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Show J 1I IF there is a bright hereafter, you will have a better chance of making it if you try to make a bright here-prese- THE world surely is growing better. Its been months now since any fond mother has forced' her child to speak a piece for us. H ' nt. Containing: a Resume of the News of Provo and Many Features and Human Interest Stories , VOL. Xllf, NO. 79 PROVO CITY, UTAH, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1922. ESTABLISHED 1910 w m ini. CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT LET FOR COMPLETION 1 VJORK TO BE- t i . OF NEW COURTHOUSE 4 GIN SOON Rudine and Chytraus Awarded Contract With Eliminations Made, Work Will Continue On. Definite Announcement , of . Columbia Steel Plant-Sit- e Made At a meeting of the city and coun, by L. L. Rains, Origina ty building committee held in this city yesterday afternoon, the contract tor of Project. of the new buildfor the i ' The last of the tract of 600-ac- re completion ing was awarded to Rudine & Chytraus of Salt Lake City at a figure of $156,741, after certain eliminations to the amount of $43,085 had been made by the committee. Action on the biJs for the plumbing and heating was deferred pending an investigation by a special committee comprised of T. F. Pierpont, of Provo, Stephen. L. Chipman of American Fork and Henry Erlandson of land between Provo and Springville was purchased Saturday by agents of the Columbia Steel corporation and Provo and Springville will divide the honors as the center of the western steel industry, according to L. L. Rains, originator of the plan which has resulted in the formation of a mammoth corporation. It was officially announced by Mr. Payson. Rains and other officers of the comRudine &' Chytraus were the sucthe location bidders on the' two former that cessful of the plant pany where blast furnaces, coke ovens and contracts, s6 that the entire building of the company will be on will now be constructed by this firm. this tract of land between SpringThe matter of completing the ville and Provo. Its northern extrem- building at a minimum cost without is about a mile south of his city eliminating the essential features in ity and reaches to within nedrly a mile keeping with the substantiality and y beauty of the exterior was the imof Springville, according to the recently completed. portant problem that faced the comFour railroads cross the western mittee. The sentiment seemed to faportion of the site. These, from vor completing the bpilding accordeast to west, are the Salt bake and ing to the Original plans and specifiUtah (Orem) Electric, the Denver & cations, but the matter of finance Rio Grande, the Utah Railway (Utah seemed to prohibit such an elaborate Coal Route), and the Los Angeles & finish. The question of eliminations was Salt Lake. Title to the entire strip, and permission to utilize these latter then presented by Mayor O. K. Hanup to the actual trackage, has been sen, who expressed the belief that the .secured. Construction of the' first interior decorating might be deferred unit,n with a Capacity of 500 tons of for the present. This item alone Is to be started immediately, amounts to $10,000. Members of according to Mr. Rains, and will be the committee also expressed the rushed for completion for operation opinion that the elevator, steps, jail room and Approaches might be elimi.not later than April 1924.exis considerable nated from, the present contract at a Already activity perienced In Provo and Springville reduction of some $33,000. This was real estate, and a number of Impor- agreed to by those present, and the tant transactions have taken place contract with these eliminations was within the past few days. Building let to the above named firm. It is has mate- understood, that the contractors will property on Center street ' rially advanced,, and considerable go right ahead with the work and property on South University avenue that they .will have completed theqb has changed hands within thepast by the flrst ofNovember, 1923. few idays. The entire investment of the steel corporation vrill amount to 'more SENATOR KIND VISITS than' $15,000,000, and' will furnish employment to thousands of men at the plant itself, and other thousands ALMA MATER ANO will; be employed in the mine and on the railroads, according to Mr. Rains. That the steel merger is not a matEULOGIZES TEACHERS ter of "mere talk is shown by certain L. F. Rains, presitestimony