Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1916-03-17
THE UTAH BUDGET

w. w. Wilson, postmaster at Sandy,
quit the office last week after nearly
nineteen years of continuous service.
Eleanor Lloyd Thomas, 92 years of
age, mother of former Governor A. l..
Thomas Of Utah, died Sunday at
Ukiah, Cal.
Carbon county will soon have one
of the most up to date shearing
plants in Utah. The plant will be To-
Gated twenty miles from Price.
Brigham City has been selected
the site for the new $750,00O sugar
factory to be built in Box Elder eoun-
ty by the Utah-Idaho Sugar COM
pany.
The absence of an adequate supply
OF water in the neighborhood resulted
in the homo of w. M. Fuller on Har-
risville road, near Ogden, being de-
stroyed by fire.
Salt Lake and mountain resorts in
the vicinity Of the city are to be ad-
vertised on the Pacific coast as sum-
mer resorts during the spring and
summer months by the Salt Lake
Route.
Because Of his advanced age, Wong
Wong, known as Doc" and said to
be the oldest Chinaman in Ogden,
was fined only S. by Judge Barker
when convicted on a charge of smok-
ing opium.
John Priestley, pioneer among
Utah printers, died March 1 at his
residence In Salt Lake, after being
prominently identified with the typo
graphical trade in that city for more
than half a century.
Preliminary steps toward the es-
Enlistment and operation in Salt
Lake county of an Independent tele-
phone system to give the public bet
ter service at lower rates we're taken
at meeting held last week.
Surrounded by members of her inn
mediate family and many warm per-
sonal friends, Mrs Emmeline b. Wells
on February go celebrated at Salt
Lake her twenty-first leap year birth
day-the eighty-eighth anniversary Of
her birth.
AlCPdA dNlOh lOl thG IJlO WOOl tlOp
Of Utah is being made by the shear
ing pens. At Blackjack, Cisco and
Manti the pens and yards are being
put in condition. Wool buyers expect
the 1915 crop of Utah to exceed the
1915 crop by about 10 per cent.
Joseph streng, prominent sheepman
and wool buyer, was probably fatally
injured az Ogden while descending in
an automatic elevator at the Colonel
Hudson building from the Weber club.
Caught between the car and the floor
landing, he suffered a fractured skull.
A portion of the town of Castle
Gate, including the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad station and eighty
five dwellings, viii be involved in the
suit of the Pleasant Valley Coal COM
pany against Truman A. Ketchum,
filed in United States court at Salt
Lake.
The Whitecotton library of 1880
books has been purchased by Brig
ham Young university for $1,500. This
Is less than one-third of the original
cost. The funds were collected by the
faculty and students from Provo busi-
ness men, friends and former stu
dents.
January was 81 healthy month In
Utah, according to the report issued
by the state board of health. Wayne,
Wasatch, Rich and Grand counties re-
port no contagious diseases during
the month, while Wayne county also
reports there was not death during
that period.
Nicholas Byhower, former superin-
tendent of public parks in Salt Lake.
has signed a contract with Lehi to
supply and supervise the planting OF
trees and shrubbery in Wines park in
that city. More than ESQ trees and
200 shrubs will lie used in the laying
out OF the park.
Orrin N. Hilton, the Denver attor-
ney, will come To Salt Lake City,
March 25, to present in the supreme
court his defense against the charge
OF unprofessional conduct made
against him in disbarment proceed.
ings brought by the Utah state bar
ASSOCIATION.
Prosperity day was celebrated at
tRichfield by a parade of more than
1000 school children and citizens led
by a band A meeting was held in
the opera house, at which band Sc
lections were given. America" sung
by 500 school children, and talks
made by prominent men.
Salt Lake bank clearings for the
month OF February, 1916, show an in
crease OF more than so per cent, or
more than $11 100000 over the same
month a year ago. The clearings for
the month just closed amounted to
s33,096,37S.72, as against $21, 439,-
541S7 for February, 1915.
In accordance with act passed by
the 1915 legislature authorizing the
appointment of a commission to in
vestigate provisions for the mentally
deficient and making an appropria-
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