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Show I Intermonntain News Briefly told for Busy Readers FIVE CENT FAKE OKEH. PKEFEK UTAH ALFALFA FORECLOSURES HALTED KESl RFAC E OLD TRAIL BEAUTIFY tTAK YALLEi' I TOCATELLO, IDA. Initial arrangements ar-rangements are being made here for about three hundred reservations for the annual Rotary district assembly as-sembly and conference, which opens May 4th. COEUR D'ALEXE, IDA. Flavil-la Flavil-la Tineo, S2, known as the sister of the original of Mark Twain's famous fa-mous fiction character, Tom Sawyer, Saw-yer, died here recently. Mrs. Pineo was a native of Ottawa, 111., and reported re-ported as the last living member of the immediate Sawyer family. MOSCOW, IDA. Beryl, the only recognized ore of berylium, has been found in considerable quantities in Latah county mica deposits which in the past have produced commercial commer-cial mica valued at more than one hundred thousand dollars. BOISE, IDA. The law repealing the "gin marriage" provision of the marriage license laws of Idaho will go into effect on May 1. This v.-ill he in time to allow Idaho to reap the benefit of the May and .Tune weddings. BOISE, IDA. The Old Oregon Trail between Boise aand Mountain Home is to he resurfaced this summer. sum-mer. PROVO, FT Farmers, who purchase pur-chase alfalfa seed for planting this spring should be careful to selecf varieties grown In the state and not southern grown seed, according to the county agricultural agent. Reports have been received that alfalfa al-falfa seed produced in Arizona and southern California is being sold in the state. Tests have shown seed in more humid localities do not produce pro-duce as good results as the Utah variety. BOISE. IDA. Gov. C. Ben Boss has issued a proclamation suspending suspend-ing mortgage foreclosures for sixty days. The governor in his proclama-. tion invoked the authority of the banking and mortgage holiday law enacted by the last session of the legislature. OGDEX, FT The five cent fare has been adopted permanently by the local street railway. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Vigorous Vig-orous measures will have to he followed fol-lowed to check the increase in deaths from tuberculosis due to the depression, it was declared by Miss L. Stracham, New York, director of child health of the National Tuberculosis Tuber-culosis association, on her arrival for a visit in Salt Lake. BOISE, IDA. A reduction of water wa-ter rates for residents of the city of Jerome has been approved by the public utilities commission. OGDEX, UT. Committees of the Utah Canners' association and the Utah canning crops committee of the Utah State Farm Bureau federation fed-eration have announced that they had reached an agreement on the prices of tomatoes for the season as follows: No. 1. $9.50 a ton and No. 2, $4 a ton. Last year No. 1 tomatoes toma-toes brought $10.50 a ton and No.' 2, $1.50 a ton. BOISE, IDA. Salary reductions for state employes ranging from 12 to 25 per cent have been approved by the state board of examiners to Tll.nkp f) snvinfi. pcjtimntpf) h-u nnvo-r- nor Ross, chairman of the board, at "in excess of $200,000 for the bl-ennium." bl-ennium." SALT LAKE CITY, UT. More than $100,000 in federal funds will be loaned Utah and southern Idaho poultrymen this spring through the Toultry Finance Corporation of Utah to be used in the purchase and feeding of baby chicks, it is indicated indicat-ed by reports received here. THERMOPOLIS, WYO. Mrs. V. Bridger Hahn, the last surviving child of Jim Bridger, famous Indian Scout, trapper and guide, died here recently at the age of 84 years. Mrs. Hahn was the daughter of Bridgets Bridg-ets second wife, a Ute Indian woman. OGDEX, UT. Support of the Ogden river reservoir project should be given by Ogden business and professional pro-fessional men and its adoption by the United States government should he urged, Dr. William Peterson of the Utah State Agricultural college, declared at a weekly meeting of the Rotary club held here. RICHFIELD, UT. The Sevier district schools are co-operating with the South Sevier chapter of the American Red Cross in raising the $70 quota of the local chapter for relief purposes in the earthquake earth-quake disaster region in California. Cali-fornia. ST. ANTHONY, IDA. A chlori-nator chlori-nator installed on the water system of St. Anthony is declared as likely to stop the typhoid outbreak reported report-ed here. AFTON, WYO. Star valley rest- dents anticipate making this a record re-cord year in home beautifieation, with tree planting one of its major projects. Arrangements have been made with the superintendent ol the state experiment farm at Afton, to supply valley residents with trees for transplanting. |