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Show SUGGESTION OF A BOYCOTT RESENTED Declaring that the lagoon is more of an Ogden than a Salt Lake resort. President Simon Bamberger of the Salt Lake & Ogden railway and other Lagoon officials in Ogden today resented re-sented in strong terms the story published pub-lished In a local morning paper, with h criticised the action of the Ogden Retail Merchants association in plan ning to go to Lagoon for their annual outing next Tuesday. Referring to the matter of patronage patron-age by the resort, Manager A. C. Christiansen Chris-tiansen gave the following list of Ogden merchants and manufacturers whose goods were purchased by the resort company. Becker Brewing & Malting Co. (almost (al-most exclusively.) Brown Ice Cream (exclusively 1 Western Bottling Works (exclusive ly.) Washington Meat Market, most cf cafe supplies. Columbia Club Cigar company s many brands Many of the supplies for candy and popcorn stands are from local houses Several Ogden men are numbered among the stockholders of the Lagoon resort Upon the grounds five Ogden men and one Ixiganlte are employed. The special police officer Is an Ogden man. For next Tuesday's celebration the resort had arranged to use nothing but Ogden made goods entirely. Mr. Bamberger stated that fully one-half of the men employed upon his road are Ogden men with families on his pay roll In this city there are 30 ' names. I Mr Bamberger resents the sueges- 1 tion of a boycott. . n r |