The Garland City globe. (Garland, Utah) 191?-1925, 1919-07-26
Utah STATE NEWS

Annual gathering of Utah ministers
and official members of the Methodist
church Will he held the third week in
August at Ogden. according to an an
nouncement made this week.
Plans proposed by the University Of
Utah for putting into effect the re-
qurements of the federal board for
vocational subjects, were discussed
and approved last week by II committee
of the state board OF education.
The Harvard endowment fund com
mlttee has appointed Gleed Miller Of
Salt Lake AZ chairman of the Utah d.
vision In the campaign for upwards of
Sl0,00O,0OO that viii he raised In the
fall for Harvard.
Frank j. Cabin, discharged sol
died of Bingham, was found dead In
his bed at Coppcrfeld last night with
u bullet hole through the right temple.
lie had been reading paper just be-
fore killing himself.
Plans have been completed for the
Utah State Flremen's convention and
tournament to be held Mt Sandy, Aug.
ust 10 to II, according to announce
ment made by A. Robert Larson, chair.
man of the program committee.
Sprlngville aud Mnpleton citizens
will hold special election August 10
to determine II the people will enter
obtain an additional water supply I'M
der the federal reclamation act.
Alex Hunt, 20 years old, of Roose.
welt, was instantly killed by coming
into contact with live electric wire.
He was NJ work ON the Ulntah Power
4 Light company's line when the accl-
dent happened. lie had been with the
company for two years
John w. Jacobs OF wilInmsport, Pa,
recently appointed secretary of the
Utah Public Health association by the
executive committee, has taken up his
duties a campaign for the improve
ment of health conditions Is being ar
ranged by the association.
What Is believed by the police to
have been an attempt OF firebugs or
radicals 10 burn the city ~ Ogden oc.
CURED when three fires broke out al
most simultaneously one night last
week. The first call was to the Mar
Ion hotel.
varying In thickness Nom to inches
In the Brigham City paving district for
this year would cost Sl2S,25i 80, while
IA bltulithic pavement ON n crushed
rock base would cost only Sl3i ,38S.56,
the Brigham City council has decided
IN favor of the latter material.
Charging that freight rates on gaso-
line and other petroleum products 10
Salt Lake and intermountaln points
are unrcasOnably high and dscrimln.
atory, the Utah State Automobile M.
ISOLATION, through the Traffic Service
with the Interstate Commerce com.
mission. seeking rate adjustment.
The merchants of Ogden passed
resolution protesting against the
proposal of the state board of equali-
cation to Increase the assessment rat.
Ing OF merchants In Ogden and Weber
county 100 per cent and farm prop
erty 20 per cent. The resolution win
be presented to the state board at Salt
Lake.
At mass meeting of the wheat
growers OF Salt Lake county, held In
Midvale last week, about 200 persons
were In attendance, representing every
wheat-growlng section of the county.
A resolution was unanimously adopted
asking the government TO remove all
restrictions on the price of wheat.
pointing out that from present indlca-
lions the wheat crop of the county
would he so per cent or more under
normal
Subject 10 prior right OF the Man.
moth Reservoir company and It's sue
cessOrs. the GoOseberry * Cottonwood
Irrigation company Is seeking 10 OBJ
tain rights to the waters of melting
SHOWS and late spring rains in the
headwaters of the Gooseberry, and to
convey the water across the backbone
OF the Wasatch. utilizing tunnel, and
10 use the water as supplementary
supply 10 lrrlgate some 200 acres
around Falryiew.
County commissioners accompanied
by the committee representing clubs
aud organizations of Ogden and farm
ers of Weber county, protesting abapt
the manner Of repairing roads In the
county presented TO the state road
commission II protest relative to the
resurfacing OF the Riyerdale Pleasant
View aud Ogden canyon sections OF
the stale highway In Weber county.
With more than three miles OF
trucks. rolling kitchens, mobile repair
shops and touring cars In line, the
army motor convoy
viii reacn Salt Lake August Is, ac-
cording TO the schedule of the trip.
The convoy Is being sent out by the
to determine the feasible
,ty of long tours with trucks and to
gather various date.
A contest was filed in the Fourth |
district court at Provo, last week,
:, 80, tnsf tbc ACCOMMODATION of the TOWN