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Show UTAH AfOTAHHS Members of the I'rovo Commercial club sire working with tlie city commission com-mission on a plan for many municipal improvements. When Saltair bench opens its season on Decoration day the electrification of the new road to the resort will be completedvofficials announce. Two women arrested at Ogden with H0 pints of whiskey in their possession, posses-sion, which they admitted purchasing in Evanstou, were fined $50 each. Salt Lake is to have the l'J-lO conference con-ference of vocational education experts ex-perts in the western states, according to telegraphic information received last week. A branch of the League to Kuforce Peace lias been formed at Logan for Cache county, with Joseph K. Cardou as chairman and Henry Peterson as secretary. The public utilities commission has set May 1 for the hearing of the application appli-cation of the Bamberger railroad for an increase in rates. The case had been set for April lo. The Soldiers, Sailors and Marines' club of Weber county has joined forces with the G. A. K. organization to do honor to the nation's dead with fitting ceremonies on Memorial day. Circulars warning Waf Savings stamp holders not to dispose of their 191S stamps for less than .f-t.2T are being sent out by the War Savings stamp headquarters of the state. . The Maeser School at I'rovo has adopted three French orphans. One orphan was adopted by the school as a whole, one was adopted by the seventh sev-enth grade and another by the sixth grade. ' . ' ' Under the provisions of the new law, members of the state land board must devote their entire time to the work of the board. To this end the members mem-bers are inspecting the districts which have been assigned to them. Stating that practically every chicken chick-en was destroyed la French territory occupied by the Germans, the American Ameri-can committee of devastated France has written the Weber farm bureau requesting cooperation in "re-chickening" France. Frank Bybee, 3 years of age, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Bybee of Cornish, Cor-nish, is in Ogden for treatment for a well-developed case of rabies. It is stated that the disease came from a cat which attacked and bit the boy several days ago. Charles Johnson, wanted on charges of wife desertion and failure to provide, pro-vide, was brought back to Ogden last week from Pocatello, Idaho. The arrest ar-rest of Johnson was made within a few hours after he had left his' home iu Ogden with his trunk. Fred L. W. Bennett of Salt Lake lias been appointed city organizer by the No-Tobacco League of America, which, has its general headquarters iu Indiana. This is the first definite step that the league has taken in Utah to organize against the evils of tobacco. The railroads will do all iu their power to make the Golden Spike celebration cele-bration to be held ou May 10 a success, suc-cess, E. E. Calvin, president of the Union Pacific railroad and federal manager of the system, declared at a luncheon in his honor at the Weber club at Ogden. In the campaign of the various clubs of Salt Lake City to bring down the price of butter by a boycott, it is asserted as-serted .that the women are meeting with much success aud that a survey made by different clubs has brought forth the fact that there is a big demand de-mand for butter substitutes. Millard county in southern Utah is the busiest drainage section in the United States. Plans are now under way to reclaim. 100 acres a day as ! soon as the machinery which is ou tlie way is placed. The county is. di- vided into four districts and each one , will be worked simultaneously. , Attention of county assessors has ; been called by the state . hoard of equalization to tlie fact that bee colonies col-onies in tlie state have not been assessed asses-sed at anything like their value hence they are asked to raise the amount of the assessment heretofore made, which has been around $4 per colony, when it should have been $10. It is estimated that out of tlie entire Uintah basin last year about S.'O.OOO fat hogs were shipped to Salt Lake. A packing plant is being established at Vernal, such au instilulion for this region having been long advocated by progressive citizens. A sufficient amount of gravel is now ou the memorial grounds at Lelii for the foundation, work on which will begin at once. The soldiers' memorial memor-ial commiitee is gratified at tlie voluntary volun-tary help in hauling gravel given by fifty farmers and teams. Three cows, three sheep and four pigs are provided for the big May day barbecue of the Duchesne county high school. To go with the meat there will be a thousand loaves of bread, plenty of butter and several gallons of pickles. Uintah county has just voted a bond issue of 1-UUHRt to be expended on its highway system. This will be iu addition ad-dition to any work that is to be dune by the stale or federal government. The bonds run for twenty years and t ear interest at the rate of 5 per cent. With large stocks of meat in the country, the high prices of wheat and beets are proving more attractive than hog raising in some localities. Decreased De-creased numbers of hogs are generally reported from the beet growing sections sec-tions and increases iu the cnoulies without railroads. |