Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1920-03-19
UTAH STATE NEWS


Juab county will vote ON $4,000
school bond issue during the month.
Ogden proposes to lay considerable
new water mains during the coming
season.
The Beneficial Life Insurance com
pany proposes to erect modern sky
scraper at Salt Lake.
The sugar factory ut Ogden is to
be improved and modernized at an
expense of half million dollars.
new opera house is to be built at
Brigham City, 1t being expected that
the outlay will be ut least 100000.
1t IL announced that Denver com
pany Is to establish wool securing
plant at Ogden this season, at cost
of $350,OO0
Nineteen convicts have appealed to
tho state board of pardons asking
clemency, their petitions TO be heard
on March 20
The management of the Lehi Can
ming factory advises that 1t is the in
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milk condenSary.
\ new terminal station is to be
erected by the Bamberger-Orem in
.terests at Salt Lake, the estimated
cost being 100000.
That complete count of Utah may
be obtained, social enumerators have
been appointed to recanvass La Sal
and San Juan counties.
The First Congregational church at
Ogden has installed n moving picture
machine and will show moving pic
lures every Sunday evening.
Utah's school population. number
ing 10000 boys and girls, will be
asked to contribute to the states
share In Americas gift to France"
Preparations for the general semi
annual l.. ID. 5. conference to be held
at Salt Lake, April = to 5, are being
made by all branches of the church.
Farmers and fruitgrowers in the
neighborhood of Provo are seriously
considering the erection of box fac
tory to take care of the fruit pack In
that district.
The people of Murray will vote on
100000 school bonds for the purpose
of building one or more school houses
and supplying them with furniture
and apparatus.
In fall from wagon In which she
was riding to school, Mabel Jordan,
small daughter of l.. J. Jordan of Eden,
suffered broken neck and died al
most instantly.
1t has been officially announced
that the Utah railroad company will
build u new roundhouse and shops ut
Provo this season at an estimated ex-
pense of $1S5O0O.
The Utah-Montana Land company
was organized at Logan last week with
a capital stock of 100000. The new
company has purchased $500 acres of
land near Great Falls.
Interned aliens ut the war prison
at Fort Douglas made another attempt
to escape from the prison compound
last week by digging sixty foot tun-
mel, but their plot was discovered.
After securing $26 in money, boy
burglars destroyed more than 500 in
foOdstuffs and damaged furniture and
clothing when they ransacked the
home of Carl Heiss at Salt Lake.
While enrolment in the Utah schools
has increased materially with the pas.
sage of the law making some form Of
instruction compulsory up to the age
of Is years, perfection has not yet been
reached.
The state board of land commission
ers has decided to pay back to seven
purchasers of water rights under the
Hatchtown project total of $54696S
which they paid 10 the board for water
the state cannot now deliver.
Because unprecedented snowfall on
the Grand river watershed will cause
enormous floods during the coming
spring according to the weather bu-
reau, Il 600-foot bridge over the Grand
at Moab will be raised four feet.
lOHslTuCllOH ol tlpIlle anu u sur
face tramway from the railroad to the
company's coal property in Spring can
yon in Carbon county will be begun,
simultaneously with the opening OF
the new Mutual Coal cOmpany's mines.
High school teachers at Ogden,
thrty-one in number, who affiliated
themselves with the American Fedora
ton of Labor last fall and organized
union, unanimously decided at a
meeting last week TO withdraw from
the union,
Sweeping prosecution of aliens with
In the states boundaries who refuse
TO attend school in compliance with
the states characterization" law
passed by the Thirteenth legislature
Is promised by school Officers of the
Jordan district.
With an assessed valuation of $4904
per capita of school population in 1919,
as against a state average of $5373
per capita, Weber county has been
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