Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-17
BANQUET FOR
G. A. R. OFFICERS.
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Local Organization and Weber
Club Entertain Gen. H. M.
Nevius and Staff.
LIGHT SENTENCE FOR NEGRO.
Who Pleads Guilty to Serious OTcnse
Red Cross Stamps on Snlc--Ed
Nichols Wantcd-News Briefs.

Ogden, Dec. 17.-Tonight Cen Fl NJ
Nevus, commander-n-chief of the
Grand Army of the Republic and his
staff will be the guests of the Weber
club and the local G. a. r. organiza-
ton. The commander and party Will
arrive In Ogden at 4:3O and will b.
taken Immediately to the Weber club
where they will be dineds between $50
and o'clock a short reception fol-
lowing
After the reception at Weber club
Gen Nevius and party. will attend an
old-fashioned campfire at the City hall
where black coffee and tinware will
be in abundance. During the evening
a number of addresses will be given.
The Weber Academy band, under the
leadership of Prof. Nichols, Will rem
der a number of selections.
Invitations have been extended to all
the veterans and ladies of the auxiliary
organizations to be present and meet
sthe commander and his party. Tie
: entertainment committee of the local
: post consists Of Post Commander w. l..
!, Russell. w. M. Bostaph, r. r. Hulan-
& iski, Thomas c. Lundy and John V.
Nelson. They will be assisted by the
ladies Of the Circle Relief corps and
- OlHer DETERMINATIONS.
I While in the city the Reed hotel Will
4 be the headquarters for Gen. Nevius
Sand party, who will leave for the east
= Friday morning.
X LIGHT SENTENCE FOR NEGRO.
~ In the district court yesterday Viii
liam Douglass, negro, who was
y charged with statutory offense
upon small white girl of Ogden
5 in selp
months in the county jail, the date
Of his sentence to begin Nov. Is. the
day he was arrested. Prior to the SEN
tcnce the negro withdrew his plea Of
not guilty and entered one of guilty
claiming that he WIS drawn into the
affair by two white women and an
other negro
The sentencing OF Douglass to such
Il light imprisonment for SO gross an
#offensc was the subject of much con-
mcnt on the streets last evening By
MANY of tho citizens who heard of Il
When the crime was committed the
feeling in the city was very high
against the negro and now the imposing
OF a light sentence is the cause of much
criticism.
RED CROSS STAMPS.
The Christmas Red Cross stamps
are being placed on sale in all
the stores of the city. The proceeds
derived from the sale of the stamps will
he turned into the state fund for the
purpose of stamping out tuberculosis in
Utah. The stamps are of the demons
&ination of / cent for which amount they
will be sold from now until after the
holidays. The sale that has been given
the stamps in the various stores of the
city has been most encouraging and
there is no doubt nearly all the
Christmas packages, letters and pos
tails that leave Ogden in the next two
weeks will beside the regular postage
fee, carry one of the Red Cross stamps.
wHERT is ED NICHOLS?
Mrs. Sarah A. Nicholson of Pueblo,
Colorado, has written to Chief of Po-
lice Browning and the press of Ogden
asking for assistance in locating her
husband, Edward e. Nicholson, who is
I. believed to be somewhere in the state
of Utah. The writer says that she is