Show intermountain news briefly told for busy readers ELKS HONOR nero HERO BEETLES BEETLE S DEFEATED J DIVORCES INCREASE CUP CUPID ID TAKES TAKE 3 BW BEATING TAX CITY IN OGDEN I 1 UT records of tb the e weber county dorks clerks office show au an increase in divorces and a decrease in marriages the past year figures from the city engineers office indicate less building during 1031 1931 than at any time since bince 1920 1020 A total of marriages were dissolved in 1 1031 0 11 including divorces anti and tour four ann annulments ul ments BRIGHAM CITY UT this ahls city boasts of 0 being the only one in the state which will levy no assessment for municipal purposes in 1932 1032 sufficient revenue accruing from the municipal leapal hydroelectric hydro electric system and the water system to pay at all I 1 expenses and leaving tt a balance of unbudgeted funds of ga CS officials an founte noun ae LOGAN UT TIT A total ot of ar rests were made in 1031 1931 by logan city police which Is low compared with figures six years back according to chief gilbert mecham arrests in 1930 were idano FALLS IDA the frozen body of ralph fikstad 21 was found in the sli shelter elter of a rock ledge three quarters of a mlle mile from his ranch home near white owl butte 20 miles southeast of rex berg LAS VEGAS nevi NEV erection of a flagpole and setting of an plaque in a prominent place above tho the hoover dam project on the two hundredth anniversary of the tha birth of george washington Is the plan of members of the elks lodges of the seven colorado river basin states mates 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 emoiy in which it Is hoped that elks from colorado wyoming new mexico arizona utah california and nevada will participate SALT LAKE CITY UT general property taxes received by the state during december amounted to 1 I state treasurer A E christensen announces of the entire amount will go to the general fund and 1 1 to the state district school fund the total amount of represents about 35 per cent of bf the states receipts from this source during the 3 ear LOISE fi OISE IDA there were acres of winter wheat planted in idaho during the fall of 1931 1031 or 7 per cent more than the 1930 1010 total of acres a federal crop report reveals the tha report announces announce a en an increase of 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 here january 1516 15 16 BEND ORE when science met failure in attempting to stem the tide of pine beetles which were making heavy inroads into a stand of timber here nature took a hand band the beetles have been attacked by a plague which has greatly 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 renos divorce mill ground out divorces during 1931 1031 to establish a record the previous record was set in 1930 when 2119 divorces were granted SALT LAKE CITY UT alfalfa was greatest crop in 1931 1031 being valued at by the oie annual report of the utah state farm bureau sugar beets were second secona and wheat ranked third more than of the acres wore were used for alfalfa with acres of sugar beets yielding to the growers wheat was valued at and was raised on acres SALT LAKE CITY UT foreign born residents of utah in 1930 numbered as compared with in 1920 it was reye revealed aled in figures of the bureau of census recently released of the foreign born residents in 1930 there were white residents 12 and of other races A total of were naturalized had taken out first papers were allens aliens and no record was available on 1382 AMERICAN FALLS IDA fifty thousand small trout have bave beon placed in the snake river by the sportsmen of cassia county PRICE UT AN airport is being planned for this city by the chamber of commerce ROCK ROCE SPRINGS WYO the district comprising rock springs and vicinity produced tons of bituminous coal during the year 1931 1031 as compared with 3 tons in 1930 or 14 per cent less in volume other coal regions of tho the state also show declines in brodu tion LOGAN UT teachers salaries in cache county will average per mouth this year compared to in 1929 1020 1930 1030 it Is estimated in a report received from the cache cacha county teachers association |