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Show 'so' ma she 11 OGDEN ALMOST ON TIME Headed by J. A. Houlihan, tour chairman, and Secretary O. J. Stilwell of the Ogden Publicity bureau, thirty-five thirty-five members of the San Francisco Advertising Ad-vertising club party en route to St. Louis by automobile, arrived in dgden about G-30 o'clock yesterday evening and were entertained at the Weber club for nearly an hour So greatly taken were they with this entertainment entertain-ment that they would have remained in the city over night but for the fact that their schedule called for a visit to Salt Lake City. Mr. Stilwell met the automobile car-avan car-avan at Snowville, Utah, and acted as escort to Brigham City, where a greeting greet-ing was given the travelers by mem bers of the Brigham City Commercial club and the Weber club of Ogden, who had been awaiting them for several sev-eral hours. A feature of this greeting was a short concert by the Brigham City Military band. Leaving the Box Elder county seat, the augmented caravan proceeded over splendid county roads to Ogden and tied up in Hudson avenue. Hosts and guests proceeded at once to the Weber We-ber club and were regaled with a buffet buf-fet luncheon, supplemented with musical mu-sical entertainment. At 7:30 p. m. the San Francisco boosters departed for Salt Lake City, regretting that V mr 1m f arli Arlii la frntl nan 1oitp from San Francisco to St, Louis prevented pre-vented a longer stay in Ogden. Made Good Time. The tourists, intent on gaining the 1918 Ad convention for San Francisco, started from San Francisco last Sunday Sun-day morning. They made a total of 235 miles Sunday, 142.2 Monday, 220.7 Tuesday, 110 Wednesday and 231.6 miles, from Montello, New, to Salt Lake, yesterday, being only a few hours behind schedule. The trip through Nevada and Utah to Ogden was over the Overland Trail and the great run made from" Montello, through a heavy rain storm, indicates that tho historic trail Is being put into in-to fine condition for automobile travel. trav-el. This Is to the credit of the Overland Over-land Trail club of Nevada. Chairman Houlihan, whose traveling travel-ing companion, In a D-6-45 Buick car, is Willie Ritchie, former lightweight boxing champion of the world, and now a prosperous business man of San Francisco, declared that every member of the party was meeting and overcoming every oDstacie ot travol in true sportsmanlike fashion and that they fully expect to reach St. Louis in scheduled time. The complete personnel per-sonnel of the 'party that reached Ogden Og-den last night is as follows: J. A. Houlihan, tour chairman; R. C. I Durant, A. O. Plughoff, G. A. Buckingham, Buck-ingham, Fred Comer, Harry Hazelton, Willie Ritchlo, Chas. Richman, Jas. F. Gurler, Chester N. Weaver, Carl Wallen, Mr. and Mrs. A. Bernstein, Hugh McKay, Bradley Carr, Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Pike, Mrs. H. Gotrell, Jos. Webber, M. W. Ferguson, Jos. Baker, W. J. Fern'. Mr. and Mrs. Hoxie, J. Hamilton, W. J. Bona, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Werick and son, Mr. and Mrs. F. Brookhart and son, Mr. and Mrs. K. F. Schaldach, Geo. Schell and Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Todd. , The cars, which were delayed and which passed through Ogden today, going over the Overland Trail to Echo and thenco over the Lincoln Highway ' to Evanston, are a Haynes, a More-land More-land Service truck, a Franklin Six and a Paige. But for hard luck those k would have with the first party. The feature of the trip, according to mem-i bers of the party, hns been the work' of the Moreland truck, in which the suit cases and dressing apparel of the tourists are being carried. This vehicle ve-hicle has been pulling the ploasure cars out of the mud and almost managed man-aged to keep up with the leaders. |