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Show Anniversary of North Pole Discovery Observed It May Be News Notes Its a Privilege to Live In UTAH t LAYTON Utah has 440,000 acres of irrigated alfalfa and 60,000 not irrigated, making a total of half a mil- lion. DUCHESNE Seed was harvested In Utah in 1928 from 73,000 acres; 62.000 in 1924, and 13,000 acres in 1919. HEBER CITY Harvest acreage of all crops in Utah in 1928 was estimated at 1,150,000 acres, of which 870,-00- 0 acres were irrigated and 280,000 produced crops without irrigation. KAYSVILLE Utah ranked third among the states in the average yield per acre of onions in 1928; its average that year was 475 bushels per acre. The average yield in the United States was 246. A statewide pool MT. PLEASANT for wool, as distinct from range wool, is the plan set in motion at a meeting here recently at which representatives of farm wool pools in four counties were present to the numfarm-grow- High ranking officials of the navy observing the 20th anniversary of the discovery of the North Pole by Admiral Robert E. Peary in exercises at his tomb in Arlington National cemetery. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest L. Jahncke, In civilian clothes, and Rear Admiral L. E. Gregory, laying a wreath upon the tomb. ber of Many Follow Routes of Highways Made Famous in Ancient Times. Washington. Many motorists who speed along the Old Post road out of Boston today are unaware that Paul Revere galloped along that same route on his famous ride. Nor do travelers on the Corniche road in the French Riviera always realize they are skimming over a sector of the Via Aurelia, a Roman speedway which Emperor Aurelius began more than two centuries before Christ was born. "Speedway is entirely correct as an appellation for those Roman roads, a National Geographic society bulletin points out. We have the word of Pliny, an early geographer, for it. Once a Roman emperor traveled 200 miles in 24 hours, In three relays of chariots. He sped at eigtit miles an hour. Pliny describes that record as a wonderful thing and an instance of incredible celerity. English Roads Once Roman Highways. roads are tellMany present-datales of ancient history for they follow the routes of historic highways, This is especontinues the bulletin. true of highways of modern cially Europe and even of the United States. Watling street and Stane street and Peddlars Way are survivors of the military roads with which Rome once adorned Britain. "Nobody knows who built the first road but remains have been found of a highway laid out by Cheops, builder of the Great Pyramid in Egypt Babylon had three great highways and the first levying of toils in the history of highways took place on one of these Babylonian routes. The Carthaginians were' the most scien tific road builders of ancient times, but the details of their construction have been lost was not All ronds lead to Rome a metaphor, but a fact during the supremacy of the Roman empire. Roads led to the Imperial city from Transylania, on Dacia, present-day east, and Germany on the west Another road branched from the very tip of what now is Spain. By the Roman laws the roads were free for the use of the public. They could belong to one person or group of persons and the emperors were charged with their maintenance. Soldiers, convicts and slaves kept them in repair. In some places service on the roads eliminated the payment of taxes. The Romans were proud of the emperors who built highways. They honored them with triumphal arches and medals and named the highways after them, such as the Via Appia and the Via Aurelia. "The Via Appia was the Roman Over It SL Paul Lincoln highway. the Apostle traveled, untroubled by it was begun by toll collectors, Caesar Appius Claudius in 312 B. C., and when completed reached to Brindisi on the Adriatic coast Modern traffic takes a new path, but the Via Appia still runs its course from Rome across the Alban hills. The Romans had no road maps. They published Itineraries listing the stations along the road with the dis tances between each station. Their nearest approaches to road maps were drawings of the stations with? topographic features of the surrounding country. Whn the Homun empire declined. road building did likewise. Charlemagne, emperor of the Franks, began a program of road construction, but after his death the development passed into a lethargy which was hardly disturbed during the Middle ages. A quaint law was passed in England in the Middle ages relative to the muddy and rutted highways of to the law the day. According bushes and trees were felled for 200 feet on either side of a road to prevent the gentle Inhabitants of the countryside from rusiiing out and attacking travelers! The first toll for the maintenance of English roads was