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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1918
Page
3
Random clippings note military promotions and transfers, local marriages, court actions, and business notices. Captain candidate J Smith from Washington D C returns after exams. G Smith heads a US railroad group to Liberia. several locals marry or relocate. Occasional ads list window cleaning and livestock services. dog taxes collected. city lighting payments and various residents visiting or selling stock.
A chaotic wartime note reports peach stones shipped in carloads from California to the War Department. A San Francisco Standard reporter discovers officials offer little explanation. A local cannery worker claims the fruit is sent to the government, then processed to charcoal. The charcoal is said to be used in soldiers’ campwork in France for absorption and restoration.
Longtime pastor Elderkin loses pulpit at Oak Park Church in Chicago amid charges of pro German sympathies and antiwar sermons. Congregation votes to expel him after debate over his views on war and loyalty.
Mutual Oil Gas company reported a new gas well in Ogden city reporting a daily output of 25.00 percent cubic feet. Dr J W Pidcock said the shallow well taps a gas body with potential oil under the ground. The firm resumed Well No 3 and plans to push development, expecting daily gas flow to reach 10,000 cubic feet. The discovery is described as promising for industrial welfare and future gas production.
Salt Lake delegates protest proposed graded rate schedule as regional freight panel in Chicago weighs a plan that would cut rates for Intermountain points by about 25 percent, shifting cost from eastern routes. The hearing includes representatives from Utah Nevada Arizona Missouri and Washington.
In a heated proceeding, Mrs Hose Sanile seeks divorce from Twpty Hiehard H, citing failure to provide for common child and wife. Judge orders alimony for support and declares a divorce decree pending, noting the parties’ separated status and ongoing custody considerations.
Fragmentary note reports Berlin residents urged to go barefoot as a public warning. Cited dispatch from Amsterdam mentions debates on submarine campaigns and fears of broader conflict.
The text appears garbled with partial phrases and lacks clear entities or events to summarize into concrete facts. The readable fragments suggest an appeals context but do not provide names, dates, places, or outcomes. No definite incident or decision can be identified for a proper two-line record.
The Warren boy Private Crandall Wade, Infantry, listed missing in action June 15, was reported by Adjutant General McCain. He left Warren December for service and has brothers in aviation and the quartermaster corps. The Wade family, connected to Lt Herbert C. Wade, learns of his status as Allied forces advance in Picardy.
An Indiana farmer’s 1901 vision, read in the Salt Lake Telegram, allegedly foresees a world war in 1938. The vision describes a celestial bannered scene with Old Glory, a swift steam driven train in the sky, and a departing southwestward journey, told to warn wise men.
Ogden postoffice workers from assistant postmaster to all staff receive a $200 annual raise effective July 1, according to a Washington bulletin. Laborers receive 15 percent or $139 yearly, making the first new payroll due July 13. Postmaster Rufus Garner prepares the first pay under the new schedule.
A warrant for A Z Lansing and Irment Clair follows complaints about 43 chickens missing from their owner Peter Fiendroakos. Deputies arrest Boodrookas and Blair who admitted placing a trap at a Twenty fifth Street planing mill behind a lumber shed to curb the roving flock.
An exam for female clerk positions at the Railway Postal Terminal is set for July 30. US citizens aged 15 to 45 on exam day may be considered for Ogden terminal appointments. Applicants must meet height requirements of at least 2 feet 2 inches and not over 35 feet.
A military notice from Camp Hrares reports Captain J Ray Ward adjutant of the Hathh Artillery and former commander of Tallecy DB will travel home to Gelen within days. Ward has not been in his hazard city since early Port Monelis last October and a welcoming gathering is planned in Salt Lake and nearby. The message also notes a new appearance by Harry Carey in The Scar Jet Drop at the MG. AL building and mentions Boy Scouts events at the Cozy.
Talian forces advance on multiple fronts aided by cavalry and aviation. Left wing units reach Fieri and occupy Aiaklan camp, seizing war materiel. Artillery and infantry push toward Borat positions, securing high ground and approaching Milicastra on the left and Tomouries on the right, dominating the Davolt valley.
A New York report lists notable men at the funeral of Mitchel including Joseph and Tumulsy acting as personal representative of President Wilson, former Roosevelt, Governor Whitm, Moran, Blimson, Jacob Hitt, Brigadier-General George J. relty Gaston Telegraph, Consul General of France, Mayer Taylan, Lieutenant.
Installation of new machinery completed and production begins for motor starters controllers and electric welding machines. Sheetmetal shop pending completion, promoting All Metal Electric Welders as labor savers and cost reducers, urging inquiry.
A ceremony in St Patrick's Cathedral honored Colonel George B AlcGiellon and other dignitaries including British and French ambassadors. The funeral mass of requiem was conducted by Rev. Father Shealy with Chaplain Dyrne present. A choir of 100 men performed choral music ending with The Star Spangled Banner.
In Waukesha Wisconsin on July 11 the bodies of William Wille his sister Edna and Ernest Porue were found at the Hille farm nearby. Evidence of poisoning was found in Miss Hille. Several horses were not found to have been hot. Hille and his sister were about 69 years old. The details of the franks are not known.
Washington July 1b Senator Smith of Carolina called wire communications control as crucial as railroads in wartime. Senator Wilson of Indiana proposed amendments to exclude telephone lines and press wires from government contracts as the measure to control telegraph and allied systems is advanced with no procedural objections.
Washington July 11 reports of German discontent over submarine work persist despite optimistic statements by Admiral von Capello. A dispatch cited by the Cologne Volks Zeitung notes submarine warfare remains doubtful and fails to deter American intervention, signaling continued strategic strain.
Lincoln Neb July report from the state board of agriculture and US crop estimates shows spring wheat at 55 percent condition with 4,890,600 bushels forecast, winter wheat at 65 percent with 40,340,000 bushels, and overall production shifts. Senate action opens on Carn production estimates and telegraph and telephone press laws.
Denying that the free energy generator is a discovery by Garsred y, K. Ghogossian, EC. Kilpatrick of San Francisco, Kilpatrick says he is ready to pursue his work with a full-sized machine. He recalls experiments in 1918 claiming to decompose an electric dynamo into positive and negative elements and to use those to boost a generator's output.
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