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Show FLAC RAISING AT ME MILLS At noon today Old Glory was unfurled un-furled from the flagstaff of the Globe j Mills, USt beyond the bluffs at the i west end of the city, and tho flag, as j it floats in the breeze, can be seen trotn any part of Ogden. The Globe Mills are 185 feet high and stand on an eminence, and the , flag pole is 75 feet higher, making the; top 860 feet from the ground. The men, under J. H. Waugh. tho di-' rectlng head oi construction, contrib-j uled their dollars to the purchasing of tin stars and Stripes in order to be as patriotic as the soldier boys on Armistice day and. as a result, a flag 1 15 foet by 25 feet now waves above . the grain elevators. When the employes of Ihe Globe, j who number over 160, had ( ompletcd their Hag ecitmony, they formed the Globe Mills Mutual association and started a fund to care for their sick and injured. j The state law concerning sickness land injur.v dpes not give working men , of family sufficient aid to tide over th ir period of disability and so the employes at the Globe named a com-Imlttee com-Imlttee to bi ndle the funds which they ll re raisin- and thus they are proceed-j proceed-j Hit; to do ihe generous thing by Iheir I comrades who meet with misfortune. Manager Waugh :ay.- he has u moul effkient force and never had a betor body of workers than are now in his emplay. He has a good word for Og-oen Og-oen from an employers' standpoint. |