given by dent of the . Carbon Fuel company, There.has been scarcely a probwhen- - last week he was called as a witness in a matter of an application lem in religion, economics, or poliin for a certificate of public convenience tics that the teaching I received not has Terthe Utah Young academy the made Brigham and necessity by Senaminal Railway 'to the Interstate Com- helped me toH.solve, declared an address Williamin tor King merce Commission. before the students of Young uniThe Utah Terminal railway seeks inof to enter the field versity on Monday. permission The students of Young are proud terstate commerce. It is being opof their distinguished alumnus, and posed by the Denver & Rio Grande called to gave him cordial greeting when he railway. Mr. Rains .was coal came to visit them. The senator in testify as to the needs of as operaturn seemed to enjoy once more getto the and tors in Carbon county demands that the Columbia Steel ting back to the old school. He spoke in sincere eulogy of his old teacher. Dr. Karl G. Maeser, whom he had re(Continued on Page Four.) garded as little less than a demigod. He also expressed appreciation for President George H. Brimhall, who had influenced thousands of lives for good. Dr. Hugh Woodward received from Senator King for Visit County a compliment splendid, work done as Sunday school , teacher in Washington. Senator William H. King and Dem-DunAfter commenting on the nobility C. David ocratic ,State Chairman Senator bar were in this county yesterday, of the teachers aprofession, wealth for desire expressed of King where they addressed a number One that he might two for purposes: meetings. to his church, Senator King addressed the stu- make a contribution he that other the might do someand U. Y. B. the of yesterday r dents women who men and Cethe for to thing morning. From there he went in the lives their teaching had the spent addressed he where dar Fort, citizens of that community. In the profession. As a .companion story to one told evening they spoke at aatDemocratic American by President Brimhall, Senator King rally at Lehi and later told a story of an old man and his Fork. to address wife who had come 120 miles fromre-a Senator King is booked they had last on the night rugged canyon where the people of Provo waste for the pura sterile deemed of the Campaign. babe. The a little of adopting pose old couple had been childless, but this was the fourteenth child they had adopted. 'The others had been reared to lives of usefulness, and had been given college educations. Their Wound lives had beenAives of sacrifice and the kiftd of lives that count. service, Mrs. Ernest Syrett of Santaquin Senator King expressed his apprewas brought to the Provo General of the religious life, and of ciation susof the B. Y. U. for givteachers the hospital suffering from a wound gun which ex- ing religious training. He repeated tained by a ploded while in the hands of her his expression in the United States husband, the bullet passing through senate that some of the colleges of Mrs. Syretts right leg near the an- the land ought to be purged of some gun of their professors, who were sapping kle. Mr. Syrett had taken the eBh-bor from the wall to give it to. a the faith of the young people. and while doing so it exploded. Preceding Senator Kings address. Mrs. Syrett was brought to Provo President George H. Brimhall delivaddressby Dr. George H. Mott of Santaquin. ered one of his An showed that the bullet es. He told of one of his old stupassed through the large bone of the dents whom he had accidentally met leg, making a clean cut, and had on the train and whose story had inlodged near the surface of the flesh. terested him. Instead of availing Mrs. Syrett is reported to be recov- herself of opportunities for advancelife to ering as well as can be expected. ments she had devoted life had left that and helping others, on table her d Th? mahogany onward, upward imprint desk belonging to Sir Walter Scott its face and personality. recently sold for $132. At this desk, The Lay of the Lake, ' ofThetheLady n A Minnesota man has visited the Last Minstrel," and year were written. Walter Scott State Fair at St. Paul toevery habit a be It's 1870. getting of Abbotsford is inscribed on tp.e since with him.' brass border of the desk. by-prod- sur-ve- J pig-iro- - ' L-- t - I' ft I. i' BOY SCOUTS NOT FOUND IN COURT SA YS JUDGE SUPERINTENDENT OF HOSPITAL FARM TAKEN BY PERITONITIS J Senator King and