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Show ! UTAH AND UTAHNS i The first carload of Utah wool of the 1010 clip was shipped from Ogden on April 4 to a Boston firm. An exhibit of pioneer furniture is being installed on the ground floor of the capitol by the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers. Eighty-four calves, sold at the Fat Stock show at Salt Lake for the benefit bene-fit of Utah chapters of the American Red Cross, brought $3037. The first car of used clothing shipped ship-ped by the Salt Lake county chapter of the Red Cross weighed 32.-100 pounds, or sixteen and one-fifth tons. Ogden citizens will see the tanks used in service in Europe some time in the near future, when a Victory loan parade will be staged at the Junction -City. Buyers are now willing to contract for the coming crop of potatoes at $1.70 per hundred pounds, is the statement state-ment by W. H. Olin, industrial agent of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad. Should the national guard be reorganized reor-ganized on a pre-war basis the state of Utah will get a regiment of cavalry. This on the basis of sixteen divisions. A regiment of cavalry would mean 1500 men. Suit to recover $30,000 damages for alleged alienation of the affections of Mrs. David V. Hyde was filed in the Third district court at Salt Lake last week by David V. Hyde against Magnus Mag-nus C. Nielsen. The new school building at Beaver, for the grade school, will cost about $S0,0O0. There are a number of others in various parts of the state that are now under construction ranging from $10,000 to $25,000. Reclamation of lands for increased food production during the war has enlarged Utah's drainage districts from four to sixteen, according to an announcement an-nouncement made by R. A. Hart, senior sen-ior drainage engineer for this district. A "salt rain" visited Salt Lake City on April 4. For the first time in the history of the city, it is said, the storm extended sou 111 as far as Holliday, where it is reported that the windows were 'covered with the alkali-laden rain. After many years of litigation, which' involved land and water rights of the Utah. Lake Land, Water & Power company, com-pany, Lewis Thompson of Provo has purchased the entire project from Receiver Re-ceiver Edward T. Jones through the district court. According to an order just received by city officials from the state utilities utili-ties commission, Brigham City is given the power to go ahead wKh its contemplated con-templated street improvements and make what changes and repairs it desires to make. Governor Bamberger has issued a proclamation setting aside April 13 as Peace day, and urging-that-appropriate services be conducted in homes, in churches and in other places of public pub-lic meeting in commemoration of this importaut period in the world's history. his-tory. Plans for the improvement of the highway leading to Fish lake, in Sevier Se-vier county, t lie greatest American trout Mecca, will be made at a conference con-ference between state road officials, the state fish and game commissioner and residents of the southern part of the state. The early inauguration of Utah's soldiers and sailors' settlement projects, pro-jects, provided for under a $1.0(10,000 bond issue authorized by the last legislature, leg-islature, has precipitated considerable discussion as to who will be appointed chairman of the commission which is to carry on this important undertaking. undertak-ing. For the second time in the history of the stale April 6 passed without the customary spring conference of the Mormon church. Postponed recently re-cently on account of the health Situation Situa-tion in some sections of the slate, the conference probably will be held In the near future, church authorities believe. be-lieve. With the Commercial club and the business interests of the city working for weeks on a plan to secure enough homes in Provo to take care of the increased population, the outlook is now very bright for the immediate establishment of a home building association as-sociation that will be able to take care of the city's needs. According to Joseph Monson, state school arehileet, several sehool structures struc-tures which were slopped on account of the war are now being rushed to completion. One of these, Ihe Richmond Rich-mond High School, which is in the north part of ('ache county, will cost $125ki and will be one of the finest buildings of its kind in the state. Observance of the centenary of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows is to be made by Utah members of that organization April 21. 25 and 20 in Salt Lake. The dripping of liquor from a large trunk upon the union depot platform at Ogden led to a seizure of the receptacle recep-tacle by Sheriff H. C. Peterson, upon a search and seizure' warrant. The trunk arrive! from California in an express ,.:;r. e-orge I'achis. .Creek, arrest. -d en the Riverdale road on March 20 by deputy sheriffs after he bad left the train from Wyoming at Uintah and started to walk to Ogden carrying on his person twenty-nine half-pints of liquor, was fined $li0 or 10 clays lu lall. |
