The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-12
PROVO FARMERS SCHOOL
PASSED OFF WELL
Hospital Report and
Visit to Dairy Farm; After
an Estate.

fRONO, FeD. LINE Uta0 county
school for farmers and housekeepers,
which has been In session at the Brig
ham Young university all this week,
closed today The lectures and talks
given have been highly instructive In
agriculture and the care OF the home,
Professor Merrill OF the A. C. U., on
behalf OF the management of the school,
stated that they were well pleased over
the admirable attitude taken by the
schools of Provo and the Provo citizens
toward the institute work, Mr., Merrill
stated the practical problems of the farm
and home should be worked out, as a
rule, with the same care and atten-
tion as other educational subjects are.
The addresses given at the school dur
Ing the week were informal presenta-
tions of the different subjects Interrupt
tions for questions were welcomed and
each one thoroughly explained.
Dr. Widtsoe OF the a, c. U. was one
Of the principal speakers, who said in
part: Notwithstanding the great Cry
today TO-DAY is to go back to the farm" IT
HTe W,dteoe o ssSd 5a he Would ON 'n9 not t"r have thc
pedagogue. the politician and the burger
go back TO the farm which they had
abandoned in despair. but he would have
the farmer stay on the farm and make
would induce his sons and daughters
TO cleave to the soil, After listening "a
DR.. Widtsoe's lecture, one OF the edu-
Gators said that any and all education
to be OF much avail, must be adapted to
a purpose
Governor William Spry was the prin-
clpal speaker at the closing session this
afternoon. His subject, "Utah's Place
In Western Agriculture was listened tc
and appreciated by the thousand farm
ers and fruitgrowcrs present He spoke
agriculture. and urged more systematic
and scientific methods in the tilling oi
the soil,
The school had an attendance. during
the session Of 1000 one half of whom
were fresh from the farm and garden,
The Mental Hospital
The State Mental hospital board me,
here today and transacted the regular
monthly business Tho following
amounts were appropriated TO cover the
January expenses; s5,oo Salaries sal $22So 90
and repairs. S11i66.
The board visited the various depart
ments OF the institution and found ev-
erythng In satisfactory order,
Medical superintendent ID. III. Calder's
report on patients In attendance during
the month of January was submitted
and Is as follows:
Number in attendance.
January J. 1910 ,.........1S9 1SS
Number admitted during the
Number discharged ,.......
4mmber 2isG remaining Jan. 3i...l9S is.
John c. Sharp and J. Q. Adams. live
stock committeeman from the trustees
OF the Agricultural college of Logan.
visited the State Mental hospital Thurs
day for the purpose OF looking over the
They expressed themselves as well
pleased with the excellent showing
made by the herd of high class Jersey
cows owned by the state
Inquiry as to Grout.
r. r, Smith OF DeKalb, III. is here
for the purpose of inqutrlng into the at.
Lake Shore and was buried in Provo In
1901. Grout was n travelling peddler IN
Utah for many years and at the time
had considerable money. Recently, Mr.
Smith, who is a nephew Of Grouts. re-
ceived an anonymous letter from some
person In Provo suggesting TO him that
up the property left by the old pcddler
MIR. Smith would like 20 meet the per-
son who wrote the letter and get what
information. # any, there may be as tc
any cash or property left by Mr. Grout
Note and Personal.
There was a large attendance at the
funeral ser&ices held in the Fifth ward
Thursday over the remains OF Charles
Conrad The speakers were: Bishop Al
bert Mainwarring. George Ekins John
c. Jones Andrew Watson and II. II
CluCr Music was furnished by the ward
choir,
w. l. Pack. supervisor Of the Uintah
forest reserve, has gone to Wyoming
where ne will negotiate the sale OF sew
enty million feet of timber on the north
side of the Uintah reserve
Joseph Gurr who Is wanted in Uln-
tah county on a charge of larceny. was
taken into custody at Cotton and is now
held In the county jail here for the
sheriff of Ulntah county, Gnrr was out
on bonds and one of his surctics with
drew from the bond which neccssitated
his arrest and detention the second time
on the same charge.
The trial of Mrs. Anna Wecter. on a
charge OF falling 10 send her twelve
year-old daughter 10 school has been
POSTPONED indefinitely In Justice Moons
court on account of sickness in the
Wccter family