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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1918
Page
5
An Ogden area snippet lists graduation gift ads for Bramwell's and random references to local businesses. It notes marriage notices in a carthouse ceremony, profiles forestry staff work at a station, and various moves, visits, and travel among residents, with multiple names and addresses in Ogden and surrounding areas.
General health conditions in home camps remain very bad, according to a weekly health report. Preamona prevails in several regions, with widespread wineasks and common ailments among inmates.
Police report a colored porter, George Weston, was arrested after whiskey was found in two suitcases aboard a Southern Pacific train arriving from Oakland. Officers searched the observation car and seized the liquor, with a bail set at $260. Police Chief Browning said informants warned of liquor shipments and pledged to cooperate to stop the traffic.
Veterans from Lincoln circle and Spanish American War Veterans gathered at City Hall and went to Mountain View cemetery for a program honoring 51 comrades. Cadets, children, and adults joined a GA ritual, with a flag pledge, poems, songs, a gun salute, and a cannon salute, ending with river flowers and a wreath.
A small group of veterans gathered under trees by the city hall on a thin morning to honor fallen comrades. The scene recalled marches to Rotn Mountain View cemetery and the service of those who fought.
Washington dispatch reports military experts view German gains near Solgsons as limited in impact and foresee no large break of the front. They expect French and British reserves from the Somme to reinforce the Aisne line within days while Foch weighs how to deploy forces to blunt the German push toward Amiens and Paris. In local news, the son of Jend Lethe Stoker, Stoker-Tinude, dies in Troy with burial at Roy tomorrow.
Ogden police held a morning memorial at City Cemetery to honor fallen officers. Chief T Browning led the procession with duty officers absent, as wreaths and ferns were placed at graves in a somber ritual.
Young ladies answer call to aid in vegetating the boys on Jam s. Maud Healy Laura Stoddard Winona Smith Cora Smith Helen Doyle report to Chairman A A Heywood at 7 a m next Wednesday morning June 6 to assist in patriotic sacrifice.
Dr G Dwight Marsh of the U S Department of Agriculture will spend days at Salina's experiment station to study poisonous plants that threaten forest ranges. He is known to stockmen for researching plant dangers to livestock, focusing on larkspur and other weeds like tocal weed and ancaze weed that injure sheep.
A piano recital will be given this evening at the Virat Congregational by Mrs. J. A. Ferrare's pupils of Mra. Ferrare. Miss Bary Woolley will assist as dramatic reader. Leaves for Camp Lewis as Mrs. G. L. Bacon, formerly Miss Eyal Man, travels to Washington with her husband. Mrs. Bacon will visit near the camp while he is stationed there.
Raymond Yeaman, former sprinter at Hestourk's and son of Mr. and Mrs. Yeaman of 703 West Twenty-fourth Street, enlisted in the Utah battalion and is headed to Camp Kearny. He will join as a ravish lay and be assigned to the battalion’s band.
Paris official report notes steadiness of Allied flanks under German pressure. Germans attempted a debouch from Saissans but French outskirts blocked them. In the southeast, French reserves engage in extreme violence along the road from Soissons to Sarennes et Tau, about 7 12 miles east of Soissons. German advance toward the southwest seems halted near Fere en Tardenois with Vezeilly east of it as farthest progress. In the Planders, Germans attacked northwest of Festubert in Givenchy but were repulsed. British gains include a 200 yard advance in Morris sector. Americans centered in Cantigay west of Ront cher face continued attacks, but progress is limited by resistance.
Funeral services for Peter Nordquist will be held tomorrow afternoon in the Lyons ward house with Bishop L. W. Sherin officiating. The body lies at the Wise-Taffly Home, 35 Marciaville Avenue, until 2 pm. Interment will follow at Stan City Cemetery.
Havana May 50 Hi FL Marxian representative in Cuba of the United States food administration feared the inter allied sugar committee had stalled a contract for purchase by the United States from Cuban sugar producers for 25 percent of this year’s crop. No information has been received. Mr Morgan estimated the price at 16 pails for the sugar.
In Paris on Memorial Day Cardinal Aniotin presided at a ceremony to honor American soldiers and callers. The vast assembly included half the church packed with American servicemen, along with nearly all of the American diplomatic and consular corps led by Ambassador Sharn and Consul General Tharkara.
Washington May recruits a mobile force of farm laborers to harvest the western wheat crop. The federal program, announced by Hpa! inday, plans workers to move from Oklahoma to Kansas and then into spring wheat areas, aiding farmers during sunlit periods of harvest.
German assault aimed to capture U S troops near Gremenil east of Luneville. American defenders repulsed the attack with heavy losses. Several Americans were taken prisoner as the German offensive began, with fighting reported along three sectors.
Market notes from Kansas City and Omaha show mixed cattle and hog prices with receipts. hogs steady to higher on light demand and mixed weights. cattle at Omaha and Kansas City show native steers and heifers, Texas and western cattle mixed, with calves and stockers also traded. overall market steady to weak in places with various price ranges reported.
Report describes a dawn assault by German detachments near Bremmenl where 14 attackers attacked American lines. Nine Germans killed, four captured, one dead of wounds. Americans repelled a second front, aided by bayonet charges and machine gun fire. A gas bombardment preceded the infantry advance causing casualties and scattering attackers.
A fragmented report details disloyal elements in France tied to Yamous Bonnet Rigoe and Ret Maley. Old navy officials connected to a secret ministry received prison terms of two years each. Accomplices Vercasson and others were also sentenced to two years.
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