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Show Pithy News Notes From All Parts of UTAH Salt Lake The Utah state board of pardons will hold a meeting Saturday, September 16 at the Utah state prison. Salt Lake. Victor Peterson, a railway rail-way striker, was shot and seriously wounded by a strike breaking negro. Woods Cross. The Woods Cross plant of the Woods Cross Canning company com-pany will open for tomato packing for the first time in three years. ; Murray. James Bodell, 18 years of age, a resident of Herriman, was drowned at Crystal hot lake, while bathing. Farmington. At a meeting of fche board of education the date of opening the schools of Davis county was fixed at September 18. It is expected that the enrollment will be unusually large, especially in high school. Provo. Utah's crop of onions this year aggregates 100 acres. The estimated es-timated yield is placed at 450 bushels per acre and fifty-two cars will be shipped . Last year the shipment was ninety cars. Reports to the 'bureau 'bur-eau of crop statistics show that the condition of sugar beets in Utah is highly favorable. Salt Lake The Utah tax commission commis-sion has adjourned to meet again in October, at which time further consideration con-sideration will be given of the work which has been ibefore the commission commis-sion and the special plans which have been worked out by Professor Bullock, expert from Harvard university. Salt Lake. The Horseshoe Pitchers' Pitch-ers' association of Utah will hold a tournament at the coming state fair. The association has sent out a letter to the various counties requesting that some representative of the horseshoe piitchers in the county organize a club with a view of selecting the champion pitcher of the county to enter the state contest. Salt Lake. The state road commission commis-sion has signed the cooperative agreement agree-ment with Rich county for the grading and gravel surfacing of 7.5 miles of gravel surface road from Woodruff to the Utah-Wyoming state line connecting connect-ing up with the Bear River valley in Idaho and the Lincoln highway thru Evanston. Wyo. Costs of the project are to be met 74 per cent by the federal fed-eral government and 26 per cent by the county. Salt Lake. From the number of license li-cense plates issued the state is more than holding up to the average of an automobile for every ten people in the United States and the peak has not yet been reached. Statistics of motor vehicles now show that in the United States there are now nine and three-quarter million motor vehicles, almost twenty times the number in 1910 and the amount invested is ?S,-322,000,000, ?S,-322,000,000, while there has been invested in-vested in road construction during the period 1910-1921 the sum of $2,520,-000,000. $2,520,-000,000. The average ralue of a truck Is figured at $1500 and of an automobile automo-bile $750. . Utah has over $700,000 in liscense fees on autos this year. Provo. The completion of the county court house will be rushed. Ogden. The Weber gymnasium building will be constructed in a short time. Cedar City. A bridge over Coal creek will be constructed at a cost of $40,000. Salt Lake. Utah leads all states in per acre production of alfalfa seed this year. Salt Lake. A 200 gallon capacity still has been raided and over 1700 tons of mash seized. Salt Lake. A plant to manufacture magnesium chloride from waters of Great Salt Lake is being launched. Provo. J. L. Lisbonbee, proprietor of & pool hall, was fined $10 by Judge Aie W. Turner on a charge of permitting permit-ting minors to play pool In his place of business. Farmington. Davis county's production produc-tion of onions this year is reported as the best In quality and the largest production pro-duction in the history of the county by W. T. Thayne of Farmington, county farm agent of Davis county. Vernal. The f'.rft leg of the CreeD River, Wyo.-Green River, Utah, voy. age, down the Green river, has been successfully accomplished by a crew of surveyors and boatmen under the leadership of K. W. Trimble, topographic topo-graphic engineer of Washington, D. C. Although their fair city Is a long way from the native haunts of alligators, alli-gators, the residents of Ware, Mass., called on the American Legion to run down a huge 'gator which was found In the swamp land near the city. Two million American club women pledged themselves to assist the American Amer-ican Legion In obtaining adequate hospital hos-pital trentmijit fnr disabled World war veterans through their representatives represent-atives at the meeting of the board of directors of the General Federation of Women's Clubs st Chautauq-ua, N. r. Wealih is a poor man's dream and a rich man's burden. Ripe experience Is something that la coming to anyone whj is too green. Knowledge Is power provided it Is the powerful kind of knowledge. Usually a man has chest enough to hold all the medals he ever gels. A city man who enjoys a backvard garden would have made a gooj farmer. Opportunity sometimes calls to unfold un-fold to you the chance to make another fellow rlchi ilt takes thirty years for a man to learn to like work and by that time e knows how to. Did the man who invented the trombone trom-bone get the idea from watching a lively Adam's apple? What successful men accurately reckon Is that most other men are afraid to take chances. |