passed by Edward III in the Four- teenth century. The Incas of Peru had the most extensive highway system in the New world. Their Queen of Roads, which connected Quito and Cuzco, was five times as long as the completed Via Appia. They were shrewder engineers than the Romans. The latter built their roads in straight lines, conquering all difficulties in their paths. y s - Pursuit of Moth Hazardous Task Philadelphia. Pu rsult of moths and butterflies In the tropical Jungles of Ecuador is a occupation, according $ hazardous to W. Judson Coxey, member of the Philadelphia Academy of T Natural Sciences, who returned S from a protracted expedition. Coxey told of meeting bird eating spiders the size of din j ner plates and killing venomous reptiles In the haunts of rare beautiful butterflies. One of and $ the spiders encountered, Coxey said, he was forced to shoot with a revolver as It was about a to spring at him. Rattlesnakes which give no warning when attacking were brought back by the scientist 4 They are known as Eceo" or X snakes because of their 4 markings and have "rattles X which make no noise. s f for It n 24. The business men of in conjunction with the sheepmen who are members of the Antelope Sheep Shearing association, are formulating plans and raising money to construct a more direct road to Hanks Ferry by way of the South Myton bench. This point is used crossing the Green river, and if this project is completed it will save several miles of extra travel. BRIGHTON Ten inches of new snow fell recently on the city watershed at Brighton, thus bringing the total stand of snow now on the watershed up to 81 inches, according to a report received here at the office of H. K. Burton, superintendent of waterworks. The stand is considerably above that which was on the watershed last year at the corresponding period. VERNAL A representative of Draper & Co., Boston wool buyers, has cents per pound Chinaman Halts Gift purchased at 32 60.000 fleeces from John Reader and of Million to Town 65.000 fleeces from Witbeck Brothers Toronto. One lone Chinese may and Witbeck & Spiers at the same block Arthur Cuttens plan to present The Reader flocks have not price. a million dollar hotel and golf course been sheared as yet but the sheep of to his native city of Guelph. the other flockmasters named are now Cutten has purchased property for being sheared at the Watson shearing the hotel but the proprietor of the All the fleeces will average plant. r Grand cafe bolds a lease and the wool is contractpounds, and wants $50,000 to drop it Cutten eight ed for June delivery at Watson. refuses to give that amount. GUNNISON On the Manti forest It is up to the citizens of Guelph, this year s program of water developthe Chicago millionaire announced. He intimated that unless the city gets ment projects totals approximately rid of the Chinese the million dollar $1400, and about $1600 will be expended in the construction of boundary gift might not be made. The golf and other fences. The funds for these course scheme is going ahead smoothly. improvements are taken from the grazinWith Chick Evans, Mr. Cutten fees and must not exceed 10 per ing new the site of the spected course. Evans declared it would make cent of the total grazing fees for the the finest scenic course on the con year. In selecting these range improvement projects care is taken to tinenL distribute them over all parts of the Announcement of Mr. Cuttens million dollar gift to Guelph followed an forest where they will benefit the earlier gift from another famouB na- largest number of grazing users. MYTON Horace W. Sheeley, water tive son, Edward Johnson. The metropolitan opera tenor has provided a commissioner named by the federal fund for free musical education of all court for the Uintah basin, has reapchildren in the town. pointed Clarke C. Shaw as deputy commissioner for the Lake Fort river and its tributaries, and Loren Cloward We Know It as deputy commissioner for the UinCleveland, Ohio. Americas greatriver and its tributaries Decrees tah est problem Is traffic, is the belief of of Federal Judge Tillman D. Johnson David Bloch, mayor of Tel Aviv, Paldirect the regulation of these streams. estine, who is touring the United They irrigate 49,000 acres under ditch-- , States. es constructed by the department of the interior for the Indians and 87,000 Jail Now Creamery acres irrigated by white families. Alierton, III. Without any tenants COALVILLE Placing of gravel on' for a number of years and with small Lincoln highway from Wanship the likelihood of future use for which it to the beginning of the new Toad was originally built, the local jail hns around Echo reservoir was started been leased for a creamery station. this week by the Utah state road commission with a crew of twenty men and several teams employed. As