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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1919
Page
3
Ogden reports multiple short items from roads and offices. A Sperry Mall removal proceeds, taxi and delivery requests surface, a dental office opens, and a sewer project advances with mayoral updates. Police inspect a car collision, a purse theft case is noted, weather delays paving, and wheat arrivals pace local markets alongside election planning and mission trips.
Ernest Winkler reports after a three week visit that rainfall improved range conditions in Uintah Basin. Drouth was less severe than in northern Totah, Idaho, aiding farmers in the upper end. Interest centers on railroad and road materialization to unlock a top agricultural district. Snow onUintah RunG promises ample water for next season.
Tonight the Congregational Church hosts two meetings to organize a church choir with all interested members invited. At the library, a regular story hour for children is planned. The Historical Society will hold a meeting tomorrow at 2 50 with Mrs. George Wy Larkin at 2334 Avenue.
The funeral of Mrs Williams is set for Sunday at 3 o'clock in the ward chapel with viewing at the Home, 1504 Washington, Saturday after noon and Sunday until the service. Holmes funeral for William Holmes will be held Saturday at 2 o'clock in the Second ward chapel with Bishop A A Bingham officiating and interment at Ogden City Cemetery. body rests at Landquist chapel.
A month long health report from Ogden shows measles and other illnesses across the city. Reported cases include smallpox diphtheria typhoid fever measles whooping cough influenza pneumonia and tuberculosis with 23 deaths and over 85 births recorded.
Mrs Sarah Smout wife of William Smout died yesterday afternoon at 3 20 oclock after a paralysis attack from which she never recovered. Born in Leasbury England June 21 1848 she came to Weber County in 1862. Survived by husband seven children William H Smout Burley Winslow Smout James M Smout Sadie Fisher John Smout Nora Hunter Elta Allred and 28 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren. Services set at Slaterville meeting house Sunday at 2 pm with Bishop Slater presiding. Body to lie in state at home Saturday evening and Sunday until 1 pm. Floral offerings may be left at Larkin chapel until 12 m Sunday.
Members of the American Legion of Ogden and other servicemen will be entertained Monday evening in a program rated among the season’s best. Arrangements for music were made this morning. Scholars Mrs. Arthur Woolley, Arthur Woolley, and Jinbarl Greenwell will perform violin and cello pieces. Mary Pister and Helen Hunter will present violin and cello solos. A surprise for the servicemen will be revealed Monday evening.
An engineer for a public bureau in Idaho returned from an inspection trip noting the Star Valley Yellowstone road in Idaho and the warning on a highway route near Heredn, with focus on public infrastructure and spring road conditions.
A staff correspondent reports a loud clash between fifty soldiers of the Fourth Infantry and many armed Negroes in a wooded district near Etaine, with heavy firing audible. One soldier was wounded and brought to Taine as engineers reevaluate Tonopah road work under day labor options amid high costs and labor shortages.
Joseph Falck property auditor for the forestry service left at 2 10 pm for Washington DC to start his annual inspection tour of forest service districts. He will be joined by his wife, president of the Women of American Patriots, as they attend a convention of women war organizations to be held at Ballinore.
Report describes a rise in blue print work at the Forest Service to support winter operations. A new machine will be installed for the engineering department and forestry staff will print charts and pips for the public raids bureau in addition to regular work, requiring equipment for about a hundred pertenant acreage. Two machines with operators will run through winter, aiming to keep efficiency steady with demand.
A forest services office visited the local office as part of enforcement efforts on game protection and migratory bird law. Dr J Nelson provided information on probable enactment of laws to issue a limited number of game warrants for certain areas.
William Z. Foster, leader of the ssles strikers committees, tells the senate committee investigating the strike that he would answer if correspondents were excluded from the room. The committee took no action on the request as Senator McKellar and Chairman Kenyon pressed for an answer.
Special to The Standard from Sade Lake October 3 The Utah Senate killed Olson's profiteering bill capping profits at fifteen per cent while the House debated several measures including juvenile court revisions and state book-keeping fee provisions.
Senator McKellar pressed Foster about a pamphlet he wrote advocating revolutionary labor action. Foster, laughing at first, described his past views as radical but claimed he now favors reform within a broader system. He warned against misrepresentation by newspapers and defended his stance on workers’ rights amid the steel strike.
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