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Show DIRECTORY PLACES OGDEN !' AT 32,000. Tho seventeenth edition of R. L. Polk & Co.'s Ogden City directory, which is being distributed today, places tho population of Ogden at . 32,000. f. There arc, by actual count, 15,872 ; individual names as compared with 15,140 last yenr. This indicates an fnerease in population of 2000 In the past twelve months, which is ni the I rate of 20,000 in a census period. By 1920, Ogden should have not less than 45,000 people, if the same ratio or gain is maintained. 1-- Generally, the directory estimate of a city's population is about 15 per cent too high, but, in this case, the directory figures check up with the percentage of increase as shown by the school census last June and the school attendance tho past winter. ' By the way, these directories are of great service in n community and the Standard has found them to bo i quite reliable in names and addresses and comprehensive. |