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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1919
Page
2
At an Eccles building meeting the Utah Children's Home Society faced Ogden scrutiny. The Standard praised three local charities for selfless work aiding afflicted families, arguing outside societies would need vast funds and could not match the personal, unpaid efforts of Ogden’s women.
The article notes billions in America's foreign trade gains with six to twelve month outlooks, detailing total annual exports around seven billion and imports just over three. It discusses debt, loans to abroad, and the need to balance aid for war-torn nations with avoiding self harm, plus limited gold exports and licenses totaling about 200 million.
A New York financier summarizes postwar Germany as broken and humiliated. Germany loses army and navy, merchant marine, colonies, mineral resources, and territory, while its ambitions collapse. Austria Hungary Turkey and Russia suffer as side effects, leaving Germany the most distrusted nation worldwide. The piece notes widespread hatred and the rejection of Germany’s prestige.
The passage laments Germany's punishment for Pressian militarists and blind worship of force. It says the future holds hard times, with foreign prejudice and hindered reconstruction. It predicts a slow recovery and widespread desire among Germans to regain lost strength.
The text argues for a western branch of the interior department with headquarters in a western state, proposed to aid local officials and decentralize Washington. It endorses locating a forest service front in Utah or nearby, contending centralization harms local officials and favors broader decentralization while preserving the Ozden offices as a model.
At the COZY Theatre tonight the bill features Tom Mix in The Retailer’s Vindication, Neal Hart in Honor of Men, another Neal Hart in Honor of Men, a Modern Lorelei water picture, Looney Lions and Monkey Business, and a Harold Lloyd comedy ahead of the July 4th holiday.
A Bang municipal band concert is set for an evening at City Hall Park. The program features Erickson directing with pieces including Our Movement, Move of Pansige, Hanter and Hermit, and popular numbers like You Don’t Know, Oh at the Rose, and Til We Meet Again.
Funeral services for the late Mrs Inga Wolstad Mullins were held at Kirken dall funeral parlor with Rev C W Fr Daniels of the Christian church presiding. A large attendance, floral offerings, and a Norwegian Lutheran heritage noted. The obituary described her life from Trona, Norway, to Ogden, and Cheyenne, with family in Norway, Chicago, and California, ending with a Christian farewell and scripture about the heavenly home.
Gy ten school board adopted plans for constructing the central section and east wing of Central Junior High at Adams Avenue and Twenty-fifth Street with a $275,000 budget. The old building will be the west wing temporarily. Architect Eber F. Piers will draft detailed specifications.
The plans describe stair access to the second story on both east and west sides, fire walls between wings, and steel rolling doors to separate a central unit for potential civic use. The east wing houses domestic science, sewing, drawing, and art with three rest rooms, while the central floor includes two 40 by 60 foot gymnasiums that can form an 80 by 60 foot space. Locker rooms, a small plunge, and air ventilation systems are outlined, with mechanical equipment beneath the auditorium for climate control.
A small canning operation will start this year in Ogden by Borte and Varney. They have acquired the Varney floral plant at Stephens avenue and Ther[mo]d Street to convert into a canning plant. Machinery is ordered and will be installed promptly. Both partners bring experience in canning and expect rapid expansion as demand increases.
Glen Ellis Higley ten year old son of Mrs Nettie Higley of Hooper drowned while swimming with relatives and friends in the Weber river below Hooper. Rescue efforts lasted about twenty minutes with pulmotor aid but failed. The body was recovered after extensive search and transport to Hooper.
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