Show intermountain news briefly told for busy readers ELKS HONOR HERO BEETLES den DEFEATED DIVORCES INCREASE CUPID TAKES BEATING TAX FREE CITY IN UTAH OGDEN UT records of the weber county clerks off office ice show an increase in divorces and a decrease in marriages the past year figures froni from the city engineers office indicate less building during 1031 than nt at any time since 1020 1920 A total of marriages were dissolved in 1031 including divorces and four annulments BRIGHAM CITY UT this city boasts boast of being the only one in thy the state which will levy no assessment for municipal purposes in 1032 1932 sufficient revenue accruing from the municipal hydroelectric hydro electric system and the water system to pay all expenses and leaving a balance of unbudgeted funds of officials announce LOGAN UT A total of arrests were made in 1931 by logan city police which is low compared with figures six years back according to chief gilbert mecham arrests in 1030 1930 were IDAHO PALLS FALLS IDA the frozen body of ralph 21 was found in the shelter of a rock ledge three quarters of a mile from his bis ranch home near white owl butte 20 miles southeast of rex hexberg LAS VEGAS NEV erection of a flagpole and settin setting of an appropriate plaque in a prominent place above tho the hoover dani dam project on the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of george washington Is the plan of members of the elks lodges of the seven colorado river basin states the visit here of harry S joseph exalted ruler of salt lake lodge no 85 is expected to result in the formation of definite plans for this ceremony in which it Is 18 hoped that elks from colorado wyoming new mexico arizona ut nh ab california and nevada will participate SALT LAKE CITY UT general property taxes received by the state during december amounted to state treasurer A E Chri christendon stenden announces of the entire amount will go to the general fund and to the state district school fund the total amount of represents about 35 per cent of the states receipts from this source during the scar 5 car BOISH BOISE IDA there were acres of winter wheat planted in idaho during the fall of 1931 or 7 per cent more than the 1930 total of acres a federal feder al crop report reveals the report announces an increase of SO 30 per cent in the size of fall pig crop of 1931 over that of 1930 1030 OGDEN UT the annual convention of public school superintendents ten dents of utah will be held hero here january 1510 15 10 BEND ORE when science met failure in attempting to stem the title of pine beetles which were making heavy inroads into a stand of timber here nature took a hand the beetles have been attacked by a plague which has greatly grutly reduced their numbers and saved millions of board feet of timber it Is expected the plague will continue until the beetles are wiped out RENO NEV with the six weeks divorce law creating an unprecedented rush of the unhappily wed glenos divorce mill ground out divorces during 1931 1031 to establish a record the previous record was set in 1930 when 2149 divorces were granted SALT LAKE CITY UT alfalfa was greatest crop in 1931 being valued at by the annual report of the utah state farm bureau sugar beets beeta were second and wheat ranked third more than of the acres were used for alfalfa with acres of sugar beets yielding to the growers wheat was ja leed at and was raised on 20 o acres SAL LAKE CITY UT foreign bo residents of utah in 1930 1130 numbered as compared with ao 20 in lyso 0 it was revealed in figures of tb tha b bureau re of census recently beleas 0 f the foreign born residents resident sl in 19 there were white bite residents ts 12 no roes and 1231 of other races A total of were naturalized had taken out first papers were aliens and no record was available on 1382 1 AMERICAN FALLS IDA fifty thousand small trout have been placed in the snake river by the sportsmen of cassia county PRICE UT t AN airport Is being planned far fr this city by the cham chamber berof pot commerce |