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Show DINNER FOR DAVID ECCLES. Ogden Financier Banqueted in Weber Club by Commercial Association. OGDEN, Oct. 14. One of the most elaborate and enjoyable banquets ever given in the city was held tonight in the rooms of the Weber club, when a number of the friends and business associates of David Eccles banqueted him. The banquet took place in the ladies' dining room. The tables were beautifully decorated with cut flowers and at one end of the room was a large portrait of Mr. Eccles, while at the other was a magnificent French clock; standing-ten feet high, with a mahogany case and a cathedral chime, about the finest timepiece that ever came to this city. In the course of the evening this was presented to Mr. Eccles by Fred J. Kiesel as a testimonial from a number of the friends and co-workers of the guest of the evening. Mr. Eccles made an appreciative and happy response in accepting the gift. Each of the gentlemen gentle-men present has been closely identified identi-fied with Mr. Eccles irt some of his various va-rious enterprises, that have been instrumental in-strumental in building. Up the city of Ogden, and each responded - to some toast. The menu cards contained cuts of the Eccles building where the banquet ban-quet was held, the Ogden sugar factory, fac-tory, the Utah state flower, the seeo lily, and other characteristic" illustrations. illustra-tions. At the banquet table were seated in addition to Mr. and Mrs. Eccles the following gentlemen and their ladies: Thomas D. Dee, Fred J. Kiesel, Joseph Scowcroft, W. H. Wattis, H. H. Rolapp, H. H. Spencer, James Pingree, Joseph Clark, Jarp.es Mack. Joseph Geoghcgan was present from Salt Lake and responded to the toast "The Absent Brethren." These included in-cluded a number who had contributed to the purchase of the testimonial, but who could not be present. The names of those making the gift were engraved on a silver plate and handed over to-gether to-gether with the clock. Besides the gentlemen already named there were Joseph F. Smith. Adam Patterson. C. W. Nibley, Mat Browning, L. S. Hills and E. P. Ellison. After the formal banquet and presentation pres-entation the company adjourned to the club parlors and spent an hour with music and dancing. Mr. Eccles was born in Glasgow, Scotland, a little over half a century ago and with his parents came to Utah when a mere boy. The family settled at Huntsville in Ogden valley in the early sixties and David Eccles about this time made a trip to Oregon, where he remained two years. He scon settled set-tled in Ogden and for over a third of a century that city has been his home, although his Interests extend all over the west. He was mayor of the city in the early '80s and had a most successful success-ful administration. He has stood loyally by his city and state through good times and bad times, and whenever possible the enterprises en-terprises which he fostered have chosen the Junction City as their principal place of business, even when the operations opera-tions of the company were in other localities. lo-calities. A case in point is the Ec-I Ec-I cles Lumber company, one of the greatest great-est dividend paying concerns in the west. Its forests are almost all in Oregon, Ore-gon, where its lumber is sawed, but the company headquarters are. in Ogden. Among the -enter.pr.ises- in. which Mr. Eccles is a moving spirit are: The Ogden Sugar company, the Utah Sugar company, the .Eccles Lumber company, the Ogden Rapid Transit company, the Ogden Waterworks company, com-pany, the Utah Construction company, the Utah Canning company, the First National Bank of Ogden, the Ogden Savinks'Tiank. the Ogden & Northwestern North-western Railway company, the Ogden Hot Springs & Sanitary Resort company, com-pany, the Sumpter Valley Railroad company, the Logan Sugar company. |