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Show UTAH STATE HEWS The volunteer fire department at Kaysville is to be reorganized. Fire destroyed the Summit Motor company's garage in Coalville, causing a loss estimated at $7000. Croat success ma rued the drive for better schools which was conducted in Salt Lake last week in accordance with a national program. The clerk in charge of the marriage license bureau at Salt Lake predicts that the HIUIl total of marriage licenses will reach 30J0, as compared with 12040 last year. Samuel MeConley of American Fork was bruised and cut when the truck which lie was driving on the outskirts of Magna was struck by a westbound Orein train. Stockmen who were given grazing permits for 1920 must make application applica-tion on or before January if they desire de-sire the same privileges in 1921, it is announced. But !?:1000 remains to be raised to clear off the indebtedness incurred through the building of the First Presbyterian Pres-byterian church at Salt Lake, at a cost of $220,000. Measles in Salt Lake are on the increase, in-crease, according to the weekly report of the city board of health, which shows ISO new cases for the week eirded December 10. Oscar Lopez, found guilty of burglary bur-glary in the second degree, was sentenced sen-tenced to the state prison by Judge A. W. Agee at Ogden for a term of from one to twenty years. The Weber county Poultry association associa-tion opened its annual show in the national na-tional guard armory at Ogden, December Decem-ber 13, with a show of 500 chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese and . rabbits. The four-minute men and women of Ogden, who serwd during the war period, have volunteered their services for the Christinas seal campaign, which is being carried on in Ogden. Articles of incorporation were adopted adopt-ed and officers chosen for the Brig-ham Brig-ham City Irrigation company at a meeting of representative business men and farmers at Brigham City last week. The preliminary steps of what may result in the Lawyers' club of Ogden were taken last week, when forty-nine lawyers actively engaged in Ogden, met in their first "get-together" meeting. meet-ing. When J. Russell Parker walked into the sheriff's office at Ogden and re-norted re-norted the ioss of some carpenter tools he was placed under arrest on a charge of failure to provide for his wife and child. James S. Hickman, who served a term in the Utah state prison for killing kill-ing a man at Eureka, has pleaded guilty at Pawhuska, Okla., to murdering murder-ing his wife and has been sentenced to life imprisonment. If you are planning to install a current cur-rent wheel in a running stream to develop de-velop power, it is not necessary to file application for the use of the water with the state engineer.- Such is the opinion of George F. McGonagle, state engineer. The Cache Valley Real Estate board was organized at a meeting of all real estate dealers of the county, at Logan. The purpose of the organization is to form a protective association among the realty men for the mutual protection protec-tion and benefit of all. Dr. P. I. .Tansen of Salt Lake has been elected to take charge of the campaign being conducted by the state board of health, with the co-operation and financial support of the Tinted Stales public health service, agaihst social diseases in Utah. The total crop value of Salt Lake, Utah, Wasatch and Tooele counties in 1010, a year which on account of the drought was one of the short crops, is shown by reliable statistics to have been if 1:1,099.000. - The average crop value per acre was ifll.OG. The remainder of the 250 men of the Southern Pacific company shops in Ogden, affected by tho order of retrenchment re-trenchment which reduced the force, finished their work at the conclusion of tho night shirt on December 12. The last reduction makes a total or about 525 men who have been laid off in the past two inonlhs. An invitation has boon extended by the Salt Lake Commercial club to the Missouri State Life Insurance company com-pany to bold the annual convention of the .$100,000 club of the company at Salt Lake next July. It has been estimated that 800 agents from all parts of tin- United States will altend he 1921 gathering. In 1 1 10 bieiural report of Joseph Ririe. state auditor, filed in the office of the governor, suggestion is made that an income tax would remedy, in part at least, inequities which the auditor finds to be present in tho state's tax laws. Mr. Ririe also suggests sug-gests a tax of 1 cent a gallon on gasoline, gaso-line, and one of 10 cents a ton on coal at the mine. Cost of workmen's compensation to industries in Utah subject to the act providing for such insurance during the year ending .lime "0, 1920. iui S1.91 l.::92. !1 . according to a labuialioi. pri'soulod by the state industrial commission com-mission in its report to the governor. i in n m ,-.t con sorva 1 ive est inia t es 1 here arc 2i.".nio acres of farm lands in Salt Lake Call. Wientcll and Tooele counties coun-ties for wlii'-h a full water supply is lacing at present, (if this total, 1 18.- (ion aoi'os are without a water supply, i and iiw.tliiT 97.000 acres that has not a full ui'-r suppiy. |