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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1903
Page
6
Random references show a jumbled Tribune page listing money owed to Ioan Kelly and Herrick, real estate transfers, divorce case previews, hunting dogs for sale, and local travel ads. It mentions a social world divorce trial, a wedding, funeral notices, and a levee convention invite, all from a late 19th or early 20th century Salt Lake City style issue.
Foster's Band engages Parry Hall for one night weekly and will hold regular Saturday night dances starting October 3. No objectionable characters will be admitted. Patrons urged to send in complaints.
Charles Lively must pay a $23 fine or serve time. W A Parsons pleaded guilty to drunkenness and is fined $10 and ten days on the rock pile. Others receive suspended sentences or varying fines. George T Graham forfeits $35. gambling cases and disturbances of the peace are decided with fines or discharge.
Southwell's hall will be opened next Saturday night under The Barnlund management. Regular dances will be held Wednesday and Saturday evenings.
An advertisement for MM E Jones Coal and Ice Co promotes Kemmerer coal as the best. The firm, located at 407 24th Yard at the corner of Sith and Wall, lists telephone contact 140.
Reduced fare sale to the Utah State Fair in Salt Lake City to October 17, 1903 via the Oregon Short Line. Tickets on sale October 1 to 6 with return limit October 12. One fare for round trip.
Samuel W. Sammers, running a country store four miles away, advertised for a wife years ago. He has received over 2700 letters from across the United States but has not acted on them. He sold the correspondents' names to a matrimonial agency to buy a bicycle.
Daniel H. Ogden, a 27 year old grocer in Ogden, Utah, died near the tule marshes west of the city during a dawn duck hunt. A stray shot or small caliber bullet struck him behind the left ear, with the projectile traveling through the head and lodging behind the right eye. An inquest was set for 4 p.m. The deceased left a wife and child and was active in the Tabernacle choir and Latter-day Saints church.
In Utah State case State v John Gle Rockefeller Lizzie Vetoreen, Rockefeller bound over to District Court on statutory rape charge with $1000 bail. Co defendant Gee Pen bound over on same charge with $1000 bail. Mrs Mary Lindsay Barnard bound over as procuress with $1000 bail. All three remanded to county jail after failing to post bail.
A Philadelphia Ledger item recounts Freddie, a five year old Germantown boy, and his younger brother Frank. Freddie wonders if the baby came from heaven and jokes that the child must have landed on his feet, explaining his bow legs.
Wire New York stock quotations from October 1 1903 furnished by the Ogden Brokerage Co list prices for copper and major rail and utility issues. Entries include Atchison Baltimore and Ohio Brooklyn Canadian Pacific Metropolitan New York Central Erie Kansas and Texas Louisville and Nashville Missouri Pacific Norfolk Ontario and Western Pennsylvania Rock Island Southern Railway St Paul Sugar Texas Tennessee Coal and Iron Union Pacific Western Union Wabash and other rail names with varied figures.
Fragmentary OCR mentions First National Bank and Ogden Brokerage Co at Washington Ave with numbers 2480 and 453, indicating a quoted margin trading or secured loan context. Text is incomplete and lacks clear event or outcome details.
Pete Dowling formerly of Louisville and St Louis NL clubs will pitch for Butte tomorrow against the Elders. Salt Lake’s hausen will catch with Zeke Newmeyer or Cyclone Wiggs behind the bat. Ogden fans expect a gala day as Butte’s champions contest for supremacy in a high class game advertised to start at 3 90.
Jack Dean of San Francisco writes to the Ogden Gazette sporting editor proposing a 145 pound welterweight bout with McCarthy the Utah champion. Dean asks McCarthy to respond for a match within the next month and provides his Ogden address at 2234 Washington Avenue.
Prince Henry of Prussia, once a Chicago guest, cabled congratulations to Mayor Harrison on Chicago’s hundredth birthday. The message, in English, offered heartfelt thanks for the invitation and wished success and prosperity for the city’s future.
San Francisco court rules a bank must honor a draft and check won in a poker game. Ralph Cotton of Salt Lake sued First National Bank for payment on a certified check and a sight draft issued to Clark James. James lost the check and draft in Salt Lake in a poker game, with Cotton asserting ownership after passing through intermediaries.
Official action lists medals awarded to exhibitors for displays at the Ogden citrus and fruit show. Recipients span Utah, California, Oregon, Idaho and beyond for best displays of oranges lemons olives pickles sun-dried fruits apples peaches pears plums grapes honey and hops. Second prizes include cash awards and cups for top fruit exhibits across multiple growers and companies.
From the Chicago Interocean the Branning family in Great Bend township describe Pete a large rattlesnake rescued after a dynamite blast. The pet helps with baby care and defends the house, once rousing the family to a fire and killing an intruding black snake. Branning declines offers to sell Pete.
In Ventura California Fred Allen a wealthy Methodist minister is jailed on charges from Mrs. Larsen alleging assault on 11 year old Drusilla Larsen. A second warrant accuses him of attempted assault on May Richardson. A midnight mob demanded the prisoner prompting authorities to guard the jail until 4 am. Allen 60 and married.
The piece depicts an Irish shopkeeper giving evasive answers to a Saxon visitor about peppermint lozenges. The shopkeeper dodges precise details, replying that the two ounces per penny arrangement exists only in theory, while the visitor grows impatient awaiting a clear price.
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