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Show Friday, December 9, 1927 THE OGDEN DOST 5 iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimu $ Wednesday, December 14 Detail. Offers all the Comforts i pQiiawns and Glorious Forest T rees. esth Magnificent Private Homes. Harmon and Louis Peery H We Congratulate You on the Completion of the Magnificent H Virginia jj to mutest ml to 1861, D. H. Peery, in company with his brother, John vd with ft massed and lost a fortune estimated at 8150,000, a vast sum In 1852 he was married to Mias Nancy Higginbothom, . Hem, in T .days. Civil war, while he was in the confederate army, his the nwher( jjgall his children with the exception of a daughter, Lettie r small ft utb the wife of C. C. Richards), his father and mother and died of typhoid fever, and he suffered two attacks e Virginia In July, 1863, while still in the army, his resi-or- e disease. une and Sato: and six houses in which were stored merchandise were y Union soldiers, entailing a loss of 860,000. There was no Two other disastrous fires, with but little or no insurance, ' in after years in Utah. fourth r on Wb iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimp iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii tire i PiJ hiiiiiii May Your Enterprise Meet With Deserved Success. j j s j periout -- Pioneer Lumber & Coal Co. Congratulations Peeryfitti r. Peery Utah, started for Utah. With him W8S mate arth iful park d to the Phone 19 w, h attacked by Indians the attacks were beaten off with-o- f life. The party arrived in Salt Lake City August 31, 1864. siding in Mill Creek ward, where he taught school, and in lonwood ward two dthom, the sister years, where he was married to Miss Lettie of his deceased wife, he with his family Ogden in 1866. Here he remained until his death, and here chat he proved himself a peer among his fellow men. . Most useful endeavor engaged in by men in those pioneer days fell 1 He bought and operated a threshing machine, bought and a grist mill; was merchant, banker, legislator, member of ititutional convention, missionary, mayor of Ogden, manager gden Z. C. M. I., president of the Ogden Herald Publishing r, which his biographer says he made a success of. Mr. Peery was a consistent Democrat, and it was his wifes great pleasure to entertain William Jennings Bryan Virginia when the great commoner visited Ogden while politics for the office of president of the United States. Not entertain Mr. Bryan, but for many years they dispensed Lspitality to notables who visited in Utah. He was president jeranty-sixt- h quorum of Seventies and also served as president (take of Zion. At the time of his death there were living re er and Coj i: kttie, the child of his first wife; David Henry, John Stras, he origini Eldredge, Harold, Margaret Louise, Francis, Simon, Louis, ming they Success FURNITURE to FLOOR COVERINGS I Harmon and Louis 1 Peery WINDOW SHADES I zn of him that when conducting the grist mill there came of short crops, and wheat was a complete failure. It was at iture comp t that he invited the farmers of the Ogden and Weber valleys for thiin to his mill and get the flour they needed, and repay when how well heat crop came again. And it is recorded that they came and the flour; and it is also recorded that after the harvest they line, will the last pound in the wheat from their fields. 4 Cottle ii 1 DRAPERIES Linon. ipany. To ' power in e by Bor yen tandii Ilarrisville Itoad j and his daughter Mrs. Iligginbothom, and her three children, he purchased three Wagons, six yoke of cattle, and two The trip to Utah was made in an independent company, mother-in-la- s 1408 told and e irk. iber The 14. man who The Virginia Social! Center I I o the man David Harold Peery, who, with his pioneer the magnificent Virginia still magnificent and beau-i- ti park of hardwood trees and evergreens, where one can go toil of the day and give themselves over to health-givin- g was ailded g wts well y of count sperfl i luxurious apartment in the Peery apartments, situate on the Virginia c ut corner of the block occupied by The Virginia, is the home lonest, hoi Lettie Higginbothom Peery, a daughter of Old Virginia, the ributes vi of the man who had so much to do with making the history i fine lum en and contributing to its prosperity. Here she dwells with lefest and Smoot Lumber Co. and has every comfort as she wills it. Although in her year she is enjoying good health, and her only apparent :n is a slight deafness. She takes a keen interest in the affairs day through reading the newspapers and conversation with rads. Her Pierce Arrow car is always ready at her call, and i its wiQi generally be depended on to be present at Peerys Egyptian least once a week. She is enjoying life and is thankful for k. The it On the wall opposite her i state, Vi inds and enjoys her surroundings. of Michir i chair is a portrait of her husband, done in oil by ommerriil us artist; and thus surrounded, and with her children within me forth ii worthy pioneer woman in the sunset of her life is awaiting rginis it aiona: "Come thou good and faithful servant; join again with panion of thy youth. tradition fsahione n, with q s. Toeu Id be DMd VIRGINIA anion :hird ! were furnished by Successors to Boyd Lumber Co. full-leng- th 1 237 Twenty-fourt- h St OTLE Phone 470 THE HOME FURNISHERS a st ss Wishes Success and Congratulations I to UT Lou arm 9 I for'ri toother amusfprise To Harmon and Louis Peery on their spirit of enterprise in giving to Ogden, Utah, the finest Social Center in the Intermountain Region. P The Opening of PEERYS VIRGINIA H H is but mmS M another expression by the Peery boys of j j their faith in Ogden. To them I wish to H wmmm ex-- s tend sincere congratulations and H best wishes. M We are proud of the fact that the electrical wiring contract was entrusted to this organization. w J tle jja : W. A. DUNN iNfTSON eneb4ctous Electrical Contractor min H j Grover C. Brigham PAINTING CONTRACTOR 558 Twenty-secon- d Street lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll mu rm llllll SSS |