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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1909
Page
5
An editorial room listings page shows standard telephone lines and ring counts for the Indiana Bell office. The entry records two rings for editorial and two rings for business lines, with one ring noted for the office. The fragment references numbers 66 and 56.
Random references from Ogden news recount recoveries at General Hospital, funeral services for Mrs Teague, and a positive Idaho business outlook. Advertisements note real estate loans, coal suppliers, and local fire department activity. A California spring trip and medical recovery update for Miss Julia Roberts are also mentioned.
A. C. Ridgeway and F. A. Wadleigh of the Denver and Rio Grande arrive in Salt Lake City to join a party including the state legislature governor and staff and University of Utah faculty for a trip to Wendover aboard the Western Pacific railroad. They forecast a strong year for Western business and expect heavy traffic once the Western Pacific opens.
Penton and Dorrah of the Denver & Rio Grande and the Western Pacific speak on a proposed Gould passenger station to be built this summer in the city. Ridgeway and Warleigh note wide Utah branch improvements and plan further talks with J. C. Dally before returning to Denver.
Salt Lake March 3 The Utah Health League was formed at Packard library with Dr J Talmage filling in for ill Judge W H King. Nine directors were chosen including WH King Z Talmace John Dern Hubert Grant M S Brown C S Tingey F E B Clark Senator J A Hyde and Mrs N A Empoy. Dues set at 2 initiation and 2 annually. The league aims to promote public health, study sanitary needs, aid enactment of disease prevention laws, share health information, support a national health bureau, and foster local health groups statewide.
The Western Macaroni Manufacturing plant at 525 West Second South street burned to the ground in the early morning blaze. Loss estimated at 35000 with insurance covering building and contents. Mrs. D A Buck reported the fire after seeing smoke and flames from her window.
The Brown and Somerville families express gratitude to friends for support during the illness and death of their infant son and hope for the same kindness in future afflictions.
The Lombardi Grand Opera Company of Milan offers a 100 person excursion to Salt Lake by the Rio Grande route via Denver. The Colonial Theater Faro event runs a 21.10 round trip with tickets on sale March 4 returning March 7. additional return sale on March 6.
Washington reports Congress on the final day of the sixtieth session with all appropriation bills passed in both houses. Only four measures remain in conference the military academy bill general deficiency sundry civil and legislative and judicial bills. The legislative fight centers on pay raises for top officials and the debate over a mail steamer subsidy. Secretary Bacon doubts action on the Canadian boundary waterways treaty.
Ogden Utah March 2 1909 Chamber of Commerce of Ogden emails senators and representatives urging vote against house bill No 166 creating a water commission. The letter argues for Des Moines plan city government with nonpartisan nominees, recall and referendum while opposing a permanent water board and its long terms and bonding. It cites council questions and council opposition to the bill.
Fourteen car military special carrying a battalion of the Thirteenth U.S. Cavalry arrived from the east at Ogden this afternoon as part of the No. 9% mail train between Omaha and San Francisco. After a forty minute stop officers and men exercised briefly, no government horses were taken. the command proceeds to the Philippines Saturday to embark on a transport.
A 17 year old youth walking the railroad between Helper and Castle Gate last night warned the Rio Grande passenger train No 3 of a washed out bridge approach and saved the train from plunging into the river below.
A homeless youth traveling on foot from Helper to Salt Lake City flagged a passenger train as it neared a washed out bridge over the Price River. Conductor and crew were alerted, the bridge inspected, and the train delayed about seven hours while repairs were made. Passengers contributed to a fund of 11 dollars in gratitude for the boy’s bravery.
Marriage licenses issued to Frank White and Clara Pearl Palmer of Ogden. David F. Bernett of Fair Haven New Jersey. Frances Menkenmaur of Salt Lake. and Earl R. Downing and Grace Ethel Jerome of Salt Lake City.
In San Francisco a man named Jay O'Loane, jailed there for an alleged swindle of miner Goodwin, had a license granted to operate the Acme Rothskeller saloon in Reno on Sept 30 1907. The saloon earned notoriety for female led scrapes prompting the city council to close it, after which O'Loane left town and recently returned with a team of horses claiming wealth from an eastern mining camp.
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