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Show UTAH MilS" The annual conventiniL -t the Utah Shorthand Hi-porters' ass..K.-iathm was LiV-ld at Ogden last week. Nearly S4uO.OnO on life insurance policies was paid to beneficiaries 111 .salt Lake during the pa year, accord-nig accord-nig to statistics received last week. Koad work between the east ei.d of Osrden canyon and IMeu Junction has been suspended for two weeks to allow the workmen to luirvest their crops. The road is nearly completed. Vivian, the five-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Ward, of Springville, is In a critical condition from being kicked in the abdomen by a horse, while playing with children at the home of a neighbor. Utah housewives unable to purchase sutficlent sugar for the annual fall canning of fruits are requested, to apply ap-ply for surplus' sugar cards at the headquarters of the state food administrator adminis-trator at Snlt Lake. Following a six day trip through Uintah and ornery counties, Governor Bamberger reports that the roads are in fair shape and that satisfactory progress pro-gress is being made In construction work everywhere he went. Joseph Straok, a Salt Lake barber, who has been held In the county jail for several weeks, has been paroled. Strack was alleged to have remarked to a customer that he was glad he did not have to go over to France and fight. During the first year of prohibition in Utah, 303 wholesale permits for alcohol were issued to drug stores, assayers, hospitals, laboratories and factories. Nearly 3000 retail alcohol permits were issued by justices of the peace. The entertainment committee of the Logan Commercial club lias planned the annual auto junket trip of the club. This year the trip will be made on Monday, August 5, to Garfield and Bingham to visit the large smelters and mines. Taking a seventy-foot plunge In an automobile, down the bed of Parley's canyon creek, AVilliam M. Ilarman of Salt Lake Is in a precarious condition. He is suffering from a fracture at the base of the skull and numerous minor scalp injuries. Utah's legislative delegation has taken up further with the war industries indus-tries board the matter of government establishment of coke ovens in Utah not only for the manufacture of coke, but the by-products used in the making of explosives. In August, 1917, the first month of the dry law, more than 754 gallons or alcohol were sold by the state, exclusive exclu-sive of retail quantities purchased through justices of the peace. More alcohol was sold last August that lu any month since.. J. O. Read of Ogden, has been made chairman of the leather committee of the Utah war Industries board. His duties, he was advised, will be to keep the leather industry on a proper footing, foot-ing, so as to render the .greatest aid to the government. Determined, after brooding over his son's death, that it should not be in vain, L. Beauman, formerly constructing construct-ing engineer of the Bingham & Garfield Gar-field railroad, is now on his way to France as captain in the American expeditionary forces. The big Saratoga Springs encampment encamp-ment of the citizens' military training class, which holds forth at the University Uni-versity of Utah, will be one of the Uvest military events of recent years. The encampment will be held August 31, September 1 and 2. The water thirty-five second-feet the Strawberry valley project has now been turned into the Mapleton lateral canal and is being used for irrigating 8000 acres of land, on which the crops for this year are thus assured. In this area are many acres of sugar beets. That an attempt of dealers to stimulate stimu-late a rising market by egg storing Is reflected in figures of the recent state food storage report, Is the opinion of Walter M. Boyden, state dairy and food commissioner. The egg quotations quota-tions have' already advanced 5 cents or more. From Russia, where they were taken prisoners while fighting with the Austrian Aus-trian army, 400 Italian soldiers passed through Salt Lake last week. They are on their way to an eastern port, from which they will embark for Europe Eu-rope to participate further In the war, but on the side of the allies this time. Horticulturists of Utah are advised by J. B. Walker, state crop pest commissioner, com-missioner, to not rush into the market this year with their peaches. Mr. Walker Wal-ker says that he does not suggest that they hold out for an exorbitant price, but that they exercise sufficient wisdom wis-dom to Insure them fair figures for their fruit. In an effort to bring about an adjustment ad-justment of the differences between the warehousemen and the farmers of Utah relative to the market price of wheat and thereby avert possible serious ser-ious losses of wheat In the state, Sena tor W. H. King will go from Washington Washing-ton to New York to confer with the federal grain corporation. With the flooding of ce'lars and war gardens through the draining of the big lake at Liberty park at Salt Lake, In the -hope of finding the body of 6-year-old Lester McAllister, who disappeared dis-appeared July 4, the city will likely confront several damage soils. Many graves of Utah Indian war veterans vet-erans in City cemetery at Salt Lake are practically unmarked, according to Miss Kinnia K. Llndsey, .secretary of the Daughters of Indian War Veterans' organization. A movement is on foot now, Miss Llndsey says, to remedy this situation. |