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Show WORTH 000EI SEWS 6 (Special Correspondence.) NORTH OGDEN. Oct. 15; Since the very refreshing and quite thoroughly wetting rains of ten days ago, the most beautiful weather following has been well utilized by the farmers in fall IJIUWlliy UllU buying i-i iiiu (.-uouiiib I year, thus greatly onhansing their spring work and the better insuring an abundant crop for the next year. The local schools have been "closed down and all meetings and gatherings gather-ings discontinued by reason of the prevalence of Spanish influenza in the town, pursuant to orders of the state board of health, cases being reported in the families of Newman II. Barker, Charles N. Barker, George S. Dean, John M. Larson and Edmund Jones, all of mild type. The family of Edward Toone is quarantined for one case of small pox, residing on Park street. E. M. Blaylock, public accountant of Idaho Falls has spent a few days in town combining "business with pleasure. pleas-ure. He autoed down coming by way of Logan where he was joined by his brother, James H., Avho is manager at 'that place of a branch of the"F. W. Woolworth system of stores. The lat-ter's lat-ter's wife and babe also accompanied them. J. H . returned Wednesday morning and E.M. Sunday morning. Subscriptions to the fourth Liberty loan has been rather slow coming in this town, compared with previous loans and are yet a few thousand short of the allotment. But through the vigorous vig-orous work of the committee being continued for the next few days as has marked the preceding days of the campaign ihey will be able to go to the top with some to spare as has been North Ogden's record in all of the previous pre-vious drives, aggregating in all of the Avar demands nearly $100,000 besides furnishing two score of our finest young men for service in the army, two of whom, Clarence Ebby and Raymond Ray-mond Holmes, have given their lives for the cause of universal freedom. Ronald Holmes, son of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Holmes has been spending a few days with parents and friends on furlough from the naval service of the army operating for the last eighteen months in Atlantic waters from shore to shore on a submarine chaser and has been permitted to visit a number He returned to his command, leaving his homo Sunday. Some anxiety is felt for William L. Blaylock whose letters from base hospital hos-pital No. 21 Avhero he had been confined con-fined six weeks at his last writing has ceased to come- with the same regularity regu-larity as formerly. John W. Spackman a former resj-dent resj-dent of this place, but now of Dcwey-ville, Dcwey-ville, has been visiting hero a few' days'. Leo Jones has disposed of his property prop-erty hero and has moved to Cache Valley locating uear'Lowiston. Floyd A. Warren, a life -long resident resi-dent hero has purchased property in Ogden and has taken up his abode on East Fourth street. Of the first 200 names drawn of the Weber county draftees, twenty-six names are drawn from North Ogden: Chas. A. Shaw, Chas. F. Casperson. Oliver S. Miller. Raymond H. Ward, John Roylanc, John 11. Larson. Jos. Folkman, James C. Fields, Arthur G. Berrett, Edmund R. Berrett, Frederick Barker, Chas. N. Barker, Ivan Daniels, John S. Storey, Chas. E. Orton, William Will-iam L. Orton, Jos. A. Montgomery. Georgo Youngman, William Young man. Green Blodget, John Q. Blaylock, Jos. Hill. George Randall, Nat Bailey. James Linford, Scott Wallace. The local genealogy and tomplu committee, B. F. Blaylock, Jamea Storey3, Wra. A. Montgomery and Mary A. Storey are working to the end of a ward temple excursion lo Salt Lake. Oct. 25 in which a large number plan to participate. Mrs. Elizabeth Storey, wife of Chas. Storey of this place, who was taken to the Deo hospital, Sept. 29, and underwent an operation next morning I for a complication of troubles has progressed fairly well and was returned return-ed to her home in North Ogdon,Sun-day. |