The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-03-18
UTAH NEWS REVIEW

80 Ass AtAE
and iaceraied as result Of beins
struck by an automobile as he allght
ed from a street car In Salt Lake City
Delos I. Cummings. co years OF age
who had lived in Salt Lake City al
his life. dropped dead from heart fall
Gre in front OF his home one day last
week
Pllns foe organizing a Utah Athletic
association, for tile purpose OF en-
e0uraging athletics In the state. were
outlined at meeting he'd at Salt
Lake City last week.
The state Industrial commission has
waived he right To purchase $4,000
worth of Ogden bonds, $4,000 worth
of North Sanpete school district bonds
aud $25.G worth of Ulntah school dis
trict bonds.
Representatives OF a number Of
towns in southern Utah met at Nil
ford saturday for the purpose OF Sc.
lecting the towns which win be in
cludei in the association for base
ball league this season
Citizens of Delta are preparing 10
set out a great number of trees in
town during the next few months.
1t is stated by nurseryman that To-
cal residents had placed orders for
more than 1000 shade trees.
Ernest billiard, negro, known rs
Bad Eye" who was recently shot In
the heel as he attempted to escape
from an officer at Ogden, must face
charge of burglary, as soon as ne
has recovered from his injury.
Preliminary steps, looking to the for
nation of a pool to include the greater
part of the 1921 wool clip in Utah,
were taken at meeting at Salt Lake
last week of the wool marketing com
mittee named by the Utah State Farm
bureau.
Springlike weather has forced the
fruit buds well along generally over
the state, swelled the mountain
streams considerably, and was favor
able for livestock and farming opera
tons, according to the weekly weather
and crop report.
Al called meeting of Utah local
of the Sheep Shearers' Union of North
America, held at Salt Lake City,
voluntary cut Of cents head, from
TN cents to 1914 cents, approximate
ly 81 per cent, in the rate for shearing
Utah sheep, was voted.
Rotarians of the Twentieth district
completed their fifth annual two-day
conference at Salt Lake with a grand
ball and reception rendered In honor
OF Thomas j. Davis of Butte, Mont,
who was chosen district governor to
succeed Ralph Il. Bristol of Ogden.
John Caesar, arrested at Sunnyside
On the charge Of killing his friend,
Leo Masser, confessed to the
murder. Caesar was taken into Gus
tody after the body Of Masser had
been found with three big gashes in
the head and a bloodstained ak near
by
Explosion of q small oil tank did
$3.50 damage to the contents of the
home of G. e. Holmes at Salt Lake.
Window lights in nearby houses were
shattered by the conclusion. No one
was injured. although several persons
were in the Holmes house at the
time.
In recognition of his extraordinary
heroism in action" Private Burt r.
Forbes, X company, Twenty-first In
fantry, United States army, was
awarded the distinguished service
cross, with brief and impressive milf
tary ceremony, at Fort Douglas, on
March s.
II. w. Bremen, Clarence Dutton and
Elmer Kessler have been sentenced to
indeterminate terms in the state pl IS
on for arson in connection with the
burning of the residence of Charles
l.. Kelly at Salt Lake. 1t is claimed
the building was set on fire in order
to collect Insurance.
The women's branch of the farm
bureau organization Of Sandy City
has organized Civic Improvement
league, which includes a representa-
tive from every organization in the
city, for the purpose of improving and
identifying the city and creating civic
pride among the people.
Purchase of Buffalo or Antelope
island, as it has long been known,
aud of the buffalo thereon, and utiliza-
ton of the place as site for state
game preserve and also for the state
prison, is urged by the special joint
committee of the fourteenth legisa-
ture of the state of Utah.
The Brigham City American legion
post plans to organize citizens
auxiliary for the purpose of promot.
Ing closer cooperation between the
citizens and the legion, to the end that
the teaching Of Amerlcanism may be
carried on more extensively and with
more far-reaching results.
Leaving her 3-year-old son near the
stove while she went to nelghbors
for few moments on an errand, Mrs
Kenneth Mason, of Brigham City, was
Mortified to find upon her return that
rho phiId'g clothpc had oouob. -, eta