Salt Lake Telegram | 1909-01-05 | Page 9 | Recommends Close of All Theaters

RECOMMENDS CLOSE j OF oi ALL i THEATERS OGDEN Jan Jon Tho Tho c city tJ council in rc regular ar session last a t ni night ht appointed Ben Den Ternes as de desk k ser sergeant emt at the po po- lico ft station tion to succeed Geor George Georgo o Ward Ward- I la law Alon Along with the report of the police police police po po- lice committee on this matter Chief of Police Browning Brownin recommended that Geor Georgo Georga 6 Wardlaw be e made mado a plainclothes plain plainclothes plainclothes clothes officer to n assist i t the ni night ht detect detect- ives Tho The recommendation was as con conS firmed A mild surprise was as when a l lengthy communication woe was r read all from Judge Volney V. V Gunnell of or the Juvenile I court asking the th council e to take tako steps to toward toward toward to- to ward closing th the th theaters and moving mo picture houses in this thle elt city on Sunday Judge Gunnell deplored the prevalent habit of ot young oung people congregating at such places of or amusement on Sunday and asked the tho council to assist in enforcing I tho the state tate and municipal laws which forbid forbid for for- bid labor on that da day After the communication communication com corn I had been rend read Councilman Dickson de declared la that that- ho believed tho the assertions contained d th therein and asked that It be referred to the th law committee for Cor a a. r report port Councilman Flygare moved an au amendment nt to refer the communication tion to the special ordinance committee which now ha has the matter of ot revl ln revising the city ordinances In hand This was obJected objected ob oh- to by hy Councilman Thomas who did not believe bellevo that the city should Interfere Inter Inter- fare fere with the duties of parents in controlling controlling con con- trolling their children but his motion tofile to tofile tofile file the communication did not receive a a. second By a majority vote the amendment amend amend- ment to refer the matter to the ordinance committee was WM finally passed Ten retail and two wholesale liquor dealers were granted renewals of their The application for a It liquor license lIe presented by J. J J J. Griener Son last lut week e k was granted d tonight in th the tho name of or J. J J J. J r Griener it having been learned that his son Ion is a R. minor The renewals of ot five pawnbrokers pawnbrokers' licenses also were alJo allowed City Engineer Parker submitted surveys surveys sur sur- sur veys ves of the water right owned o by tho the city In South Fork canyon canon and arid they were referred to tho the special water and light corn committee m it tee The t weekly report of tho the sanitary In Inspector In- In Inspector ector showed that there were twenty- twenty two deaths l and four forty births births- during tho the pa past t week cek and that there is a total of twenty one cases of or contagion in the e city