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Show held in the fall of 1921. Lawrence J. Snow was reelected re-elected President of the Town Board of Trustees (Mayor), while John E. Christensen and A.H. Lowe were elected to replace Emery McKellip and Neils A. Jacobsen. As business increased at the Snow Mercantile, and tbe business of Orem Town was also increasing, Mayor Snow sold his store to Horace and James Skinner, who re-named it Skinner's Merc. After negotiating a new contract for an extension of the town's culinary water system in 1925, Mayor Snow felt that he had accomplished most of what he had set out to do. On August 6, 1925, Lawrence J. Snow resigned as President of the Orem Town Board, and Town Trustee J.W. Gillman was named to succeed him. Not long after Snow resigned his position with the Town of Orem, he moved with his wife. Ruby, and daughter, Betty, to California, where he was active in business. Later in the day, I wa ved and spoke again with Mr. and Mrs. Snow, as they were honored dignitaries in the parade, riding down State Street in an open car. During their eventful stay in Orem, the Snows made many fast friends. They remained in contact with some of them, and over the years, they found occasion to return to Orem to visit their friends and to witness the remarkable growth which had come to this once-barren community, where Mayor Snow had once turned on the first water faucet in the year 1920. I first met Lawrence J. Snow, back in 1958, when he and his wife, Ruby, were guests of Orem City at its annual celebration, then known as the Orem Flora-Festival Flora-Festival of Youth. He was a jovial, dapper-looking man with a pencil-thin pencil-thin moustache. It had been nearly 40 years, since he had first taken the Oath of Office as Mayor of Orem, and he was excited to be back in the town which held so many cherished memories for him. Mr. Snow and his wife had been visiting with City officials in the Orem City Hall, when they walked across the street to the Orem Post Office. Covering Orem's Recreation Needs for 17 Years WINTER -TsTT iff SKBSkUBCE , ' - SUMMER wSW J . - - SPRING . . 4 . . . FALL SS MARINE SNOWMOBILE SALES & SERVICE Page 18 1305 N. 1200 W. 2253844 ) |