Show S SALT LT LAKE SKETCHES 1 Tries to Do Task Better Veteran Probate Clerk Explains Secret of Popularity Try to do the job no matter how big or how small better beLter than your predecessor If It pioneering imagine youve you've had a dozen predecessors whose work must be improved That Is probably the main clement element of a policy which has gained Lilburn P. P Palmer now approaching his seventieth seventieth sev sev- birthday anniversary an enviable enviable en en- viable reputation among district judges and attorneys practicing in probate court Mr Palmer is deputy county clerk clerkIn In charge of ot probate division During his 13 years' years continuous service with the department the he has handled thou sands ot details involving estates of d deceased ceas d persons estates with assets in excess of others the assets dwindled to nothing before probate proceedings got past rudimentary rudi stages He Be knows probate procedure Rank and file me of Salt Lake lawyers admit It lL Younger members of the bar are are his best friends He has probably saved them gallons gallows of midnight o oil olL The kind that sheds heds light in a practical practical practical way and seldom is Js used wed in even the best test regulated classrooms It didn't appear to be much of a mistake at the time said Mr Palmer Palmeras as he related a recent experience but had the attorney asked he would certainly have been advised that if a deceased person has been known by more than one name every name should be listed in the petition for or probate After days of arduous work and the time of the court had been occupied occupied pied pled it was discovered a certain woman woman wo wo- man held property under four tour different different differ differ- ent names not altogether different but at least the variance from the name on the death certificate was sufficient to make a n. legal difference All of the documents filed before had to be r written rewritten by that attorney and the entire procedure started again Mr Palmer paused One got the Impression they might hear henr a yarn V l s- s sI I 1 M 7 c wAr s Lilburn r. r Palmer about gold discovered after a misers miser's demise I hope President Roosevelt re re- silver soon said the veteran veteran veteran vet vet- eran clerk abruptly changing the subject sub and explaining ones one's self and his work isn't always a a. desirable topic of conversation with him It alIt has taken years but the late William Jennings Bryans Bryan's statement that the act of 73 when money value money value of silver was halved overnight would crucify the world has come true The sooner silver comes into its own again the quicker the depression lon will end |