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Show t News Notes X From All Parts of 1 UTAH ' Ogden. The Utah Construction company has received the written instrument in-strument from the United States '''.reclamation service setting forth the r'terms under which the American Falls, Idaho, dam is .to be built and company officials have executed the contract and returned it to the government's gov-ernment's agency, according to War-rt-ren L. Wattis, secretary of the corns'; corn-s'; Pany- "y Salt Lake. The annual roundur :? this year will be held August 19, 20. 21 and 22, according to an announce-."'ment announce-."'ment made by the chamber of commerce com-merce roundup committee, and will be held at the state fair grounds. A ts seating capacity of more than 10,000 is promised this year. Detailed plans are still being formulated by the com. r, mittee. '' Park City. Refugia Alameda is charged with the murder of June St. Clair here March 15, 1923, in a com-t com-t plaint issued here by County Attor-i; Attor-i; ney R. I. McDonough, it became known. The complaint was signed "'- by Carlos Ariza, Mexican consul in Utah. 9 Leeton. Pretty Ethel Hall, 16, of 5 this place, shot herself because her mother scolded her for staying out late at nights, she confessed to local 1? authorities here. The shooting oc-r oc-r curred here a month ago. At that time she said the gun discharged aiy cidentally when she knocked it over while sweeping. It ::. Salt Lake. The L. S. Gillham Co., of this city, was awarded the con-I;: con-I;: tract to handle the entire 1925 na-V na-V tional campaign for Salt Lake City z and Utah to be conducted by the (0 Chamber of Commerce, at a meeting I; of the advertising and publicity com-K com-K mittee. , Ogden. Quick and extraordinary work by the Ogden City fire depart- ment, in extinguishing flames wnich broke out on the fifth floor of the 1 building owned by State Senator J-ohn s S. Lewis, averted the threatened wip-' wip-' ing out of the heart of Ogden's busi-j busi-j ness district. : Provo. The First Annual Invlta-c Invlta-c tion Typewriting and Shorthand con-; con-; test will be held at the Brigham ' Young University February 27, un-1 un-1 der the auspices of the Department I' of Office practice. The contests are ; open to all high school students of ; Utah. Teams and individuals will compete and will be awarded medals, ; loving cups, and pennants. Three ' persons will constitute a team in the : shorthand contests. The team win-: win-: ning the highest number of points ' wiil be awarded a silver loving cup. j The cup to become the permanent j property of the school that wins the highes t number of points two consc-' consc-' cutive years. A cup to the school producing the best typewriting team on the same terms will be given. Individuals will receive gold and silver sil-ver n-.edals for first and second place. Salt Lake. E. A. Vandeventer, former for-mer managing editor of The Salt Lake Telegram and recently editor a id publisher of the Oakland Post-Knuirer Post-Knuirer ar.d Long Beach Daily News, has been appointed managing editor of the Sunset Magazine. Mr Vandeventer succeeds Walter V. Vo-elillce, Vo-elillce, who becomes contributing editor. Ogden. The violin belonging to J A Hu rt Erickson, leader of the Or pheum theatre orchestra, which waa fto'ien, was found in a pawnshop here by police. The instrument, which is valued by Erickson at $120C had been pawned for $6. Provo. That the dairymen of this locality are handling pure milk was the declaration of Dr. Arthur Vance, food inspector for Provo City, following fol-lowing an analysis of the products o.' the various dairies in this locality. local-ity. Salt Lake. A peak in Utah's coal production was reached last month, when the output was greater than far any other January in at least the preceding live years, according to ti.uu-i'.i issued by B. V. Dyer, (Usui, (Us-ui, t engineer of the federal bureau of mines. The total for last month was 595,189 tons. Farmington. Robert II. McCoy, ( barged with murder in the r.rst degree de-gree for the slaying of A. Roy Heath in Val Verda. December 5, 1924. was found guilty here. The jury returned return-ed the verdict with a reeomenctation for a sentence of life imprisonme.it. after exactly twenty hours of d liberation. li-beration. Salt Lake. William Billeter, a pupil pu-pil of Eugenia V. Kaege of the L. D. S. School of Music, until he went abroad to study three years ago, has won the medal offered in a contest in Switzerland as the best pianist ir. that country of his age. Mr. Bnletei is 21 years of age. He has received many offers since winning this prize to do concert work abroad. Mt. Pleasant. Dr. P. L. Holmar of Mt. Pleasant has been appointed 'ounty physician for Sanpete coun |