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Show OGDEN WOMAN WOULD JOIN REGIMENT TO FIGHT IN TIE TRENCHES ACROSS TIE OCEAN Sudden impulses of patriotism are created, almost daily in persons who read some press dispatches that are displayed in tho window of the Federal Employment bureau at tho corner of Twenty-fourth street and Wall avenue, ave-nue, according to statements made by Federal Employment Examiner W. H. Beckett, Sr. On February 28 the press dispatches referred to the mutilation of an American Amer-ican soidior by tho Germans. The dispatch stated that an American was captured and had his ears and nose cut off. Other barbarities are also mentioned in other cases where American Amer-ican soldiers were captured at the same time. "Several days ago," said Mr. Beckett, "a man came in here to register for shipbuilding, but as ho was going out he stopped to read tho message in tho window. He went straight to the recruiting re-cruiting offico and enlisted In the army. When he came back, he told me what ho had done. He said, 'If that who has just returned from the Orient, stopped over in Ogden today to meet his old customers among tho business men. He tells wonderful stories of tho far east. Mr. Patton went to Salt Lake at noon. Visiting in Ogden Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Beelinger of Hailey, Idaho, are spending a few days In Ogden visiting with friends. From Nevada Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Wilson, of Austin, Nevada, arrived in Ogden this morning and stopped over to seo the city and scenery here. From Tremonton Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Mann and their two daughters arrived ar-rived in Ogden this morning and stopped over for a day or two to visit with friends of the family. The family fam-ily lives at Tremonton, where Mr. Mann is one of the large gruit growers. grow-ers. They have been spending the winter in California. Fruit Buyer Here W. E. Wood, a fruit buyer of Grand Junction, Colo., is in Ogden looking over the prospects for a crop this season. Ho is getting ready to make contracts for the season sea-son buying. Mr. Wood is well known to all fruit growers in northern Utah. Miss Dunn III Miss Alice Dunn, 'a teacher in the Grant school, is confined con-fined to her bed with an attack of la grippe. She became 111 Sunday. Quartermaster's Corps Benjamin F. Ballantyno has been accepted in the quartermaster's corps of the army, according ac-cording to notice sent from Jacksonville, Jackson-ville, Florida, where the young Ogden man was sent after enlisting hero through the local exemption board. Ballantyne was a former employe of tho Shupe-Williams candy company. New Safety Zones A set of new and clean safety zones are being installed in-stalled on the downtown streets of tho city this afternoon. The old zones are being replaced by the new ones, which are painted a clean white with red lettering. A red flag floats at the top of each one of the new markers. Bank Case Tho Pingree National bank today, moved that the district court, in its caso' against Weber county coun-ty and Joseph E. Storey, to vacate judgment and set aside the verdict recently re-cently rendered that it might move for a now trial. The bank recently lost a suit in which it sought to reclaim from the county alleged excess taxes. It bases its new move on tho grounds of insufficiency of evidence to justify the I verdict and judgment, states that the j verdict and judgment was against law and claims there were errors in law at tho trial which were excepted to by the plaintiff. Married Two couples were married at the court house today by Justico Adam L. Peterson. They were John E. Bollinger of Hailey, Ida., to Mrs. Carrie Ward of Billings, "Mont, and James L. Hettinger to Emma C. Chris-tensen, Chris-tensen, both of Green River, Wyo. Stork Arrives Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Amundsen are rejoicing over the arrival ar-rival of a lovely nine-pound baby boy born to them this morning at 10 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Amundsen's Amund-sen's mother, Mrs. A. Evans, 274 Twenty-eighth street Improved Mrs. N. H. Janney, who is confined to her bed, due to a serious fall received while shopping yesterday, yester-day, is somewhat improved today. is tho German way, then I am going to fight right in the trenches.' " Mr. Beckett told of a lady who came into the offico yesterday morning. "She was a well dressed woman, I should judgo about -15 years of ago. She bore ail evidence of great refinement. refine-ment. Sho first read the dispatches in tho window. Then she came in and said that she was ready to go to the trenches and fight with the men. 'If that is what America is facing, sho said, 'I will not shrink from talcing up arms in active warfare at tho front. I will be willing to go if there is a regiment reg-iment of womon organized. Wo could take possession of a section of trench and hold It against such a foe, for wo would not fear tho brutes,' sho said." The lady said she hoped a regiment of women would be organized, so that the women could "do their bit" at tho front as well as at home. Mr. Beckett learned that this woman wom-an has three nephews in the Canadian army and two In tho United States army, all fighting at tho front. |