The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-01-02
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are yielding $40 to S12 worth of fruit
each season.
The price of coal has been reduced
by the Salt Lake Dealers and is now
selling at 1915 a ton, delivered.
War is to be waged against Ogden
saloon men who have been in the
habit of selling liquor to minors.
Dorene Perrine, of Green River,
Utah, has been selected to take
charge of the Green River State
bank.
1t is announced that the Green
River bank, which recently closed its
doors, will pay every dollar of its
obligations.
1t is now an assured fact that the
government will be well represented
at the National Dry Farming con-
gress, which will be held in Salt
Lake City, January 23 to 26.
Ogden baseball fans" are discuss
ing a proposition to organize an all
state team for next season to go on
a Transforming" tour of the country
as an advertisement for Utah
The announcement is made by
Fisher Harris, president of the Trans
Missouri Dry Farming congress, that
but per cent of the 52,000,000 acres
of land in Utah is under cultivation.
The Ogden Clearing House asso-
citation has decided to withdraw clear
ing house scrip from circulation. Be
ginning January /, the certificates
will be redeemed as rapidly - pos
sible.
Fred C. Walker. the acquitted
slayer of DIR. Earl s. Beers, has been
granted a divorce from his wife, Jose
phine Walker. Walker was granted
the custody of his seven-year-old
daughter.
Slippery tracks caused street car
to collide with freight train in Salt
Lake City, as a result Arnold Berger
sustaining a broken leg and num-
ber of other passengers being badly
shaken up.
The entire town of Kimberly had
narrow escape from destruction by
fire on December 81, when one build
ing was destroyed and the others
saved after a desperate battle against
the flames.
Thomas Gallagher, switchman en-
ployed In Salt Lake City, had one OF
his ears bitten off while engaged in
fight with another man. The mem
b,r wes sewed on again, and 1t is be-
lleved viii be saved.
John 0ckey, who escaped from the
state mental hospital last October,
has been located at Toquerville,
Washington county, and the officers
of that county report that he is
again dangerously insane
In addition to falling off porch
and breaking his arm, in a drunken
carousal a day of so before Christ
mas, miner who was visiting in Salt
Lake was fined SIS by the police
court judge for drunkenness.
AS a number of smelters in Salt
Lake county will be closed in accord.
ance with the mandates of the court,
an effort will be made by the Weber
club to interest the owners In sites
for their plants In Weber county
VIII Clark, section foreman, liv- |
ing at the Hot Springs. ten miles
north of Ogden, while passing be- |
tween a string of cars near that place,
was shot in the leg by small boy
who was carelessly firing a 22-calibre
hfe.
A debating league is to be formed
among the High schools of the state,
under the auspices of the University
Of Utah. The schools will be classed
into several groups. and the cham
pions will meet in Salt Lake City in
= series of debates.
Mrs. Mary Maycock, one of the pio-
neers of Weber county died suddenly
on December 22 at the home of her
son, John Maycock of Pleasant
View. The deceased was a native of
England, and crossed the plains with
the handcart brigade in 1856,
At meeting of the Citizens club
of Park City, committee was put
To work to ascertain If there were
any needy people in town, and If so to
give them needed relief. A diligent
search revealed only about ten per-
sons who could really be called in
need.
Howard Hunt, lineman employed
in Salt Lake City, was instantly killed
while at work, coming in contact with
a high tension wire, as a result his
foot slipping as he was climbing a
telephone pole. Hunt was 21 years
of age, and but recently came to Salt
Lake from Kansas.
Plans for the erection of a new
tabernacle at Ogden have been sub
mitted to the presidency of Weber
stake. The building will cost $780,
900, and will occupy the site of the
present tabernacle. 1t is expected
that the work will be completed be.
fore the end of 1908.
James Grundy of Salt Lake had a
narrow escape from death in a pool
room in Salt Lake, when William
Bailey placed a gun against his stom-
ach and pulled the trigger. Fortu-
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