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Show UTAH STME NEWS A commercial club has been organized organ-ized at Aurora, and a farmers' organisation organi-sation has been effected. It has been decided to have a poultry poul-try show in connection with the stock show at American Fork this spring. The land east of Ogden is declared to be ideal for peas, and the number of acres in peas has increased each year. James Eads How, the "Millionaire hobo," organized a branch of the "Migratory "Mi-gratory Workers" at Salt Lake last week. The Amalgamated Sugar company Df Ogden has contracted for the sugar beets raised around Brigham City for the year 1915. The Ogden bakers are no longer making five-cent loavas of bread, the consumers of bakers' bread being compelled to pay ten cents a loaf. The steel rails of the Ogden, Logan & Idaho Railway company's Cache valley electric interurban road will be laid into Preston, Idaho, before the close of February. With a view to establishing a pea canning plant in Ogden valley, a company com-pany is being formed by local capitalists, capital-ists, and pea growers of the valley are Invited to purchase stock. Nearly 400 people gathered at the Auditorium at Spanish 'Fork one day last week to help Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lewis, Sr., celebrate the fiftieth anniversary anni-versary of their marriage. Three masked and armed men held up and robbed nine Greeks in a con-ntruction con-ntruction car near Ogden, but obtained ob-tained only 65 cents and a double-barrel shotgun for their trouble. Shippers of freight to Utah on February Feb-ruary 1 began paying transportation charges on the advance of approximately approxi-mately 8V2 per cent ordered by the interstate in-terstate commerce commission. The annual convention of the Sunday Sun-day school officers and teachers of the Jordan stake was held at the Jordan Jor-dan high school last Sunday and was - attended by more than 350 Sunday school workers. At a meeting held at Tooele a resolution reso-lution was adopted petitioning the legislature leg-islature to make various changes in the game laws of the state, including prohibition of deer hunting in Tooele county for five years. There are plenty of positions open for women in Salt Lake, but work for men is scarce, according to the head of the Commercial club , employment bureau, who received 200 applications from men in three days. Several hundred dolars have been collected by the Salt Lake Italian relief re-lief committee for the people made homeless by the earthquake which recently destroyed nearly every town in two provinces of Italy. E. H. Ellison of Layton has signed a contract with the Dyer Construction company of Columbus, O., to move the Knight sugar factory from Cardston, Canada, to Layton. The cost will be between $150,000 and $200,000. Theodore Kytka, San Francisco handwriting expert, lost his suit against Weber county for $2,500, the amount he claimed for expert testimony testi-mony and assistance in the prosecution prosecu-tion of Joseph Henry Martin. At a meeting of the Utah Lake association as-sociation held at Provo, an agreement was reached whereby a fund will be raised by public subscription to meet the expenses necessary in keeping the lake down to the compromise point. A fire broke out in the Abraham Smith store at Smithfield and destroyed destroy-ed the building and entire stock of merchandise. The building is valued at $5,000, the stock carried at $16,000; $12,000 insurance has-been reported. From memoranda found in the clothing of George Shu-ma, a Chicago youth, whose mangled body was found near Montello, it would seem that the boy had a premonition that some accident ac-cident or serious illneiis was to befall him. I Owing to development of a new residence section just north of the present city limits, the county and city commissioners have given instructions in-structions that the isolation hospital in that Tocality is not to he used for contagious cases. Three horse buying firms are making mak-ing Ogden their headquarters, and as a result competition is said to be keen. One firm is buying for the British government, another for the French and the third for any government govern-ment that will take horses. It is reported in Salt Lake that the taking over of control of the Gould railroads by eastern financial interests already is having its effect, in that $300,000 has been appropriated with which to purchase material to standard stand-ard guage all the Denver & Rio Grande lines in Colorado. Concluding that duck disease is caused by stagnant water, members of the Weber County Sports-men's association asso-ciation have gone on record as being unanimously in favor of opening the duck season September 1, that the activity ac-tivity of hunters may keep ducks from remaining too long in bad water pools. Agriculture, horticulture. mining, manufacturing, live stock, irrigation and general industrial conditions of Colorado, New Mexico. Utah, Nevada and California are featured in the annual review number of the Red Book, the official monthly publication of the passenger department, Denver & Rio Grande-Western Pacific, which has just made its appearance. Salt Lake City suffered fire losses during 1914 of only 97.6 cents per capita, according to figures in the annual an-nual report of the chief of the fire department. |