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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1918
Page
6
Ogden hosts a week long automobile show with W G Wilson, former Provo publicity secretary, delivering an address on Motor Tracks and Their Use. Engineer W F Love of the Portland Cement association will discuss Good Heads. Mayor T Samuel Browning to open the show. An orchestra will provide daily music. Also notes a quiz on Sunday School numbers in the United States.
A comparative statement by county commissioners details sheriff's department operating costs for two fourteen month spans ending December 21, 1918. It lists salaries, expenses, and receipts for 1915 through 1919, noting totals and a combined cost difference of 565.73 between the two periods.
Camp Kearny California March 21 Colonel Richard W Young will depart for Salt Lake City then Fort Sill to serve on an efficiency board for officer examinations Brigadier General Leroy L Lyon announced the eight mile range for the four point seven inch guns will lengthen from two miles with continuous arc during the schedule Utah gunners will join three inch models of the 13rd artillery regiment in barrages Infantrymen will advance under the fire curtain Mounted gun drill gas mask training and new target range kept artillery busy plus rifle drill and formations Wagoner Walter Dixon discharged for medical defects Conk Morris Allen moved to G battery Major Alex R Thomas selected for general court martial two Utah men chosen for duty as police assignments Battery and company transfers and postgraduate schooling for non commissioned officers announced with several men named for the course and new gas officer selections"}
David Dion presents The Phantom Riders starring Privates Willem H Varley and Clarence A Peterson with Harry Carey and Broncho Billy in Billys Close Call showing today and tomorrow at the Cozy theater.
Ted Titley formerly of Ogden and later a volunteer in the Canadian forces writes from France about his initialization to frontline duty with the 44th Canadian Battalion. He notes rough terrain, ruins around the line, the value of letters over parcels, and hopes for peace while sending regards to family and friends.
The Hague March 21 reports no reply from the Allied powers to the Dutch ministry of foreign affairs by 1 p m regarding the shipping question.
Mrs. R. DG. Porter of Ogden was chosen as Utah’s candidate for the executive board of the National Federation of Women’s Clubs. Utah delegates will attend the Hot Springs convention April 30 to May 8, with funds raised to aid French soldiers. Critics charged western rates as unfair, prompting a call to reestablish the universal one-cent rate for second class mail.
The United States employment bureau at the corner of Twenty fourth Street and Wall avenue is rushing business with many calling for men and for jobs. Employers seek workers from laborers to skilled roles including thirty men for Southern Pacific sections and others for country work, sheep herders, a camp tower, carpenters, and more. Beckett and assistant Frank Nevins kept busy processing the requests.
A card of thanks from the family expresses gratitude to friends who assisted during illness and death of their mother. Written by ED CHRISTENSEN, WR. and MRS. BROW.
Neighbors are requested to attend the funeral of departed neighbor Don Mottense on Sunday March 24 at 2 PM in the Ninth ward chapel Thirty first of Jefferson. Conveyance from chapel to City Cemetery. M A Galt GC 0 WM Muller Clark. A union labor man is mayor Brockton Mass.
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