Chairman Dunbar Utah Santaquin Lady Suffers Accidental Gunshot 22-calib- er four-minu- te X-r- a ay brass-boun- Mar-.mio- i JnmathrcUinlhlbrnqS and-sou- j j j j . - . x, , I i , J . I j i - - Union Pacific Railroad Outlines $5,000,000 Construction Program For This State STREET SUPERVISUR MAKES . OF REPORT WORK ACCOMPLISHED David Stagg, street supervisor, has issued a report to the city commisaccomsion, in which the work unstreet the jby department, plished der th direction of Commissioner Charles . Hopkins, for a period from Jply 1 to September 30, is outlined. t During that period the following streets have been resurfaced with The Union Pacific railway system is now committed to a program of development of the industrial and scenic resources of the southwestern part of Utah, tributary to the Los Angeles & Salt Lake railroad lines, involving the expenditure of somewhere in the neighborhood of $5,000,000. Confirmation of this plan has been given at the general offices in Salt Lake of the Los Artgeles & Salt Lake railroad and the Oregon Short Line, following intimations made during a program of investigation and preliminary work which has occupied the major part of the past summer. conThe program includes the and struction of the branch lines, the forthe Lund-Cedmer being already well under way; the taking over of the Cedar City hotel, begun by the Commercial club at that place as a community project some years ago; the construction of hotels at Zion National park and Bryce canyon, and of a smaller structure at Cedar Breaks, which will furnish meals and similar service and a limited number of rooms, but which is not designed to compete with the main structure at the Cedar miles twenty-fiv- e City terminal, away. Roughly speaking, the construction of the branch lines, with all their appurtenances and requirements, will involve the expenditure of somewhere around $3,000,000, it is calculated by railroad officials, miles of figuring some sixty-fiv- e of an Investment at railroad line around $50,000 a mile. Delta-Fillmo- re ar w . i Local Firm to Audit Books of Duchesne Bank VISIT HERE Sixty Million Dollar Project Planned for Utah Is Report; Pacific Steel Corporation Representatives Inspect. Coincident with the development of the Columbia Steel corporations - plans, reports from Salt Lake state that a party of Eastern and Pacific coast representatives of the steel and allied corporations interested in the steel industry in Utah Thursday gathered at the Hotel Utah, the guests of T. T. Gregory, a San Francisco attorney. Friday the party spent the dajr in Utah county on an inspection trip, with a view of looking over a possible plantsite, according to information available. Upon their return from Utah county a brief conference was held, and a trip to Carbon county planned, where the coal and iron fields will be carefully inspected. Included in Mr. Greggorys party were Clarence Milner and A. G. Milner of Salt Lake City, A. H. Dillon of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube company of Youngstown, Ohio; J. N. Reese of the Republic Iron & Steel company of Youngstown, Ohio, and also interested in the Marysvale Potash company; J. I. Stevenson of the Guarantee Trust company of Cincinnati, Ohio; R. S. Steese of Youngstown, Ohio; A. C. Denman, Jr., of Oakland, Calif.; Edward Van Asmus of the American Carbonization com'4-panof New York City, and D. E. McLaughlin of San Francisco, vice president of the Pacific Coast Steel company. It Is said that the plans perfected by the engineer, and which it is expected will be finally adpoted, call for an initial expenditure of $21,-000,0- 0. - ing. The Pacific coast company, is said to be planning the erection of blast Young Johnathan came from over furnaces in Utah county for the the sea. manufacture of pig iron, and that the of Here I am! And shouted: larger portion of the fabrication He looked around. steel will be done in the plant of the Miss Freedom found. Pacific Coast Steely corporation at soon was Uncle And Sam, Portland ,Ore., and Seattle, Wash., tory- well supplied with water, of was soon Uncle Sam, additional development at San with which the main drawback has been: And . . 