets, this year, or approximately the same amount as last year. LEIII, UT. Two hundred men will be employed in the ex'nskm work of running natural gas lines from Midrale to Utah county locations. lo-cations. BEAVER, UT. This city will celebrate its 75th anniversary ea the 22, 23, 24 and 25 of Jaly. |