OCR Text |
Show THE PROVO POST WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1923 i ' -- It was Mother who shielded you when life began; it was Mother who guided your first steps; it was Mother who helped you with your first lessons; it Consecrate Mothers Day to the memory of her love and care. Just some little token, insignificant in itself, will fill her heart with gladness. Let us help you to carry out our desire in pleasing Mother. was Mother who solved your childhood problems; it was Mother who guarded you through maturity. And it always will be Mother who will be your best pal as long as you live. She thought Place your orders early for your Mothers1 day needs. ful Flowering plant is appropriate and a lasting gift. A beauti Phone us early and let us help you make a Mothers day selection. Our greenhouse offers many suggestions. Say It With Flowers Say It With Flowers PROVO GREENHOUSE t CLASSIFIED ADS Where the Flowers Grow MARRY IF LONELY: for results, try me; best and moat successful Home Maker; hundreds rich wish marriage soon; strictly confidential; most reliable; years experience; .deThe Successful scriptions free. PIGGLY WIGGLY ADDS MARKET WANTED TO BORROW, $1,000 Club, MRS. NASH. Box 556. Oak-lan'California. for one year. Good real estate seintercent 12 Will per pay curity. WE WILL PAY BIG MONEY FOR M12 est. 403 West Center st. men who can sell Knight Woolen knit electric Mills products and ' high-grad- e FOR SALE Hotpoint to Our earn salesmen $200 W. goods. 491 $60. new, range, practically 83-Good month. $400 territories M12 per 2nd South. Phone open for the right men. Call immeJenkins Knitting Mills Co. one diately. who WANTED Farm hand; tf understands irrigating. Call T. H. M12 Heal, 688, or 876. FOR RENT Roonfs with board 317 4 South 7th East. unFOR RENT 2 and housefinished. Suitable for light keeping. Garden spot. Grand View, Route 3, Box 205, Gerald Hair. M10 d, M-1- Bill book, containing reand papers valuable to owner ceipts if returned to A. B. Reward only. Muhlstein, 344 East Fourth North. Ml 2 Phone 6 25-- J. LOST Chevrolet sales FOR SALE Fine young Duroc pigs. S. T. Gardner, Salem, Utah jumped from eighth to second place in the United States in less than one year. Can you read the handwriting. FOR RENT Light housekeeping M10 rooms. 3 6 South Second West. house of' FOR SLK Good 8brick 81-or at u tour rooms. Phone 10 J3 m. a. before E. 7th North, Restaurant equipFOR SALE Provo Tranfer & ment. Inquire 66 M10 5. Taxi Co. Phone J, industry Poultry Tremonton shipment Average rapidly. growing week. x -- 643-- OR SALE One Let me make them nejv again. H. P. General one 6 II. P. 5 n. m at 15 5-- t -- Call Wm. Leav- - tf modern J. WILL TRADE located in ngalow, with furnace, in Provo. home modern It Lake, for Kens-gto- n 1034 Geo. Strickland, Idress Ml 2 ave.. Salt Lake. S GROCER FOR A BUTTER. guaranteed ASK YOUR TIM-ANOGO- roduct. TIMPANOGOS BUTTER A home from select cream proproduct, made S. T. B. tested cows. U. duced from F-16- -tf FOR SALE house; close in. 6x12 rods, Phone 13. FOR SALE Used laundry and small cook stoves at Lannings Furn. Co., 164 W. Center. tf To rent or to let on shares, large lot all plowed ready to WANTED plant garden. FOR a our soul is worn down, call a Doctor and when your soli's give way, sae their lives When by railing an expert Shoe Re- pairman The Economy Shoe Rep. Co. THOMAS DEMOS, Mgr. 403 West Center Shoes also Made to-Ord- er F-16- -tf HEMSTITCHING and PICOT EDGE ali work done in the best manner on linkinds of material and household ens at reasonable prices. BUTTONHOLES made on silk shirts a specialty. All work guaranteed. 97SINGER North SEWING MACHINE CO., 399. tf Phone arvenue. University RENT Call 10 tf 635-- acres land on Provo Bench, $50, plus water tax. Provo Consolidated Real Estate Co. Phone 688. ANOTHER BARGAIN: EMERSON Perfect condition. Taylor piano. Bros. Co. tf. 1 )Hi l stuff, big stuff, he was saying to himself. Then, soon after. Owens sold the store and gave Clarence a letter to John Hurst, part owner of i large wholesale grocery at Clarksville. Tenn., and Hurst hired him for city job at $30 a month. That was the proudest moment in my life, he admits frankly. He went to the- swcllest place he could find in the town and got room and board for the staggering Mini of $17 a month. That left him $13 to split between home and himself. When Clarence became 22 years old he did two things got a salary raise to $85 a month and got married. He had been promised a partnership in the store', but wlmn he didnt get it by the time he was 2 3 anel was making only $90 a month, in addition, he quit and started out in search of new fields. THE INVASION OF MEMPHIS He took his wife to Memphis and was at last on the scene where he was destined to make his future success. Shanks, Phillips & Company, wholesale grocers, offered him a place at $85 a month and he took it. Fifty dollars of that sum went for room and board for himself and his wife. Ten dollars of the remainder was sent to his stepmother. The $25 remaining had to do for e lothes. doand every ctors bills, recreations other expense. Saunders was living light in those days.2 6 he moved with When he was his wife to Omaha to try his luck there, found he could make no more than the $S5 a month he was making in Memphis, and moved back after six months. Then he went with the W. C. Early Company, the largest wholesale grocers in Memphis, and accomplished his first real success and. also, incidentally came into his first contact