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Show I News Notes 1 g It's a Privilege to Live in a 1 Utah I Spanish Fork. The Spanish Fork sugar factory is now cutting an average aver-age of 1476 tons of beets every twenty-four hours. The factory was originally origin-ally built for 600 tons daily capacity, but has been improved and the efficiency effi-ciency of the force built up until now it is doing nearly three times the work originally intended for it. Farmington. "Take me! Take me! Come, get me!" Shrilled in the frightened fright-ened voice of a 2-year-old baby girl, over the road of the Farmington flood on August 13,. 1923, these words were destined to save a little life and incidentally in-cidentally to make a hero of Dr. R. Clarence Robinson of Farmington. According Ac-cording to word received in Salt Lake Dr. Robinson for his bravery has just been awarded a bronze medal by the Carnegie hero fund commission which met in Pittsburg recently. Panguitch. An unsolved murder of a quarter of a century ago may come to light as the result of the discovery of a human skeleton, partly gnawed by rats, in an arroyo known as "Lady Peterson's Pot," near here. The remains, re-mains, surrounded by an old muzzle-loading muzzle-loading cap and ball rifle, a large quantity of home-made bullets and other antiques Indicative of an earlier age, were found by a group of school boys, who were out for a hike on Mammouth mountain. Salt Lake City. Salt Lake business and professional men are responding eagerly to the call for volunteers to "put over" the chamber of commerce 1926 advertising campaign to be staged stag-ed November 16 to 22. Provo. Battling desperately but unavailingly against the powerful University of Utah eleven, the B. Y. U. Cougers were forced to take the short end of a 27 to 0 score. Salt Lake The first snow of the season visited this section on election day and greatly hampered traffic. Salt Lake City. Greater Salt Lake now has a population of 1G4.110 according ac-cording to the 1925 city directory. Greater Salt Lake two years ago had a population of 146,000, making the percentage of increase In the two years greater than that of any other city in the intermountain region. Oregon Ore-gon and Washington. The directory contains 1600 more names than last year, which means an actual increase of 3200. Provo. The Provo canyon road project, pro-ject, which was begun more than a year ago, will be completed soon, according ac-cording to Robert Patterson, deputy state road engineer, in charge of the work. Mr. Patterson says that with the completion of the project, the traveling public will be given the best road in the history of the canyon. American Fork. John L. Firmage, manager of thirty of the J. C. Penney company stores, and his father William Wil-liam Firmage, have returned home, after a trip through nine states, visiting visit-ing different stores operated by the ' company. William Firmage has five sons, who are managers for the company, com-pany, and wears an honor button by reason of that fact. Price. The Price Chamber of Commerce Com-merce is sponsoring a move to establish estab-lish a community hospital here that will serve not only Price, but the entire en-tire county. It will replace an effort to locate a clinic, then intended primarily pri-marily for the benefit of school children child-ren suffering from defective teeth and diseased tonsils. Payson. To commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of Payson, a big diamond jubilee celebration cel-ebration was held here. The affair was arranged by the local Lions club and the proceeds from the various features will be used for the Boys' and Girls' recreational home to be built in Payson canyon next summer. Salt Lake City Salt Lake City had to authorize its treasurer to borrow $300,000 from -local banks on short-term short-term notes to provide cash for current cur-rent expenses until the end of the year when tax funds for the year will begin to come in. Salt Lake Municipal budget requests re-quests for 1926 indicate that the various var-ious Salt Lake City departments contemplate con-template for next year expenditures aggregating some $300,000 more than they are expending this year and approximately ap-proximately one-half million dollars in excess of the estimated revenue for 1926. This means, that unless the more than three and one-half millions mil-lions requested in the tentative budget bud-get are materially cut, Salt Lake City faces an increase in cither the municipal tax levy or in water rates and other fees, or both, it is pointed out. Provo. Fred Hinckley, veteran B. V. U. lineman suffered internal injuries in-juries in the game against the University Uni-versity of Utah which will in all probability prob-ability end his football career, it was learned here. Hinckl'-y's condition, al-tnou.L-li not conM!Tf-d serious, is like-lv like-lv to necessitate an operation. Gunnison. Local nimrods who have been hanlJn? ler in Tw;Jvc-r Tw;Jvc-r Ve. canyon r--nor' that t! anirnais are plentiful this yar. The tea yon has been exreia ionaiiy pood. with feed abundant, and ihe deer are fal and in L(od conditions. |