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Show Know Your Own Home Town Know Ogden kJi ) Ogden Is the Largest Town of Its Size in America g AM) TllEATIitvliliAMri i VOtl'ME I i OGDEN, Prominent Davis County Residents RATE SUSPENSION Protest Race Meet (BAMBERTOASK UTAH, I KiDAY. Al M'S I' lit.:. 5. NUMBER 35 Circus Animals On Road Cause Vacation Without Your Home Ton ti Paper tARMIXGTON. Aug. 4. A coni mittiv of prominen: citizens of I)av..s low Rate Over Rogerson-Well- s county met Aiith the countv comiiix. in protest against horse rae-n- g Cut-of- f Spells Disaster for fioners in the county where betting is ami asked the commissi, .ni-Ogden Industries, Says Presi- to take all steps possible for the dent De Vine of Ogden Cham- vention of the raees at I.:, goon. preD. I. Harris of I.ayt..n spoke as ber of Commerce; All Join to the eommittee and ""j rsentMig followed by Senator J. W. Thorn-leWage Battle Before I. C. C. dcplianis and a number of belonging to a carnival tom .ii y cn route from Kvam-ron- , In :gh..iu City, frightened the li.im of of lii'iM-- diivcii by Ashmuti Ilca' ant Vi. w Weduestlay, caiii:ig ninaway vlinli demolished tin- vuc.on .ii. bay lack, in jured Ashman and Ins urs of age, und sou. Henry, I ill tbe death of one of the horses. As Ashman drove onto the s'ati h.ghvtuy at I'icUMint View bis horses came suddenly upon tbe huge beasts Ibo horses immediately turned and rat: away, turning down a lane oft As the wagon be paved highway. struck a ditch the father and son were brown from tbe wagon uud injuied. but the horses kept going. Rose uf feieil n broken arm und severe bruises i'!l tbe soil also was badly bruised. The wild race of tbe team was Imlt-'i- l wlio.i they stiuck a telephone pole, the impact killing one of tbe horses. I'--i s r Union Pacific rate schedule which takes effect September 1, is set aside or proportionately low rate is granted through the Ogden gateway. Tha chamber of commerce, the Og- Grain exchange and other den busi-ae- y racing. President II. H. Blood organizations will join in mak- of Kaysville, spoke, stating th it tn a three months for application ing last legislature had passed it' disa;. suspension of rates to the interstate commerce conimission. Every effort ShTvoSn,h.h Zl trill be made to present the case to a maner such in that commission ths "'a, yet ,h, ... ha. the suspension, if granted, will be he committee's request. or else the rates via made permanent, j be lowered. President DeVine said: "The rates are so sweeping in their effect, according to experts who have rn . IVcrV Makes I'ffort to Cut Engineering Force At DovniUllS j 10 n. , MUdy the regular meeting of the Og- morn- - city commission Tuesday ;ng Commissioner Harmon Peery n offort have the force in ftiewnwiAul1?1 I the office of the city engineer reduced. Clty Engineer Brown was called into I CHICAGO, Aug. 5. Members of I the conference and set forth that he acuities of leading engineering col-- 1 could not carry on the work of his eges and laboratories throughout the J department if his force was reduced. United States will gather in Chicago, I Commissiom r Peery insisted was not the case but after an September 9 to study recent coveries in the making and use of I nteresting debate. Mayor Browning .oncrete. These specialists, realizing I and Commissioner Flygare voted to the need for recent scientific infor-- 1 defeat the motion of Commissioner mation, are coming voluntarily to at-- 1 Peery. During the debate Cominis- ;end the annual short course in de-- 1 sioner Peery set forth that he was sign and control of concrete mixtures, I responsible for workings of his de- which included the office of sponsored by the Portland Cement It he city engineer and complained that sociation. In announcing the 1927 course, Wil-lh- e had no control over the employes iam II. Kinney, general manager of I of the department or who should be ;he association, Btates: "Sessions will I employed. Mayor Browning und Com- e open only to those engaged in col-- 1 missioner Flygare thought the d- ege instruction or research work, so I partment was being administered with that they may review current devel-lcar- e and economy and voted accord- opments in the fundamentals of Just at the close of the meeting of jure, design and in methods of best- mg concrete and concrete materials. I the commission a committee from the A similar course last year attract-- 1 old Mound Fort public library asked I ed representatives from twenty-fiv- e that a portion of the appropriation ex-fis in states. It