6 and Los Angeles. Francisco lack of adequate transportation fa- - nd. soPn,was UPiC Mlss He that the money necis It reported cilities to carry to market the val- found. essary for the development is already uable farm, orchard and truck gar- available and that the final decision is caPable f grow- - He products his his arm, enlarged hinges upon the report to be made ing. ftirm following the partys inspection and The Lund-Cedbranch will also rfave slavery a slam; i investigation trip. serve to develop a considerable area;ftis grew, family of agricultural land, but there the His friends did, too, water Supply is not so large nor so COUNTY REPUBLICAN certain as that in the neighborhood of Fillmore, which is under a canal from the stored water in the Sevier CANDIDATES GIVEN bridge dam. The Cedar branch, however, will serve to make available to the market or smelter the immense He marched along, BIG RECEPTION iron ore deposits, development of Opposed the wrong. which has long been the dream of Refused to be a sham; the industrial promoters of that And now behold, the tale is told, Next to my allegiance to my God The world needs Uncle Sam. is my allegiance to my country, dePresence of other minerals In the The world power. Uncle Sam, clared Republican County Chairman Tushar range has long been known, The world spower. Uncle Sam. I. E. Brockbank at a meeting of the but development has been retarded And now behold, the tale Is told. their Republican candidates and for many reasons, chief of which is The world power. Uncle 15am. school last Central at the held friends the lack of transportation. Coal Is Second to my religious be night: the American being mined near Cedar City in Coal From twenty-on- e are my political beliefs, conliefs, Creek canyon, and other large depos- Will answer: Here I an). tinued Mr. Brockbank, in urging its are known to lie In the moun- Right at the polls those present to study the principles tains. To pay the tolls on which the government is founded. The attentoin of the railroad men I owe to Uncle Sam! Mrs. C. H. Wright, president of at present, however, is being devoted I owe to Uncle Sam! the Womens Republican club, preto the development of the scenic re- I owe to Uncle Sam! sided at the meeting, and America sources of the southern Utah region. Right at the polls was sung by the congregation, under This, with the adjoining wonders of To pay the tolls the leadership of Mrs. Jesse W. Johnthe Kaibab forest and the north rim I owe to tUncle Sam! son. of the Grand Canyon of the ColoMr. Brockbank, who was the prinIt is confidently hoped that this cipal speaker of the evening, touched rado, is the delight of visitors and the despair of descriptive writers banquet may become an annual af- on the principles contained in the a vast wonderland. fair; nothing is more important to state and county Republican platProvo than her crop of citizenship. forms, and also of the qualifications Plan for Tourists. The Chamber of Commerce and the of Ernest Bamberger, Republican While the present announcement womens organizations! who carried nominee for the United States senate has been foreshadowed at various over the project He called attention to the civic serf of in times both the visits prominent lated on this firstare to be congratubanquet tendered vice Mr. Bamberger had rendered to to the young men and women who this state, to his record during the (Continued on Page 6.) will cast their first votq in November. World war, which, he stated, had received national recognition. He told WILL ATTEND BOARD MEETING MRS. PRATTS BODY TO of the various positions of trust that BE BROUGHT TO PROVO Mr. Bamberger had held. Including Mrs. L. C. Potter, state president The body of Mrs. Phoebe Pratt the service he had rendered as a of the Service Star Legion, Mrs. J. W. Holdaway, wife of "William Holda- - member of the board of regents of Huish, president of the Provo Le- way, and a daughter of. Parley P. the University of Utah f during the gion; Mrs. Clark, president of the Pratt, who died in Salt Lake City past ten years. J , Springville branch, and .Miss last Friday, will be brought to Provo In addition to Mr.l Brockbank, S. S. LEGION MEETING The regular session of the Service Star Legion will be held Thurs- , ! ar gged i I i , I Muniday afternoon In the Womens 2:30 at clubrooms Council cipal has municiAn program and oclock. interesting and Carey, public Guy uish, state corresponding secpal accountants of this city, have been arranged for the occasion. All been engaged by Seth Pixton, state members are urged to be in attend- retary, will motor to Layton Wednesday, where a state Service Star bank commissioner, to audit the af- ance. executive board meeting will be held. which of bank Duchesne, fairs