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Show UTAH ANDJTAHNS 'This wini i-r lias been the best w inter for saw mill men in the history of Ihe industry in Ashley valley. Arrangements are being perfected for a great indoor athletic track and field meet, to be held in the Deseret gymnasium gymna-sium at Salt Lake on Marc h l"i. Nathaniel George ( 'hainbors. aged M. pioneer of IS."!!, who served as a sloek-inati sloek-inati during the pony express days of Wells Fargo Co., died last week at Salt Lake. Utah should grow its own vegetable seed and should especially protect itself it-self against the shortage of root crop seed for 1P1D," declares a successful vegetable 'grower of Bountiful. Holding of a state fair for Utah was assured at a meeting of the managing eoniniittee of the Utah Stale Fair hoard association with the slate board of examiners at Salt Lake on February Febru-ary 'Si. Property of the Mountain Stales Telephone Tel-ephone & Telegraph company in Utah is valued at S.'i,."i.'!(i..'!U0, according to a statement filed with the state board of equalization. The statement is for taxation tax-ation purposes. Victory bread lias made iis appearance appear-ance in Salt Lake City. The new bread contains SO per cent of wheat and 20 per cent of some substitute, and at the discretion of the baker may be either oat, barley or corn Hour. A service flag four feet by eight, with forty stars, now hangs in the assembly as-sembly room of the Carbon county high school. Each star represents a boy who has left his school work to enter the service of his country. Merchants of Ogden will likely adopt a co-operative delivery system, in connection con-nection with their decision to limit deliveries of goods to one a day to each residence and the elimination of selling of goods on approval. The appearance of lung worms in the hog feeding experiment being conducted con-ducted by the state agricultural college at the Salt Lake Union stockyards may make it necessary to close the contest before the originally planned sixty-day period. The waterworks system of Roosevelt will undergo improvements to the extent ex-tent of $25,000. Artesian water obtained ob-tained from wells and springs located four miles north of town will be piped from an elevation of 150 feet above Roosevelt. Utah potato growers should stop producing forty-odd varieties and confine con-fine themselves to a few proved producers, pro-ducers, in the opinion of M. II. Greene of the extension division of the Utah Agricultural college, federal field agent in marketing. Sleuths of the federal department of justice have resumed investigations in an effort to ascertain if the war prison bomb plot at Fort Douglas may involve persons in Salt Lake and who have not been interned in the alien enemy camp. A national yield of one billion bushels bush-els of wheat in IMS with less acreage planted than in 1917 is the object of a campaign just launched among farmers farm-ers of the state by J. W. Paxman, specialist spe-cialist in dry farming at the Utah Agricultural Agri-cultural college, ' Candy and confectionery shop proprietors pro-prietors of Ogden are protesting against the proposed ordinance prohibiting prohib-iting girls and boys under IS from patronizing the eating and drinking places of the city unless accompanied by their elders. Henry Holley, for more than sixty years a resident of Slaterville, Weber county, died at his home there last week at the age of SO years. M. Holley reached Salt Lake valley in December, De-cember, 1S5S, and has lived at Slaterville Sla-terville ever since. Tele Woegec, who is charged with making uncomplimentary remarks at Kenilworth about the president, h serving a term of thirty days, after which further investigation will be made, and if the case warrants, he will be interned at Fort Douglas. After evading officers of the law for over six months, Kd McCoy was arrested arrest-ed at Salt Lake on a warrant charging him with having intoxicating liquor in his possession. McCoy is declared by the police to have been the owner of the largest cache of liquor yet discovered dis-covered in the state. After consulting his alloniey, the Rev. I!. Henry Leesuiann, pastor of the German Evangelical church at Ogden, who is charged witli having attempted to smuggle a message to an alien .enemy .en-emy in the war prison at Fori Douglas, is now engaged in distributing funds among families of interned prisoners in Salt Lake. An old pioneer in Ahsley valley sinee 1S70 says that there have been three winters in which there has I n less -now in the mountains Ihan this. There Itas been quite an alarm among farmers over the water situation, but old-timers say with the snow that, will fall from now until spring no fear n I be expressed. ex-pressed. While grinding meal, Chance P.urlon of Ogden lost four fingers of his left hand. Burton was forcing the meat in the grinder with his left hand and permitted per-mitted his fingers to get caught, anil before the machine could be slopped the fingers were literally ground to pieces. The war and thrift, slump sales at the pnstoffieo at Bingham in oik; day amounted to $700. The mining coin-panics coin-panics are giving Die cause enthusiastic enthusias-tic support and are requesting the men to take a. portion of their salaries in Efmniis. |