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Show I Intermountain News -Briefly Told for Busy Readers POOL IS HELD OVER. WORK LET IN IDAHO. U. 8. TO Bl'ILP SOON. DROUTH MEET PLANNED. HJEAVY SLUMS PAY. IDAHO FALLS, IDA. $1,280,000 was paid by the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company to growers of tin Upper Snake valley for beets delivered this season with an additional labor lab-or payroll of J 100,000. BOISE, IDA. A conference of western states Irrigation districts affected by the drouth, will bo held in Boise soon to draw up plans to request from congress a mora tor lum on payments of interest and principal for reclamation works. TWIN FALLS, IDA. Construction Construc-tion on the municipal . swimming pool, located in Harmon Held on the east edge of town, was originally planned to start this fall, but has been postponed until next spring because of lack of funds. BOISE, IDA. Construction of public buildings is going on steadily In Idaho to assist In relieving the depression, j Building operations aggregate ag-gregate more than 70O,O0O, according accord-ing to a report issued by the governor's gov-ernor's office. ' PROVO, UTAH The 40th anniversary anni-versary banquet of the Provo Congregational Con-gregational Community ehurch was held here recently, with the Rev. J. F. Walker of Pocatello, Idaho, superintendent sup-erintendent jf the Intermountiiln Congregational churches, as the principal speaker. . . TWIN FALLS, IDA. A totul of 225 carloads of apples have been shipped (torn- the local O. S. L. depot de-pot this season. OG DEN, UT. Construction of a chapel for the new ' Twouty first ward in Ogden stake will begin In the spring if sufficient funds can be raised In a campaign which hns been inaugurated' The chappl is to be built on Jefferson avenue tear Twelfth street.- TWIN FALLS, IDA. Death of Thomas A. Kdison has recalled the fact that the street cars operated in early days by a company beaded by L B. Perrlno, eminent promoter, promot-er, were the first to use the Edison storage battery for that purpose. OGDEN, tJT. Announcement has been made by I 8. Hodgson and Merle MoClanahan, Ogden architects, archi-tects, that orders to proceed with 1 the work of drafting plans for the United States department of agriculture agri-culture bnllding, to be erected on property formerly owned by the Kle-ej Kle-ej estate, Twenty-fifth street and -Adams avenue,- have been received from Washington, D. C. TOOELE UT.Edson .Bevan Is the -possessor of a large bobcat, which he recently caught In a trap on'' Soldier pass at the head of Set-tjeioent Set-tjeioent canyon. Mr. Bevan states 1l U keeping it until be finds a way . to take it to the zoo in Salt Lake, should the afflcla Is there de-alre de-alre the specimen. . . PROVO, UT. A gift of 15000 ajieclmens of insects and spiders, collected by E. Elden Beck and Ara Call, former students-of Brlgham Young university, has been received by the zoological and entomological'' entomologi-cal'' departments. The specimens were collected last sunimer In Iowa, Missouri, Oklahoma,-Texfts, Arizona, Ariz-ona, New Mexico, and old Mexico. OGDEN, UT. The city commission commis-sion announced recently- that, in cooperation co-operation with, Scott Zimmerman of the U. S. biological survey, a rat-poisoning rat-poisoning campaign would be put on in Ogden about November 5th. MIDVALB, UT. Beri and Austin Cook, who reside on the Bingham highway five miles west of here. , drove a flaming . automobile school bus from their home to the Mid-vale Mid-vale fire station, where firemen applied ap-plied extinguishers to a blaze burning burn-ing beneath the hood of the vehicle. Damages to the bus were, nominal. " LOGAN, UT. The Cache national nation-al forest insect infestation report has been submitted to the regional office in Ogden, and shows that during the spring of 1931, there were 9,150 Infested lodgepole pine trees treated by burning at a cost of $9,497, or $1.04 per tree. This ii a material improvement over conditions in- 1930, when 17,000 trees were burned. OGDEN, UT. Flfty-pne representatives repre-sentatives -jot : water users of the lower Ogden river recently held a meeting to initiate a movement looking to the settlement of their conflicting water claims out of court In order to prevent extensive hearings and 'litigation in connection connec-tion with.. the pending ftdjuJlcution of the entire Weber river system and to create an amicable situation situa-tion ,to confiture until stor.Tfte Is created at .the HunUvllle or Magpie Mag-pie sites, or both. . . MILL CREEK, UT. At a meeting meet-ing of stockholders of the Miller Ditch company, which supplies culinary cul-inary water to over .100 families in this vicinity, it wns decided to form a township as the only possible pos-sible means of installing a new pipe line. w GUNNISON, UT. Final pay- , ment by the city of Gunnison on a water bond, Issue created 20 years ago, amounting to $32,000, has been made recently by paying $1,700, according ac-cording to B. A. Madsen, city audi- tor. |