Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1920-01-30
UTAH STATE news

led in the vicinity Of Delta, and are
In good condition.
continuous highway from Yellow
stone park to Ogden will be completed
IN all probability by 1921.
More than 600 pupils have been ac-
counted for at the part-time school In
Salt Lake since it's opening in Septem-
ber
Another big irrigation project is
planned in Washington county by
which 10000 acres of land are to be
irrigated.
Union motion picture operators Of
Salt Lake have gone OF strike. de-
handing siX-hour day and sub
stantial increase in the wage scale.
Three MeXicans convicted at Ogden
Of having robbed John Rhea, on Jan
uary II, Of $6.35, were last week sen
fenced to five years Imprisonment.
The body of II. Il. Johnson. of Twin
Falls, Idaho, was found in his room
at Il Salt Lake hotel Death was
pronounced due to acute alcoholism.
Wayne is tn have telephone service.
company having been formed with
that object in view, the capital of
which is $4,000, of which S2742 is
paid in.
Chauncy II. Dana, market garden
or, widely known in Weber county,
committed suicide at his home in
Ogden, by shooting himself through
the heart.
complete still and fifty gallons of
corn whisky We're captured and three
Greeks arrested at the town of Walters
by deputy sheriifs and internal rev.
enue officers.
Utah will join Maine in defending
the validity of the eighteenth or pro-
hibition amendment to the federal con
stitution, according to Acting Governor
Harden Bennion.
In the Utah education campaign the
state committee has prepared circu-
lar of Information and instructions
which Is being mailed to all work
ers in the commonwealth.
Harden Bennion, secretary of state
and acting governor OF Utah In the alb
Sence from the state of Governor
Bamberger, has designated Sunday,
February s, Boys and Girls Day"
The Indian war veterans and their
descendants held a big jubilee and
celebration at Provo. the Notification
being in honor of the receipt of war
pensions from the government and
state officials.
Teachers of the Sewer school dis
trict have submitted proposed sal
airy schedule to the board of educa-
tion, and have been assured a definite
reply to their request for increases and
adjustments by February l.
The executive committee of the fed
eral fair price commission for Utah
has adopted 51a per cent as fair
margin for the wholesaler of sugar,
and 10 per cent as a fair margin for
the retailer of the same product
Scores of oil operators from many
parts of the country have gone to
Moab since the news of the oil strike
a week ago. Many are acquiring hold
ings and 1t is said that at least
dozen rigs will he in the field within
the next six weeks.
Each organization in Utah 10 which
the proposition has been submitted Is
heartily in favor of the state educa-
tlonal campaign to be conducted Feb
ruary TO 10, according to Nephl l..
Morris, chairman. of the executive com
mittee and campaign manager.
Suit for $ll3S.S3 has been brought Ia
the district court at Ogden by John
L. Wilson against Walker d. Hines,
director general of railroads, to re.
cover for carload of fruit spoiled en-
route from Ogden to Idaho Falls,
Idaho, according TO the complaint.
Forty-fve cases of Influenza were
reported In Salt Lake one day last
week by the city board of health. All
rhe cases reported are in II very light
form and little anxiety of recur.
renee of I'M epidemic similar To that
of last winter is felt by the city board
of health officials.
In II ruling which Rulon s. Wells, in.
SuTanCt commissioner or Itah, SAWS
may extend to several other labor
unions In this state, Dan y. Shields,
attorney general, holds that the insur-
ance business of the Journeymen Bar
bers' International Union comes under
rhe supervision of Mr. Wells office.
The annual farmers roundup and
housekeepers conference of the Utah
Agricultural college will open Monday
morning, February >, In Logan. Speak.
ers Of national reputation and Utah
experts will conduct practical courses,
lectures and demonstrations on topics
important TO farmers and housekeep-
ers.
The largest and most spirited mass
meeting of Lehi citizens ever held. by
a majority of l49 votes refused to con
cur in II motion authorizing the sale
~ the Lehi tabernacle To the Alpine
school district. The scheme was to
have been the initial step in Lehi's