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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1917
Page
10
Gladys Klog of Kansan City arrives to spend the summer with her brother Nf. C. King at 100 21st Street in Kansas City.
Mrs Janet Drew a 70 year old pioneer resident of Ogden vanished last night from 629 Canyon road. Sheriff deputies and neighbors search with no clues by this afternoon. She was last seen walking in rain near Seventeenth Street. a river accident theory is dismissed. Anyone with information urged to contact Sheriff Peterson.
Wanted male help young man 16 to 25 for soliciting women tests at 5485 Wash 590. Employment ad notes need for fast workers and indicates payment and contact details. This item reflects a provocative employment request from a historical newspaper page segment.
Bam Munson aged 60 received a 30 day jail sentence from Municipal Judge George Darker for giving liquor to young girls. He also faced a severe court scolding. Munson was arrested at Hudson area near Twenty fourth street by Sergt T M Blackburn and Patrolman J C Fitzgerald. Others, including J J Eberhardt and W B Johnson, faced charges of disturbing the peace or drunkenness with five day jail terms for several defendants.
Secretary of Day AMD 2000 wR George Shorten was elected secretary. J M Boyden was named chairman. Attendees included John T. Caine Jr of Richmond Blaze Chemist Harms and Charles Cottrell of Battle Lake. A rule bans carriage of any foodstuff with hides pelts or junk in the same vehicle. The board will inspect condensed milk factories in Cache county and later expand to other factories statewide.
After a three day search by Salt Lake City police and juvenile court authorities, Dorothy Martin and Eric Smith, runaways from the state capital, were found in Ogden early morning by Probation Officer Heber J. Smith and Inspector George Bhorten. The youths, about 15, slept in a room log horse and planned to board an Orepon Short Ione train home. They had left home Saturday telling their mother they were going to Ogden.
United States army engineers under Major Parsons arrived in London this evening. A detachment reached Great Britain and the first hospital unit also arrived.
The 329th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America ruled against church involvement in political endorsements. The Des Moines presbytery had urged opposition to a governor candidate due to prohibition stances, but the report said such action lay outside church jurisdiction. Jon A. Marquis elected secretary treasurer of the Presbyterian Home Mission Board. The Home Mission report was adopted.
Frank R. Gooding former Idaho governor held a conference with Def H. Paps and other officers of Lion and Wyoming Cost companies to secure coal for Idaho next fall and winter. He was joined by Joseph Ilaneen war secretary 0 Governor Moges Alexander as they plan a distribution system in Ogden to prevent a famine. The group, members of the state and national defense councils, urged economy in coal use and credited Wyoming companies with helping avert shortages amid car and labor limits.
Automobilists from Ogden and surrounding areas organized arrivals to Brigham City Tremonton and Ogden meeting points for the California party. Weather delays shifted departure times, with a noon Wrigham City assemble and a rapid 30 to 40 mph pace advised for Tremonton to Box Elder county.
The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union members support soldiers and sailors with comfort bags. Since 1882 they have supplied bags containing a Bible, abstinence pledge, songster, reading, and a motherly letter. Washington state’s unit funded over a hundred to men aboard the ship named for the state.
Earl J. Glade, native of Ogden, spoke at a Weber club luncheon on promoting the state fair. He argued word of mouth publicity is the best advertisement and that bringing audiences to the fair is essential. Horace G. Enslen, secretary of the state fair association, accompanied Glade and the Oxden audience offered encouragement.
Continental Oil Company awards a construction package to George A Whitmeyer and Bonafar for a 60 by 0 foot one story brick and concrete structure with basement, wing, and brick exterior. Project to cost about 13,000 dollars, located at the southwest corner of Twentieth Street and Wall Avenue as part of major improvements.
Global market notes show mixed moves with steel highs and alcohol gains, while wheat purchases to Australia and ocean tonnage limits weigh on trade. In Omaha and Chicago, cattle, hogs, and grain futures show varied weakness and strength as weather and acreage forecasts shift sentiment. A disciplinary incident at Amalgamated Sugar ends with a German-descended worker facing punishment, highlighting ethnic tensions amid industrial actions.
Sugar market briefs from Sugar New York describe early futures movement as Cuban offerings ease spot market and refiners reduce bids. Mentions Rawadgar and Sine granulated sugar with TECCB 60c and refined loads.
The local mining exchange moved actively with gains in Illeo Argentins and Rico Wellington, several mines listed with bids from 3 to 19 cents, and a mix of prices including Eureka Bullius at 5 to 6 cents and Original Bannack at 15 cents. Hog market shows 26,000 head traded with prices from 10.70 to 16.85, while a broad list of bank and industrial stocks posted varied bids and asks across Utah institutions and companies.
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