Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-01
T oday $ Ogden News

ne League as q Factor In Great.
ing Public Sentiment Favoring civic
Improvement" was the subject az
signed to Rev John II. Carver. In
part he said the leagues work could
be told In the three words could,
would and will The people would
say that certain improvements could
and would be done and the league said
that il will be done.
a. =. Parker city engineer. spoke
upon street Lighting in the Business
District" He gave a number of eX-
amples OF the lighting systems i'm many
cities which cost the merchants and
abutting property owners in various eli
Ties from 81 per front foot per year to
$50 per lamp per year.
The Park Commissioner" was ham
died by President John s. Lewis of
the board of park commissioners The
work of the league in securing the pas
sage of the bill by the last legislature
was referred to by Mr.. Lewis, who also
referred to the organization OF the
board In this city which consists of
7 H. Carr Bella Kadish and himself
He referred to work the commission
! had accomplished and had outlined for
the present year which will add greatly
toward identifying Ogden In conclu-
SION he spoke of the spirit which the
! people are showing in taking kindly to
| the work and doing everything possible
David Eccles spoke upon "Ogdens
Future and predicted many things for
| the city which were greeted with APP
| plause. In part Mr.. Eccles said the flu
| ture of Ogden had never bothered him
| for a minute for he had always had
| great faith in the city in which he
! had resided for - years, and which
| he had seen grow from hamlet to
| city. In his opinion ogden is better
| located for the future than any other
| city In the state. His reason for think
! ing so We're three fold. While Salt
| Lake has the head of the state and
,, Church together with its mining indus
try, Ogden has rich surrounding ag
| riCultural and fruit country that gives
| strong support of a city. Mining indus
| try in a community fails in matter
| of time but never so with the agricul-
: tural industry. In conclusion Mr. Ec-
= ces said that Ogden is the natural
| railroad center and win make its flu
| ture greater than any other c,ty of the
state.
| In his paper on ogden as a Com
| mercial Center" NJ. ;. Browning gave
some facts as to some of the resources
| and Industries of the city, which, al
| though authenticated We're a surprise
to many who had not watched the
| growth of the city. He referred to the
| fact that Ogden now has some of the
largest exclusive wholesalers between
the river and the coast and that there
were upwards of so houses in the city
that We're engaged gage, N w ,'3 nm
ing on the civic Improvement work as
| carried on in Boston and suburbs. Supt.
| Allison OF the public schools spoke
| briefly upon the public schools and the
need of more room, a number of Sc
lections We're rendered by a male quar-
tet
Regrets We're received from Rev. p.
NJ. Cushnahan and Mayor Brewer. who
| were to address the meeting on Nat
! ural Advantages of Ogden City and
1.-The Civic League as an Aid to City
| Government"
Prof. briggs introduced a resolution
saying in part that he believed that
the lack of knowledge of the needs of Il
J new high school was the cause of the
defeat of the proposition to bond the
city for new school, and asked TO-
the appointment of a committee from
| the league to visit the board OF edu-
| cation and urge it to resubmit the
| question to the people. The resolution
was adopted unanimously.
The following board of directors was
e Ne u NJ NJ nripgs Rev NJ cnsrne,
| hon pnv I y carver yyiIiiam AlH-
80, Dor NIagnire + I Rr,mift 10
! sanh chez II Parker. A. n Wright
Jnhn pinprae Dr A : Condor ! :
| y o,,,i. rs uodson y Cnareo
| COURT NOTES.
| oodnr Anrr "a ebort session of
| dist,.int coIr, vas hold last ovenine h,,
t @mdsre uot~el, and number Of poi,-
| I,,a n,attars ,,nrn disnosed NJ
In,,aoto,.,, and annraisement I'm ,ba
ost.,+n 40 s,aron Vi,Iiarns u,os aha
,,,itt ~ cIe,.I, az a. court vestor1jov
1 49, 49, -
Tr +he Csc W +, II Sysrren asoins a.
~ sn,itb notioa ,,f anneal to the
60 nn,,rt hos hean tiIad
paI,n uvtch;nsn,, has netitioned tbe
| d,st,int oo,,rt fnr mo apnointment If
hin,sots os .,,,ardion Of he thrne crii-
! dren. who are heirs to a $500 estate in
| Salt Lake county,
Before United States Commissions
! Patton yesterday afternoon the bank
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