OCR Text |
Show S UTAH ANUJTAHNS" l'.uililin ill S;;lt T.alic h;is inert-used fi-7 per cent 111 Ihe piisl your. Thirty new rases of sninilpux wore reported to die Sal;. Lake board of health during the past week. Telephone service is now established between Xeola and Roosevelt, and the workmen have gone to other construction. construc-tion. Steps to Incorporate the slate employment em-ployment service are being taken. This fusion is expected to take place about March I. For the fifth time this year the grade schools of Itoosevelt have installed a new principal. The incumbent this time is It. L. Woodward. Whale meat has' been tried on the patrons of a Salt Lake hotel, but the "leftovers" soon convinced the hotel, management that whale meat does not tickle the palates of intermountain folk. That the school house may he used for social and public entertainments if there is a responsible committee to see that no harm conies to school property, Is the decision of the school board at Duchesne. The school children of .Tuanila have raised ?40 and now are debating whether they shall buy a victrola or build a foot bridge across the river for the convenience of persons on tli south side. When the home of Mrs. Evelyn Allen, Al-len, of Park City, was burned, Jack Olson, Ol-son, a neighbor, was badly burned in rescuing Jack Allen, aged 5, who was also slightly burned. Olson is in a serious condition. Carp fishermen on Utah lake and along the Jordan river may be afforded afford-ed an open market for their fish in New York, Baltimore and Philadelphia, according to dispatches which were received from Washington. Reports from twenty-nine draft districts dis-tricts on the results of questionnaire classifications, received up to February 15, by Capt. A. J. Mechin, acting state adjutant general, show an average of 2G per cent for class No. 1. Utah is within 450 enlistments of filling her quota of voluntary government govern-ment shipyard workers, according to the latest compilation of registrants at the Salt Lake office of the public service serv-ice reserve. The state quota is 1G50. Daniel Alexander, a prominent Salt Lake attorney, has been appointed by Governor Bamberger to be a member of the University of Utah board of regents to succeed Major Herbert S. Auerbach of the ordnance department Joseph Llghtfoot, aged 1G, when arrested ar-rested at Ogden confessed to having stolen a saddle so that his sweetheart could take a ride on his pony. Light-foot Light-foot had a horse, but had not arrived at the point where he could afford a saddle. W. E. Grundy, 24 years old, who is serving a sentence of thirty days in the Salt Lake jail, attempted to commit com-mit suicide in his cell by slashing his right wrist with a safety razor blade, inflicting a gash about two inches long. He will recover. Brokers engaged in the sale of wheat mill feeds may not charge more than a reasonable brokerage, not to exceed 25 cents per ton, according to a supplementary sup-plementary set of license rules received re-ceived at the headquarters of the Utah food administration from the national food administrator. In response to the appeal of the government, gov-ernment, the Weber academy board 'has issued an order to permit the receiving re-ceiving of special students for vocational voca-tional training. The commercial course and work along industrial lines have been enlarged upon and arrangements made for accommodating a large class. The fight of the city of Murray against the recent ruling of the public utility commission in raising street cai fares and wiping out the franchise granted the street car company several sev-eral years ago by Murray has been given moral support by the board of governors of the Salt Lake county affiliated af-filiated commercial clubs. D. A. Plumly, United States immigration immi-gration inspector and special representative repre-sentative of the federal employment service, was in Ogden last week and announced the establishment in that city of the first agency in this territory. Arrangements are being formulated for the establishing of a similar agency in Salt Lake in the near future. J. Cecil Alter, meteorologist of the United States weather bureau has issued is-sued the annual summary of weather in Utah during 1917. The summary points out that the late spring proved beneficial to crops. Comment is made, however, that the cold December of 1016 resulted to some extent in the killing of grain and fruit buds. Ground glass was fonnd in a can of cocoa and a trace of arsenic in a sample sam-ple of poultry tonic by Herman Harms, state chemist. The cocoa was submitted sub-mitted for examination by M. Hoyden, state food commissioner, who obtained it- from George M. Shorten, simitar inspector at Ogden. The cocoa "was purchased from an Ogden grocery. E. G. Barber, dairy expert, win came to Salt Lake from Washington, D. C, several weeks ago to teach residents resi-dents of Utah the food value in cottage cheese, is reported to have contributed to more than trebling the consumption of cottage cheese in Utah. The new ?:!00.000 alunite mill of the Mineral Products company, four miles south of Marysvale was opened February Feb-ruary 15. This plant, saiil to be the largest of its kind in the world, was built upon the site of the former structure destroyed by fire on October Octo-ber 2o. |