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Show I IMPRESSION I MADE ON I .... HOCIi t H Ed Hoch, former governor ofKan- H sas, on his return home, wrote for Hj the Topeka Daily Capital the follow- Hl ' ing account of li'ls visit to Ogdcn H "When I stopped upon the platform M before a splendid audience in Ogdcn, Hl Utah, last night, in tho Weber acad. H ' eray course, a large hunch of cnthusi- H i a6tic ex-Kan sans btood up and gavo Hl I mo a hearty K. U. 'Rock Chalk, jay B hawk' greeting. Above them floated i a brilliant pennant. 'Kansas-Utah H. Club.' An old Kansas man, Judge H John E. Bagloy, pinned a sunflower on H ' the lapel of my coat junt after intro- B ' dticing mo to the fine audience, and H a big bouquet of sunflowers ornn- H mented the platform table. Tho club Hli has a membership of one hundred and H fifty, with Q R. Craft, formerly a H I TJowns editor, as president. The cluh j celebrates Kansas day every year, and H I was told that there is 'something Hl doing' on these occasions. Right in i" front of me sat one of my board of , health appointees. Dr. E P. Mills, formerly of Olathc, in whose hospir- able home I was entertained after tho lecture. On a front row, also, sat my old friend, Rev. F. G. Bralnerd, who used to be connected with that fine, humane organization which looks after ex-convicts, of which Mr. Fre-donbagen Fre-donbagen Is chief, and of whoso good work I learned much by co-operation while in office. Mr Bralnerd Is pastor pas-tor of the Congreagtional church in Ogdeu But still closer 'homo' to mo sat Mr and Mrs. A. Miller Mr. Miller Mil-ler is well remembored as the excellent ex-cellent painter who was a partner with Mr Apel, and Mrs. Miller is kindly remembered also, in Marlon I got to Ogden so late and left so early that I didn't got to see much of tho town, not even to ride out a few miles to see their wonderful canyon, can-yon, 'Business interferes awfully with pleasure in these lecture campaigns, and a 'Wanderer's schedule' is about the most unfeeling, unsentimental and arbitrary thing In this beautiful but sordid old world. But Ogden Is a flourishing city of thirty thousand people, hugging the mountains which stand guard above It. It is the center of a ilch agricultural and horticultural horticul-tural region." |