The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-10-12
IDAHO NEWS REVIEW

The Union Pacific System has begun
engagements Of switching facilities and
extension of yards at Provo, involving
an expenditure of approximately $4O,-
wv.
The MOntana-Bingham mine at Bing-
ham is now employing seventy-three
men and shipping an average Of more
than one hundred tons Of ore a day.
The condition of the mine was never
better and the output can be increased
at any time.
The Utah division of the Pixies Peak
Ocean-to-Ocean Highway association
was organized at Richfield Saturday
night at meeting held at the John
ston hotel and attended by representa-
tives from Sewer, Emery, Carbon and
San Juan counties, including the county
commissioners Of the counties named.
Under the leadership of the Univer-
sity of Utah, educational institutions
will have showing of unusual inter-
est at the state fair, October 3 to 8.
The big central aim will be a visual
demonstration of the influence of edu-
cation on tho everyday affairs of life,
according to F. w. Reynolds, director
OF the extension division.
The new Elks' home on South Tenn.
pie street, Salt Lake City, will cost ap-
proximately 100000. It will have five
full stories, in addition to fulI-sized
basement, and will be built Of brick
and terra-cOtta. The building will
have an eighty -five-foot front on South
Temple. The lot has a frontage on
First avenue of 1855 feet.
The United States, through the office
Of the district attorney, Monday filed a
libel against 600 tons of chlorinated
lime, alleging that it is improperly la.
beled. The lime was shipped by the
s. Wander & Sons Chemical company
Of New York to Salt Lake firm. The
suit is drawn under the provisions of
the federal insecticide act.
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Former service men and women
throughout the state are to be guests
OF honor at the fall festival and carni.
val to be staged at Salt Lake on the
third anniversary Of Armistice day
November II, under auspices of Twin
Falls post American Legion. A. w.
Sowle has been placed in general gu.
pervision Of the celebration.
James Morris Christensen, son Of Mr.;
and Mrs. c. NJ. Christensen Of Logan
who was awarded a Rhodes scholar
ship, will leave soon for London to en-.
ter Oxford. Mr.. Christensen is a grad.
uate of the Brigham Young and Agri
cultural colleges, and stud ed one year
at the University of Utah. He was
president of the student body at the
Agricultural college last year.
Machinery for the manufacture OF
flour is being installed at the Globe
Gran & Milling company's mills in
West Ogden, according to the an.
nouncement of Manager E. r. Alton
It Is anticipated the plant will be
placed in operation about January 1
The company is receiving grain daily
from Utah and Idaho towns. The
grain is held in storage in the large
elevators at the plant.
The Rt. Rev. S. Arai, whose position
in Japan corresponds in the main, as
he himself pointed out Sunday, to that
of President Heber J. Grant of the L.
d. S. church, toured Salt Lake Sunday,
In Japan he is abbot of Sojiji, head
monastery of the Soto sect, which is
possibly the most prominent Buddhist
sect in Japan. The abbot presides
over some 400 or 1900 temples, at
which some 100000 of $4,000 Soto
Buddhists of Japan worship.
Forty-six applicants for positions on
the fire and the police departments of
Salt Lake under the civil service COM
Monday at the emergency hospital by
DR.. Willard Christopherson, city health
commissioner, and DR.. w. A. Petit, as
sistna city physician. Most Of the men
examined are on one or the other de-
partments already, but have not been
there long enough to exempt them from
examination under the new rules.
In reporting on the progress being
made by his department, which has
charge of the maintenance of state
roads, John r. Stewart, maintenance
engineer for the state road commission,
says that the seasons maintenance
work on the hard-surfaced roads in
Cache and Davis counties has been fin
ished, and Is practically finished in
Weber county. 1t will be completed
within ten days in Utah and Boxelder
counties, and within about two weeks
in Salt Lake county. In those coun-
ties where the pavement is new. such