colleges thtfir library which had been cut twenty pected that attendance will be nearly I from the previous budget be reinslat-iouble- d I ed. this year. The amount asked for was $56 "Greatest emphasis will be placed I and If not that amount, $25 was asked on practical application of the water-- 1 fur. The committee were informed cement ratio law, a recent discovery I that there was but little likelihood I iy the association laboratory, which that any amount could be had, ns the las completely revised the methods I appropriation had been cut to the or specifying concrete. Before this I quick to keep down the tax levy ti discovery, builders believed that them mills. The committee which of concrete depended almost I peared before the commission was on the volume of cement used I composed of Joseph Barton, Mrs. wholly in relation to sand and gravel orljiarry Wright and Mrs. Frank llarps-stonNow it has been proved that I ter. The committe represented that the strength of concrete depends prin-th- e library has circulated 14,000 books I cipally on the ratio by volume of I among the young people during the water to cement used and practical past year, builders are rapidly adopting the new Ogden Rpwnt studied their application, that the large portion of Nevada territory has also been cut off from the Ogden wheat and flour traffic, rates from Falls to Deeth via Ogden being cents higher per hundred pounds than via Ogden. The new rates provide for a bisis of 50 cents per 100 Twin ;l,,n erics 6-- 10 for flour and 45 cents per pounds for wheat shipped from n Twin Falls to San Francisco via and Wells, with proportionate rates from other points in the Twin The rate via Ogden is Falls area. 57 cents for flour and 52 cents for wheat All other rates to California and western Nevada points are propounds 100 Rog-crso- portionate. dis-jsue- that h -- Livestock Show Asks Commission For $20,000 Levy - mix-ingl- y. 0r v the advantages that Livestock show is to the a committee from the show appeared before the Weber county commission Monday and made a request for a levy that will net about $20,000 for the stock show. Intermountain Hay, Grain and Seed show, sad the Weber County Poultry show. The committee was advised that the 1927 budget had been made and that the levy could not be made this year for the 1928 show, but that the committee could come back at a later date for an appropriation. Members of the committee who were spokesmen were President James H. DeVine mSnce the discovery of the law, 138 OrpheUm Will Open of the Ogden chamber of commerce, at which it is dem-- l courses, evening FrulftV. A 11 1? 11 St 12 C. Angus ShearW. H. and held in over 120 been have Wright onstrated, man. cities located in 38 different states. Announcement is made that the Or-- y Mayor George E. Browning for the These attracted an attendance of near con-1 pheurn theatre will open on Friday, city and Chairman Harvey P. Randall 25.000 engineers, architects, d- w.th. Inter-for the county have stated that con1 Auy nd other, directly MtJ2, triton. sideration is being given o the budgets for the city and county and there will be no increase in the levies. In a discussion of the budget Mon- orominent engineers and builders .n 'ndVhe 'o" ratio I booked for the day by the city commission, Commis- xpplication of the water-cemev?, and "j1 sioner Harman W. Peery, head of the law wall include daily laboratory scs-- 1 "heum promises its patrons a streets and health department, said he would consider retrenchment if he could get some support. He desires that expenses in the city engineers department be reduced, but Mayor Chris Browning and Commissioner Next to rough weather, nothing is Flygare pointed out that would be im- Spencer Adams Going I as rough imso disconcerting possible if the Washington avenue Good With Browns piite t reels. provements now under way are to be Pointing out the Ogden community, e. 1 1 1 5." .is nt 5l?S3sf2 1 successful. Spencer Adams, Utah's isrepresenta- a making tive in the big leagues, St. good account of himself with the Schools, Though Many Are Yet Insufficient D. C., Aug. 5. construction - has been active United States in the past two New school buildings erected n 281 cities of 10,000 or more population cost $245,811,715, an average lor each city of $874,775, as shown V a study of recent movements in iy school systems by W. S. Deffen-JuPchief of city school division of jo U. S. Bureau of Education, Department, published as WASHINGTON, h, In-!rj- or bul-tor- 1927, No. 8. Of the buildings erected, 432 were ?r