Show The Sunday Morning & FffiM’S RISE UKE TALE OF ROMANCE -- I Ogden Wholesale Drag Company Expands in 13 Years From Small Patent Medicine Concern to Huge Corporation very properly branch offices scores of OGDENwith ample rea- employes and widely disson lays claim to the tributed merchandise did distinction of being the most not indisputably attest to progressive little city in the the genuineness of its actual United States It is the dis- existence tributing point the financial center and the clearing house for the industrial enterprise of the Greater Northwest of which it is the ’ pany is a star an expert in his line and his efficiency is equaled only by his loyalty to die firm to Ogden and to Utah and the Greater Northwest The chieftains of the company and the managers of the various branches are as follows: J H F Last business man and Ogden capitalist president J H Thomas merchant and Ogden capitalist vice president Charles Empey native of Ogden and founder of the company treasurer and general manager The history of its organization and expansion may be saved for a later part of this story The personnel of Paul Franke Ogden asthe corporation is entitled to sistant general manager H A Knowles Salt Lake first importance —the men gateway railroad thorough capable progres- manager for the district of Its factories sive and characteristic of southern Utah and head of shops jobbing houses up-t- o commercialism — commercial department - the - minute merchants Ogden H M Butler Pocatello citizen- the men who made this giant e and wholesale drug firm a suc- Ida manager of the entire reare in general ship cess Every man in the Og- area between Pocatello and fame for Ogden's sponsible den Wholesale Drug com Twin Falls It is a city of quick opportunity to those with merit and industry and honest pur-- i pose It gives value received to those who are seeking also to give value rewide-awak- November 11 1917 Salt Lake City Utah1 Herald-Republic-an T M Starr Boise Ida Thomas Freed Ogden manager of the Boise dis- manager city sales depart- trict ment ' Neal C Gregory Ogden Butler Lund Utah manager of the ex- manager shipping departtreme southern Utah dis- ment H T Gee Ogden manatrict C D Boring Logan ger soda fountain and fixUtah manager of Cache Val- tures department Max Gee Pocatello Ida ley district J W Peters Rock manager Pocatello branch Springs Wyo manager en- warehouse" That is the personnel of tire Wyoming district F M Clark Montpelier the Ogden Wholesale Drug Ida in charge of the north- company It is a list of the western district of Wyo- men that placed the firm among the most reliable and ming Malad substantial in America and Ray Morrisey Ida manager Malad valley created an establishment district that for thoroughness of M H Thomas Ogden equipment and strictly modsales manager manufactured ern methods of handling business affairs ranks as one products Walter Lindquist Ogden of the most complete cormanager sundries depart-men- t porations of its kind in the United States Every man Thomas Blakely Ogden knows the business with a qualificaproverbial manager manufacturing tion and every man believes W W A-to-- Z 13 m PERSONNEL INCLUDES MANY CAPABLE MEN Institution Is One of the Great Tangible and Growing Monuments to Ogden Progress Does Business in Five States that success is attained only by merit — that chance belongs alone to mining districts and oil fields that in business a reputation must be established and maintained Established and maintained is correct as applied to the Ogden Wholesale Drug company The narrative of its rise is as interesting as a novel It is best told chronologically and here it is as the records of the company show: Thirteen years ago—that starts out like the beginning of a tale born purely of the imagination and it is a talct equaling in romance tliej best imagination can produce but it is not fiction it is a story of youthful pluck everlasting industry and merited triumph Now to start over: Thirteen years ago this December the company was organized by Charles Empey present general manMr ager and treasurer Empey had a $750 stock for which he paid partly witli borrowed capital He located his plant then exclusive-l- y manufacturing in a small 13x60 building at Grant avenue and ' Twenty-fourtstreet He had two employes Ray Blakely and Clarence Empey both of whom let it be stated at this point still are with the firm Mr Empey then only a boy practiced characteristic Ogden grit and applied from twelve to eighteen- hours a day to liis plant getting a breathing spell only at lunch hours Three years later J H F Last president of the company and his associates let a contract for the erection of a larger building 34x100 located on lower Twenty- fourth street just west of the great building which the cold-bloode- d h s ceived One of the great tangible and growing monuments of proof of these facts is the Ogden Wholesale Drug company Inc The growth and development of this huge fc ! r ‘ - institution its expansion from an intrastate almost intracity patent medicine factory with a $750 stock thirteen years ago to its present bigness and $200-00- 0 paid up capitalization and a trade territorv em- bracing five northwestern states reads like a romance The history of this company —Ogden founded ' and Ogden nurtured — might be termed fancy instead of fact if its big main buildings A view of the Bnildinga now occupied by the Ogden Wholesale Drug Company 9 White Rock Mineral Sp&ngs Co Cordove CigaxCo J Hungerford Smith Co W alrus Soda Fountain Mfg Co company now occupies Two years later or in 1909 ' business had increased to such an extent that additional space was needed and a new buildingD The new addition is shown at the left (Continued on Following1 DRUG Arc Distributors m This Territory for the Products of the Following Well Known Companies: Rochester N Y Upman Cigar Co Denver Colo Rochester N Y Decatur 111 Cliquot Club Co Northwest Fruit Products Co EliLilly & Co And TANHATJSER (It's Some Drink) Made hy Royal Brewing Co Kansas City Mo New York N Y Millis Mass Olympia Wask Indianapolis Ind IT r Page) -- |