Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1916-07-14
THE UTAH BUDGET

Oscar Ltmpus, &c years of age, a
retired citizen OF st. Joseph, Mo-, fell
dead on the street In Salt Lake.
Salt Lake county prisoners are to
build roads, twenty men being put TO
work near Salt Lake the first Of the
week
Ruth Parry, aged Z, was seriously
burned while lighting fireworks de.
vice at he~ home in Salt Lake on
suly 4.
While celebrating independence day
at Salt Lake, Gus Potts. a miner from
Promontory Point, fell and suffered
broken leg.
Utah canned goods will this year
bear on their labels certificates OF
state inspection and guarantee OF pur
ity on that basis.
1t is believed that It will cost ap.
proximately 100000 to move the Utah
| troops, including cavalry and battery.
to the Mexican border.
Mrs. Helen Christensen Carson.
wife OF Lester Carson Of Salem, com.
mitted suicide by taking poison. There
was no apparent cause for the act,
Reports from Mosida say that the
grasshoppers are doing much damage
to crops, and unless quick action is
taken there will be no crop this year,
Salt Lake bakers have practically
completed plans for the national con.
vention OF the Master Bakers asyocia,
ton which meets at Salt Lake Au
gust s.
Increased prosperity OF Salt Lake
City is reflected in the enlarged output
OF the Utah Gas company. Reports OF
the company show large increases
over last year.
The aftermath of the glorious
Fourth" brought before the Salt Lake
police court seventy-seven charged
with intoxication, Twenty-Five Migrants
and twentyfour violators of the traffic
ordinance.
II is announced that an additional
80 cents per ton will be paid to sugar
beet growers in Utah and Idaho this
year. This will mean that on the
average the farmers will receive 1915
for their product.
Doris Folkman, aged 5, was seri.
ously burned at Plain City while cele.
brating the Fourth. The child had
lighted a match with the intention of
starting bonfire when her dress
sleeve caught fire.
The state board OF examiners has
appropriated $3.50 for the payment
of the National Guard OF Utah from
! the time that President Wilson order.
|, ed mobilization until the federal gov.
eminent took charge.
Over $4,000 worth OF building oper.
ations are going on at Vernal at the
present time. There are several resi-
dences under construction and two
new business blocks. A garage and
cold storage plant are also under con-
struction.
Roy Allred's body was discovered
buried under six tons of rocks and dirt
at the Phoenix Construction company's
camp in Willow Creek canyon near
Castle Gate. Alfred was alone at the
time of the accident, and 1t is not
I known how 1t occurred
George B. Green. As years OF age, a
farmer and resident of Tooele during
his entire life, committed suicide, TAX
ing poison in so large quantity that
he died In a brief space OF time, ex-
/ piring about FIVE minutes before a
, physician could reach him.
The total assessed valuation OF
Washington county is given at $685.
/. 289. The items are: Real estate. $685.
s45; improvements, s36S,410; live
stock, $490,6S0; personal property,
! s264,S50. and property assessed by the
state board of equalization, spa, 4O4.
Due to the frequent damage result
ing from motorists who drive their ma
chimes into the safety zone MARKERS
} In the business district at Ogden, an
ordinance is to be enacted providing
! for a maximum penalty of fine OF
$40 or twenty-five days in jail for such
misdemeanor.
Utah's system of maintaining II.
4 brary organization work as a branch
OF the department of education and
= the ENTHUSIASTIC cooperative assist
. lnce in library work received from
3 he school teaching force OF this state
+ were praised by Miss Mary Il.
Downey, Utah state library organizer,
In an address at Asbury Park N. j.
! August 20. 80 and "a have been set
\ as the dates for the eighth annual
convention and tournament of the
: Utah State Firemen's association at
Salt Lake. The convention proper
will occupy the first two days, while
the third will be devoted to the com.
petitiye drills.
? In letters sent to ogden bankers
: the Weber County Farm bureau sug'
!. gests that local banks adopt the meth.
: cd OF encouraging the dairying In
dustry which the bankers of southern
Illinois are following.
Under protest the Western Pacific
Railroad company, the corporation
which has taken over the line OF the
Western Pacific Railway company, has
) paid the state a fee of S1S,750 for the
hling OF its articles OF Incorporation
Elmer Rosa AT vaara Of aga re-