Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1916-09-22
THE UTAH BUDGET

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and was killed
Delegates representing 100 lodges
of the American Masonic federation
attended the triennial session a; Salt
Lake last week.
The Peach day celebration at Brig.
ham City, September IA, was attended
by thousands of visitors from ali sec
tons of the state.
The drainage work in the Delta tract
is progressr- rapidly and the recla-
nation of several thousand acres of
alkali land is assured
Residents of Sewer and Emery
counties are well pleased with the two
new bridges over Queatchuppah and
lvie creeks on the new Emery-Salina
state road.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
the barn of Christian Balllng, at Lo-
gan, hay, machinery, an automobile
and team of horses being consumed
| by the flames.
Lance Brought, an employee Of
cafe at Mammoth, was badly burned
on the right foot when a bucket of
hot lye, which he was carrying acci-
dentally spilled.
A number of towns in Uintah and
| Duchesne counties are installing wa
ter systems, the people of Vernal hav-
| ing voted for a bond issue of $4,000
for that purpose.
When Mrs. Laura Griffin or west
Jordan refused to give Joe Taylor
cup of milk, it is said he drew a re-
volver and threatened to shoot her.
AS result, Taylor will serve Jail
sentence.
AS he dropped from a wagon on
which he was stealing a ride at salt
Lake Alto Bartlett, years old, waS
knocked down by an automobile and
ustained a compound fracture of the
left leg.
Governor Spry, accompanied by
MEMBERS of his staff, paid the cit-
xens' military training camp at Fort
Douglas an official visit on September
~ and inspected the work OF the citi,
zen soldiers.
Alleging that his wife growled and
grumbed at him until he was forced
to move his bed from the house TO the
woodshef and that she otherwise
abused HIM, Salt Lake man has filed
suit fer divorce.
A jdry has been secured in the fed
eral court at Salt Lake to pass upon
the facts in the case OF the United
States against Chris Irving and 9TH
ers, master plumbers, charged with
violation of the Sherman antitrust
law.
Several city firemen narrowly es.
capped injury and hose and ladder
tru k turned over twice while on the
way to a fire, which later proved to be
nothing more than a sizzling pot of
apple jelly in little cottage at Salt
Lake.
Plans have been completed by the
Union Pacific system for the expendi.
ture of more than $1,O0O,00O in add
ton to the sums which have already
been spent in Echo canyon in Morgan
county in reducing grades and track
curvatures.
After kissing her 7-year-old daugh.
ter good-by, Mrs. Jennie Pierce. %
years of age, attempted to commit
suicide at her home in Salt Lake, but
prompt medical attention saved her
ife Ill health was given as the rea-
son for the act.
Mrs. o. II, Durand of Murray was
admitted to practice" barbering last
week by the state board of examin.
ers. She bears the distinction of be-
ing the only white woman in the state
who may do barber work under the
protection OF the law.
The law of the state of Utah fixing
minimum wages for the payment of
experienced women employees must
be observed by third-class postmas-
tiers, as well as by store proprietors,
according to the opinion handed down
by the attorney general.
Ba led on 100 per cent as an aver
age, the department of agriculture es.
Inmates the combined condition of all
Utah crops this year to be S65 per
cent. This estimate implies a gain OF
2.3 per cent in condition of these com
bined crops during August
That birth control and sex educa-
tlon are SUBJECTS In which medical
men should take greater interest was
emphasized in an address by DR.. L.
w. Whitney, president of the. Utah
State Medical associations, at the an.
nual banquet of the organization he'd
at Salt Lake. 4r
The state board of land commits
sioners will visit the Delta project at
he suggestion of Clay Tallman, com.
Missioner of the United States gener.
al land office, to investigate com
plants of some twenty settlers on the
northern part of the project as to min.
eralization of their lands.
1t is said that Salt Lake and Los
Angeles capitalists are preparing %
velop the irrigation possibilities OF
merry county to such an extent that
he water of the Huntington river are
20 be turned to the irrigation OF So
90 acres of land in that section of the
tate at a coat of 100000.
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