THE OGDEN Standard Examiner Entered at the postoffice at Ogden, Utah, au second class matter according to Act ot Congress, March 8. 1879. Member of The Associated Press, United Press NEA Service and A B. C. Subscription price. 1.25 per month; 15.00 per year. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use tar republication or 11 news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited to this paper and also the local news MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, 1949 From Mid century Point Lets Look Back to 50 Years Ago Fifty years ago on this day after Christmas the people of Ogden and its vicinity were contemplating with some excitement, according to the files of The Ogden Standard, the approach of the first day of the brand new century. Mother and the girls were removing from the carpet with hot flatiron and brown paper the wax dropped by the small candles that adorned the Christmas tree. When that task was completed there would be lamp chimneys to wash, wicks to trim and lamps to fill with coal oil. True, some citizens had electric lights in their homes and others were slowly being sold on the idea of electric lights by the advertisements of the Union Light & Power company which warned of the number of fires and explosions caused by kerosene lamps. There was not an automobile in the region, nor, of course, a radio, but some families were rejoicing over their phonographs, usually called talking machines, which entertained as many as four persons at a time seated around the table on which the machine was placed with ear tubes extending to the listeners. The cost of feed for the family horse and the cow was low, but the high cost of food for the family was a topic of conversation. A can of corn was 15 cents, of peas 20 cents, oranges were from 25 to 50 cents a dozen. Around the coal burning kitchen stove and the hot blast burner in the living room there was some discussion about the public officers soon to take office, M. S. Browning for mayor, John V. Bluth for recorder and H. R. MacMillan for attorney. The great diva, Emma Nevada, was booked to give a concert in the Grand Opera house. There was to be a dance in the Union Opera house, which until recently had been Ogden's principal theatre. It was announced that the Union Pacific was taking over the operation of the Echo & Park City Railway company. The Ogden Sugar company in an optimistic statement related that after an experimental period there no longer was any doubt. Sugar beets could be profitably grown in Weber and adjoining counties. Newspaper editorial and news columns reflected the resignation of Utah people to the certainty that Utahs congressman, Brigham H. Roberts, would be denied his seat as an outcome of a hearing in which polygamy was the issue. Nevertheless Ogden and northern Utah were confident that prosperity would be ushered in with the new century and Ogden was bound to grow and thrive through the year 1900 and the 100 years to follow.