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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1909
Page
6
D. Decker, Logst, Manserg presents a comparison of annual lighting use, claiming winter requires roughly three times the summer electricity hours. The piece notes longer evenings and altered rise times, arguing winter bills spike due to inherent demand patterns and limited daylight.
McMillan and Mansfield perform as the Falstaff to popular demand in a Big Dance Tonight at the Odes Auditorium. Booth reservations recommended by phone Bell 167, Ind. 94. Also notes on a benefiting ball, job ads for women clerks, and various local notices including a flag at half mast for County Commissioner Stanford. Chinese entertainers visit the city for Methodist services with tickets for the event.
Fragmentary items from a local page include travel notices for a Union Pacific train missionary deployment and lectures by Dr. Bancroft, along with a theater or academy event at Weber Academy on February 15. It also lists flowers for Valentine gifts and a guessing contest at Grand Union Tea Store, plus a quiet holiday police report and a vagrancy arrest.
The Weber club's board of directors named a board of control to oversee the National Wool Growers convention arrangements in Ogden January 1910. Appointees include A. P. Bigelow, Joe Decker, T. C. Foley, F. W. Herrington, John Pingree, John Spiers, and P.R.P. T. Wright. The board will select officers and begin organizing immediately to shape plans.
To dear friends who offered tender sympathy and assistance during the illness and death of our wife and mother we express heartfelt thanks. Special thanks go to the ladies of the W R and other friends for floral tributes and to Dr Gordon G Ives J W Ramey Mrs Dora Strickland Mrs Florence Miller Miss Jessie Welsh. Gratitude to Rev McCreery for comforting words. May the giver of all good grant you His tender blessing. KE Clark and Mamfy and Mrs H H Mark
A storm currently along the middle Pacific coast is moving eastward under the weather bureau. It will traverse the plateau and Rocky Mountain region tomorrow, cross the plains, central valley, and lake region this weekend, reach the Atlantic coast by Monday or Tuesday, with snow in the middle and northern districts but no widespread cold wave expected.
A terse quotation cites Tate and Brady on trust and keeping promises. The lines speak to fidelity and accountability, suggesting a speaker who honors vows even after experiencing a loss. The phrasing echoes 17th century religious rhetoric and moral exhortation.
Ogden Utah February 8 1909 business men of Weber county protest any laws creating statewide prohibition. The petition lists many prominent local figures and businesses warning of disastrous impacts on government and enterprise while urging legislature to reject broad prohibitive measures.
A legislative delegation in five crowded coaches arrived in Ogden at 12 05 p m led by Division Superintendent Stevenson and officials Dan Spencer and Condictor Dans. Two to three hundred excursionists and accompanying officials filled the Union Depot hotel dining room as rain paused. They sought a substantial dinner despite the fate of the prohibition bill and pressed for a full meal and variety.
A Nevada town reels after a drunken woolley sheepherder tries to shoot up Carlin. Constable slips from a vault, confronts him, and captures the man. En route to jail the desperado knocks the officer down. A mob forms seeking lynching but the danger subsides as authorities explain the incident.
A crowd gathered on the town edge on the fourth, pursuing a man they found in a haviot. He surrendered at sight and the officer barely prevented lynching. The culprit is jailed awaiting trial for disorderly conduct and assaulting an officer.
ciRCA El Paso Texas Feb 11 The Mexican thoroughbred racing circuit was formed with Alberto Terrazas as president and Colonel M J Winn as general manager Plans call for tracks at Juarez Mexico and other cities with a 20 year concession from the Mexican government Construction budgets quoted total about 100000 to 200000 with Juarez plant chosen for accessibility to El Paso and Americans Officials note Widely linked figures from Kentucky New York and Mexico are named in the organizing group and management tasks carry forward this summer
James J Jeffries expressed surprise at an offer by Hilly Delaney to match him and Al Kaufman for a 10000 side bet, saying Kaufman could not lick a postage stamp. Sam Berger, Jeffries sparring partner, says the champion trained quietly and appears set to return to the ring.
Pittsburg report states President Roose velt and party traveled toward Larne county Kentucky for a Lincoln centennial celebration. He arrived in Pittsburg by eastern time and departed at 7:40 central time with Mrs Roosevelt, Mink Roosevelt, Secretary Wright, Secretary Loeb, and Surgeon Gou- advancing diplomatic duties and celebration plans.
President travels by special Pennsylvania Railroad train with brief addresses at Altoona and Pittshire. In this city he said he aimed to do the best for the people, pleasing the crowd with their cheer. He is due at Hodgenville near Lincoln farm around noon tomorrow.
Thomas J. Waters of Denver won the 24 hour endurance roller skating race finishing at 9 pm with a distance of 186 miles. Grover Hudson of Chicago was second at 185 miles, while A. Barrett of Los Angeles dropped after 76 miles and Harry Johnson of Chicago collapsed in the 23rd hour at 118 miles.
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