soon as the gravel placing is finished, oiling of the road from the Chalk Creek bridge at Coalville to the intersection with the Silver Creek canyon road will begin. The work of oiling from Echo to Baskin, in Echo canyon, will be started at the same time. UTAH State highway funds totaling $142,661.01 were distributed during the month of April, according to a report from the state auditors department. The money was apportioned as follows: Highway equipment, office expenses, $556.75; travel, Sus$784.78; and salaries, $3896.79. Individual is listed at $313.69. pense county- distribution is as follows: Beaver, $314.20; Eoxelder, $1385.94; MYTON Modern Roads Are Great History Links When your Children Ciy My-to- n The Incas curved and graded their highways to avoid ascents and forests. The father of modern road building is Napoleon. He systematized the industry and appointed a body of engineers to supervise the construction of French roads. Other European countries and the United States were quick to perceive the value of improved highways. Turkey, long closed to Western ways, is planning an highway from Constantinople to Angora. Every day news announcements bring in tidings of new roads being built in lesser known parts of the world. Automobiles demand an ever widening touring radius, and modern travelers no longer fear the mythological creatures which medieval people believed Inhabited the unknown parts of the earth. asphalt-surface- d 1-- 2 nine-yea- 18-ho- le $ s t $7 , Castoria is a comfort when Baby Is fretful. No sooner taken than the little one is at ease. If restless, a few drops soon bring contentment No harm done, for Castoria is a baby remedy, meant for babies. Perfectly safe to give the youngest infant ; you have the doctors word for that! It is a vegetable product and you could use it every day. But its in an emergency that Castoria means most. Some night when constipation must be relieved or colic pains or other suffering. Never be without it ; some mothers keep an extra bottle, unopened, to make sure there will, always be Castoria in the house. It is effective for older children, too; read the book that comes with it Commercial Uses of Airplanes in Europe The delivery of newspapers by airplanes is commonplace in many parts of Europe. Fleets of special planes are employed. Bundles of papers are dropped from the speeding planes, flying on regular schedules, so that the late editions are carried 100 miles within an hour. Last year German air lines alone covered a distance of 3,882,250 miles and carried 93,000 passengers. The surprising activity of the air routes in Europe today is shown by the latest air timetables. In place of the tabulated figures of ordinary railroad schedules, airports and connecting lines are indicated on maps. The time for departure and arrival of airplanes is printed within circles denoting the various cities, and can be read at a glance. The map has no geographical boundaries or political divisions, for the airplane overlaps all the ancient barriers. Nations Business Magazine. The history of mankind is an mense volume of errors. Atlanta Has the First Dog Laundry I $76,-641.8- 1; - Cache, $38.86 ; Carbon, $158.43; Davis, Duchesne, $6973.83; Emery, Garfield, $9906.34; Iron, Juab, $3716.36; Kane, Millard, $7.15; Morgan, $4.21; Salt Lake, $33.21; San Juan, $688.81; Sanpete, $33.21; Sevier, $13,793.82; Summit, $9.50; Tooele, $1500.83; Uin tah, $10,380.35; Utah, $184.11; Wasatch, $6048.03; Washington, $6273.68, and Weber. $63. $587.92; $318.75; 2; 2; The first dog laundry in the United. States is now operating in Atlanta, Ga. Mrs. Helen Yancy and her boys, seen above with their truck. that collects the pets from homes, are doing a lively business. j im- WHAT DR. CALDWELL LEARNED IN 47 YEARS PRACTICE j A physician watched the results of constipation for 47 years, and believed that no matter how careful people are of their health, diet and exercise, constipation will occur from time to time. Of next importance, then, is how to treat it when it comes. Dr. Caldwell always was in favor of getting as close to nature as possible, hence his remedy for constipation, known as Dr. Caldwells Syrup Pepsin, is a mild vegetable compound. It can not harm the system and is not habit forming. Syrup Pepsin is pleasant-tastinand youngsters love it. Dr. Caldwell did not approve of drastic physics and purges. He did not believe they were good for anybodys system. In a practice of 47 years he never saw any reason for their use when Syrup Pepsin will empty the bowels just as promptly. Do not let a day go by without a bowel movement. Do not sit and hope, but go to the nearest druggist and get one of the generous bottles of Dr. Caldwells Syrup Pepsin, or write Syrup Pepsin, Dept. BB, Monticello, Illinois, ior free trial bottle. g, |
