The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-26

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practlced extensively and more scien
Ilhcally this year than ever before
Grape growing scored the greatest ad
vance and during the past year in NOR
than dozen vineyards the industr,
mas passed beyond its experimental
stage and Shown TO be an importan
ana lucrative business, well adapted t,
me lands and climatic conditions O
weber county. Fruits of all varieties
yielded well this season.
FARM PRODUCTS.
Agriculture brought rich returns
Wheat fields yielded we'll pei. acre anc
per bushel. The Gripping of the min.
ing industry drove many more peonI,
to farming this year and the result ha.
been to show that Weber county has
nucn wealth in its acres that can be
brought out by farming, though it has
not paying mine within its borders
and never has had
New facilities have been provided al
the depots for handling freight and al
the stock yards especially have there
been changes, made necessary bv the
increased traffic in stock going in ali
! directions and yet which is nearly all
| transferred here.
COUNTY SCHOOLS.
! In Weber county public schools out
SIDE OF Ogden there are 3,10O pupils of
school age and 1900 of them are en-
rolled IN the schools. During the past
year the per cent of punctuality in
these schools has been SO. When
the distance which many pupils reside
from their school is considered this is
d remarkably good showing for county
SCHOOLS where the conditions are less
favorable for regular attendance.
The county schools are better now
IMAM they We're last year. they were
better last year than the wear before
and doubtless will be better next wear
than this year.
MoSlah Hall, county superintendent
is the only general county school Off
GER He is completing his fifth year
OF service in the position.
CITY SCHOOLS.
1t seems to be the opinion of the
public and also Of school officers and
teachers that the public schools of Og-
den were never in better condition
than at the present time. Several rea-
sons may be given for this improved
state of affairs. In the first place,
more room has been provided in the
crowded districts. The remodeling of
the new fire bench station on Twenty
third street as a school of modern de-
sign and comfort sufficiently relieved
the eastern part of the city. The open
ing up of more rooms in both the Grant
and Madison schools, thus utilizing
hitherto unused space and making
those buildings more compact and use
full, gives sufficient room to accom1no-
date the large number of pupils belong
ing TO those districts. The relief given
to the southern part of the city by the
opening of the Woodmansee block on
the corner of Washington avenue and
Thirty-first seems to have settled for
this year, at least, the question of
properly caring for the children in this
muchly crowded locality, although in
the opinion of the board of education
this problem will never be solved until
at least four more rooms are added to
the Pingree school, the original design
of this building.
The present board is made up of the
following members: Thomas d Dee,
president; w. P. Hart, Yice-president;
j. F. Burton, d. NJ. Mckee and Mrs.
II. S. Emerson, with William Allison
superintendent; George H Matson,
clerk, and Charles H. Barton, treas
urer.
The members of the board-elect are:
Thomas D. Dee, John Scowcroft, Val
entine Gideon, John Ellis and DR.. j.
S. Joyce.
OTHER SCHOOLS.
Among the other schools of we'll
known proficiency in Ogden are the
Sacred Heart academy, the Weber
Stake academy and the Rocky Noun
tain Business college.
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
The Importance of the work done by I
Ogdens public library can hardly be
The city council has
this and has extended fnan-
cial aid to the Institution as well as
giving it the commodious rooms in the
city hall on the ground floor
From its very beginning it has been
presided over by Miss Grace Emerson
who has the reputation of being one Of
he most skilled cataloguers in the
state. Wonderful progress and in
;rease in circulation has been made
There are now over LOO volumes and
l monthly circulation of 300. The aver
lge daily attendance Of visitors is 20
md shows an increase every month
Nearly 500 pupils visit the rooms every
month for reference.
WEBER CLUB.
During the year the Importance of
he Weber club and its work for Ogden
las become more and more apparent
The club has continued to thrive and
las found 1t necessary to increase the
lie OF its quarters by adding about
: third more room. Its apartments
low include all the rooms on the TOP
loor of the Utah Loan & Trust building
kept four. The first of the year viii
ee the Weber club installed in one of
he most commOdious suite of apart
nents between Omaha and San Fran
isco- The rooms comprise parlors,
moking rooms billiard rooms, dining
ooms, card rooms, private conference
ooms, committee rooms, reading
ooms. all fitted up with most modern
The second Thursday of
ach month is set apart as ladies' day.
nd on that occasion ladies are enter
aimed in the club rooms. This has
ONE to be looked on as a social func- ]
ion of considerable Importance in the
ity.
The organization now has 100 mem |
ers. so of whom have joined during ;
ne present year. Financially, the club {
strong, owing nothing and with a {
God balance in its treasury
The greatest triumph of the organ |
led work of the club is the sugar fac
Try. which is now assured for Ogden. :
The officers of the club at present $