Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-06-06 | Page 7 | May Enlarge Federal Blog

if Rumors Current Around Ogden That Government to'' Take Baptist Church Property With announcements that the Baptist Bap-tist church is preparing to erect a new structure at the corner of Jefferson avenue' and Twenty-fifth street, minors were current yesterday that the property proper-ty occupied by the present church building, north of the postoffico, has been taken over by the government, with the view of adding to the federal building. A postal official was in Ogden several sev-eral months ago Jooking into this matter, mat-ter, it is said. Aoting Postmaster George E. Browning Brown-ing stated today that the federal build ing is not largo enough to satisfy the present demand for offices. Other government employes have stated that many more government offices than are now in Ogden would he here were it noffor the fact that there is not enough room in the federal fed-eral building. Because of Ogden's location, it is highly desirable as a place for the establishment es-tablishment of branches of offices pertaining per-taining to the west, thoy said.