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Show I WHY OGDEN SHOULD BE STIRRED, i On April 21, Omaha is to send its' ' boosters to Ogdeu. The men from the Missouri river will be welcomed, as thv give proof what a city of widr-j widr-j awake men can accomplish. Hi Ogdcn is in need of this evidence of j i 'pep" because if there Is one thine H) Ogden lacks it is the spirit of boost. H that irrepressible stiggstiveness 1 I which has been capitalized by Callfor-i nla cities, an well as by Omaha, and made to yield an endless flow of dollars dol-lars and population. Just as tho Omaha contingent was leaving on the tour of publicity, two storms were occurring, one In Omaha and the other in Ogden. The storm In Omaha blew down buildings, overturned over-turned cars, destroyed homes, killed men, women and children and terrorized terror-ized an entire community The storm In Ogden was a? Manna from heaven, as It brouKht a message of good cheer. W In Ogden accept the blessing as a right not to be denied and the immunity as a just recognition of a favored fa-vored land. Hut we fall to go about proclaiming our idvnntags, and that is one of our shortcomings in this ago of advertising Ogden, some time this summer, or even earlier, should send a delation into northern Utah and Idaho to Invito In-vito attention, apd later organize excursions ex-cursions from Brigham, Tremonton, Malad, Smithfield, Lewiston, Pocatel-lo, Pocatel-lo, Burley, Rexburc, St. Anthony and all that country, in order that our neighbors may see for themselves how rich Is the promise for an Ogden of un-equaled un-equaled attractiveness. But beforo the day for the coming of the visitors, would it not be WU for Ogden to dress up by first throwing throw-ing off a few of the unsightly rags which cling to the city; would it not be good policy to at least demonstrate to the outsiders that, though there be schools rhlcfa arc insanitary and public pub-lic buildings that are a disgrace, Ogden, Og-den, full conscious of Its shortcomings, is about to put on the new0 |