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Show COIR! IS GIVEN JOS. EMS Joseph E. Evans, one of Ogden's best known attorneys, has been commissioned com-missioned first lieutenant in the judge "advocate general's department. Mr. Evans will Ieavo Ogden on Sunday for an eastern port for immediate overseas over-seas duty. Mr. Evans is one of one hundred and . fifty attorneys In the United States between be-tween 35 and 10 years of age -who i apeak and write French fluently and who have just been commissioned for immodiato overseas duty in this department de-partment of tho army service. Mr. Evans is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Evans, a native of Ogden. He studied law and was admitted to practice by the supremo court of Utah in May. 1910. In September of that year, he entered the law school of tho University of Chicago from which ho graduated after ihree calendar years of school, work with the degree of L. L. B. Since September, 1913, he has practiced his profession in Ogdon and was elected county attorney of Weber ! county In 1914 and served as such during dur-ing 1915 and 191G. At the recent convention con-vention he was again nominated by tho Republican party for that office but his commission in tho army has brought forth his resignation. During Mr. Evans' absonco abroad his wife wiirreslde in Ogden. |