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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1915
Page
8
An extended holiday offer invites shoppers to buy turkey and many other items. The ad lists roasts, veal and lamb cuts, pork products, oysters, fruit, vegetables and dairy, with prices and package sizes across a busy proceeds-style display. It highlights sales by day and urges customers not to miss the remaining stock.
Alfred M. Probst, about 42, died from a gun discharge while hunting musk rats near Bald Eagle Creek. Coroner says no inquest. Body found near Castanea Bridge. Probst survived by parents and several siblings. Hippodrome bill lists seven vaudeville acts at the Alhambra tonight.
The First Methodist Episcopal Church hosts an elaborately decorated Christmas Eve program Friday at 7:45 p.m. The program features Gifts for Jesus and Gifts for charity with presentations by Primary and boys and girls classes. A large Christmas pageant includes recitations and songs as part of the annual service.
Weber county agricultural agent W Prestin Thames institutes an exchange card system for farmers who visit the city. Cards kept in county courthouse offices allow farmers to note exchanges in livestock farm products or other goods, detailing the desired exchange and contact point. The plan keeps farmers in touch and is spreading from Weber County with expectation of wider popularity.
At a department heads meeting in Wrights Store the goal was set to make tomorrow the busiest shopping day before Christmas. Each department will provide special gift items for sale from 3 to 12, with prominent displays of top Christman suggestions and extra staff to ensure peak service. The Blooming flowers, once reduced to 22.60, are featured alongside a full list of morning attractions in another part of the paper.
County Clerk Marty Hales distributed the county poor fund totaling 243 and the Mothers Tension fund 470 to a number of deserving persons under the county board of commissioners. The monthly distribution was advanced to yesterday to allow beneficiaries to buy Christmas gifts.
The regular annual meeting of the shareholders of the First National Bank of Ogden Utah will be held in the banking room 2484 Washington avenue Ogden on Tuesday January 11 19 8 at 1 oclock p m for electing directors to serve for the ensuing year and to transact such other business as may properly come before said meeting Dated Ogden Utah December 21 19 8 James F Durton Cashier
Governor William Spry aims to form a state chamber of commerce and has invited Weber County commissioners to meet in Salt Lake on December 9. The gathering would promote commercial value for the state and include local merchants amid the planned discussions at a stated afternoon hour.
London reports the Japanese liner Yasuka Maru with 120 passengers and 16 crew was sunk by a submarine while en route from London to Japan. All aboard were saved by a French gunboat. one American passenger, W. J. Leigh, was among the survivors. Passengers praised captain and crew for discipline and prompt disembarkation.
Master Moyses Speter aged eleven returned from Brazil to spend Christmas in his homeland. He had lived with his mother in South America but became homesick and came back to his native country for the holidays.
New York traders opened with copper and futures leading a moderately active session. American Smelting, Utah Copper, Anaconda, and Tennessee Copper posted fractional gains, while Setican Petroleum jumped to a new high of 1037-4, and United Brands Steel edged higher at the open. Also higher were Crucible Steel, Studebaker, and American Car as Mercantile Marine and London markets showed mixed activity alongside a quiet London Stock Market. Omaha livestock receipts totaled 18,000 with cattle and sheep week-to-date steady to lower. hogs near 6200 6.3 night, 36.1066.20.
Max Brettung-Denys, indicted with five others on plans to blow up munition ships leaving the United States, admits buying 350 pounds of a lime potassium compound for Fay. Attorney claims good faith and innocence. motion on separate trial denied or continued to January 9. William McCulley released after federal questioning. no grounds found to detain him.
Wheat edged higher in a nervous session with December at 1.24 58 and May at 1.25 58. Corn unsettled around 34 to 36 cents, hog values fell due to ample supply, and live cattle and lambs drew lighter attention as sugar and pork markets showed modest activity in New York and Chicago reports.
Market quotations list various items including Mineral Flat and Nest Driver with prices and quantities. It lists multiple entries such as 2006 at 04 3¢ and 2500 at 24 1.2, with words like open board and regular board. The fragmentary OCR preserves vendor names and bid prices without coherent narrative.
Reduced fares apply between all points with sale dates December 23 36 25 41 and January 4. Return halt January 3. City Ticket Office Orpheud Block.
Ida von Claussen, confined in a state hospital for the insane since 1914, to be discharged and placed in the custody of her brother Matthew Clausen of New York City. Justice Tompkin signed the release order, permitting access at the custodian's will. The court noted improvement but not full cure.
Christmas day observed by the ministerial union with a union service Saturday at 11:30 a.m. The service lasts under an hour with no offering. John Edward Carter delivers the address as the choir leads carols and songs, with church decorations of crepe and colored lights.
New York December 23 The proposed merger of Cambria Steel Youngstown Sheet and Tube and two other steel firms is virtually assured, says J A Campbell president of the Youngstown company. Lackawanna Steel has not yet agreed but Campbell believes the plan is settled. The merger is expected to close by February 1 with capitalization likely at least 230 million dollars, possibly 300 million.
Notice from the Treasurer of Weber County Ogden Utah that warrants numbered No TIGON to No THE inclusive will be paid at the treasurer s office starting December 27 1915 and no warrants will bear interest after that date. The document also notes no change at Aden as of December 23 with a December 30 skirmish injuring several and one enemy prisoner reported by J Ayden Chamberlain.
An ordinance amends a prior measure creating Sewer District No. 128 and levying a local tax. It adds section 4 establishing five installments due over four years with interest on unpaid installments. The measure was adopted December 3 1918 and published in the Ogden Standard.
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