Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1920-08-20
UTAH SIZE 4 NEWS


Taxpayers OF Ulntah county passed
the school tax levy of three mills for
$4,000 indebtedness by vote OF 446
to 125 at a special election.
The Ulntah canning factory has
opened for the summer run. String
beans are now being canned and corn
and tomatoes will be next In line.
large plaster paris cast of the cliff
dwelling region at Mesa Verde, Colo,
was received at the University Of Utah
last week. The cast is reproduced I'm
color.
There are two kinds of mosquitoes in
Utah, say experts, the nedes and the
anapheles, the latter the breed that
carries malaria and spreads Ii. They
are in the minority.
Colonel Thomas G.. Weber. 81 years
Of age, merchant and former newspa-
per man. who for years has been gen
eral manager of the n. c. NJ. |. at Salt
Lake, died August 10.
The American Jersey Cattle club has
written the Utah ssate Fair associa-
ton letter in which It offers 5000 to
be distributed to exhibitors of Jersey
cattle at the annual fair.
Melon-growers of Provo bench, Sa-
lem and Santaquln report that the
melon crop Is just coming on and local
melons will now take the place of the
imported crop on all local markets.
In Provo there are sixty-five fewer
children of school age this year than
last, according to the school census,
the number aggregatlng 3l0l, which is
practically the same as ten years ago.
The 1920 winter wheat acreage in
Weber county is considerably below
that of 1919, and the spring wheat
acreage Is greatly In excess, according
TO figures submitted to the bureau of
crop estimates.
vernal will have n University club II
plans of some OF the leading business
men Of the city mature About sixty
five college men and women have been
listed and many more are being added
TO the roster.
Cedar City Is erecting one of the
most up-to-date auto camp parks In
the state. Tents and cook ovens will
be provided, while shower baths are
being installed and the grounds seeded
TO lawn and trees planted.
Bryce's canyon has been the Mecca
for the auto tourist this season, thou
sands visiting the Wonderland All
visitors are enthusiastic in their praise
of Bryce's and many additional thou
sands will make the trip next season,
II Is predicted,
Work on the new Willard county
courthouse at Fillmore Is progressing
rapidly and 1t will be ready for occu-
pancy by the latter part of October.
II Is located on the park of the old
capitol grounds, short distance from
the old capitol.
Farmers of the Callao section take
exception to recently circulated state
ments TO the effect that the people of
Callao were maintaining mudhole for
personal gain, that they might eXtrl-
cate autoists from the mudhole at an
outrageous rate.
Harold II. Hagan, state Inspector OF
crops and pests, will serve part of the
time rs an instructor in zoology at the
University of Utah beginning with the
fall term, September ~ His work at
the state institution will in no way in
terfere with his present duties.
The formal dedication of Zion ma
tlonal park on September 10 has been
suggested to the Salt Lake Commercial
club, which Is TO have charge of ar
rangements, by Stephen H. Mather, d.
rector of national parks, who has
agreed TO attend the ceremony at thgt
time
The secretary of the state board of
health Is In receipt of letter from the
United States public health bureau in
forming him that II viii be impossible
for the bureau to comply with his re-
quest to send an agent to conduct a
campaign against mosquitoes In the
Bear River valley of Box Elder county
Mrs. Gurtha Wheeler, II years OF
age, was arrested ut Ogden and bound
over to the district court on the charge
of bigamy. The complaining witness
is Elmer Wheeler, the woman's hus
band, who claims that he has jus
learned that the young woman was nj
ready married when she married him
An audit of the books of the Utal
Agricultural college, which has JUS
been completed by Joseph Rlrie, STATE
auditor, shows an oyerdraft O1 almoS
$150,0O0. The deficit is due to expense
incurred by the erection of building
for the accommodation of soldier
while the war was in progress, 1t h
said.
The Southern Utah Federated Com
mercial clubs became an actually OF
August 13 at Cedar City, The com
mercial organizations Of Washington
Iron, Beaver, Willard, Garfield ant
Kane counties are present members o
the federation, but commercial organl
cations Of other counties are ellgibl
TO membership.
The state mental hospital at Prov