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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1903
Page
7
A city notices a civil service exam for teachers in the Philippine service on November 18 and 19 with photo-ID requirements. Applicants over 40 are admitted but under 40 are preferred for certification. An architectural draftsman exam offers $1106 annually. Also advertising a Grand Theatre showing Down Mobile on October 21 with a strong cast and notable production features.
Elder John R. Purrington and Maggie Bickley were married October 21 in the Salt Lake Temple. The bride, a skilled schoolteacher, active in Sunday school and Young Ladies' Association, hails from Hooper. Purrington resigned Sunday school superintendent duties to move to Ogden. Public schools opened five weeks ago with low attendance due to beet and tomato harvest work. Beets digging and fall plowing benefit from recent heavy rains. One illness reported Matilda McFarland, wife of James McFarland, who underwent surgery eight months ago and has not fully recovered.
A man going by Oscar Kummer worked ministers in Ogden and Pocatello posing as various church members. He convinced Rev. Van Engelen, Rev. Smithee, and Rev. Gillilan to lend small sums, then was jailed in Pocatello after ministers compared notes. A bank book showed over a hundred dollars in savings. He appears a young, sharp looking man about twenty two.
The piece highlights Sherlock H dramatic success by Tortiett Kelcey and Miss Effie 8 for the season. It notes two English companies one in South Africa another in India and English settlements of China and Denincula. The work has been translated into Trench and not touring the interior departments of that Republic. Germany and Denna are mentioned with production abroad.
Reports from Emery and Huntington areas include Abe Nielzen and Miss Vearl Riley wed in Cleveland Utah, a new Union Sunday school formed in Elgin with Ruby Robertson as superintendent and Eva Meyer as secretary treasurer, plus local health notes and a boy injured by a falling axe in Poca.
Johnson surrenders to Warden Wright expressing desire to turn himself in. The brief note records his statement and the formal surrender as part of a custody process.
Sergt. Mawkins of the Twenty fourth Mississippi unit at Fort Missoula returns home after a celebrated season. At Sea Grit New Jersey this summer he shot 100 out of 100 in a championship event, a perfect score not previously achieved. He is hailed as a hero among officers and townsfolk.
Advertises Swift's Specific as the cure for sores and ulcers tied to bad blood. Includes testimonials from Charles Hunter of New Castle Pa and others, claiming rapid healing after using the tonic. Describes symptoms, causes, and the idea that washes and salves fail while systemic purification works.
Congratulations from officers greeted Hawkins upon his seat while President Roosevelt extended him con siderable honors. Hawkins' mess mates planned a home-coming reception and ball at the post, but officers refused permission to conduct the event, souring relations between commissioned and non commissioned men. Hawkins seeks a transfer to the Second battalion at Fort Assinniboine and may escalate the request to the President if refused.
Steamers and sailings bound for Dawson face severe Yukon ice jams with more than 2,000,000 in value exposed to frost. Nine steamers, six upriver, stranded on barges. perishables worth 100,000 likely ruined. Will M. Isom and Kerr refrigeration cargoes also imperiled. relief attempts hampered by ice.
The loss is estimated at one hundred thousand dollars. The Girard, once the home of a stock company for many years, this season was drawn open to road companies.
J W Davenport of Wingo Kentucky writes in 1902 of recovery from extensive lung damage after doctors said only two months to live. He credits Ballard's Snow Liniment, noting two 50 cent bottles cured him and recommending it to sufferers. Sold by Cave on Washington Avenue and Carr at Depot Drug Store.
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