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Show UTAH STAJE NEWS Manti is the cleanest town 1n the state of Utah, according to the scoring scor-ing of the judges of the statewide "clean town contest." The total cost of the November 3 election to Weber county was not less than $6,500, according to estimates esti-mates prepared by the county clerk. In full enjoyment of his usual rugged health, President Joseph F. Smith of the Mormon church, on November No-vember 13 rounded out bis seventy-sixth seventy-sixth year of life. I Reports are that thousands of apples ap-ples are rotting under the trees in Box Elder county, and that people are glad to sell fair grades at 10 to 25 cents a bushel, j Hyland D. Wilcox, said to be the ' first white man to visit the present site of Lehi, and one of its earliest residents, died suddenly of apoplexy at his home in Lehi. Not since 1S9S has Utah had such Indian summer weather as has prevailed pre-vailed for more than a month, according ac-cording to the records of the Salt Lake weather bureau. Mrs. J. W. McHenry of Murray is suffering from a broken arm as the result, of a fall from her horse. Mrs'. McHenry's horse stumbled and she was thrown to the ground. Accidental suffocation is believed to have caused the death of the S-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Van der Linden of Ogden, who was found dead in bed. A boy named Smith was run down by an automobile near Provo, both of his hips being broken. The driver of the auto failed to stop to aid his victim vic-tim and it is not known who he was. The past week has been observed as Utah products week throughout the state, the object of the movement move-ment being-to show that Utah prodi ucts are the best and should be used by all Utahns. While hunting near Avon, Cache county, Charles Shaw was accidental ly shot through the wrist by another hunter. 'The bone on the thumb "side of the arm near the wrist was completely com-pletely severed. The flower show held at Salt Lake by the local Red Cross chapter w-as a success in every way and quite a neat sum was realized, which will be used in alleviating suffering as a result o the world war. The police of Ogden have been asked to investigate an alleged attack at-tack upon Leonard .Stone, a messenger messen-ger boy, who reported that he had been robbed of $9 after an unknown man had thrown pepper in his eyes. Ray Bagshaw, 31 years of age, was arrested at Salt Lake, charged with the theft of a horse and buggy from the Noble livery stable in Ogden. At the time of his arrest Bagshaw was In possession of the horse and buggy. The Ogden, Logan & Idaho Railway Co.,' formerly the Ogden Rapid Transit Tran-sit company, has a force of engineers at work surveying and staking the remainder re-mainder of the proposed route for the Huntsville extension . through Ogden canyon and valley. Murder in the first degree without recommendation of mercy was the verdict of the jury in the case of Frank De Pretto, charged with the murder of Eugene -Allen at the Highland High-land Boy store in Bingham on the night of April 15 last. After careful canvass of the situation situa-tion J. IF. Burns, supervisor of the Wasatch national forest, will recommend recom-mend additional grazing allotments for next year that will increase the number of cattle allowed in the reserves re-serves by 10 per cent. Wendell Phillips has been arrested at Salt Lake, charged with taking a valuable diamond ring from the finger of Mrs. James McGivern after tho woman had been stabbed by her husband, hus-band, and Phillips was assisting in removing her to the hospital. Holding that anyone who killed or helped kill Spiros- Deomontopolos at Salt Lake on October 31 had justification, justifica-tion, the county attorney has decided to take no steps to extradite Dan Be-rez, Be-rez, who was arrested at Rock Springs, Wyo., in connection with tho killing. Singing as they operated an , old-fashioned old-fashioned hand pump, the Pleasant View ward choir aided the Ogden city firemen in saving near-by property when the home of S. V. Cragun was destroyed by fire. The women of the choir also aided by forming bucket brigades. E. W. Redmond, postmaster at Eureka, Eu-reka, has forwarded his resignation to the officials at Washington and asks that he be relieved from the duties du-ties of the office on December 1. Redmond Red-mond declares there is too much work connected with the office for tho salary paid. Two hundred and fifty farmers were present at the Institute held at Union, Salt Lake county, last week, 1y the Jordan high school. This is the first of a series of four Institutes and is the first of the kind ever con-ducted con-ducted for the benefit of farmers by a Utah high school. One of the attractive features of the twentieth annnal convention of the Utah Educational association to be held at Salt Lake November 23 to 25, will be vocal music to be furnished fur-nished at the session by 200 children of the grade schools of N'ephi. who are to attend at their own expense. Dressed as a -vt.Jv.i, Orem Freeman, Free-man, alias Ray .Miller, who took French leave from the marsh, i ot American Fork after the latter had arrested him on suspicion of having forged several checks in Provo, was again arrested and is In Jail. I |