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Show UTAH MAIS The first si raw hat appeared on the streets of Salt Lake last week., the courageous wearer causing no little lit-tle comment. Summit county commissioners, in a meeting with the state road commission, commis-sion, decided to spend $iS,5tK this year on road construction and repair in that county. The Salt Lake recruiting station of the United States marine corps received re-ceived instructions last week to use every effort to aid in the enlistment of 2200 men by May 1. Mrs. John Saniger, wanted fur the alleged theft of diamonds and money to the value of $412.50 from Mrs. Sarah Mansfield of Salt Lake, is under arrest in Los AngeleS. The citizens of Ogden City and Weber We-ber county made a splendid response to the call of the Red Cross for used clothing which will be sent to the refugees of Belgium and France. The teachers of Boxelder county have made an appeal to the board of education for an increase in salaries to meet the advanced demands made upon them in every line of activity. A poker is designated as a deadly weapon in a complaint filed in the office of-fice of the county attorney at Salt Lake against Harry Calas. He is alleged to have used it as such in an attack upon a friend. Dr. E. G. Hughes of Provo has been appointed surgeon and consultant at the state mental hospital. Dr. Hughes will not live at the hospital and intends to retain his private practice, prac-tice, as his appointment will not interfere in-terfere with it. News has been received of the death at Whittier, Cal., of Edward W. Clark, mining expert, and until last October employed by former United States Senator Sen-ator W. A. Clark of Montana. Mr. Clark came to Utah 'in 1SS9. He made his home in Utah at Ophir. The Ogden Heal Estate association has voted to lend its aid to the war garden movement, which has been launched at Ogden. All . vacant lots held by the realty dealers will be turned over to the garden committees for use as gardens during the summer. sum-mer. Members of the 145th (Utah) regiment, regi-ment, now at Camp Kearny, are in tiptop tip-top condition from every conceivable military standpoint, and are figuratively figura-tively chafing at their bits, awaiting the order that will tell them to break camp and begin the long march to Berlin. Acting Governor Harden Benion has signed requisition papers 'on the governor gov-ernor of California for the return to Utah of Walter K. Torston, who is under un-der arrest at Los Angeles on a charge of having deserted his wife and child and refusing to contribute to their support. While he was caged like a mad dog, growling, frothing and tearing at his face with his finger nails, death Anne to George C. Chandler of Ogden, a victim vic-tim of the dread hydrophobia, who had refused, despite the pleas of physicians and relatives, to take a preventive treatment. As a preliminary step toward the enforcement of the curfew law in Ogden, Og-den, all motion picture houses have served notice on their patrons that cJiildren under 16 years of age would not be admitted to the showhouses after 9 o'clock, unless accompanied by the proper guardian or parent. One county in Utah saved $40,239 directly last year from the efforts of one woman. Such is the remarkable report that conies from the extension division of the Utah Agricultural college regarding the work of Miss Hettie White, county home demonstrator demonstra-tor for Millard county. With a view of determining the efficacy effi-cacy of the daylight saving movement, which goes into effect March 31, the Manufacturers' Association of Utah is sending out communications to all manufacturers of the state, urging that they keep carefully compiled records rec-ords of the results of this change. Fifteen thousand copies of "German War Code," "Conquest and Kultur," "American Interests in Popular Government Gov-ernment Abroad." and "German War Practices" will be distributed in the high schools of Utah, if the plans of Dr. E. G. Gowans, state superintendent of public instruction, materialize. Paul ValtinUe. who was arrested at Salt Lake for interment at the war prison at Fort Douglas as a dangerous danger-ous enemy alien, is not the author of a certain patriotic song as reported. It transpired the song was written by a Salt Lake woman who asked Yal-tinke, Yal-tinke, as a "composer of music," ,o set to music. That all organized labor throughout the United States declare a general strike on .May 1. if Thomas .1. Mooney and W. K. Billings, convicted in San Fran.-iseo for complicity in the Preparedness Pre-paredness day parade bomb plots, are not pardoned, was the recommendation recommenda-tion adopted at a meeting held at Salt Lake on Sunday. Singing songs of home and country around old fashioned bonfires, the members of the Mutual Improvement Associations of the Mormon church in every town and hamlet in Utah will usher in the third Liberty loan drive the night of April 6. Even grape juice allowed to ferment sufficiently to exhibit alcoholic symptoms symp-toms cannot be sold with impunity under un-der the Utah state law. This fact was demonstrated to Mike Smilovich when found guilty of bootlegging because he was shown to have sold such a commodity com-modity in Mid vale. |