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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1918
Page
3
The city and county ordered playground apparatus from a factory in Anderson Indiana. It was shipped on the 11th and should arrive by term end. Commissioner Mies L. Jones says it will be installed for the children as soon as it arrives. Local notices mention related sales and services.
War horse operations unfold as British officers arrive in Ogden to oversee the selection, inspection, and sale of horses contracted to the British government. Major Hodgson leads the effort with Lt. Hand, and Governor Bamberg er reviews records for four grades of clerks and mules. The agency plans daily horse handling, including Sundays, and insurance guidance is issued by McAdoo.
Government intends to purchase completed road work and a batch of automobile police vehicles. Downtown updates report law offices relocating to 14 Col. Hudson Building. Marriage licenses issued for William Shaw and Virgil Petty. Juvenile court convened with no cases. Two men charged with drunkenness had bail forfeited after missing proceedings.
The Cozy presents Doug Fairbanks in American Aristocracy today and tomorrow as part of a double feature with a Big V comedy. The screening highlights Fairbanks’s era leading man charm with light entertainment to close each show.
A senior Japanese communications official, Kam bart Watoat, visited Ogden returning home after seven months serving in the United States postal service. He is one of four superintendents of communications and praised American efficiency while noting Japan’s fiber delivery advances. The piece also promotes Beatrice by Beatrice, a Utah romance showing to readers.
Fay W. Pabnes will lecture this evening at the Christian Science edifice corner Twenty first Street and Monroe Avenue. The capacity is expected to be crowded. admission is free to the public. All are invited to attend and hear the talk titled The Day and Tomorrow.
Memorial Day events in Ogden will be led by a committee of H. B. Steele J. N. Weston and P. Terry. Participants include G A R W R and Spanish American War veterans with services at Mountain View and Ogden City cemeteries. Graves will be decorated and a flower strewing at the river honors Civil War sailors.
A group of notices reports deaths and funeral arrangements for several individuals. Sarah J. Childs of Ogden dies at 61 with funeral plans pending. Tanz Mitamura, a Japanese laborer, held funeral at Kirkendall Chapel with interment in Ogden City Cemetery. Joseph White of Salt Lake City noted. Anna Josephina Olsen dies in Ogden at 12:05 PM, with services and interment in Idaho and Utah to follow.
Utshwod Idaho received assured rain benefiting the wheat crop. Dr F C Osgood, returning from his Idaho Falls farm with 2409 acres under cultivation, notes strong rainfall and promising wheat yields for the Intermountain region.
Peter Jolson Nordqules longtime Ogden resident and pioneer of Utah dies after eight years of illness. Born in Sweden October 21, 1860s, he worked as a blacksmith and wagon maker and lived at 36 Morarrisville Avenue. Survived by wife and children Peter A Nordquist, Mary E Barlow, Hulda M Hingham, and Carl J Nordquist with seven grandchildren. Funeral arrangements to be announced.
Film notes describe Douglas Fairbanks in the 1921 comedy American Aristocracy. The snippet hints at a light plot of wit and social satire, with Fairbanks performing physical comedy and stunts typical of his silent era style.
A jumble of society items from Evanston and Ogden details postponed meetings for Red Cross sewing, promotor visits, and a Ball. It notes venues, dates, and times, including Red Cross rooms and the M IA hall, with updates on attendance and activities such as bandage and gauze work. The piece mentions Miss Culver returning from California and a patriotic rally at the Twelfth ward meeting house with Weber Normal College’s Prof Rent as speaker.
Ogden plans a summer series of patriotic and sacred music at Glenwood Park starting next Sunday. The city will contract with the Ogden City Band for twelve Sundays from 2 to 4 p.m. with twenty five musicians at $3 per day, plus a $38 leader fee, funded by $500 in pledges and city receipts, contingent on a revenue share to cover expenses.
Advertisement notes a three day engagement of The Unbeliever opening at the Alhambra tomorrow with matinee prices for children 35 cents and adults 10. Evening shows offer main floor parquet seating for 600, orchestra circle 280, balcony loges 10 cents.
Alden Pettigrew's rengeter and dance orchestra have been engaged to play at the Hermitage this spring, offering the most popular selections. The orchestra will be enlarged with first violin Alden Pettigrew, second violin Harold Pettieraw, cello Heath Fearson, piano Mae Willis, and Gail on decom and traps.
The Madison avenue storm sewer water will be leased by the city to the Middleton Irrigation Company for five years. City commissioners approved the resolution and instructed the city attorney to prepare the lease form with termination rights and a yearly payment of five dollars.
Weber County commissioners read a communication on a tax levy to fund the county's pledged share of paving North Washington Avenue from the Ogden River bridge to the city limits. The board notes state road commission appropriations of 20 percent for east side paving and 25 percent from state funds, totaling 45 percent, and declines approving contracts to pave both sides this year while allowing the district to proceed and the county to share when the west side paving occurs.
The city commission accepted an invitation from the Elks lodge to attend the flag day anniversary exercises at the Elks lodge rooms on Friday, June 14 at [time] in the evening. The invitation stated a short, interesting program and urged board members to be present to honor Old Glory.
Mrs. F. Crawford of 2874 Monroe Avenue reports her brother Cecil R. Farley in Company B Thirty-seventh Engineers has reached France safely. He joins three other Farley brothers in military service: Leonard, Jesse at Camp Kearny California, and Herbert who recently joined the Marines and plans to leave Ogden this week. They are sons of Mrs. Kats aonel of Seventh Avenue.
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