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Show News Notes t i From All Parts of UTAH f Salt Lake Word was received from Pome of the making of Mrs. Emma Bird of this city a "Lady of the Pontificial Order of the Holy Sepulchre," Se-pulchre," with the rank of commander, comman-der, by Pope Pius IX. This information informa-tion was sent by Bishop Joseph S. Glass to the Reverend Father i. o. Hunt of the Cathedral of the Madeleine. Made-leine. Mrs. Bird has been prominently prominent-ly connected with the work of the Catholic church in this state. Sh Is also vice president of the charities' chari-ties' organization society. Salt Lake. Harry L. Finch, pres ident and secretary-treasurer 06 the Finch-Rogers company, was chosen to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Dr. M. R. Stewart, commissioner commis-sioner of parks and public property, by the city commission. The appointment appoint-ment was made after twelve ballots. Salt Lake Salt Lake county and Granite school districts agreed to proceed pro-ceed no further with its appeal from a decision of Judge Tillmar D. Johnson in the United States district court to the effect that the county and other taxing units had no right to assess tailings in the tailing pond of the Utah Copper company. The case nas reached the United States supreme court, which denied a writ of certiorari certi-orari filed by the county last December. Decem-ber. The commission and scnooi board decided to withdraw a writ of error which had been filed, and refund re-fund the tax. Salt Lake. Snow is practically gone from the low ground all over the state, according to the report of the local weather bureau, and livestock live-stock conditions are Improving generally. gen-erally. Cedar City. The Cedar Home Building association has within the past week made abouj ten loans totaling to-taling $15,000 and will soon approve others, all of which is to be used for the buildtng of homes, in Cedar. Salt Lake. Improvement or telephone tele-phone properties in the intermountaln region in the next five years involve an expenditure of $27,000,000 by the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Tele-graph company, it was announced by the local office, following advices received re-ceived from Denver. Direct telephone communication between Utah and western Colorado will be afforded by construction work scheduled for 1926 and large expenditures will be made as required in Salt Lake and Ogden dufing the five-year period. Salt Lake. I. J. Armstrong, present pres-ent assistant football coach and freshman basketball and track coach at the University of Drake, Des Moines, Iowa, was named football coach and athletic director at the University of Utah. He was recommended recom-mended by Dr. George Thomas, pres. ident of the universrty, and the recommendation rec-ommendation was approved without dissent by the board of regents. Armstrong Arm-strong will succeed the present coach, T. M.. Fitzpatrick, who has been in charge of the Crimson athletics since 1916 and who tendered his resignation resigna-tion to the president last spring. Salt Lake. An executive order signed by President Coolidge was received re-ceived by the local United States land office, directing that the land office at Vernal be discontinued and the business and archives be transferred trans-ferred to the Salt Lake office. The local office will take over the worn February 28, according to the order. Ogden. Appointment of Lieutenant Lieuten-ant Russel L. Maughan of Logan, who won fame by his dawn to dusk flight across the continent, to succeed suc-ceed First Lieutenant H. H. George as air service commander of the 104th division, with headquarters in Salt Lake, will be as'ked of the war department de-partment by Governor George H. Dern. Logan Recommendations as to tha solution of Logan's municipal light plant problem will be given to the board of directors of the chamber of commerce within the next few waeks, according to action taken recently by the directors of the chamber. The board directed the advisory committee commit-tee for the electric light plant to report re-port at the next meeting of the board. Ogden. The Utah Construction company has received the written Instrument In-strument from the United States reclamation service setting forth the 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 Warren War-ren L. Wattis, secretary of the company. com-pany. Washington. Representative Col-ton Col-ton was assured by Secretary Work that he would recommend to tho president revocation of tin, recent order or-der closing the Vernal land office on February 2S. The secretary also wrote the president recommending that this he done. H'j said he had been convinced by Mr Colton's show lng that the costs of the Vernal land office are only 20 per cent of Its receipts, re-ceipts, and that there is yet to be disposed of In that district about 1, 450,000 acres of land. |