Show VOLUNTEER V 0 LY T T E E R N N MELT MEET I 1 installation OF OFFICERS FOR ENSUING YEAR HELD meeting marked by usual enthusiasm and good will of old time fire Ladd laddies les the veteran volunteer firemen 04 0 ogden held a very enthusiastic meeting in their hall in the city building d last evening the meeting was well attended and marked interest in the things pertaining to the organization was manifest it was a regular monthly meeting at which tho the I 1 installation of the officers for the en i suing year was held the organization is among the oldest in the city and is perhaps one of the most active in it its mission it was organized in the 5 ear car 1873 having for its cardinal principle and purpose the object of holding together as long as possible the veteran fir firemen errien who fought the fires of the olden time without pay and under tho the most adverse circumstances cum stances A number of the charter members of the order were there last evening but the time Is becoming ripe when many of them may pass out and place the burdens upon the shoulders of those who follow A happy incident of the evening was the presentation of the old record upon which Is found the names of many of the charter members and others of the early days who acted as as firemen in ogden it was not known that this roll was in existence but in some of the old castaway cast away papers it was found it contains something like names but many names that should be ba there are missing however the order made last evening was that the names at hand be placed on the records of the organization and there kept in a proper state of preservation for all time to come there are quite a number of comparatively ively young men in this organization iza tion who are bembers by virtue of the fact that they at some time acted as volunteer firemen the bylaws by laws of the association that any person of good standing who served as a volunteer fireman no matter mattei in what city or at what time is eligible to membership in the ogden organization by this means it is thought to perpetuate the organization and keep in the memory of the people the names of those who gratuitously gave their labors in the best interests of the people the officers installed last night wore were as follows I 1 W H wright president dent A J jost vice president J R archibold second vice president F A gale cale secretary W G chapple chappie assistant secretary james wood tood treasurer james allen alien property man |