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Show UTAH ANDJTAHNS Utah peaches will sell for a minimum mini-mum of $2 a bushel this fall, it is predicted. pre-dicted. Men. women and children are working work-ing day and night shifts in Rich county coun-ty to gather the immense crops of grains and hay. Eight hundred women and 200 men are wanted in the canneries in and near Ogden to assist in saving the fall crop of tomatoes and fruit. The situation situ-ation is critical. Twenty-nine girls of Ogden and Weber county have responded to the call for the government's student nurse reserve. The number is ten more than the quota assigned to the district. Sergeant Leon S. Felt of Huntsville, who has arrived safely overseas, had the novel distinction of being the first man in Camp Lewis to dismantle and reassemble a machine gun while blindfolded. Millions of hungry grasshoppers were placed on a diet of arsenic bran mash in Tooele county under the direction di-rection of J. Basil Walker, state crop pest inspector in an effort to exterminate extermi-nate the pest. Federal, state and county officials are now exerting every effort to bring a successful conclusion to the present campaign against rodents which are eating and destroying foodstuffs in the fields of Utah farms. Carl Haddie Robe, alleged draft evader, wanted at Salt Lake on a charge of desertion of his wife, Ruth Robe, and their minor child, committed commit-ted suicide at the Lakesport mine, Virginia City, Mont., taking poison. According to Dr. R. W. Hoggan, state live stock inspector, the 12 head of cattle which died at Randolph from a" mysterious disease were infected with "pink eye," a disease usually prevalent among horses and communicable. commun-icable. With the call of August 2G filled, Utah will have in the armed forces of the nation upward of 1S.000 men. Volunteers Vol-unteers totaled 5562 from April 1, 1917, to December 15, 1017, and 3000 from December 15, 1917, to the present pres-ent time. Dr. B. G. Gowans was elected chairman chair-man of the child welfare committee of the state council of defense at the monthly meeting of the committee to succeed Dr. W. C. Ebaugh, who has resigned on account of his intended removal from the state. Location at Fort Douglas of a vast manufacturing plant, to produce all manner of railroad equipment, pon-1 pon-1 toons for bridge building, aud many other, varieties of supplies used by engineering en-gineering forces in the field has been decided upon by the war department. When Wallace Young, a Price soldier sol-dier who is home on a furlough, went to Camp Kearny 14 months ago, having hav-ing just passed his lSth birthday anniversary, an-niversary, he weighed 115 pounds and was 5 feet 4 inches tall. Today he weighs 14S pouuds and is 5 feet 7 inches. Frank A. Johnson, formerly of Springville, has been commissioned a major and has been assigned with the national army at Camp Meade, Md. Major Johnson is a graduate of the University of Utah and the Harvard law school. He served with the Utah troops at the border. Willard Cole, a rancher near Provo, was held for the action of the federal grand jury, under a $300 bond, on the charge of having violated the espionage espion-age act by giving utterance to disparaging dis-paraging statements concerning the United States army and government in a pool hall in Provo on July 10. Owing to a scarcity of miners there was a slight reduction in coal production pro-duction in the district embracing Utah and southern Wyoming for the week ending July 27. The output was average, aver-age, however, according to Fuel Administrator Ad-ministrator Maroni Heiner, who says the total for the week was 237,000 tons. So far this month calls have been made for men in the following numbers, num-bers, to be entrained during the five-day five-day periods beginning on the dates designated: August 1, 40 negroes; August 5, 250 white registrants; August Aug-ust 13, 450 draftees for training at the .University of Utah; August 2G, 1125 men for Camp Lewis. The auditor's annual financial statement state-ment for Utah county for the fiscal year ending June 30. shows receipts ammmling to $13S,fiS9.93, of which $98,321.15 is from taxes. The disbursements disburse-ments were $1 10.403.15, and there was an overdraft of $30,675.19 in 1017. The overdraft for 1918 is $.'!S.44S.41, and there is $2753.S2 in warrants outstanding. Fear is expressed by Salt Lake deal-' deal-' ers that the latest ruling of the food j administration will materially affect I daily dealings in new fruits. The rule j prohibits the use of sugar in excess ! of two Icaspoonfuls a day for a person. per-son. This means that the consumption consump-tion of stewed or sliced fresh fruits will be greatly curtailed, thus decreasing decreas-ing sales. The Weber county farm bureau has prepared an estimate of ihe hog :uid chicken production of the county, showing an estimated increase this year over last year of 95 per cent in the production of hogs and of 1U5 per cent in the production of chickens. Plans are being matured to reduce the width of a six-rod road In Davis county to four rods, and to lease the extra rod on each side to the abutting property owners for a long term of years. The extra rod on each side is becoming a menace to-the property by reason of the weeds. |