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Show II Historical Data Now Being it Assembled Under Direction of Ogden 'Men IJ II According to the recent count of tho jjr II ex-service men in Weber county, over lY I eighteen hundred went Into some I I branch o the service. Of this num- ili ber, about fourteen hundred are cred- ;H iteel to Ogden. This count was taken 1 1 in arranging for the book "Weber County in tho World War," a publica- itjlH tion by the A. L. Scovilio Press. Ac- ( cording to Charles S. Noble, htorlani I for the book' lhero be In the neIsh H borhood of a thousand pictures avail- H able to make the book complete, with a list of the names of other men who have left the locality and with whom tho historian is unable to get in touch, jjl While figures are not yet available I I as to the ward of the city supplying hi the most .men, it is learned that, cou- l H trary to tlie general impression that i H the name "Jones' is tho most common, 1H there are several more prominent in H . Weber county. For instance, Brown H ing. Brown, Fan-, White, and several H others will be found more numerous in Wk the book than Jones. H The work of arranging the data is i H progressing satisfactorily, under direc- I H tion of Clarence Douglas and Charles iH S. Noble, and it is planned to have the 1 (IH hnnk nff flip nvpss snmfttimo in June. IH It is estimated that it will take sbout eight weeks to compile the Immense IX nmount of data required to make the j Wt book complete. Because of the fact al that so many of the men have moved Jtej from tho addresses given -when the ill preliminary records were compiled by f the county historian's force of work- tdjpl ers, it is almost necessary 10 make I a house to house canvass of the resl- W y dence district and this work Is now un- f Yk der waj'. It is the aim of the arrang-ers arrang-ers of the book to verify all names as JB to spelling, etc., to check up on the Jit service records of the men and to take U every step possible to insure absolute vj f correctness of all infonmation. fV' oo |