of the rea of hands Into went the recently The rare man who has more busiThe unspeakable Turk seems to ceiver. Members of this firm will ness than he can attend to, never Duchesne. have for leave Wednesday has time to attend to anybody elses. him. the whole world speaking about -- It is estimated that 200,00 natives Out of 2600 prisoners at LeavenThere is much talk about "the psyof India are killed each year by of more than 900 are narcotic chology of Salesmanship. worth deadliest one the of It is cobras, cases. spelled persistence. snakes. La-Vie- ve tomorrow afternoon at 3:48. A short funeral services will he held at the grave at the Provo City cemetery, prion to interment. Friends of the family are invited to attend. Many a man avoids the appearance of evil for the sake of better practic- county Republican candidates, in whose honor the reception was given, each spoke briefly of the work accomplished during their term of office. t - V, i , j Three pleasing vocal duets, Moon, Dear, America, the Beautiful, and Good-by- e to Summer,! were rendered by Mrs. Norma Bullock and ing evil. Miss Carol Ponlton. .Following the Better be firm and wrong than program dainty- refreshments were served to a large attendance. . wobbly and right. i I 00 and Ian ultimate outlay within five years of a total of $60,000,-00- -JAs arranged by the engineers, in the plans call for the development a series ot six junits. .to- go - forward progressively, so that the whole plan will be working harmoniously in five years. It is stated that every effort was made by Mr. Greggory to register for most of the men under the signature of T. T. Greggory and party, to keep secret the details of the meet- f 1 L Railroad Branch Lines and Four Hotels for Tourist Travel Are to Be Completed Under Present Plans. mountain gravel: Third South from University avenue to Ninth West, Fourth West from Center street to Sixth South, First South from Third West to Fifth West, Eighth West from Center to Sixth South. The total number of 'blocks resurfaced, exclusive of the work recently done at the city cemetery is 23, with Third a total yardage as follows: South street, 2048 yards; Fourth West street, 1782 yards; First South street, 76 yards; Eighth West street, 1484 yards. The total yardage- of gravel used during the period was 6892 cubic yards. Commissioner Hopkins reports that all of the principal driveways at the cemetery have been graded, and that the work there will be completed during this week. In addition to this, twenty-fou- r culverts were replaced. The report states that the citys Pierce-Arrotrucks were used and that they have stood the work without a days delay on account ,of repairs. This Is attributed to the carefulness of the drivers. The citys Nash trucks were used principally for the lighter work of the department. A pair of rolls for the steam rol- Opens Great Territory. ler was purchased at a cost of The Fillmore branch will open up $1283.00. a vast empire of agricultural terri- -' - ' PACIFIC STEEL HOME PRODUCTS WEEK The Boy Scout drive for funds is in full swing. - ; CLOSED BANQUET Canvassers are visiting business and professional intitutions and every section of the of the city. Suburban districts are also receiving atMember of Prominent Family residence districtmen Hear Eloquent Addresses of today must back the men of tomorrow is the Many The tention. on Themes Touching on Betand Beloved Citizen Died Sun- slogan of the canvassers. Toter Citizenship; Splendid day Evening; Funeral Judge James B. Tucker expressed himself in regard to the Scout orWard morrow, Bonneville Banquet Served. ganization as follows: The wonder to me regarding scouting has been the way the boys By PROF. ALICE REYNOLDS. Henry Wallace Crockett, superintake it. It is a difficult matter to get a boy to enter, heart- - j tendent of the State Mehtal hospital themselves l, into an organization which admittedly has the purpose of re-j- a farm and a brother of Secretary of or in this city forming State H. E. Crockett, died making a better boy of him. But boys recognize in scouting held in the armory Saturday evening. 