The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-02-19
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D A I E is
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Dix-LoGAN POST AND CIVIC Or
CARNATIONS CONFER.
Delegates Visit Head Of Board of Gov.
ernors, In Salt Lake, to Con-
slider Encampment.

Notwithstanding the fact II is re-
ported from Salt Lake that the date
for the G.. A. r national encampment
to be held In Salt Lake this year, Au-
gust to IA, will not be changed the
question Is still under consideration.
The consensus of opinion prevails
among members of the Grand Army OF
Ogden, business men, and the people
generally, that if the date could be
changed to August 23 to Is it would
be much more satisfactory 20 the Wis
itors and to the interests of Utah as
well
At the time fixed for the encamp-
ment the heavy fruit crop of the state
is not ripe and the scenery in and
around Ogden, Salt Lake and Provo.
the three principal cities TO be visited
by the veterans and their friends, is
not nearly so beautiful in the middle
OF August as 1t is at the end of the
month, and, again, 1t Is argued that
the National Irrigation congress meets
at Portland at the time designated
for the encampment here which date
can not be changed, and there are
many who will want TO attend the en-
campment that would like very much
to attend the irrigation congress. and
vice versa The governing board OF
tho National Irrigation congress are
very desIrous that the date OF the
Grand Army encampment be changed
to the latter time so as to accommo-
date the visitors from the east in
both instances. -lL- -.--
Resolutions have been passed by the
Dix-Logan post, the Weber club and
the Chamber Of Commerce OF Ogden,
urging the changing Of the date of the
cncampment from the middle of Au-
gust to the latter part of the month,
and as a matter of fact. the Salt Lake
contingent is quite willing for the
date 10 be changed IN accordance with
the resolutions in question.
The committee from the DIX-Logan
post of Ogden made a trip TO Salt
Lake yesterday to confer with Colonel
Sterrett OF Salt Lake who Is at the
head of the board of governors for
the enoampment. regarding the pro-
posed change. The colonel accorded
the committee a pleasant audience,
and. after the arguments for the
change Of date had been made, as
Sured the committee that he would do
all in his power to change the date
in accordance with their wishes. He
stated, however, that the date, August
to IA, had been definitely fixed and
that there had been so much advertis-
ing for that date that he was of the
opinion the national board of directors
Of the affair would likely not care to
make the change.
The personnel of the committee
from the Dix-Logan post that met with
Colonel Sterrett yesterday was as fol
lows Commander william Russell
and Comrades William Bostaph, j. V.
Nelson and Thomas Lundy. While in
the capital the committee also lid a
little lobbying with the members OF
the lower house OF the Legislature for
the purpose of convincing them that
the appropriation provided for in A
bill which has passed the senate Of
the legislative body, In the sum Of
S35,000. will be none too much for the
aid Of the Grand Army encampment
1t has been rumored that the house
members are OF the opinion that an
appropriation Of $4,000 Will be suffi-
cent for the occasion, hence the work
of lobbying on the part of the Ogden
committee