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Show UWTplTAHIjS! Tin' I'l.ili Association nf Credit Men held iis sc oii'eoiu h annual meeting ai Suit Lake on .Muy 10. Mystery Kumumils the finding by boys fishing nf I lie body nf a two-wceks-old baby in tlie .lui'dan river, near Salt Lake. Much interest in health education ami vocational training is being shown hy school officials of the southern eoanties in Utah. The ''blue sky" law from now on will do its best to protect citizens of the state from "wild cat" schemes and unscrupulous promoters. Prove l'.eneh is no longer just a lot df fine field:', orchards and mountain s-'onerv. It is now a fourth-class city .and will be known as Orem. Utah horticulture this year is facing one of the brightest prospects' in its history, according to. Dr. SI. C. Merrill, Mer-rill, horticulturist of the Utah Agricultural Agri-cultural college. Utah county increased her assessment assess-ment more than .."OO.OOO this year over last year, the gross figures showing show-ing $.-W.lVjr,SSi, compared with $2:9,-."02 $2:9,-."02 515 last year. 1'ioneer saw mill owner and the man who furnished lumber for the tabernacles taber-nacles at Salt Lake, Logan and St. George, Walter B. Wilcox, died at Salt Lake City, May 8, in his ninety-ninth year. When he was trampled under the hoofs of a team of frightened horses, Harold Lambert, aged 14, was seriously serious-ly injured at Salt Lake. The boy was riding a bicycle when he was run down by the horses. Farm work is reported farther advanced ad-vanced than for the pist ten years, the percentage of plowing done is SO, compared com-pared witli the general average of 78, while planting is SO per cent finished as compared with the general average of 75. The University of Utah debating team wind: met the University of Colorado Colo-rado tepresentatives at Boulder on May 0 was victorious, but the Beehive students lost the decision to the University Uni-versity of Texas in the content at Salt Lake." Davis county has four stretches of highway to build, to connect the state road from Salt Lake to Ogden. Contractors Con-tractors are at work on three of these, and there is still i-t miles through Farmington to be let, estimated at !?28,000 a mile. Alleging that her husband lied to her concerning his discharge from the army, telling her that he was given a medical discharge when in realty he was discharged dishonorably for in-tixication, in-tixication, a Salt Lake woman has' filed suit for divorce. La It. Drowning, state road engineer, engin-eer, lias been advised that 250 -army trucks have been alloted to Utah -from the war department for state road work. The only cost to the state will he the payment of the freight, which will amount to about .$50,000. In 1018 the Cache county assessment reports 8401 range cattle valued at ?;S14,7G5, as compared with 10,401 in valued at $408,730. In 1919 there were 9404 cattle, otherwise assessed, valued it $535,775, as compared with 9013 in 1918, valued at $469,600. While the couple's baby sat cooing in a high chair and several small children chil-dren stood nearby as frightened eyewitnesses. eye-witnesses. Walter Billingsley. a sheep shearer, shot to death his wife, Annie Billingsley, and then killed himself. The double tragedy occurred at Hunter. Hun-ter. Dissolution of an order granted by the Third district court restraining the Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Tele-graph company from collecting in-. in-. creased rates ordered by the postmaster post-master general has been made by Tuilge Tillman D. Johnson in the I United Slates district court. ,. Tooele county citizens are up in arms over the fact that their county Is not participating ill the benefits that will result from the millions of dollars dol-lars worth of bonds issued by the slate for construction of highways, declar-1; declar-1; ing that money raised in the county i for road purposes is not being expend- ed according to the wishes of the peo-Pie. peo-Pie. The striking bakers of Salt Lake ; returned to work under an agreement ' which calls for recognition of the ' union, the return of all workmen to their jobs under the old status, and set-llemeut set-llemeut of the dispute over wages and hours by coinuiittee meetings. In case r" the employers and employes cannot agree on hours and wages, the matter is to be arbitrated. P Among the new laws which went t into effect May 12 are the new county fund, branding of cold storage' goods. 'e regulating sales of foodstuffs, estab-lishincnt estab-lishincnt of clinics, drainage districts organization, health laws providing dispensaries, water rights and irriga- 0 tlon districts, abolition of justices' ! courts in certain cities, establishment of maternity hospitals, changes in in-1 in-1 heritatice lax laws and regulation ov 1 Declaring that 'Vignornnee of the law of this country is no excuse for the erring foreigner." Police .Indge W. IjiMI. Wilkins ,,f Hie city court at Salt j,e) Lake sentenced .Inan Garcia, charged with having liquor in his possession, to pay a fine of $100 ami to serve thirty $ l!'-vs llu ,'il-v 'tJr A deci-inn in the suit brought by the jffWest Cache Sugar company against J tfnP;A. 1 lendrickson and Lorenzo X. Stolw si was rendered at Salt Lake last week, 'njtlie judge awarding, to the planilil'f a (1 judgment of $150,850, with interest jjlfroni June G. 1917. |