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Show UTAH AND UTAHNS Inhciiiniu'e tuxes amounting to $-l.l7--Sti worn jmlil Into (he slate t reus-nry reus-nry Inst week by tlu estate ot'-Thomas (i. Wohher, for years n leader In merchandising mer-chandising in Salt l.nUo, mui (joihm-iiI manager of (ho Zlon's C o-oponil ivo Mercantile Institution. A recent Issue of tho Huston Transcript Tran-script fine Utah first place In planned toroon ton nary celeb rut Ions. I'rofossor R. Kohunl Lewis of tlio university faculty fac-ulty is chairman of tho stato committor commit-tor ami is taking an active part in L'tnli's celebvntion. Officials of school districts of Utah . nre now busy working out their plans for all-year-round supervision under which they will qualify to share in the state and federal aid given for education edu-cation in health, vocational, civic and patriotic topics. At fi meeting at Salt Lake of the program committee of the Utah ImIii-oattonnl ImIii-oattonnl association, plans were outlined out-lined for i lie annual convention of that organization, to be hold Tuesday, Wednesday Wed-nesday and Thursday, December 28, 29 n ml ;!0. The design for the new Elks" club building, at Sail Lake, as recommended by the committee on plans, has been accepted by the lodge and the work of floating the bond issue of $-100,000 necessary to erect the structure is now going ahead. Work will be begun within the next ' few days on drainage district No. 1 at Hinckley. The district comprises approximately 5210 acres of land, which will have a value of about $200 an acre when the drainage work is finished. Unusually heavy rainfall during October Oc-tober and November and the large amount of snow which is in the mountains moun-tains for Uils time of the year make prospects good for the water supply of the northern part of Utah next year. The total value of the cereals and seed crops, hay, potatoes, apples, peaches, pears and sugar beets grown in Utah in 1920 was $54,322,000, off 1,177,000 acres, while In 1919 the value was f 51,771,000, off 1,113.000 acres, Columbia, Princeton and Illinois universities uni-versities have asked for debates with the University of Utah. Utah will not meet these, debaters, however, as the time given for preparing a new question ques-tion was to limited. Following a preliminary hearing, George Warren, negro, who shot and killed Ira Lee, negro, at Salt Lake on Jv'ovemler 25, was granted his freedom, the evidence showing the shooting was in self-defense. In a brief decision written by Chief Justice E. B. Corfman, objection made by the Utah Fuel company to the workmen's work-men's compensation act in Utah are disposed of, the court sustaining the worker's award. Falling a distance of about 125 feet ..- at the Sperry mills at Ogden, Isidore. Katz, 2G years of age, escaped death. He received a number of injuries, which, however, are not considered serious. . . The American Fork Commercial club now has about 100 members and expects ex-pects many more to join - within the next three weeks. The club is busy with matters of importance to the city. Detective Ed Butterfield was assaulted as-saulted and severely injured at the union depot at Ogden by a negro whom he had placed under arrest upon the charge of stealing a mackinaw coat. Fred Lynberg left Magna on December Decem-ber 2, intending to come to Salt Lake to pay bis taxes. He had $307 in his pockets for that purpose. He has not been heard ofsince by his family. Edward Harris and Joe Wall, who were convicted of burglarizing a-bank at St. George and sentenced to from one to twenty years in the state prison, are now inmates of the prison. Fourteen employees of the -Southern Pacific railroad for the Utah division have been honorably cited for distinguished dis-tinguished service to the company during dur-ing the month of November. The annual show of the Weber County Poultry association will be held at Ogden, December 13 to 18. It is expected the show will be the largest ever held by the association. Alberto Herrera, formerly employed as a janitor at the Los Angeles & Salt Lake station at Lyndyl, Utah, is charged with robbing the mails in a complaint filed last week. There are more than 100,000 taxpayers taxpay-ers in the state of Utah, in the opinion of the state board of equalization, formed from estimates furnished to it by county officials. Mrs. Pan Johnson was fatally injured in-jured at Ogden when an automobile struck her, the machine skidding aud striking the woman as she was crossing cross-ing the street. James Mellos was arrested near Cen-terville Cen-terville by federal prohibition agents for the alleged operation of a still. Preliminary steps for the organization organiza-tion of a Kiwunis club at Ogden have been taken. A test case to determine the legality of an issue of $30,000 bonds issued by Wayne county school district has been started in the supreme court. It is understood that purchasers have agreed to take the bonds provided their logalitv is established. The Clio club of Logan is elated over the success of the community theatre Inaugurated by the organization this fall after the presentation of four plavs bv the Varsity players. The efforts ef-forts of the organization to present home talent in high-class dramatics are being crowned with success. |