Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1921-04-01
UTAH AND UTAHNS

! have been granted permission to es-
tabllsh camp In American Fork can
/ yon, at the foot of Mt Timpanogos,
next June, by Dana Parkinson. super
vis0rs of WaSatch forest.
Members of the state board of land
| commissioners held conference with
Governor Mabey, and afterward an
nounced that, with the governors APP
proval. the policy of the board with
regard to the sale of the Piute project
had been established.
Benjamin y. Brooks, % years of age,
one of the best known livestock com
mission men in the west, died sudden
ly at a store in Ogden, into which
he stepped while walking along the
street, when he felt an attack of heart
trouble coming on.
Antoine Homen, who was held In the
county Jail at Ogden for three days
while temporarily insane, was released
March % and resumed his trip to his
home in Newman, Cal. The doctors
believe Homen was affected by the
high altitude.
Former Senator George Sutherland
OF Utah, who, his friends say, declined
cabinet position i'm President Hard
ing's official family, is again mention
ed for federal appointment, this time
that of solicitor general in the depart
ment of justice.
Norman Brown, 81 years of age,
farmer of Draper, died at his home as
the result of an accident, when he
stumbled over baby carriage and fell,
fracturing three ribs on his right side.
! One of the ribs pierced the lung, caus-
Ing his death.
Increased passenger fares on the
steam railroads of Utah. estimated by
them to increase their revenues by
100000 year, will be deferred for
time, possibly for two months, by the
action of the public utilities commits
sion of Utah.
The farmers of Gunnison valley, aid
ed by all the boys of the high school
and under the direction of G. o. Stott,
700 pounds of squirrel poison through
out the valley one day last week.
Salt Lake business and professional
men who last week visited Price and
Huntington and the oil-drllling area
about the San Rafael swell, have re-
future of that section.
The building committee of the Elks'
lodge at Eureka has awarded the con-
tract for rebuilding the dancing paw
lion, which was recently damaged to
the extent of $500 according to the
insurance adjuster.
David +. Smith. formerly chairman
of the board of county commissioners
of Davis county, has been named by
Governor Mabey as member of the
board of agriculture, created by the
last legislature.
The state engineers office and the
federal geological survey will cooper
ate in establishing and maintaining a
stream measurement station on the
south fork of the Ogden river, near
Huntsville.
Municipal ownership Of an electric
power plant was decisively defeated in
the Ogden bond election held Saturday,
March 26. Bonds for fire apparatus
and public parks were also voted
down.
Mr.. and Mrs. George A. Hicks, who,
IL Is believed, are the oldest married
couple in Utah. observed the sixty
eighth anniversary Of their marriage
al Spanish Fork, March "a.
Support of the statewide campaign
being carried on by the Utah farm bu-
reau for cleanup of cities and rural
communities alike is being given by
the state board of health.
Appointment of James T. Hammond,
Utahs first secretary of state, as direc-
tor of registra ton has been confirmed
by formal announcement from the of
flee of Governor Mabey.
One hundred and twenty represen-
tative mining and business men of Salt
Lake left the capital March 20 on u
visit to Price, Huntington and the oil
fields of that section.
+. Waserstraw, ranch hand near
NOIlu IOlul, lOsl inc StNOhu VI
his right hand when milk can he was
lifting fell and pinned it to rail.
The Ogden chamber of commerce
plans, at an early date, to establish
traffic bureau in connection with the
work of the chamber
Utah had high school enrolment OF
29.4 pupils for each 1000 of population
in 1919. This will be increased this
year. it is expected.
More than 1000 bushels of grass
loppers were caught by the so-called
balloon hopper in Plute county alone
last year.
George Henry Steed of Ogden, 20
years of age, died suddenly at the
breakfast table of apopleXy.
Price is to have a new theater build
ing, which will cost in the nelghbor-
hood of $4,000
Damage to Utah fruit by the frost of
March % was not as extensive as az