elementary schools, 165 for junior schools, and 127 for senior hieh schoo.j. The average cost of the 7& ncs was $339,519 per building. similar activity existed in cities this size from which no reports were evcd, 1.30 new school buildings er?cted in this country during PUiid -- - at a total 1924-192- 6. Marian Nixon in "DOWN THE STRETCH Spc-on- d safeties. With Hale on third, Gobi hit a grounder to Staler, who fumbled, 'nit Adams was on the joh. He backed no Sisler, grabbed the hall anr 5fled the throw to Gaston, covering Hale first, in time to retire Tyrus. Adams scored, but it was well that made the play. In this game he was st bat three times made three hits three assists and three put outs. One of h's hits went for three bases. IPs batting and fielding averages are uo among the leaders. At las: --ororts he was hitting for a percentage of .313 ar.d fielding over the .900 Thuba.-Fri.-Sa- past president's jewel was to Chnrles B. Knqx'y, retiring president of the Rotary dub, Wednesday. ut the meeting in the Hotel Bigelow. Tile pieseiitalion sHceli was by John N. Spar go who coniniended Mr. F.inpey for his services. Mr. KniHy in accepting the gift expressed his thanks to the club members it ml committees for their generous support. President Fred M. Nye explained that the fiscal yeur of the club hud lnen changed from Mny 1 to July 1, and reports covering that period were lead by Jesse S. RichA pre-H'lite- in "BEWARE OF WIDOWS brief vocational talk, James T. Orr, divisional manager for the Utah Bower & Light company, said the Ogden district covered 80 miles by 20 miles, and had a population of 75.000 In a cent received The company employed MO persons in the district und the ayroll is a quarter of a million dol- kt of whom 95 trical service. elec- lars. Vocal solos were by Mrs. S. W. Bad-co- n and Neplii J. Brown. Commit lee chairman for the year were appointed as follows: Budpit, Frank E. Nichols; finance, MV. II. Khearmaii; classification, Y. R. Kimball; executive program, Frank M. Driggs; fellowship, A. S. Shfiw; community, George M. Thorstensen; boys work, Ernest I Ford business methods, Charles B. Knipey; attendance, J. Wulter Kllfngton;' crippled children, the Rev. John Edward Carver; scholarship, John T. Kushmer, asT seriated clubs, Harry S. Anderson; Rotary education. W. Kurl Hopkins; publicity, J. U. Eldridge, Jr., music Andrew T, Clark; editor weekly letter, E. Eugene Carr; Rotary correspondent, Fred G. Taylor; sergeunt-ut-armJ. T. Abbott. s, Weber County Will Enter Herd in Fair Weber county farmers will be well represented in the milk producing breeds of cattle in the exhibits at the state fair in the fall. Jerseys, Ilolsteins und Guernseys will be entered and it is exacted that there will lie many bide ribbons added to the collection of Weber dairymen aftei the awqfds are mud, as Weber roun ty dairy herds are among the finest :n the slate. County Agent Christensen ami special committee will visit the various herds in the county and wil make the selections for the fair exhibit. A comnlete herd will be entered foi each of the aforementioned breeds. OGDEN fVurdiv Tom Tiler 5f ITTLNG THE in BREEZE" "THE HEART OF RAMMER Gn OIIt Thurn.-Fri.-Sa- t. Jark lloxey in GRINNING GUNS Wallv Wales in "CYCLONE COWBOY" LYCEUM Saturday John Barrvmor in "THE BELOVED ROGlF Tueaday-Wednesda- y Clara Bow in THE RUNAWAY Thuraday-Frida- y mark. Ramon Navarro in "LOVERS WHITE CITY GARDENS Dancing rnd Midway Attract iona DANCING Thora.-Fri.-S- ol ii .it in "BURNT FINGERS COLONIAL Sundav-Monda- y at Music by Jack Paiaeya WHITE CITY BAND On State's Largest Open-si- r Floor Free Admission to Park Daily From 2 P. M. to 5 P. M. d ards. t- 'Laura f-- high-scho- lie Quits Presidency Si"'(av-Monda- v theatric Joy in "VANITY Tax Levies are Fixed For City and County Knipey as 15. EGYPTIAN Saturday at of $714,314,365. j'jthstanding this great activity Davis County Will construction, inadequate Send Many Delegates facilities necessitated part-tim- e in- number f of fk:ijUct,0n elemintary in 67 of the 404 cities reDavis county posts. American Le-- ! in in r1 nd of pupils in gion. will have a big representation r,f fhe cities for which statistics the American L eje i o n convention Pp available. which will b held in Ogden August laJa the colored schools show 18 to 20. The posts at Bountiful, ger registrations and attendance Kaysville and Farmington will be their entire and more pupils and less here with practically ladies The Per teacher, than do the white membership. auxiliwj hoois. units will also be fully