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Show UTAH STATE f The Utah supreme court has decided decid-ed that the 6 o'clock closing law is unconstitutional. Provo must have a liquor election June 29. This is the decision of the. supreme court of Utah. Hundreds of youngsters have begun work thinning beets in the fields near Spanish Fork. The recent heavy rains have delayed the work. Seventy-two young men and young women received certificates of graduation gradu-ation from the Ogden high school at the twenty-third annual commencement commence-ment exercises. Edward Clark, Indicted by the last federal grand jury on a charge of embezzling em-bezzling funds while postmaster at Manila, Utah, has been brought to Salt Lake for trial. Mrs. Emily Clara Werb died on Sunday Sun-day in Mount Olivet cemetery at Salt Lake while kneeling at prayer beside the grave of her daughter, Clara, who was buried a little more than a year ago. Certificates of graduation from the Weber county consolidated schools were conferred upon 128 boys and girls at the annual commencement exercises ex-ercises of the county schools held in the Ogden tabernacle. F. D. Beall, aged 39, received a fracture of the left side of the lower jaw and severe bruises and lacerations, lacera-tions, when struck by a runaway horse which plunged into a crowd on Main street, in Salt Lake. The work of building the large viaduct via-duct from' Grant avenue to Marsac avenue by Park City is now completed, complet-ed, and is considered by the local people peo-ple to be one of the greatest improvements improve-ments made there in many years. During the last session of the legislature leg-islature the house of representatives spent $21,179 of the $35,000 appropriation appropria-tion made. The senate spent $11,350 and there is about $2,500 to turn back into the general fund of the state. In the midst of his delivery of the baccalauieate sermon to the graduates of the University of Utah, Judge J. W. N. Whitecotton of Provo was stricken with a slight attack of paralysis and was unable to complete his remarks. About 300 members of the National Association of Real Estate Exchanges will arrive in Salt Lake from the east in special trains on June -19, en route to Los Angeles to attend the national convention of the association June 21 to 24. Miss Sylvia Thorson, 16 years old, daughter of H. P. Thorson, a rancher of Bear River City, was wading in the Weber river at Ogden with several sever-al students of the Sacred Heart academy, acad-emy, who were picnicking near the bank, when she stepped into a deep hole and was drowned. The annual convention of the tri-state tri-state aerie of the Fraternal Order of Eagles will be held in Salt Lake June 15 and 16. There will be about seven-ty-five delegates in attendance at the convention from the several lodges of Utah, Nevada and Idaho. Arrangements are being made to hoid a meeting of the larger department depart-ment stores in Salt Lake and all of the larger clothing and furnishing stores to consider a mutual agreement to close at 6 o'clock every night in the year, with the exception of seven business days preceding Christmas. The migratory bird law, under whose provisions the killing of migratory migra-tory game birds and sectivorous birds is held illegal by the federal government, govern-ment, has not been declared unconstitutional unconsti-tutional and officials of the state fish and game department in Utah have been advised to prosecute violators. President John A. Widtsoe of the Utah Agricultural college has received re-ceived a telegram from Hon. Jeremiah Wilson Sanborn of Pittsfield, N. H., stating that he will be in Logan to take part in the big centennial celebration. cele-bration. He was the first president of the college. Jack Gammon, a railroad fireman, was fatally scalded and M. E. Barton, Bar-ton, engineer, received severe burns, though not necessarily fatal, when a locomotive hauling a work train blew up on colliding with an electric sand train on the Orem line, three miles north of Provo. When the Southwestern Pacific railroad, projected through Utah's southern tier of counties on the way from Colorado to the coast, will be built is somewhat problematical, according ac-cording to directors of the corporation who were in Salt Lake City for the annual meeting. Mr. and Mrs. George Webb, pioneer residents of Lehi, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary Monday, May 31. in the assembly rooms of the Lehi tabernacle. All their children, eight in number, their twenty-five grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren, were present. Shortly after F. T. Sam, a Chinese herbalist, was held to district court at Ogden on a charge of having practised medicine without a license, Thomas E. : Browning, investigator for the state ! board of medical examiners, brought about the arrest of Y. Hop, another Chinese herbalist, on the same charge. A Salt Lake miss of seven summers, Mary V. McAllister, is creating quite a furore in the east, being entertained by President Wilson at the White House and apearing as "Maiden America" Amer-ica" in a series of moving pictures in behalf of the "Made-in-America" program. pro-gram. J. H. Burrows, of Weiser, Idaho, sui cided on Main street in Salt Lake by shooting himself through the heat! with a rei olver. As he reeled back ward from the shock he crashed through a window. Death was alwost instantaneous. |