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Show Stores Are to Close and a General Haf Holiday Is to Be Observed as "Booster "Boost-er Day" for League Baseball Automobiles Are to Be Decorated Band Donates Its Services Tag-Day Nets 735 Ogden and Butte Will Play Grandstand to Be Gay With Colors Parade Starts at 2:30. j . No baseball club flying the colors of Ogden has ever been accorded tho welcome that will be extended to Manager John .1. McCIosltey and the members of his crew when thoy arrive ar-rive this evening from their very successful suc-cessful invasion of the north and open a week's scries with tho Butte club at Glonwood park tomorrow afternoon And let It be said with distinct emphasis em-phasis that this same club is entitled to the most uproarious welcoming demonstration that the combined faD-dom faD-dom of tho city can perpetrate During the past six weeks the Ogden Og-den team has made a record for Itself It-self that has not been equalled in the Union association so far this season. In those six weeks McCloskey's mon havo taken five out of six weekly Eerles. throe of which were at homo and three In their opponents' territory On the trip at the northern end of the circuit tho club took every series their defeat of the Great Falls club during tho last week abroad overshadowing over-shadowing their othor victories, for It was loss than a weok ago that Umpire Ralph Frary, one of tho best Judges of basoball In the west, declared the Reedmon to be the fastest aggregation of ball tossers in the Union. Conceding Conced-ing that the former Brooklyn man doped It rightly, it must necessarily carry that Ogden Is now entitled to that distinction. There will be a delegation of tho more enthusiastic followers of baseball base-ball on hand to greet McCloskey et al. when the alight from the incoming train this evening, but the real celebration cele-bration will be pulled off tomorrow afternoon In connection with the opening open-ing and booster game of the Butte-sorles. Butte-sorles. After weeks of proparationo, everything Is in roadlness for tho big doings From the amount of enthusiasm, enthu-siasm, two thousand five huudred In a conservative estimate of tho attendance attend-ance at tomorrow's game. In the first place there are no loss than ono thousand who have already planned to attend the game by purchasing pur-chasing tags from the score of society ladies who carried on the tag-day operations op-erations last Saturdaj". The directors of the Ogden Basoball & Athletic association as-sociation have mnde their final accounting ac-counting and dlscoverod that the total amount collected by Mrs. R. B. Bristol and her asBi3tant laggerB on Saturday is $735.80. With the probable additional addi-tional receipts at the gate tomorrow the total receipts for the booster game should total almost $1,5000. Of this amount the local association will take all but a very small percentage, the Butte management and President W. H. Lucas having agreed to take only a stipulated amount of tho "gate " The committees which have been promoting the early-closing proposition proposi-tion among the retailvand wholesale establishment of the city havo succeeded suc-ceeded well There will be but fow places of business open after 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. "When Umpire Frary shouts "Let's go" at 3:30 o'elock, he will be facing the great-cb' great-cb' crowd of basoball fans which has over gathered for a game in Ogden, Og-den, Practically every retail mer-, chant has Rgrced to close his establishment estab-lishment and in this tbo retailers have been Joined by many of the wholesale and mnctory Institutions. Even the railroad offices have declared de-clared a half holiday and in fact everybody ev-erybody who can possibly put off until un-til tomorrow what they might do on Tuesday will attend the "booster game. Tbe automobile parade, which will preced the game, will be a feature of tho booster proceedings Judge J. A. Howell is managing this part of the program. He has requested all tho autolsts of the city to have their machines at tho city hall at 2 o'clock-There o'clock-There will be gaily decorated cars for tho young lady taggers and also for the directors of the Ogden baseball base-ball association and the members of both baseball clubs. The cars which havo been selected for this purpose will be decorated In bunting and , Ogden pennants. At 2.30 o'clock the line of autos, headed by the Ogden City band, will proceed along Twenty-fifth street to the Union passenger station and return, re-turn, tbon nroth on Washington avenue ave-nue to Glenwood park. President Lucas has accepted an Invitation to attond this game and It Is not improbable im-probable that some of the league and club officials will be made victims vic-tims of a demand for a speech. Anyway, Any-way, it Is to be a baseball gala day in Ogden and those who do not attend at-tend this game will be decidedly in tho minority. The Ogden club was oxpected to arriyo In the city from Great Falls at 4t30 o'clock this afternoon 1uClUBwWr,8ht s(ated thIs afternoon that Wright Brothers' storo would close promptly at 4 o'clock in tho afternoon, giving the clerks time to reach tho park bofore too came opened Mr. Wright said that he had called upon a number of dry goods 3tores. and that all of thorn I readily agreed to the 4 o'clock clos- ! lug plan |