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Show UTAH ANDJJTAHNS Large delegations from Clark county, coun-ty, Nevada ; Washington, Iron and Beaver counties, and from Salt Lake civic bodies, and county commissioners from the counties traversed by the Arrowhead Ar-rowhead trail in Utah, attended the annual meeting of the Arrowhead Trail and Development association in Cedar City. There are at present 235 "emergency" "emer-gency" teachers engaged in the schools of the state, but a few of whom have taken the necessary professional training to qualify them for regular teachers' certificates. There are in addition ad-dition 911 teachers who have no certificates cer-tificates at all. The board of education of Tooele county lias authorized Superintendent Iteid to engage teachers for the school year of H120-1921 on a salary schedule which has $1000 for a two years' normal nor-mal graduate as its basis. This means a raise of about 20 per cent for all teachers. Fifty years ago on January 10, when Brigham Young drove the last spike of the Utah Central railroad, Salt Lake for the first time was connected with the outside world by rail, an event which was celebrated by a special spe-cial program at Salt Lake last Saturday. Satur-day. Governor Bamberger has refused to call a special session of the legislature to consider means' of increasing teachers' teach-ers' salaries, declaring that the existing exist-ing statutes are sufficient to enable school boards to meet this problem, if they so desire. The Provo public schools will give a reception February 12 in honor of the G. A. R., Indian war veterans and pioneers of Provo. This is an annual affair, and extensive plans are under way to make the reception this year a big success. Forty-five residents and landowners of Provo bench, whose lands are included in-cluded in the application for the incorporation in-corporation of the town of Orem, have filed in the Fourth district court objections ob-jections to being incorporated. At a meeting of the executive committee com-mittee of the Utah state farm bureau, held last week in Salt Lake, January 26, 27 and 2S were the dates selected for the next annual meeting in Salt Lake of the state farm bureau. Comelo Sciava, convicted of violation viola-tion of the Mann white slave act for transporting Sarah Benhed, a 17-year-old girl, from Detroit, Mich., to Salt Lake, has been sentenced to four years' imprisonment. Plans for the development of Emery valley, formerly called John's valley, on the east fork of the Sevier river in Garfield county, were discussed at the recent meeting of the state board of land commissioners. Utah will expend $5,000,000 on highway. high-way. this year, this amount to include federal aid projects. The plans' for the year call for ninety-two miles of hard surfaced and twenty-nine miles of graded earth roads'. Progressive business men have decided de-cided to have a "white way" in Santa-quin. Santa-quin. They propose to install 1000-candlepower 1000-candlepower electric arc lights along Commercial street in the heart of the city. The secretary of state has turned into the treasury $115,9GS.51 as receipts re-ceipts of his office for the last quarter of 1919. A total of $110,79-1.35 was paid in for the last quarter of 1918. Keceipts from the United States forestry service of the state's share of revenues derived from forest lands during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, total $68,650.54. The cost of construction work planned by the Mountain States Telephone Tele-phone & Telegraph company in Utah in the next five years is estimated at $3,750,423. Everything is in readiness for the annual convention of the National Wnolgrowers' convention, which is to be held January 19, 20 and 21 at Salt Lake. Donald Johnson, aged 5, of Elsinore, may be compelled to undergo a surgical sur-gical operation for the removal of a carpet tack, which he swallowed. Large tracts of land in Kane county, coun-ty, near the Arizona line, will be open to entry by the general public February Febru-ary 13. Kesidents of Tooele county have petitioned pe-titioned the county commissioners to appoint a crops and post; inspector. John W. Thurston, former mayor of Delta, dieil on a train while on his way to Salt Lake to enter a hospital. Motor vehicle license fees in 1919 were $4048.30 for the last quarter, as compared with $3!M.2ii in 1918. Ogden will probably have an ammunition am-munition and ordnance storage depot, costing about $4.OO0.00O. The Utah Poultry association's annual an-nual poultry show opened in Salt Lake on January 12. There are 3638 teachers in Utah schools all told, outside of the supervising super-vising forces. Mrs. James N. Kimball. 72 years of age, died at 0;:den of pleuropneumonia, pleuropneumo-nia, which developed following a night of exposure recently when Mrs. Kimball Kim-ball wandered from home and spent the night along the Weber river, her hands and feet being frozen. The official marker, which formed the headstone for the grave of Grant H. Lyman, one of the tirst Utah marines ma-rines killed in France, has just been received by his mother. Mrs. Susan ('. Lyman of Salt Lake. Mrs. Lyman is the widow of the late President Francis Fran-cis M. Lyman of the L. D. S. church. |