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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1917
Page
3
Substription and Advertising Depts call for subscribers and ads. Random references detail a lecture by Dr. Frederick Winley Fish, travel notes, and social notices. People mentioned include Lester Hill and W. G. Lavery, with travel and store ads from Ogden Book & Curle. Public notices cover departures on rail lines and local items like lost money and stolen card cases.
Funeral services for John T Conley were held at Lindquist chapel with Rev J E Carver officiating. Music by Grace Bartlett and Helen Bartlett accompanied. Interment: Mountain View cemetery. Pallbearers: C T Fleming C Shields B Y Miller J A Bennett. Also listed are services for Mrs Iya C Mouse at Lindquist chapel followed by city cemetery interment, Thelma Mumford 11 year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Thomas Mumford to be buried at Ogden City cemetery with services in Third Ward meeting house. The body at home 2161 Tracy Avenue. Funeral for Hannah Miller 48 of Ogden at Larkin chapel with interment in Tenonent City cemetery. Also obituaries for Susanah Wadsworth Arave of Hooper and multiple Arave/Wadeworth descendants with services at Hooper meeting house. Processions and offerings noted.
The Senate appropriations committee directs immediate appropriations of 400 million dollars with 2.35 billion more for an emergency shipping fund. The bill lets the government take over shipyards factories and private contracts, with payment at a reasonable price, and penalties for noncompliance. Additional provisions cover army conscription subsistence transportation and naval fortifications with billions in related funding.
New York May 15 a note on a liner tragedy states ninety lives lost when the British liner sank near Liverpool after torpedoing. A benefit dance is planned in New York with proceeds mentioned, while the secretary’s report hints at broader inquiries into the loss and wartime shipping concerns.
A San Francisco Advertising Club decision to tie the Overland Trail from Reno to Ogden by auto from San Francisco to St Louis was received by the Ogden Publicity bureau. The notice states the freight would reach Ogden by May 25 unless delays occur.
River highs flood the northwest city as water covers Washington avenue and the lowlands from Seventeenth to Twentieth streets. The Wilcox bridge is at risk. a snow slide cascaded toward the river near the county road. residents marshal belongings and form a makeshift levee. City plans call for diking and a top-level levee from Washington avenue to Glenwood Park to prevent a repeat.
Mayor Heywood today received notice of a complaint to be filed by Attorney Hiram T. Henderson for a majority of Twenty eighth Street parcel owners seeking to test jurisdiction on the mayor and Commissioner Miles Le Jacea. Defendants include Mayor Heywood and Commissioner Figgare with contractor P J Soran. plaintiffs list Beth E. Thomas Georgia Drowning Farl R. Geiger Mrs Ads Quinn Richard D Tinckock George Tolmle Mrs Mary E Tolmis and John G Eile. They must pave within twenty days. Heywood said the suit does not alter his plans and he remains advised.
Four men charged with disturbing the peace on city streets faced police court after fights on May 12. Harry Wil lama J C Watts and Frank Watts each forfeited 5 dollars. Herman Winters 210 was forfeited. Watts fought at Hudson ar rhue and Twenty-fourth Street. other suspects were taken into custody on lower Twenty-Fifth Street. Bail for Pat Maxwell was 5 dollars for drunkenness. Several others, including Nerry Pat Cullen James Clark and BU Lang, were sentenced to seven days in jail for drunkenness. A driver named Ed wound Wood was ordered into juvenile court custody for operating a car at an unreasonable rate. the youth was found to be 17 years old.
Greek immigrant Jim Callas attempted to steal oats from stock cars at the Orden Union Railway yards. Special Officer BC Shumaker interrupted the act, arresting Callas for petit larceny. He was tried and fined five dollars.
The Past Noble Grand club schedules a meeting with Mrs. Husehjost at 228 Thirtieth Street on Thursday May 11 urging full attendance. Mr and Mrs Day of Omaha Neb are guests of Lippincott at 835 Twenty sixth Street. Mr Day is a traveling solicitor for the Union Pacific.
Today marked Weber College Freshman Day with multiple performances directed by the class president ea foitana Fiano solo Dorts Tribe. The program featured readers Myra Melntyre jan o soto Addie Arnold and piano pieces by Irma Crezer with addresses by David J. Wilson. Alumni association members present included Mr Fanner. Principal Barker and club staff received engraved pins for the drama club's winter production Secret Service. Afternoon outing to Utah Hot Springs under faculty chaperones followed.
Mr and Mrs G W Culver and other residents protested at a city council meeting against the proposed district 127 improvement along Washington avenue from twenty fifth street to Wall avenue. They argued the protest expired May 9 and accused the mayor and Commissioner Jones of wasteful wartime spending, urging coverage in the local Standard.
An eastern officer guards a prisoner on U.P. No. 19 when G. W. Garbuch breaks from the toilet, leaps from the moving train between Morgan and Devil's Slide. He vanishes, later found not to match the description, and the suspect is released after a sheriff-to-sheriff check.
San Francisco March 14 opening of a military reserve officer training camp at the Presidio with 2500 reported, about 1000 commissioned, ten hours daily of drill and study, barracks housing, varied branch instruction for infantry cavalry field artillery engineers and a full official day schedule.
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