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UTAH budget The thirty-seventh anpual convention of the Utah Baptist churches was held last week in Salt Lake. Plans are under way for the Utah State Press association convention to be held at Salt Lake City, June 21 and 22. The annual old folks' summer outIng will be held Tuesday, June 22, at Saltair. Pioneers from every section of the state will attend. Brigham City is to have a real live musical organization-a brass band that can be depended upon to furnish good music for all occasions. Judge Tillman D. Johnson of the United States district court at Salt Lake, was elected president of the Utah Baptist state convention. Wheat and alfalfa have made rapid advancement because of the warm weather, according to the weekly weather, crop and range report. The total assessed valuation of Grand county, exclusive of the railroads, telegraph and telephone lines and other public utilities, amounts to $2,555,668. Mrs. S. F. Johnson of Salt Lake, suffered a broken leg at Pendleton, Ore., when an automobile in which she was a passenger was struck by a freight train. Seventeen cadets of the R. O. T. C. at the Utah Agricultural college have been appointed to attend the reserve officers' training camps. The men will leave in time to report on June 17. Captured in the bad lands west of Vernal while riding two horses said to be owned by citizens of Woodruff, Melvin Hackford and Philip Van, Jr., were arrested by Sheriff Wilson of Rich county. Negotiations tending toward a settlement of the dispute between the Utah Contractors' association and the Building Trades council at Salt Lake are again at a standstill, and the union workers are still on strike. J. T. Lake was convicted at Salt Lake on a charge of involuntary manslaughter as a result of the death of LeRoy Anderson, 9 years of age, under the wheels of an automobile driven by Lake, December 1, 1919. Two hundred and ninety thousand dollars have been paid into the receivership of the defunct Merchants bank at Salt Lake, as a result of settlements of an $800,000 damage suit against former directors, out of court. A lighted cigarette is believed to have caused the fire which destroyed the moving picture show at Soldier Summit, owned by William Eddie and valued at $4500. The theatre was covered by fire insurance to the extent of $1500. Land cases involving more than 65,000 acres of land in the Uintah basin how pending in the United States district court will probably be dismissed under a recent congressional act and referred to the secretary of interior for final action. A winter wheat production for 1920 in Utah of 2,912,000 bushels as against 1,722,000 bushels actually produced last year, and a spring wheat production of 2,998,000 bushels, as against 1,960,000 last year, are the predictions of the June 1 federal crop report. The National Geographic society, which numbers 800,000 members in the United States alone, will hold one of the most important meetings of the year in Salt Lake during the sojourn of the delegates to the meeting of the National Education association beginning July 4. The American School Citizenship league will hold its annual meeting in the tabernacle at Salt Lake, Friday, July 9. This is one of the associations that always meet with the N. E. A. and many people come to the national education convention for the express purpose of attending it. Recommendations for the curtailing of the road program in Grand and San Juan counties to the completion of work a
