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Show -5r amilies iuvi-,i iuvi-,i Lake were visited 'uu' 1 hanksglving by Salvation. Army -workers supplied with baskets of provisions. pro-visions. With each family a basket ' -was left. Each basket contained a five-pound roast of beef, groceries and vegetables. M. S. Browning has been selected toy the Ogden Publicity bureau to represent rep-resent Weber county at the meeting of the American Good Roads association associa-tion to be held in Cincinnati December Decem-ber 3 to 6. Ogden will work for an advantageous ad-vantageous position on the coast to coast highway. Utah can boast of the lowest death rate from tuberculosis In the world. The state's freedom from the white plague is emphasized in a circular issued is-sued by the state board of health to health officers. Only thirty-one in every 100,000 of population dies oi. consumption in Utah annually. Beet raisers of Payson, Lake Shore, Salem, Benjamin and other surrounding surround-ing towns, at a mass meeting in Pay-son, Pay-son, approved the action of their special spe-cial committee in signing contracts '-.with the Utah-Idaho Sugar company for the erection of a plant to be in operation for the season of 1913. Peter Barton, a pioneer of 1862, died at his home, Salt Lake, Thursday afternoon of valvular heart disease. He had been ill about two weeks. Mr. Barton, about two years ago, moved to Salt Lake from Kayville, where he had large manufacturing and banking interests and owned a large farm. That section of the stautes provid-t provid-t dng that a convict who escapes from I the state prison is under jurisdiction V of the court of the county in which the prison is located, and that only, is held to be in conflict with the constitution con-stitution by a ruling made in the Third district court. Having captured virtually half the prizes in the Jersey class at the Pacific Pa-cific Dairy show in Portland, Ore., last week, members of the Utah Jersey Cattle Cat-tle Breeders' association are well pleased. The state of Utah has the smallest ,percentage of illiteracy of any state in the United States. No less a person per-son that Hon. P. P. Claxton, govern- raent commissioner of education, Is authority for the statement. Despondent because, a3 she said "nobody would give her a chance," Miss Delia Smith a cafe habitue, committed com-mitted suicide in Salt Lake, by swal-lowing swal-lowing the greater portion of a two-punce two-punce bottle of carbolic acid. Rather than submit to arrest for (a felony, Charles Nelson, 23 years old, son of Magnus Nelson of Pleasant Pleas-ant G-ove, attempted suicide, shooting himwlf in the head. The bullet missed the brain tissues and he may recover. I A new bank to be established in Ogden will cater especially to the sheepmen and stock raisers of the dntermountain region. Warehouses will be established and maintained for the benefit and accommodation of the woolgrowers. I Sixty-three marriage licenses have ' een granted in Sevier county since January 1. The month of July leads with nine, January comes next with eight, and April, May, June and November No-vember follow with seven each. September Sep-tember is at the foot of the list with tut three marriages. 1 |