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Show j " OGDEN, UTAH. , (Special Correspondence.) Ogdenites feel proud of their football team. They have now won the championship cham-pionship of the state as a result of the game fought against the All Hallows team at Salt Lake, in which Ogden came off as victors with the score of 33 to 0. Probably the most exciting test of the season will be fought here on Thanksgiving day with the Salt Lake High school team. However, even if by any chance the red and blacks should win, it will not contradict Og-den's Og-den's right to the championship. Very attractive and original invitations invita-tions have been issued by the High School Alumni for the first dance of the series, to be given on Friday evening, even-ing, November 22, at Toller's dancing academy. The association seems more attractive than ever. They are also planning to give a comic opera some time in December, the musical part to be directed by Squire Coop and the director of the Salt Lake Opera company com-pany is to arrange for the presentation presenta-tion of the play. The Turner exhibition of pictures from the Boston museum was held on two days of last week, and proved to be a great attraction. The rooms were thronged during the afternoons and evenings and the children turned out in large numbers. Each school building in town was allotted a certain time to attend. The Weber club ball given last Thursday evening was voted as the greatest success of the season. About fifty couples attended and enjoyed dancing until a late hour. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Fitzgerald and family have returned home after an extensive visit through the east. Miss Margaret Armstrong is visiting friends in Salt Lake. Dr. Joyce has gone to Chicago to be treated there in the hospital for a thumb which was blood-poisoned, as the result of a surgical operation. It is hoped that he may be saved the loss of this useful member. Dr. and Mrs. C. A. Wherry have gone to Kansas for the winter, where the doctor will take a post-graduate course in medicine. The very sad news of the death of Mrs. Garret O'Neil, formerly of Ogden, reached friends here last week. She died at her home in Evanston. One son, Tom O'Neil, who has made his home in Ogden for the past few years, and a daughter, Florence, who was graduated at St. Mary's academy, '06, are left to mourn her death. Owing to ill-health Miss Florence Bonn has resigned her position as teacher at the Quincy school. Mrs. G. W. Jones has returned to her home in Reno after a visit of five or six weeks in our city. The Sunday school conference is being be-ing held in Ogden this week. The Utah smelter, west of the Hot Springs, has been closed and as a result re-sult about eighty men have been discharged. dis-charged. The stagnant condition of the copper market and the money situation sit-uation are the causes which have affected af-fected the company. The third of the series of lectures under un-der the direction of the Weber Stake academy will be given on next Saturday Satur-day evening by Mr. John Barret, formerly for-merly minister from the United States I to the Argentine republic. His subject will be "The New South America and the Gateway, the Panama Canal." He is considered by men of affairs to be the best informed man in the United States concerning the new project. The large new warehouse of H. L. Griffin company is nearing completion and will be ready for occupancy by the first of the year. It is said to contain con-tain the finest and most up-to-date cold storage plant in the west. The Wells-Fargo company has leased the large ware room in the opera block to be used as an uptown office and is considered a fine improvement. Mrs. Marie Gerrans, lately returned from Paris, has opened a studio with Miss Celeste Conroy for voice training and interpretations of the different languages. lan-guages. John Smalley, son of the jeweler, was accidentally shot while out hunting hunt-ing wtlh his younger brother. The bullet bul-let lodged in his right shoulder and will mean the loss of the arm. It is hoped no greater trouble will result. |