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Show I WIDOW WOULD APPRECIATE COAL; LITTLE TOTS SEEK XMAS GIFTS Letters Penned to Santa Claus and Coodfellows to Be Given Close Attention Between Now and 25th I HOOD FELIOWS CONTRIBFTIOXS Ladles' Aid of English Lutheran church JlO.oi Pamuo C. Powell 5.00 V. T. Astlll r uo S. H. Tracy 2 00 Plnino Glasmann 5.00 C. A. Nix 100 Grace Autrleth 1.00 Mr Workman 1.50 Hallway Mall Assn. G 00 1 ncle Perkins 2 5 Virgil xish l . oo Toadies" Literary ciuh 10.00 Mr. and Mrs James S. Ferguson Fergu-son . 5.00 Mrs. Henrv Myers 1.00 Mabel Clark 2 .50 A Friend 1 . 00 Floyd Upp 1 . 00 Total received 96ft" 25 1 Good Fellows, Of den, Gentle,- I tnen: I am a widow and have 1 never asked help or anon- but If you have any coal to -spare It would be- appreciated. Kindly thanking you, I am, ." ThLs letter from an Ogden woman living In one of the best residence sections of the city, together to-gether with a half do?. n missives written l little children to Santa Claus and the Good Fellows were received today at the. Good Fellows Fel-lows headquarters, each a vivid appeal for Christmas help. "I am a little girl seven years old and have a little brother, five years and a little sister, three years and a baby sister four months and we are poor and we won't get anything for Christmas If you don't think ot us I n papa hasn't any work and we haven't any money." writes one little tot living on Jefferson a.o-nue. a.o-nue. C.IRI 'S I EOT ER Another girl says in her letter; "There are seven of us children, A . fire girl" and two boys and we WOUld like Santa Claus to bring us some shoes ami rubhers and something for Christmas to eat. Papa has boon homo sick and mamma has been sick and is not well yet And I wish the Dear Good Fellows and Old Santa Claus a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year." These are tho type of communications communi-cations that are being referred to the Good Fellows committees for immediate Investigation with tho report to indicate what can be done to bring hristmas cheer into in-to tli- homes of gd'Mi poor anil needy. Assignment of the Investigation Work was made Thursday evening i when the tiood Fellows central committee met at the Weber club rooms. Representatives were pres- ent ut I his meeting from tho Rotary, Ro-tary, Klwanls. Progressive and Lions clubs, the igdcn lode oi ESlkS and The Ogden Stnndard-Kxamim Stnndard-Kxamim r. One of Ogden's most prominent manufacturers accepted accept-ed the position of chairman for the committee. TO PUBLISH DONORS, Assignments of ward committeemen commit-teemen were made and ettcH of the organizations accepted supervision super-vision of investigation work in a definite district of the clt . At this meeting it was decided to publish the list of donors to the Good Fellows fund, as the Checks and cash aro received. The first Ust is published today. The decision was reached to have the Good Fellows distribution distribu-tion made under direction uf tho same men and women who have handled th work for several years pn.t. assisted by members of the clubs and by others who volunteer. volun-teer. Those who desire to Contribute to the Good Fellows work this year and thus bring cheer to some home that would not otherwise oth-erwise ha 0 happiness should ' mall their checks tn the iond Fellows, care Ogden Standard-Examiner or bring the amount to The Standard-Examiner business i office Thoso who desire to aid nn entire family should bo notl- , fy the Good Fellows by mailing tho coupon attached, filling In j the number of persons that will be cared for by the Individual. It is through this system that duplication of work will be avoided. Several organizations which plan Christmas charity work hae obtained lists of names, which have been carefully cheeked with the Good Fellows list so that there will be no duplications dupli-cations this year among the major Christmas cheer organizations, The same policy will bo used In Individual cases |