The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1917-12-14
PRICE AND NEARBY

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Mrs. J. s. Sax OF Hiawatha is get
ting along very nicely at a local hos
pital after an operation last week for
appendicitis.
Prof. Hans z. Anderson Of the Car
bon county high has just been award
ed n life high school diploma by the
state board Of education.
Scowcrofts have lately put on for
deliveries at Price and vicinity a ton
and n half truck. II makes any of the
roads and hills hercabouts with ease.
civil Engineer Jcger Of Price was
at woodsldc two days the first of the
week doing some reservoir and canal
work for an irrigation company there.
Hanukah. the midwintor festival Of
the Jews. began last Monday and Ia
being celebrated in all orthodox fam
lilies The festival lasts for eight
days
]. 81. Miiiard. formerly OF Altonah
but now Of New Mexico. has been In
the basin this week on business. He
~ well pleased with his New Mexico
home. -Myton Free Press. 9TH.
\. W. Jensen OF Helper recently
sent check 10 the Provo Rcd Cross
chapter for five dollars This gift u
greatly appreciated and win be used
for the purchase OF material for this
organization.
Price Commercial aud Savings bank
directors last Saturday declared
Al
extra Christmas dividend OF "A like
amount. making IS per cent dividends
for the year.
Harden Bcnnion. secretary OF state.
and Joseph Rlrio. state auditor. went
out of Price this morning ON trip
Of inspection over the Price o. Myton
highway The trip takes them into
the Uintnh Basin country.
Wholesale sugar prices advanced
ten cents a hundred pounds at San
Francisco ana In New York city last
Monday, which means that II will go
~ like amount In Price and else
where locally. Tho retailer now gets
$3.50 a hundred.
Neil NJ. Madscn. county fuel and
food administrator. n going Co try
and have some ~ the fish being seincd
from Utah Lake by the fish and game
commissioner. sent Co Carbon county
towns for sale 60 the people who are
after substitutes for beef, pork and
mutton
Last week some two hundred and |
fifty packages we're sent out TO Dem |
yer. Colo, by the local Red Cross
chapter 90 the boys In the training
camps. Many OF the offerings were
made by members OF tho chapters at
Helper. SunnyEido. Castle Gate. Hia- |
wntha. Clear Creek and elsewhere. !
Fify more packages are To be sup
piled,
Although he IL about ten thousand
dollars ahead OF the amount received
AZ this time last year. the secretary OF
state says that approximately a hun
dred thousand dollars In state eOrpor-
alton taxes remains yet TO be collected. |
These taxes become delinquent on De-
cember 18th tomorrow and a pen
atty OF ten dollars attaches 90 each
corporation failing 20 pay up by that
date.
Ladies' OF tho Carnegie library In
charge Of the Carbon County Cook
Book sale report that there are about
forty OF the books left from an edi-
tion OF five hundred copies. Anyone
wanting one OF these books should
make Il known before ell OF them are
gone, An effort Ia being made 10
dispose OF all OF them before Christ
mas The books are on sale at the H.
brary,
Work on the road from Hiawatha
10 "A connection with the state road
nut OF Price south II about completed.
says T., santschi. sr.. OF the coal camp.
~ was down last Tuesday 20 confer
nth the county commissioners In the
Tlatter. But little is yet 20 be done.
The Hiawatha highway In one OF the
very best anywhere. being thirty-four
feet wide and exceptionally well con-
structed.