Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1920-01-16
UTAH STATE NEWS.

vlsing forces.
The Utah Poultry associations an.
nual poultry show opened IN Salt Lake
on January II.
Ogden will probably have an am
| muntlon and ordnance storage depot.
costing about SI,OO0O0O.
Motor vehicle license fees In 1919
were SI0iS.30 for the last quarter. ~
compared with $395l - IN 1918.
John w. Thurston. former mayor of
| Delta, died on II train while OIL his
| way TO Salt Lake to enter hospital.
Residents OF Tooele county have pc
| titloned the county commissioners To
appoint a crops and pests Inspector.
Large tracts of land in Kane coun.
| ~. near the Arizona line. will be open
to entry by the general public Fcbru-
AIRY H.
Donald Johnson, aged $, Of ElsinOrc.
may be compelled To undergo sur
gical operation for the removal of
carpet tack. which he swallowed
Everything Is In readiness for the
| annual convention of the National
Woolgrowers' convention. which Is to
be held January 10. 20 aud u ut Salt
Lake.
The cost of construction work
| planned by the Mountain States Telc.
phone x Telegraph company in Utah
In the next five years Is estimated at
| SO, 75O,4 23.
forestry service of the states share of
revenues derived from forest lands
during the fiscal year ending June 30.
1919, total $6S,65O.5i.
The secretary of state has turned
into the treasury S11j,96S.5i as re-
ceipts of his office for the last pu,,,Ser
of 1919. A total of $ll0.7gI35 was
paid In for the last quarter Of 1918.
Progressive business men have de
cidcd to have ''white way" in Santa.
qun. They propose to install 1000
candlepOwer electric are lights along
Commercial street in the heart OF the
city.
Utah Will expend S5,0OO,0OO on high
ways this year, this amount To include
federal aid projects. The plans for the
| year Gull for ninetytwo miles of hard
surfaced and twenty-nine miles of
| graded earth roads.
Plans for the development of Emery
valley, formerly called Johns valley.
| on the east fork of the Sewer river in
Garfield county, were discussed mt the
81
! land commissioners.
COmelo Sclavu, convicted of viola
tiOn of the Mann white slave act for
transporting Sarah Benhed n 1T-year-
old girl, from Detroit. Mich. to Salt
Lake, has been sentenced to four
years Imprisonment.
At meeting of the executive com
mittec of the Utah state farm bureau.
held last week In Salt Lake. January
20. - and % were the dates selected
for the next annual meeting I'm Salt
Lake Of the state farm bureau.
| Forty-five residents and landowners
Of Provo bench whose lands are in
Guided in the application for the in
corporation of the town OF Orem. have
filed In the Fourth district court OBJ
| jectlons to being Incorporated.
The Provo public schools will give "A
reception February IL In honor of the
a.. a. H., Indian war veterans and
pioneers of Provo. This Is IN annual
affair, and extensive plans are under
way to make the reception this year
big success.
Governor Bambergcr has refu 'ed to
call a special session of the legislature
To consider means of increasing teach
ers' salaries declaring that the exist
ing statutes are sufficient Ia enable
school boards to meet this prohlcm, II
they ~ desire.
Fifty years ago on January ~. when
Brigham Young drove the last spike
vf the Utah Central railroad Salt
, Lake for the first time was connected
with the outside world by rail, an
event which was celebrated by spe-
} clal program at Salt Lake last Satur-
day.
The board Of education Of Tooele
county has authorized Superintendent
|, Reid To engage teachers for the school
year of l020-1o2l on salary schedule
which has $1,000 for n two years nor
mai graduate as its basis. This means
a raise of about 20 per cent for all
, teachers.
= There are ut present 23j "omer'
l scncy" teachers engaged in the schools
5 of the state, but few of whom have
2 taken the necessary professional
3 training to qualify them for regular
teachers certificates. There are In ad
dition oil teachers who have no Ger
tlticates at all.
Large delegations from Clark coun
~ Nevada; Washington, Iron anC
Beaver counties, and from Salt LAX,
civic bodies. ana county commissioner,
r from the counties traversed by the Ar
n rowhend trail in Utah, attended IN,
annual meeting of the Arrowhead,
Trail and Development association IL
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