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Show UTAH AHDJJTAHNS A new flour mill is being erected at Delta which will have a cap. icily of barrels. The records show that there was one divorce to every six weddings in Salt Lake the past year. Khaki uniforms will be worn by the members of Salt Lake high school cadet battalions this year. The Salt Lake county commissioners voted $-00 to the mess fund of the Utah contingents of the United Slates army. Women of the Ked Cross society are endeavoring to furnish fruit to all soldiers either departing from or passing pass-ing through I'rovo. The plant of the People's Sugar company com-pany at Moroni will be given a try-out try-out "October 10 ami should commence operating October -0. Between o'N'O ami oOOO bushels of potatoes will he harvested from P'ots on public properly in Salt Lake, plained under the supervision of city officials. Hundreds of Japanese laborers who have been employed in the tomato fields in Weber county and its vicinity vicin-ity will now transfer their activities to the beet fields. New locomotives of the 5000 class are being tried out by the Union Pacific Pa-cific with a view to using them to draw freight trains instead of a locomotive loco-motive and a helper. According to the report of Professor A L. Mathews, superintendent of the citv's war gardens, 90 per cent of the gardens undertaken in Salt Lake tins year were successful. Harry James Thompson, arrested at Ogden several weeks ago as a military draft evader, was released after evi dence had been introduced piown that he is 34 years of age. Twelve hundred bushels of oats and eight hundred bushels of wheat will be the product of the Salt Lake City farm at Mountain Dell and Riverside farm will run at least 1500 bushels. Electrification of the Denver & Rio Grande between Salt Lake and Helper will be undertaken soon after the merging of the road with the Missouri Pacific and the Western Pacific, it is said. This year's state fair was far and away ahead of any similar show, it is said. This year has been a banner one in almost every industry of the state. The fruit displays were never better or larger. At a reception given in Payson to the boys who have been enrolled in the national army, each member present was presented with a $5 bill and the same amount will be sent to the ones who are away on duty. Clad in overalls, ten women were placed at work in the Ogden railway yards Monday under the direction of the division storekeeper. Their work will consist of sorting small iron articles in the scrap pile. An employe of a Smithfield dairy has made a record on milk delivery this summer. Out of 36,000 pounds of milk not one pound was second grade. He delivered on an average of lo.OOO pounds a month for eleven .months. As a preliminary to the state fair at Salt Lake, the students of the Tooele schools held a fair of their own. The exhibits consisted of garden gar-den and farm products, farm animals and preserving and canning and sewing. sew-ing. A meal consisting of roast beef, mashed potatoes, gravy, bread, butter and sliced peaches, was served to Ogden Og-den high school students for 15 cents at noon Monday, when the school cafeteria was opened for its first day's business. Charles Swenson, age 16 years, of Harrisville may be disfigured for life ! as a result of the accidental discharge of an automatic shotgun near Plain City. The wad and shot tore an ugly-groove ugly-groove through Swenson's left cheek and temple. The season's campaign at the Lehi sugar factory will begin October 8. Prospects are good for a most success ful run. The preliminary sampling of beets shows them well up in sugar content con-tent and the tonnage per acre will lie well up with average years. Fatally injured by being run down bv a motorcyclist who left him for dead on the country road near the Mineola, Long Island, army concentration concen-tration camp, Earl P. Brown, 21 years of age, of Salt Lake, died September 28 in the military field camp. It is understood that the county dry farm experiment station, located near Cedar Fort, will be discontinued before be-fore long, both because of the lack of labor and the recent death of John Hackling, who owned the property occupied oc-cupied by the station. This necessitates necessi-tates changes in his estate. Representatives of eight thousand union men, who compose the Salt Lake Federation of Labor, are organ-j organ-j izing a local branch of the American Alliance for Labor and Liemocraey I which has been formed to "support faithfully and loyally the government i rf the United Slates in the war." |