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Show UTAH ANLHJTAHNSj Mathonihah Thomas of Salt Lake I has taken up the duties of federal prohibition pro-hibition director for.Utuli under appointment ap-pointment by the president. Director Thomas took his oath of office on January Jan-uary 16 and became the active head of the federal department which now has charge of all anti-liquor activities. Although more than 200,000 sparrows spar-rows were killed last year in the cam. paign conducted by the Salt Lake county farm bureau, it was decided at the annual convention of the organization organiza-tion last week to continue the campaign cam-paign this year until the state is entirely en-tirely rid of the species. Representing efforts of nearly fifteen years, a check for .$2347.60 accumulated accumulat-ed by the Daughters of the Mormon Battalion has been handed to the State of Utah Mormon Battalion monument commission as a contribution to the fund for the erection of the Mormon Battalion monument. Laura Heusser, of Salt Lake, has brought suit against L. R. Hamilton to recover $10,000 damages for the death of the plaintiff's husband, Ernest Heusser, Heus-ser, fatally shot, it is alleged, on September Sep-tember 22. 1919, by Glenn Hamilton, 16 years of age, son of the defendant. Utah Cattle & Horse Growers' association asso-ciation became a , permanent institution, institu-tion, designed to further the cattle and horse industry in Utah, with the closing clos-ing of a meeting of cattle and horse growers from all part of the state, held at Salt Lake last week. William Davis, 28 years of age, a resident of Salem, was almost instantly instant-ly killed at Townsend's rock quarry, near Santaquin. Mr. Davis was engaged en-gaged In loading a car when a large rock from above fell and struck him on the back of the neck. Adoption of a resolution asking the Utah livestock board to order dipping of all sheep in Utah at least once a year for five years was a feature of the official action of the Utah State Woolgrowers' association, in session at Salt Lake. Jack Layton, aged 47, of Marysvale, lost his left eye and suffered numerous cuts and bruises as the result of an explosion at a construction camp near Circleville. It is said he threw a box containing dynamite caps into a camp fire. The first annual dairymen's convention conven-tion of the Cache county farm bureau was held January 16 at the Utah agricultural agri-cultural college at Logan. It included two sessions and a visit to the barns and large dairy herds of the college. That the retail price of sugar should not go over 14 cents per pound Is (he statement of Fred G. Taylor, general manager of the Amalgamated Sugar company, in speaking of the recent sudden jump in the price 'Of sugar. The Provo Fifth ward will soon be divided into two wards. For .a long time the need of such a division has been recognized' by the authorities of the Utah stake, as th ward mow has a membership of about 1900. , Utahns last week began to realize what the east has felt in the matter of sugar prices, when the retail price of sugar, which has remained at 12 and 13 cents, jumped in many places to 17 cents a pound. January 19 was the sixty-ninth anniversary anni-versary of the granting of a charter to the largest corporation In the state, the city of Salt Lake. The charter came from the legislature of the state of Deseret. William Connelly and 3T.. P. Maly have been arrested on the .charge of holding up twenty-five members of the Cooks and Waiters' club at alt Lake, the bandits securing SfCOO .of club funds. Following his address at the Tabernacle Tab-ernacle at Salt Lake. General Pershing shook hands with all -those present, who filed by the speaker's stand to grasp the hand of the visiting general. Tne Fourth Ward Relief society at Provo has been presented with a city lot adjoining the lot upon which the meeting house now stands, the donor being a public spirited citizen. Mystery r4ill surrounds the parentage parent-age of the baby girl found dead in a cellar in Salt Lake. The child had been dead several days when the body was found in a small box. While nibbing silk material together in gasoline to clean the cloth. Harry Schultz. manager of the dry cleaning depart meat of an Ogden laundry, was "verely burned. More than 200 students in various schools of Ogden will be graduated fo the high school at the graduating ercises to be held next week. The season's campaign of the Brig-ham Brig-ham City sugar factory has just come to a close, after a most successful run. Coal production from the Carbon county coal field during December in nhny instances broke all records. More than $S"i.O0O has been invested in Thrift stamps by Salt Lake school children in the last year. Ogden will have an up-to-date isolation isola-tion hospital in the near future. Alleging that he was permanently Injured at Cache Junction while serving serv-ing ib a brakeman and that such injuries in-juries resulted from the negligence of his employers. Graham G. Meadville is suing the Oregon Short Line for ?12.(MV punitive damages. ' Right of the city commission to de-line de-line the residential districts of Pair Lake and to enact ordinances that will prevent the erection of buildings for the installation of industries that . property owners maintain are a nuisance nui-sance has been upheld by the supreme ! court. j |