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Show : ATTRACTIONS ITlE UTAH PRODUCTS 10 FOOD SHOW ; .1 The annual Utah Products and Pure Food show opened at 4 p.m. yesterday, jn the Parry building. The show Is being held under the direction of F. W. Whitcombp. secretary of the Ogden Retail Merchants association and. from the opening hour yesterday, yester-day, until a late hour In the evening, large crowds of people were attracted and kept interested. Probably the most interesting feature fea-ture of the affair, to both old and young, is an exhibition of the Panama Pana-ma Canal, in miniature, which Manager Man-ager Whitcombe has secured as a special attraction. Every detail of the canal is shown, with the boats sailing through and the locks in ac tion A good idea of the immensity of the great work Is had from a view of the miniature, but in addition, as a feature of much educational value, explanations of the workings are given giv-en by a lecturer The lecture includes in-cludes a review of how the canal came to be btiilt, of the great difficulties difficul-ties that had to be surmounted in the way of sanitation, conditions in the canal rone before the work btarted and at the present time and of the problems of construction that were met and overcome by the American engineers. To persons who had not previously Been the workings of locks, this feature proved especially interesting. inter-esting. The pure food and Utab products displays were all In place last night and as a whole are well up to the average of other shows. Prominent among them is the display of the hupe-Wllliams Candy Company, which occupies one of the east windows of the store room and a centrally located locat-ed booth inside. The window display dis-play 1b of "Dtahna" chocolates and that of the booth, which is decorated In purple and white and inclosed with lattice work, is made up of different sized boxes of "National" chocolates. the latest product of the company The "Nationals" are In red, white and blue boxes. Another attractive booth is that of the McDonald Candy company. It is artistically decorated In pink and a fine display of "Hazel Dawn" chocolates choco-lates Is made. The John Scowcroft and Sons Company Com-pany make a showy exhibit of "Never Rip" work-clothes, including overalls, corduroy, whip-cord and khaki suits. A display of knit underwear is also shown as the product of the Scowcroft Scow-croft knitting factory. The Utah Canning Company, cup winners for the past three years, with their display of Pierce's pork and beans, catsup and sauerkraut, has a large booth on the north side and an attendant dispenses samples of the canned goods. The exhibits of the Blackman and Griffin Commission company and the De Laval Cream Separator company are well arranged In the. latter a demonstration of the cream separator is given and in the former is a display dis-play of the finished product, butter and cheese. The Superior Horse-radish and Pickle company has a fine display of bottled horse-radish and many varieties varie-ties of sour, sweet and dill pickles. The exhibit of the Crystal Bottling Works is attractively set and includes all flavors of soda water, with mineral min-eral water and cider also shown. The "Jello" and Baker's Chocolate company occupy adjoining booths on the north side of the show room with displays of their well known goods. The booth of the Borden Condensed Milk company is decorated with holly arranged In an artistic way and, In addition to the display of the finished product, a pasture with miniature cattle 1s shown. The Utah Sugar Manufacturers Association the Utah-Idaho Utah-Idaho and Amalgamated Sugar companies, com-panies, has a large booth In which is shown beet Bugar in all stages, from the beet to the granulated and pulverized product- The Becker Brewing and Malting company has an attractively placed display of Beckers be6t," near-beer and porter, In pint and quart bottles. "Becker's Beat" pennants also lend attraction to this desplay. In the line of art, the Noggle studio has a worthy exhibit of photographs In this line also, a display of drawings draw-ings and paintings done by students of the Ogden High and Junior High schools are hovn. In connection with a display of sewing and bottled fruits from the domestic arts and science departments. The manual training department of the high school Is also represented with woodwork. wood-work. Music is being furnished for the show by the Farnlund orchestra and a Glass Blowers and Palmistry booth are among the special attractions. - rri |
