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Show ii 'I ! I tl THE INVASION OF OGDEN BY SLAVS AND I M i SLOBS A CORNER ON GIRLS BILL. ill Ogclen was invaded by the men fromthe cut- i I I off last week We expected a rip-roaring old time I j with 1,200 foreigners loaded to the guards, and I , lur bunch of extra police working overtime head- I ' ' log off the riot. But those cut-off architects had i heard of our famous levee, tho new Sheep Ranch, B I and the Latin quartier. They did not do a thing M 1 but construct" temporary insoles out of their time B f hccks 'and not one of them took off his boots, all m ri , night. There was something doing when the m $ 1 ' Itores opened up. Eight hundred suits of clothes m i were bought and paid for in four hours. Hard- H r man captured the bulk of the trade, and he had m Si a right to. They were his kind of people. Iv 5 C The month of Juno contributed Its quota of weddings and more than the usual announcements. announce-ments. The original S. O. O. B. ranks are practically prac-tically depleted. Those that are not gone are going. go-ing. There is not much left to live for. We fain would go the way 6f Enoch and be translated to he realms where there Is neither marrying nor giving in marriage. The S. O. O. Bs that are left have their own views on matrimony, and though we have never married, we know of a verity that you cannot marry and please a woman at the I same time. The last of the S. O. 0. B.'s will be making social history when the memory of Venus f is but a dream. As for the others, they are not for us. We saw them first. None but an S. O. O. B. need apply, v 4 && It is the calm before the storm. The walls' of r the Standard office are fairly perspiring under the I pressure of. the ominous silenco which pervades, I surrounds and percolates through the justly cele- r brated waterworks question. Rumor has it that Bill is lying awake nights preparing a new brand of dope in favor of voting the bonds, and when j the storm breaks the Standard will swell all up fl I J defending the proposition it attacked two years B ,' I ago. But the chances are against it. Even Bill's B J 4 ' enemies have not the hardihood to attack his H i) business sense by predicting he will boost for a II losing game. The bonds are already defeated and I Bill knows it The chances are the Standard will I hunt the middle of tho road and stay there, tv 0 w ' I ' The action of the library board in electing Miss j I Zoe Faddis librarian, and Misses Harris and K ' Brown, assistants, was a triumph for everybody Hk " except Miss Leaman, who entered the contest In Bf jr good faith, expecting to win on her merits, and fl? -who neglected the important feature of nrrang- Hr ing for the necessary votes amon? the members B of the board. That was a strange oversight. The B-j lady found herself in deep water without a life By preserver. Such a thing should not have occurred. Hb r The board must programme better next time. But VJ there should be another examination. The board H I should take a course of study. At the end of three Hf months each should be asked this question: What M are the necessary qualifications to serve on an Ogden library board? 5 tv iv There is more hope for Bill. His sun shines brighter this week than last. Ten days ago it looked as though the great army of the dissatisfied dissatis-fied would pounce down on Shurtllff and start him in the running against Bill, whether he would or no. But something has happened since then. There was a "Good Citizenship" meeting in the park July 4th. Brother Middleton made a few remarks. Incidentally he touched on municipal politics. It, was the first blast of hot air which has been exponding his boom ever since. It looks like he was going to be it unless the dissatisfied again turn to Shurtllff. That is why Bill smiles. The opposition is divided and Bill is holding his own. Fred Chambers is still for him. |
