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Show Our Ogden Letter Editor Leader - undoubtedly the past Christmas was as dull a one as Ogden has seen for years. It stormed before Christmas, and on this suspicious? day itself, we were blest with a continual rain; and since then we have not had one stormtoss day. This morning a fierce canyon Wind scatters the newly fallen snow in all directions. No one ??? on the streets but here and there a victim to circumstances strolling hastily along wrapped up in his monstrous ??? . So far as known no damage to amount to anything has been done to property. The railing on the top of the new co-op store was blown over, but luckily it fell in upon the room and hence was not demolished as would have been the case had it fallen to the ground. The people are beginning to look forward to the time when the electric light shall be established; and on the night of Christmas, could the light of day have shone upon the streets of our town so that the eyes of man might behold, many a poor soul would no doubt, have been seen groping his way along the picket fences and been heard to exclaim, "Les have, (hic) ‘n'lectric light." The telegraph brought the startling news last night that "Mark Twain" is subject to temporary illusions at times imagining himself to be an editor, and at other times, Cleopatra's ??? &c. That's nothing; he has accomplished stranger feats than that; hence his books are so interesting. Maybe he wrote the correspondence himself and sent it to the sun as a joke. Parties interested are beginning to talk seriously of establishing a telephone communication between Huntsville and this city, a distance of twelve miles through Ogden Canyon. The Exchange company have made a proposition to the leading? men of Huntsville, who, with a few modifications which, no doubt, the company will approve, are on the point of accepting it. If this is accomplished it will not be long before this enterprising settlement will boast? of the telephone. The city is being over-run with dem??? and many places are pointed out as being "bad?." It is high time this thing was looked into, and if there is as much truth in it as some insist, routed out of existence. Business is booming. New establishments are being opened, and withal everything is prosperous. The dances held during holidays were orderly and enjoyable. ED. Berne. Ogden, Dec 29th 1880. |