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Show UTAH ANDJJTAHNS ::ss uun7hTul in H.e taber- n:i;V,'e at ManU a chapter ot the Led Cross society was organized. William Thad Home, aged IS died t O-deu as the result of injuries ic-ived ic-ived in an umo accident near Center- "xe-rlv ::iHH horses have been pur-cha pur-cha ed in Oguen by the fnited Stales commission in the space of a lew weeks. , r,- . Benjamin H. Newman, aged ., wM seriously injured at Ogden when the motorcycle he was riding collided with an automobile. The SSO.OUO pumpi-g plant project which was recently completed was opened at Lewiston last week with appropriate ceremonies. Three brothers in one family were drawn in .he seiective draft for Juab county. They are lUmald, Loran and Stanley Jarrett, nil of Nepln. Fifty business men of Salt Latve have just completed a pilgrimage to the Uiutau basin, inspecting the towns and farms of that section. While playing around a steel elevator ele-vator at Kaysvil.e, Louts Shepard a-ed S, fell into the elevator and sustained injuries which resulted in his death. .... . ..... ,m, The tax levy for Midvaie 101- i will be 10 mills, that of Sandy 1-mills, 1-mills, Bingham 4 mills, and Murray 7 jnills. This will be in addition to the state and county levy. The Weber county board of education educa-tion has decided that ,the county consolidated con-solidated schools shall begin the fall term October 1, about one week later than the usual opening date. Run down by an automobile near Midvaie, on the state road, Nick Pap-pagianis, Pap-pagianis, 25 years old, a Greek resident resi-dent of Midvaie, suffered a fracture of both bones in his right leg. A drainage project embracing the reclaiming of more than 10,000 acres of the best land in the south end of Utah county is planned by farmers of Payson, Salem and Benjamin. Instead of the ?35 a ton agreed upon between growers and canners, the canners will not pay to exceed .$15 a ton for apricots this season to Weber county growers, it is announced. The Indian War Veterans of Utah county will hold their annual camp-fire camp-fire in the big grove at Salem this year August 21. A special program of events is being prepared for the occasion. oc-casion. Merwin Perry and Sam Perkins escaped from the convict camp in Price canyon, Carbon county, but were captured the next day in Salt Lake. Both men were serving indeterminate inde-terminate terms for burglary. t His head crushed by the weight of an overturned automobile, Itichard Shivers, about 35 years old, a resident resi-dent of Fort Worth, Tex., suffered in juries in an accident at Ogden that may prove fatal. Another man was slightly injured. City attorneys from different parts of the state met last week in the office of-fice of Dan B. Shields, state attorney general, to frame a model prohibition ordinance, which it is planned to recommend rec-ommend for passage in every city and town of the state. Bushed to Salt Lake from Deep Creek, in an effort to save his life, Robert Wilson, 13 years of age, of Salt Lake, died as the result of injuries in-juries sustained when he fell down a GO-foot shaft while walking along a dark tunnel in company with a cousin. The home"'' of Ernest C. Blood at Kaysville was struck by lightning in a severe rainstorm, which was accompanied accom-panied with an unusual amount of lightning and thunder. No one was injured in-jured by the bolt, although the carpet iu one of the rooms was burned and a table overturned. Land owners around Utah hike have decided to fight the farmers of Salt Lake county and unless water conditions condi-tions in the lake region are remedied without delay suit will be filed against the Salt Lake county canal companies and heavy damages for the loss of crops will be asked. The National Food Conservation committee placed the average Utah family at 4.6, but the local state woman's conservation committee has found that this estimate is too low. In sending out cards the local women based their estimate of the number required re-quired ou five members to a family. The state livestock commission is asking 800 livestock raisers of the state to report on the number of animals killed on their property by coyotes, wolves, bears and cats, and a co-operative campaign against predatory preda-tory animals will be waged in Utah by the state livestock commission and the federal government. In addition to dismissing classes In the higher grades of the public schools to obtain harvest hands, it may be found necessary to close business establishments es-tablishments in Ogden when the crisis is reached in order that the bumper crops in the vicinity of Ogden may be harvested or packed away for future use. The boys of the Delta district camp have thinned 400 acres of beets that without their labor would have been a dead loss. The work done bv the young volunteers means a savin" to the country of 1,200,000 pounds of sugar. There are but few trout ln the Weber river oast of Ogden, according to Hagbart Anderson, gaeie warden, who adds that the cause of the scarcity is a mystery to him and he plans to luue the water examined to determine whether it contains matter which trout do not like. |