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Show THE STANDARD FREE TICKETS To California Were Voted Away by the Subscribers This Morning to Parties Who Did Not Dream That There Was Even a Chance For Them. The gift of five tickets to California and return by the Standard to its subscribers sub-scribers took placo this morning at 9;30 o'clock at the Orpheum. Ohly.a few of the subscribers were present, though many others were represented by their receipts. Wm. Glasmann, publisher of tho Standard called tho mooting to order and asked the audience to elect their chairman. James Ballard and I. A. Alvord were proposed. A voto was taken and Mr. Ballard was elected by Mr. Alvord and his friends voting for Mr. Ballard. A. J. Johnson was elected elect-ed secretary and then I. A. Alvord made a motion that the subscribers of the Standard limit the gifts to self-supporting self-supporting widows. This was opposed oppos-ed by a number of otherB and finally a vote was taken and Mr. Alvord's motion was voted down. A number of other propositions were presented and It was finally decided to pui all the receipts held by tho subscribers present Into a box and every fifth receipt re-ceipt taken from the box should be one of the lucky owners of the flvo tickets. Mr. Gates, clrculat'cn manager man-ager of the Ogden Examiner, wns discovered dis-covered in the audience and It was decided that he should dnw the receipts re-ceipts from the box which resulted in the following five persons reing the lucky winners of the five tickets to California: Mrs. Theo Gorie, Brigham Hotel, Ogden, Utah. H. R. James, 457 Sixteenth street, Ogden, Utah. Henry Meyers, 507 Douglas Ave., Ogden, Utah. W. G. Chllds, 2624 Adams Ave., Ogden, Og-den, Utah. Joseph Todd, 567 Twenty-eeventh. street, Ogden, Utah At the conclusion, a motion was introduced in-troduced thanking the manager of the Standard for having pulled off the fairest and cleanest contest over witnessed wit-nessed in the State of Utah, and the name was adopted by a unanimous rising vote. |