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Show News Notes t From All Parts of ! UTAH t Z I'rovo.- According to reports the principal offices of tho Columbia Steel corporation will be moved from I'rovo to Ironton within the next two weeks. A new office building, two stories in height has been practically prac-tically completed and is ready for ( occupancy. The blast furnaces and tho three stoves aro now completed on tho uteel plant. Salt Lake City. Jlerman Bamberger, Bamber-ger, prominent business and mining man of Utah since 1831 and a brother broth-er of former Governor Simon Bamberger Bam-berger died at the former governor's residence. Mr. Bamberger, who celebrated cel-ebrated his eightieth birthday anniversary anni-versary last November, had been in failing health for several months. Known all over the west aa "Uncle Herman," with numerous friends both in the industrial and social world, the passing of Mr. Bamberger brings to a close a picturesque career and one which figured conspicuously in the early business and mining development de-velopment of the state. Ogden. In an ordinance passed by the city commission of Ogden and which took effect March 1, salaries ;f several officials were substantially Increased. Salt Lake City. Information that the postoffice department would not instruct California postmasters to refuse re-fuse baby chicks for shipment to Utah, led to announcement by officials offi-cials of the state department of agriculture ag-riculture that all chicks received here would be dipped in a solution of creosote cre-osote to prevent the foot and mouth disease, which recently broke out among the livestock in California, from being carried into Utah. 11. jlliday. George Howard, a farmer farm-er of Holliday, suffered many cuts and abrasion about the face and left side and may lose his right eye as the result of an explosion of dynamite dyna-mite caps. Salt Lake City. State Bank Commissioner Com-missioner Seth Pixton appointed George Parker of Provo as. assistant to assist in the liquidation of the affairs af-fairs of the Payson Exchange Savings Sav-ings bank, which is now in control of the state banking department. Logan. A resolution authorizing Mayor John A. Crockett to borrow $10,000 for current expenses of tha city was adopted by the city commissioners. commis-sioners. Ogden, The contract for the new Ogden Union depot has been awarded to the H. W. Baum company of Salt Lake, according to advice received at the local offices of the Union Pacific railroad from the head office of-fice at Omaha. The new building, which will be erected on the site of the depot partially destroyed by fire a year ago, will cost something over $3i"0,000 and work will begin immediately, imme-diately, acording to 'Mr. Baum. Ogden, The Farmer-Labor party expects to put an organizer in the field to organize the party in the various counties of Utah, it was announced an-nounced by W. M. Piggott, national chairman of the party, following the meeting of the Weber county organization or-ganization recently. Mr. Piggott said the party expects to put on a vigorous campaign in this state this year. Ogden, The Utah Rapid Transit company which operates tha street car system of Ogden, with William T. Messersmith a motorman for the company was made defendant i.- a $30,000 damage suit instituted in the Second district court by the heirs of Robert T. Dow Dell, who died March 23, 1922, from injuries received in a street car accident the proceeding day. The suit was filed by J. H. Dow. Provo, The ProvD chamber of commerce has determined to hold an annual fruit show, to last several days, and to terminate with an "Apple day." The local organization organiza-tion will sponser the first show, but has indicated its intention to expand ex-pand the exhibit until it will become a county institution. Salt Lake When the Utah State Fair opens this year It will be on Wednesday instead of the usual Monday, Mon-day, and will run a week and will be open on Sunday. This innovation was decided upon at a meeting of the executive committee of the State Fair association held in the rooms of the general manager of the fair, W. D. Sutton. With the exception of racing, all departments of the fair will be open on Sunday. On Monday Mon-day and Tuesday of the second week there will be a pet stock exhibit in which it i3 expected 1000 pets will be exhibited. Logan, The controversy between the peagrowers of Cache valley and the Morgan Canning company of Smithfield which had reached the stage where it was announced that I the canning company officials would j rather see the factory close than ac-cede ac-cede to the demands of the growers, i came to an end after the sales com- j mittee of the Cache County Pea- j growers' association and officials of . the canning company had been in ', session for nearly two days. |