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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Eighteen thousand boys and g-irla started active school work in Salt Lake Tuesday morning, called at the local offices. It is projected pro-jected that the scientists investigate the reported blight on potatoes. Fruit growers of Springville and vicinity vi-cinity are beginning to harvest their peaches, which are thts year of hih quality and average yield. John Malick of Kansas City arrived arriv-ed iu Salt Lake City Monday, and will succeed ,F. M. Beneett as pastor pas-tor of the Unitarian society. The 10 months' old child of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Christeuseu died at their home at Ephraim Tuesday after an illness of only a few days. Dr. A. H. Edson, head of the United Unit-ed States bureau of plant industry, and Dr. Hans Wollenwebber of P.er-lin P.er-lin arrived in Salt Lake Monday and Box Elder county is to have a new jail. The plans for the building were submitted to the board of county commissioners, and were officially accepted. ac-cepted. The Ladies- of the -Maccabee.es of the World opened a two days' rally ii Salt Lake City Tuesday morning in their hall in the I. O. O. F. building. build-ing. Elizabeth Taylor Stodddard, widow of the late Oscar O. Stoddard, dipd at' Murray Tuesday. The body will be taken to Porteryille, Morgan county, for burial. With the .possible exception of 1905, the most successful season in point of attendance at Saltair closed Monday, according to the management manage-ment of the resort. On the advice of J. D .Larson, secretary sec-retary of the Ogden publicity bureau, the Wieber county commissioners decided de-cided to abandon their plan to provide pro-vide for a county exhibit at the coming com-ing state fair. Death claimed one of Brigham's most prominent women Tuesday, when Mrs. O. N Stohl passed away at the family home. Mrs. Stohl had been confined to her bed for a num- ber of weeks. The wenty-third annual convention Df the Woman's Christian Temperance Temper-ance Union of Utah convened at 8 o'clock Tuesday evening in the Liberty Lib-erty Park Methodist church Salt Lake -where all sessions will be held. Funeral services for Mrs. John Wendell of Salt Lake, 63 years of age, who died Saturday nisrht of injuries suffered a few hours earlier, when she was run down by an automobile on Fourteeenth South streeet, were held Wednesday. Dr. G. W. Green, a well known practicing prac-ticing physician, was found not guilty on a charge of assaulting E. Lee Hunter, a drug c?erk, when the evidence evi-dence was submitted to a jury in Judge W. H. Reeder's court Tuesday, at Ogden. Olaf Farr, aged 19 years, son of Isaac Farr, 1937 Steele avenue, Ogden, Og-den, fell sixty feeet over the edge of a cliff in Waterfall canyon, east of the city, at 3 o'clock Monday afternoon, after-noon, and escaped with injuries which are not regarded as serious. Joseph Jeremy, aged 45, narrowly escaped death near Salt Lake City, when an automobile he was driving overturned ana pinned him in a pool of water. It required all his strength for two hours to keep his head in a position to breathe, until help came. W. H. Ellison, president of the Salt Lake branch of the Midland Trail association, as-sociation, has prepared a list of the resolutions covering the Grand Junction Junc-tion meeting of the association and a supplementary report to be submitted sub-mitted to the members of the local branch. In this report Mr. Ellison refers to the recent action of the Lincoln Highway association in selecting se-lecting the Overland route, declaring declar-ing that it will have little effect on the future plans . of the Midland Trail. All commercial clubs and all social, benevolent, religious and fraternal societies so-cieties in Utah are respectfully asked to aid in selling the Utah advertising buttons, "I am for Utah." Cash prizes of $100, $50, $25, $15 and $20 will be awarded to the organizations turning in the largest1 amount of money from the sale of buttons. Salt Lake City Commercial club barred. Twenty per cent will be given to the societies, in addition to the cash prizes of $200. The balance of the profit from the sale of the 100,000 buttons will be used by the publicity bureau of the Salt Lake Commercial club for advertising the entire state of Utah. It should be a very easy matter to sell 100,000 of these buttons to the people of Utah. Every man. woman and child is loyal and will gladly give their mite to help boost the state. Buttons will sell for 25c and up. "Don't be seen without a button." but-ton." Address Publicity Bureau, Salt Lake Commercial Club. Exchange 8S. Adv. Young Peter Jackson knocked out Jack Downey at Park City Monday night in the eighth round of a scheduled sched-uled twenty-round bout. Downey was floored with a right jab to the stomach aud a left hook to the ja- J. Alma Browning, aged 6S, one of the oldest musicians iu Utah, and an early settler of Ogden, died Monday Mon-day morning at 3 o'clock at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Annie Bugger in Layton, Davis county, Utah, where he had heeen visiting for the last six weeks. Death was due. W general debility. i |