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Show THE UTAH BUDGET The building of the new postofrice at Vernal, tor which an appropriation of $30,000 was made nearly one year ago, may begin late in the fall. Nearly 10,000 volumes is the total number of buoks now contained in the Carnegie free library in Ogden, according ac-cording to the annual report recently submitted by the librarian. -Mrs. Sarah Butler Mikesell, SI years of age, who walked much of the way to Salt Lake valley from Missouri in 1S32, serving as driver of an ox teaiia over the plains, died July 19 at her heme in Salt Lake. Every member of the family of Arthur Ar-thur Peay, a prominent farmer of Benjamin, except a babe in arms, was severely injured when an automobile, auto-mobile, which Mr. Peay was driving was turned over near Payson. iC. N. Lund of Mb. Pleasant holds an enviable record as school trustee. At the recent election Mr. Lund was re-elected for a term of three years, Having already served twenty-four years continuously as school trustee. John G. Wheeler, a retired business busi-ness man and a long-time resident of Salt Lake, coming to Utah in 1S51, died July 19. Mr. Wheeler was 87 years of age and his death was caused caus-ed by the infirmities incident to his years. This season's crop of tomatoes in Weber county will be ready for the canneries earlier than any crop in the past twenty-six years and the prospects pros-pects were never better for a record-breaking record-breaking crop in quality and abundance. abund-ance. With the election of officers for the ensuing . term and the selection of Oakland as the meeting place on May 10, 1915, the eighth annual conven- ' tion of the Pacific Coast Association of Freight Agents closed at Salt Lake on July 17. The harvest has just commenced on the Cedar valley dry land farms and the outlook promises an abundant yield. This condition is partly due to the extra wet season, but mainly on account of the lands becoming more fertile by cultivation. The faculty members of the animal husbandry department of the Utah Agricultural college are on a tour through the principal livestock regions re-gions of the state. The object of the excursion is to bring the new members mem-bers of this faculty in direct touch with the farmers. Along with the notices to property owners that weeds must be cleared from the parkings and vacant lots, notices no-tices are being sent out to Ogden business men asking that the doors to manholes in the sidewalk in front of their business houses be made ievel with the sidewalk. There is an average loss of 565 bushels bu-shels of early Ohio potatoes per farm on the farms in Davis county, according accord-ing to Pj J. Saunders of the United States department of agriculture, who has visited thirty-one farms, the loss being due to parasites which have destroyed he potatoes. " Eloise Nelms Dt'inis, the missing Atlanta woman who is being sought by the police of several states, was a resident of Salt Lake City for about a month in the fall of 1912, and those with whom she became acquainted at that time are inclined to believe that the woman has gone to India. . A tax levy of 25 mills, an increase from 13 mills last year, was fixed by the city officials of Muray last week. This is the highest levy made by any municipality in the county, exceeding that of Sandy by .3 mills. The increased in-creased is blamed on the "drys" because be-cause of the closing of the saloons. Reports from all parts of the state, according to Dr. T. B. Beatty of the state board of health, are to the effect ef-fect that the residents are much interested in-terested in the cleaning up of the different dif-ferent towns. A very large number of the towns are not going into the work in the hope of winning the prize that is offered. Amanuel Peterson, 58 years of age, was instantly killed at Logan, when a water wagon ran over him. He was in the employ of Logan City as sprinkling sprink-ling wagon teamster. When the team began to run he stepped in front of the horses to stop them and was knocked down, the heavy wheels passing over his body. Ilarley 'MeWhinney, under sentence to he shot for first degree murder, whoso application for commutilion of sentence was continued from a former meeting of the board of pardons, still has a chance to escape the death penalty. Commutation was not granted, grant-ed, but the case was continued to the August meetine of th? hnarrl Active preparations are being made hy the officers and enlisted men of the National Guard of Utah for the joint maneuvers with troops of the regular army to be held in the vicinity vicini-ty of Salt Lake August 2 to 16. There will be about 600 men engaged in the maneuvers, including infantry, artillery, artil-lery, signal corps and sanitary troops. Request for the construction of a state highway between Kanosh, Mill-ird Mill-ird county, and Beaver City. Beaver :ounty, was made to the state road :ommission by members of the coun-:y coun-:y commisstonrs of those counties at a neetlng in the governor's office one lay last week. ! J. W. Paxman, president of the Utah Dry Farmers' association, has received the appointment of state-wide demonstrator demon-strator in dry farming, a new position recently created by the Utah Agricultural Agricul-tural extension division in response to a demand made by dry farmers. |