Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1920-10-01
UTAH STATE NEWS.

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flew to Ely, New, distance of 260
miles, In three hours and twelve min
utes.
On the Levan ridge in Juab county
the combined harvesters have been so
busy that the farmers worked them at
nlght
In the seven months ended July 81
the people of Utah invested in thrift
and war savings stamps to the ex-
tent of S73,O66.
The Farmer.Labor party of Weber
county named ticket for the county
election at the convention held at Og-
den last week.
a course in commercial engineering
will be given at the University of
Utah when 1t opens for the autumn
quarter, September %.
Pickpockets operating in Salt Lake
and on the electric trains between Salt
Lake and Ogden relieved their victims
of $3i1 In few hours.
w. ID. Mcpherson, SO years of age,
city attorney of Sprlngville, died sud.
denly In the county court house at
Provo, while representing n client.
Ten million fish are to be cared for
at the state hatchery in Springville.
An enlargement of the plant is to be
made, both in building and equipment.
Bees in Utah, in many instances, are
becoming migratory. Their owners
ship them from the state In the fall for
warmer climates, and, as n result, the
bees do two years work every year.
The teachers of both Logan city and
Cache county held an institute In Lo-
gan, September 4. Both districts CON
template most successful school
year, with an unprecedented at
tendance.
William Dunlap, aged 81, was
killed in an automobile accident i'm
Diamond Fork canyon, near Thistle,
his machine turning turtle, Dunlap be-
ing pinned beneath the machine and
drowned.
Democrats of Utah will participate
In monster parade in Salt Lake on
the afternoon of September 10 during
the visit there of Governor James NJ.
Cox, Democratic candidate for the
presidency.
Charles C. Hood and William Christ
mas, both of Spanish Fork, were Sc
verely injured when their automobile
rolled down I'M embankment on the
road into the Strawberry project, forty
miles from Spanish Fork.
The mystery surrounding sup
posed attempted holdup of train on
the Southern Pacific railroad near Lit
tie Mountain has been apparently
solved in the arrest of John w. Ross,
20 farmer of Plain City.
Marion Lyman Young expects to re-
tire as superintendent of state printing
in the near future to accept com.
mission as first lieutenant in the reg
ular army. He recently passed the eX.
animation for his commission.
The Utlda Pumping company OF
Cornish filed articles OF Incorporation
with the secretary of state last week,
showing Its purpose to be the distri-
button of waters obtained from the
West Cache Irrigation company.
Care of the three children Of James
Clough, murdered at Ogden, on Au-
gust -, by the oldest son at the In.
stigation of the mother, who Is now in
the insane asylum. has been assumed
by the ChIdren's Aid society OF Og-
den.
Twenty thousand school children
were In attendance at the public
schools Of Salt Lake City on the open.
ing day. The enrolment for the first
day Is In the neighborhood of 1000
greater than upon the opening day last
year.
When the brakes failed to work,
an automobile driven by William
Howard Griggs, aged 10, went over an
embankment distance OF thirty-five
feet and landed right side up. Griggs
was only slightly injured, but the ma
chine was wrecked beyond repair.
1t is announced that the work on
uTN turning ny Ut JOuu n. NiulNbt'
now president of the University OF
Utah, written while he was president
of the Utah Agricultural college, will
be translated into modern Hebrew for
use by Jewish cOlonlsts in Palestine,
William Nrigley, Jr, largest manu-
facturer of chewing gum in the world,
last week entered the sugar industry
in Utah when deal was completed |
with w. Harvey Ross and
II. T. Harris, Salt Lake capitalists, and
o. II. Egge Of Santa Ana. Calf, he Sc
cured stock control of the Gunnison |
Valley Sugar company.
Utah's eight-hour statute is not APP |
plicable to the office OF registration |
agent for election and women who are |
registration officers must keep their
offices upon the required thirteen |
hours, regardless OF the statute which |
provides that no female shall work /
longer than eight hours per day. the |
attorney general has decided.
While It was hut few days ago