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Show Wit LAUGHEII IS HIGH PRAISE FOR OGDEN L The Geneva (Now York) Daily Times prints an interview In a current cur-rent issue with William McLaughlin of Ogden, who went to his old home town on a pleasure trip after spending spend-ing fifteen years in Ogden. Mr. McLaughlin Mc-Laughlin tells of Ogden in a favorable light and tho people of his home town were evidently greatly intorestcd in tho news. Follows the clipping: William McLaughlin, who left Geneva Ge-neva fifteen years ago to live in Ogden, Utah, Is in town on a visit to his wife's sister. Mrs. John B. Quinn, of Clark street. Mr. McLaughlin motored nil tho way from Ogden with his wife in an Auburn Six and is an authority of the roads on tho way. Through Utah and Wyoming the highways, natural gravel construction, were the best, he said, but 350 miles of mud were encountered en-countered through Iowa and Illinois owing to tho recent rains. Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania and Ohio were about tho same as the roads here in New York. They followed tho Lincoln Highway, from Ogden to Chicago, the "BlazciT Trail" from Chicago to Buffalo, and from thero by the familiar route to Geriova. They made the 2375 miles in 14 days comfortablo driving. Mr. McLaughlin Mc-Laughlin and a friend who accompanied accompan-ied them most of the way slept on a folding bed, invented by Mr. McLaughlin Mc-Laughlin himself, which clamps to tho edge of tho car, while their wives stayed at hotels. Carrying 500 pounds of baggage, the trip was mado for tho price of a single railroad ticket for the distance. They expeci to return August 15th by the way pf Detroit, Racine, South Bend, and Denver. Mr. McLaughlin is very enthusiastic ovor his new city of Ogden and could not say enough in praise of it. The sugar beet industry is one of the most important there as well as fruit growing, grow-ing, canning, flour mills and horse trading. A remarkable feature of the city, said Mr. McLaughlin, is the absence ab-sence of idlers on tho streets and park benches. People are all busy. The scenery in Ogden canyon Is noted for its beauty and there are important hot springs just outside the city. Tho climate cli-mate is mild and pleasant, Thero are hundreds of thousands of acres of government land still open to sottlers. Tho people are most patriotic as regards re-gards war work. All of the loans and Red Cross drives have been oversubscribed oversub-scribed (and this seems almost incredible) incred-ible) there arc so many volunteers that no draft troops have boon required requir-ed from that section for a gbod many months. An unusual incident Mr. McLaughlin McLaugh-lin was able to describe which happened hap-pened as a result of a cyclone in Iowa. The storm arose in tho night, but the people managed to rush, to the basement base-ment and hide under a pool table. The house above them was swept several hundred yards away by tho violence of tho wind, but the strong legs of the pool table held tho falling timbers, and in the morning, the people were dug out alive and unhurt. |