represented. Ciias. WEEK BEGINNING SATURDAY. AUGUST 6 In renards to a recent game be- wecn (he Philadelphia athletics and he Browns the St Louis has the following" to say abou Snencer: wSoencer Adams stars. sacker impresses fans with hts wmk in f;1d and contributes throe Globe-Democr- Jewel Presented to OGDENS LEADING ATTRACTIONS T4)uis Browns in nearly every game in which he gets a chance to show his School m the Gravel and Sands; Comes to Surface in t.'l Streams, Absolutely Pure of tl s ss Water Sinks Through Surface On Distant Slopes and Percolates Through Miles and .Miles - i dealt a death blow, unless the he WATER IN WORLD I who asked that the resolution passed by the county board of edn.-.tion which was very mueh opposed to horse racing where betting is allowed. M. II. Ellison of v Layton, ' committee read minutes whicii l. indicated that th- eounty cmiiniis-sionermight have to pas an ordinance whichauthority would prohibit horse racing in the county. James A. Eldmlge of Bountiful also spoke in support of prohibiting horse According to President James H. neVine of the Ogden Chamber of Commerce there is grave danger that the huge investments in milling and livestock properties in this region will BEST PROTECTED Serious Mishap FOR THIRTY DAYS -- OGDEN HAS THE Saturday S'indav GIGOLO" Tneedav SENSATION SEEKERS Wednesday "THE COUNTRY ROAD Th"rHv "KING OF THE PACK Frida "IS THAT NICE?" Wednesday streams gushing from feel below the surface supply the city of Ogden with water, clear, cool und absolutely nure. Its source la the rain Hnd snow deposited in the ravines Hnd over the shqies which extend in. crescent form outward and backward from Artesian nark, uhout ten miles from Ogden wnere these wells are located. Sinking through the surface on these distant slopes to bed rock, this water percolate miles on miles through sand and gravel located far below any Missible contact with vegetable or animal matter. Finally the myriad underground streamlets converge near the eastern edge of Ogden canyon where an upthrust of solid ledge rock forms a natural barrier across the canyon and checks the underground streams in their downward flow, thus forcing complete saturation of the immense deposit of gravel which comes to within 150 feet of the surface at the place where these wells "Forty-thro- e are located. Science could not devise and na- ture never has devised a more nearly for providing water Ierfect system rent pure. The level area overlying the gravelly deposit just almve the eastern (Continued on Page 8) ' Sage Hen Season Opens August 28 For Eight Days Sage hens and grouse are going to be much shyer in Utah after Aug. 28. David II. Madsen, fish and game announced Thursday commissioner, that the season would open on that date and close on September 5. The game can seek sanctuary, however, in the various preserves and in Uintah, Fmery, Carbon and Iron counties, or in that portion of Juab county lying east of the range of mountains separating Nephi valley from I)og valley and Ferner valley, for hunters are forbidden to shoot them in these places. Sage hens may not be shot in Tooele county. The season on mourning doves open on September 1 and doses on September 5 in all rounlTea of the state. According to the law, no more than eight sage hens or' - grouse, or more than eight of both varieties may be killed in one day. Williams Throws The limit on mourning doves is fifnumber of sage hens and teen. His in King grouse The that may be legally taken dur-n- g the season by any person is twelve Fred E. Williams, buxines man, irds. 'a the first to enter the lailiticnl arena is a candidate fur municipal honors at the coming election. Mr. Williams has announced that he will seek the To be Remodeled four-yeterm city commiasionershiT) This office will become vacant by the Tenth ward recreational hall on rxpiration of the term of Commis- Kiesel avenue near Seventeenth street sioner Chris Flygare. is to be remodeled at an estimated cost of $5,090, says Bishop Stephen Dr. A. E. Weston to Durant, Jr. An addition of more than 30 feet is to be built on the west epd, Open Class in Ogden the entrance changed from the. east to the west and the furnace room in Dr. A. E. Weston, teacher, lecturer, the basement removed from the west reader of native endowment and pos- to the east. sibilities, will open a class in the The hall was built more than 10 Science of Personality, in Ogden years ago and it was intended at that next week. time to build a chapel facing on Dr. Weston is internationally known Washington avenue. But