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Show Tlie drive to secure 1000 members of tlie national guard of Utah In Salt Lake started Monday. Six-cent fares is the latest move in the Salt Lake street car situation, the raise going into effect August 15. State Auditor Joseph .uirie has sent out to county clerks warrants for $G0,-000 $G0,-000 covering bounty payments for CO days ending with July 31. What is said to be the first suit to be filed in Utah in which the federal employers' liability act is Invoked was instituted at Salt Lake last week. Arrangements for Brigham City's fourteenth annual Peach clay festival are being perfected, and it is expected thousands of visitors will be present. Utah is holding her own in beet sugar production. The estimated output out-put for beet sugar this year Is 14,000,-000 14,000,-000 bags, against 15,300,000 bags last year. Fire of mysterious and suspicious origin damaged the concentrator and ore bins of the Ohio Copper company, at Lark, to the extent of approximately $100,000. Out of a population of 6350 in the wards of the Ogden Stake, 204 boys' have gone into the service of their country, according to a report issued last week. A large number of western physicians phy-sicians attended the convention of the Pacific Coast Otoopthalmologieal society, socie-ty, which was held in Salt Lake City the first of the week. Partial failure of tho tomato and sugar beet crops of Weber county is threatened unless there is a general conservation of the water supply by Ogden citizens, it is charged. American Fork and Garfield have grown in postal importance (luring I he past year, and both have risen to the dignity of carrier service with "village delivery," effective September 1. What is considered the first instance of community co-operation to dry fruits and incidently contribute ma terially in the present sugar-saving campaign, is reported from the American Ameri-can Fork district. Slipping from a mud bank that projects pro-jects into the Jordan river at Salt Lake, Arnold Brown, 10-year-old son of J. P. and Ilelga Brown, drowned while swimming with some other boys who were unable to rescue him. H. W. Prickett, manager of the traffic traf-fic service bureau of Utah, has petitioned peti-tioned the United States railroad administration ad-ministration for readjustments of rates on fresh meat from Ogden to the Missouri Mis-souri river and points east thereof. That free transportation of live stock, fruit and other exhibits will be granted for- the Utah state fair is intimated in-timated in consideration of announcements announce-ments that this' system would be in effect at the California state fair in Sacramento this month. The Tintic chapter of the American Red Cross is being praised for the enormous amount of work which is being sent out, and calculating from the number of members and workers It Is believed that no chapter in the state has accomplished so much. Business houses using gas arc lights are most seriously affected by the "lightless nights" ruling announced by the state fuel administrator. They may not use light generated by the consumption con-sumption of coal, gas, oil or other fuel for illuminating advertisements'. The Philander Barrett Stewart family fami-ly held its annual reunion at Geneva with the largest attendance in eleven years. Some members were present who had not attended for a considerable consider-able period. Roll call showed 125 members mem-bers present, as compared with ninety-nine ninety-nine last year. The Brigham City canneries are making preparations to handle one of the largest crops of tomatoes in their history, according to information le-ceived le-ceived from one of these firms, who state that tlie crop exceeds any grown by 50 per cent. The price to be paid growers this year is ?15 per ton. In the census of the Weber county children of school age, the enumerators who have completed their work make j reports which show a gain of 155 over the total .of last year. Tlie gain is i eighty-nine boys and sixty-nine g'-ls, the totals being 18S9 boys and 1TSS girls, or 3G77 children betweeu the ages of 8 and 1G In tlie couuty. I Although he was wounded twice, buried alive once and suffered shell shock in the worst form. Harry Moore of Lelii, who was formerly on the battle bat-tle front in France as a member of tlie Canadian expeditionary forces, wants to return and is endeavoring to get into the tank service of tlie American army. According to a table of measurement for the guidance of sugar users re- j ccived by the food administrator, the ; monthly 'allowance oC two pounds for: each individual means that each per- j sin may use one ounce of sugar per ; day, equivalent to two and one-half : level tablespoonfuls. or one round ; talilespoonful. or six level teaspoon- J f :&, or six half lumps. i Definite assurance that the United ! States war industries board will finance the rebuilding of the Knight woolen mills at 1'rovo, destroyed by fire, came last week when Senator j Kin's received from Chairman Bernard Barueli of the hoard a telegram statin- that tlie hoard has appropriated $200,000 for the rebuilding of the mills. Weber county's fruit crop, one of tlie 1-,,-est in the history of this section, will be harvested two weeks earlier I this vear than usual on account of tlie j excessive heat, which has matured the fruit. I |