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Show BANQUET TO HONOR RETIRING EDITOR As a slight token of their esteem and to show to some extent their appreciation ap-preciation for his friendship and the services rendered to the county, town and all worthy institutions, over one hundred people sat down to a banquet Wednesday evening to honor John R. Wallis, who is retiring from active newspaper work to devote his time and energy to his farm at La Verkin. The Chamber of Commerce sponsored spon-sored the affair which was given in the Arrowhead hotel dining room, but every organization and business activity ac-tivity of the town was represented, as well as the schools, the church and oil interests. Jos. T. Atkin, Jr., as president of the Chamber of Commerce, presided, but turned the ceremonies over to Judge D. H. Morris, who acted as toastmaster. Judge Morris called on Jos. K. Nicholes, who told of the many ways in which Mr. Wallis has made his influence in-fluence for good felt in the the schools of this city. He told of many suggestions sugges-tions by the editor which had been acted upon and which had contributed contrib-uted to the good of all concerned. The speaker said he greatly regretted Mr. Wallis' retirement from the newspaper newspa-per business in this city and ?iid he would feel the loss in many ways. Arthur F. Miles told of his longstanding long-standing friendship with the editor and spoke of humorous incidents of the early days. Dr. D. A. McGregor told of coming to St. George fourteen years ago, of the many improvements that had since been made, the majority of which, he said, were the direct result of the stand taken by Mr. Wallis in his paper, pa-per, and his continual boosting for everything that would tend to promote pro-mote the growth and improvement of the town. Wm. J. Graham was the next speaker speak-er and he also told of some of the good work accomplished by Mr. Wallis during his 23 years residence in this city during which time he has published pub-lished a newspaper continuously. He said that everyone who knew the editor was his friend and that his friendship was true and everlasting, that he was the type of man who would fight to the last for what he believed to be right. Several amusing stories were told by Mr. Graham in his own inimitable inimi-table manner which kept his audience in an uproar. He said in conclusion that if the editor proved to be one-half one-half as good a farmer as he was a newspaper man, his Success was assured. as-sured. In reply Mr. Wallis thanked the Chamber of Commerce and everyone present for their kinds words and thoughts and assured them that their presence at the banquet in his honor was greatly appreciated by him. He said he had always tried to the best of his ability to use his paper for the good of the greatest number and that he had always supported what he had considered to be right and fair. He attributed at-tributed his success to the people of the county, as he said, it is impressible impres-sible to make a success of the newspaper news-paper business' without the support of the majority of the people. Jos. T. Atkin, Jr., on behalf of the , Chamber of Commerce, placed an order or-der with Mr. Wallis for one hundred pounds of No. 1 peaches, to be delivered deliv-ered next fall. However, this should not prove a difficult task, as the order or-der did not state who was to raise the peaches. - j |