owing to 'or his ability in child guidance. Ev- noise of traffic the frontage on Washery parent and those interested in ington avenue was sold recently, and rhild welfare work should attend his another lot purchased on Kiesel aveecturos. Free lectures will be given nue immediately south of the recreaMonday and Tuesday of next week tional hall. The chapel will be built at the Smithsonian Business collcgp on this site at some future date, auditorium at 8 o'clock. The inter- Bishop Durant says. ested public is invited. Fred Hat the Tenth Ward Hall ar Friday morning the Weber county high school hoys, who are engaged in vocational agriculture, will leave 24th md Adams streets for a three days fishing trip to Strawberry reservoir. A program, which includes fishing, hosting, horse-sho- e pitching, and baseball games, has been arranged. There rill also be games and stunts on campfire nights. Verne OtrhansIey, vocational instructor, will have the boys 'n charge. County Agent Christensen will be a special guest do his hit in helping the boys have a good of the receipts from National forests, is, in accordance with Federal law, returned yearly to the counties where the forests are located, :n lieu of taxes, for road building and One-four- Virginia Mcrcereau Yfl Jack Reed Wrestling Match IMiYe g 150 .ime. OKPIIEUM ii pri-tin- 3-d- ay THE MYSTERIOUS RIDER" Monday 1945. hut smnmcr days it is nut that the jieoplc of Ogden huuld he proud of their inromparuhle water supply, hut it is a fut that many of our people do not appreciate how this city is blessed in its water. The fallowing is u part of an article from the pen of O. J. Stillwell, who has made an exhaustive study of tho urtexiun basin from which Ogden obtains her water supply: TIicm x'.ii Negroes Turned Loose Vocational Hoys to And Car is Released Vacation Take THRU DRIFTIN Ycxtcrduy morning the Ogden city commissioners fixed the tax levy for l'.i27, at 11 mills on the dollar, tlu same us levied last year, uml with the sunie apN)itioumeiit of funds to the several departments. To bring about Ibis action it was necessary to hold strictly to the adopted budget,' al-- : hough many thingn of merit had to be side tracked. Tbe city's levy is distributed as follows: Contingent fund, 2 mills; streets, 2 mills; sewers, 2 mills; butlihoiisi' niuintcnniiee and lights, .40 mill; library, .28 mill; bond interest and sinking fund, 8.32 mills; special improvement guarantee fund, 1 mill. Distribution of Ogden City taxe will be as follows: state, 7.30 mills; 0 le n City, II mills; city school, 11.50 mills; county, 5.82 mills; total 35.62 mills. The Weber eounty commissioners also made the county tax levy, and notwithstanding a decrease in the income from taxation, the levy was reduced over that of last year. The levy made was 36.62 mills as against 36.9 mills last year. Ogden property holders will pay $35.62 on each $1000 of assessed valuation; Huntsville owners will $35.33 on each $1000, and other taxpayers of Weber county will lie required to pay $24.33 on every $1000 vnluntton. The marked reduction in taxes became possible when the rounty commissioners sliced off 1.18 mills of the levy for rounty purposes, fixing this Vvy at 5.82 against 7 mills in 1920. This reduces the countys income from taxation $67,000. The only other over 1926 is the .1 mill made y the slute board of equalization. During the past two years the city '.m miss ion has paid off two payments on th! city's bonded indebtedness. These payments were $68,500 each, a greater amount than has been paid on the iKinded indebtedness fur many vears, if ever. On the 1st of last lteeeinber Ogden City had a bonded indebtedness of $2,655,500. The bonds if the city are now in series and according to law must be paid off by Deep-Lyin- g M Ml H th school development. Wednesday morning Chief of Police Jonathan Jones released Sylvester Flory and Thomas Cock, both colored, ' who were being held in jail on ad- -' vices from Green River, Wyoming, that they were wanted there on a. criminal charge. However, it was' found that they were wanted there on petty larceny charge so they were al-- 1 lowed to go their way. The fine car in which they had been traveling was released to them. A total of 19,492 miles of surfaced roads was constructed by state highway departments during 1926, according to information compiled by the bureau of public roads of the United States department of agriculture. Of. this mileage 13,664 miles was laid over former earth roads and 5, 82S. miles represented a rebuilding of old surfaces. |