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Show utMTandjjtahns Raymond Holmes, aged lili. of North Ogden, was fatally wounded in France and died on July 2 according to advices ad-vices just received. Successfully drawing to a close the Used Clothes week for the Belgian relief re-lief campaign ended September 30 with Utah's quota of 0.1,000 pounds over-contributed. over-contributed. Ed Mills, colored porter at a Salt Lake meat market, proved one of the Volunteer day surprises by calmly subscribing sub-scribing for seven $100 bonds and paying pay-ing cash for them. With a showing of $80,000 for the vacation period, the children of Salt Lake's public schools have crowded their savings in baby bonds and war savings stamps to $164,3S5.39. Word lias been received at the TJnU versity of Utah from the war department depart-ment announcing that students wouKlj be called into military duty from thai university witinu twelve weeks. Financial aid, amounting to $200,-000, $200,-000, to assure the rebuilding of the Knight Woolen Mills of Provo, has been promised the stockholders by the war finance corporation, it is an-i nounced. In an appeal issued by W. W. Armstrong, Arm-strong, food administrator for Utah, the farmers of Utah are urged to increase in-crease their sugar beet acreage, that the production may be increased materially ma-terially over that of 1918. Official approval of the proposition to create a new district under the resources re-sources and conversion of the war industries in-dustries board, to include Utah, Colorado, Colo-rado, Wyoming and New Mexico, has been given by the war board. W. B. Lindsey, convicted at Brig-ham Brig-ham City of a statutory offense, was sentenced to the state prison for three years. Lindsey was charged with drugging Miss Klberta Phelps of Brig-ham Brig-ham in order to accomplish her ruin. Provided that road or bridge work now under way can be completed by November 1, it will be permitted to proceed, according to instructions received re-ceived by the state road commission from L. W. Page, chairman of the United States highway council. Alleged to have spanked Henry Deitz, 11 years of ago, when the boy ran upon his garden M an effort to catch a butterfly, William Prusse of Salt Lake is charged with assault and battery in a complaint filed in the office of the county attorney. Talking against the Liberty loan on volunteer day while their fellow workmen work-men were buying double their quota proved disastrous to Paul Rosoh and Blasic Salalick, two Austrian miners at Kenilworth. The sheriff was sent for and the pair was landed in jail. The police department at Salt Lake last week destroyed 500 gallons of hard cider, 500 bottles of beer and approximately fifty bottles of whisky, forming part of the stock of liquors which have been accumulated at the police station since the state went dry. Arrangements are being rapidly completed com-pleted by the Delaware holding company com-pany of the Western Pacific railroad of California to legally assume ownership owner-ship and control of the Utah Fuel company com-pany of Utah, according to word received re-ceived in Salt Lake from San Francisco. Fran-cisco. A Girl's Patriotic league of 14T) members lias been organized at Provo and the organization is still growing. This organization in a sense is similar to the National guard for the men. It is national in its scope and has more than 150,000 members in the United States. Farmers who sell wheat below the price set by the government are losing los-ing money for themselves as well as for the government, according to information in-formation given out b.v the food administration. ad-ministration. The Washington food of ficials feel that the congestion of eastern east-ern markets will end in a few weeks. With five cases of whisky concealed beneath a false bottom of his automobile, automo-bile, C. A. Collier was arrested as he entered Salt Lake City. The bottom of the machine was cleverly constructed construct-ed to conceal the contraband good: and there' was nothing to indicate that there was anything concealed beneatl the floor. State warrants issued during the month of September, according to a statement compiled by Auditor Joseph Ririe, total $323,0S0.82, divided as follows fol-lows : Road purposes, .$124,472.71 ; general state purposes, $12S,1'J6.20; loans by land board, $54,581.27; drawn from land interest funds, $ 1298.5S ; fish and game department, .$3022.78; from road bond fund, ?(l(i3.89 ; state defense fund, ,$2S05.53; district school fund, $3040.91. Declining the offer made by the master barbers of $21 a week, members mem-bers of the Journeymen Barbers', union of Salt Lake voted to demand $25 a week and f0 per cent of all business busi-ness in excess of $3G a week. The Red Cross Educational conference, confer-ence, to be held October S-9 under auspices of the mountain division officials, of-ficials, will take place at Salt Lake. |
