Show FORDING AHEAD That dear old Spanish Fork has awakened from its slumbers is an apparanl fact to theousual observer It has made some wonderful strides since it became conscious of the fact that it was destined to be the metropolis of Utah Jouutyor shall we say Nebo County As citizens of tillS good city we have yet much to do and unless we do some of those things at once our reputation will be shortlived indeed Nearly every oily of Spanish Span-ish Fonts sine and larger has n commercial club Nophis club secured a supply of coal when tho individual firms and coal dealers hud been repeatedly turned down by the fuel and Ry Cos and the public schools were announced to close down for lack of coal Through the energy of the Munli Commercial Club that city was able to retain the county seat when Ephraim tried to wrest it last year and Mantis club with a membership of 47 maintains a nicely nice-ly furnished culbroom well stocked stock-ed with magazines and newspapers 000 a year per member apportioned appor-tioned as follows 8100 entrance foe S3 per annum payable in two equal installments simi nnnually The merchanta seem to be unusually un-usually native nowadays Outing prices and cheap sales have characterized charac-terized tho past mouths advertize monts m While tho Icelandic Mer Co is paying cash for farm produce and its motto is no credit and no scrip Mr Bjarnson thoir manager argues that it is better ho people to get cash for what they bring und u cash price on I what they buy and that thoy can nake money by borrowing at the banks and paying spot cash to tho merchant rather than run a book account with tho dealer Well fellow citizens let us be alive and active in cleaning beautifying beau-tifying and boosting our fnir city and let us fight duobills scrip anti credit the three plagues that mean servitude robbery and mortgages An Observer |