6 of oclock at perj The banquet was provided Sunday evening by the Provo Chamber of Commerce itonitis, from which he had suffered and for the past two weeks .following an and served by the women of prepared of the Provo, under the auspices operation for appendicitis. While Mr. Crocketts condition at the time of Womens Municipal Council, presidthe operation was serious, yet he raled over by Mrs. Ada B. Hasler. lied in such. a manner that attending At 7:30 everything was in readiness. The Stars and Stripes hung in physicians were hopeful that he would completely recover, until he graceful folds at each end of the took a change for the worse Sunday building and in lines of pennants across the building. The table decmorning. Mr. Crockett was bom in Logan orations borrowed the note of cofor from the flags; everywhere Provos February 10, 1876, where he received his early education, and later belovely flower gardens had yielded of came engaged In farming. In 1909 their red, white and blue flowers to and 1910 he, filled a mission for the make the scene attractive. Few banchurch in California. At the time quets ever given in the city of Provo of his death he was active in the presented the same attractive apchurch and held the office of a sevpearance as did this when the young enty. and old who came to enjoy it were In 1911 he was engaged to superseated at the long tables. intend the farm work at the State At the speakers table the mayor Mental hospital, and while thus emand presidents of organizations were ployed he won the reputation of havseated with the speakers. The two addresses of the evening ing grown the finest crops to be what it really is an organization of their very own conducted by them, found anywhere in this section. unusual merit. The spea- possessed, Besides his widow. May Turner with enough advice from older heads to keep it firmly on the ground. kers were introduced by Secretary Crockett, he is survived by four It combines the boys love for the military and for nature with the acquisi-- ; Hinckley. The first. Dr. George daughters, Virginia, Mildred, Roma tion of worth-whil- e and habits. If scouting develops to the Thomas, president of the University knowledge and Flora; also the following broth- proportions that it will undoubtedly attain, this country need have no of Utah, who was the governors repers and sisters; Mayor George E. resentative urged that the young peoCrockett of Preston,' Idaho; Alvin D. worry regarding universal military training, for every boy will have imbred ple be mindful of the fact that if and O. O. Crockett also of Preston; in his nature the fundamentals of discipline which is no more nor less America is to remain the pure democWilliam J. Crockett- of Montpelier, than a wholesome respect for constituted law and authority and a wil-- ! racy she has been for nearly a cen- Idaho; Hyrum E. Crockett, secretary to obey it. With a disciplined body of citizens, a strong fighting tury and a half that they must of state; John A. Crockett, mayor of Iingness study the problems. We are con- be developed almost over night. may army Logan; Judge Fred W. Crockett of fronted today with suggestions of Scouting stands for the right thing and the boys stand unitedly for many new .Salt Lake; Mrs. Delia A. Curtis, Berforms of government. keley, Calif.; Mrs. Lydia L. Lamor-eau- scouting. In my three years experience as city judge, no Eoy Scout has What will the young people do with Thatcher, Ariz,; Mrs. Nora E. ever come before me. In my opinion scouting bids fair to take its place these suggestions? America during Ream, Long Beach, Calif.; Mrs. with our schools and our church as one Period of her life has been one of the important agencies in de- Roxie C. Hopkins, North Logan; Miss most successful governments of the Althea Crockett 'and Mrs. Ella Smith veioDine a strong citizenship. we have ever seen, are we willing to of Boise, Idaho, and Mrs. belia Lech- change? The leaders of the future will- have international problems to pehberg of Lund, Jdaho. Funefal" services will be held in solve, . problems they; can not shirk. the Bonneville ward meeting house! President George? H, Brimhalls to the flag was in liis usual Wednesday at 1:30 oclock. The body tribute may be viewed at the family resi- form. The flag means purchased price as well as possession of independence, 1063 East Center, prior to the! funeral. The body is in charge of dence. It means one thing to one the Berg- Mortuary and will be sent person and another thing to another to Logan for burial. It is expected person. It means, Come unto me to the liberty-lovin- g that a short funeral service will be people of the me not to held in his native town prior to the means touch it world; interment. the anarchistic people. He concluded with the following stanzas: Two . OF FINANCIERS .j V- - |