with the chain store ystem that was to mean millions of dollars for him in the future. A Memphis man hv the name of Bowers had established a chain of stores that had been causing commotion among Memphis retailers because they cut prices high, wide and The Early company was handsome. selling groceries to the Bowers store and the other houses in town immediately boycotted it in a secondhand attack at Bowers Well have to break the boycott some way. the Early officers said. Gnre me a shot at it, Saunders - modern FOR SALE Four-roome (except heat). New plumbing Large Screened porch. d bath. Provo care Mr. Miller, to Applv nsolidated Real Estate Co., or call u ck Ridge at 315. LATIIING-it- htili-- a trie motor, con-odine engine, both in &good Granite Marble Beesley tf rks. FOR ol bis $40 a month and he was as proud as a youngster with a new dog. Big R. acres best land good cultivation; under in Provo, limits water right; just outside city tf for home in Provo. Phone 730. on What did he read? Biographies, histories and fit tion stories, geMing them wherever he could, trom th encyclopedias that could be found in one or two of the more prosperous homes in town or from almanacs that patent medicine firms would circulate and that would inevitably contain a life of Washington, life of Lincoln. life of Henry Clay, etc. When he was IS he went back to the Owens store at Palmyra, this time working for half the profits. His share averaged between $30 and 10 FOR TRADE l 7 i rs Phone as got It. m a il.h tiding OKI1 ovens at t Bio d u l g. His work was liaid but it was tic g t building, and tie ate it up. He work- ed 14 hours a day, slept and mad 5 i 1 of eggs 340 cases per FOR ilLE PLANTS Tomato, pep-pecabbage, cauliflower, egg plant, R. Cray and swoet potatoes. Jnl 314 W. 4th South; phone 612. FIRST - CLASS UPHOLSTERING on all kinds of furniture and baby Best of work guaranteed. huaeies John Liebliardt,- - 1090 West 1st North. (Continued From Page 1.) and express agent. You did nretty well for me Christmas, and I guess youre worth more now. Ill pay you $4. a month and your keep. Thats fine, Clarence said gratefully, and the job was his. He liked to work for and be with the Owens family because Mrs. Owens mothered him and thought he was destined to be president of the United States, nothing less. He worked six months for the $4 figure and then got a $1 a month A few months more and a raise. store in Cumberland City, Tenn.. offered him $10 a month and his board. Jle was sorry to leave the Owenses, but be took the job. Ten dollars was $10 and promotion was promo- 7 0 of Tie sent liis father tion that um ea b month. v, you looking for areJUST GLASSES? Or a perfect fit? In order to have your eyes must properly fitted you examinahave the proper tion the eye muscles must balanced. be perfectly weaken your Strong glasses eyes. Muscle development In some strengthens them. be decan cases glasses entirely. ferred or discarded and method I use the latest latest instruments. Over twenty years profession. hc DR. PETERSON With Anderberg Inc. 36 West Center Phone 52 . J requested. some one had to tackle the unpleasRAILROAD SEEKS TO Go to it, they told him. You probably wont have any luck, but if PURCHASE LAND AT you do well take care of you. It took him three years to win out and break the boycott but he did it. It gave him a reputation in- - MemBRYCE CANYON RIM phis as a young hustler who could do things and had a keen head for business. Shapks, Phillips & Company George H. Smith, general attorney brought him back to their oganiza-tio- n for the Los Angeles & Salt Lake NO COMMISSIONS and gave him the job of Railroad and also for the company to the retail stores. Remember,selling this NO was only eight years ago and the Oregon Short Line, Friday filed with now millionaire was making only John T. Oldroyd, state land commissioner, application to purchase a $300 a month then. 7 tract in the state school A group of retail grocers talked of forty-acr- e land section which touches the rim All affiliating, so they could buy their of own. now renowned Bryce canyon, the in stock larger quantities and at low- the pearl and alabaster fairyland canCall er prices. Saunders saw the hand- yon of southern Utah. The applicais Mr. tion filed by Smith as agent writing on the wall that such a for the recently organized I tah INTER-MOUNTAI- N consolidation would mean the loss of Parks a subsidiary of the his customers to him. He beat the Union company, Pacific system. grocers to it, and over night organizThe CO. is, in a manner oi speak- filing ed 21 retailers whom he had been the opening gun in the .iitual ing, 11th serving into an affiliation known as negotiations looking to tin dvtlop- the United Stores, Inc. He handled mint hv th Union I'aiitu their advertising, made their prices of tli Brvif ,ii,on s MinmtireHsj cf the City, and. more important than nil, sold ou!h ni Utah won! rland. Coin oh them their goods. tion and op lation of the new hotel The plan proved a winner for all at Cedar City, a 230-roohot-m concerned and drove Saunders sales Z ion national park, a hot ot pos- far over those of any of the other feihly titty- rooms at Cedar Breaks Kh.mks-l'hillip- s men. B th end of sire other of the railroads de( AHLOAI), WAGONEOA D 1 ' I 3 he had sa v d s 0 o tt so lie quit velopment pans following on the program, liis ..i t li t and invested now thei ru of job in ion onl OR BUCKETFUL, ogies, m mom the Saund kbmn loan h lilt trom Bundpi to Cedar City ( n ill oie pa ' v, a n in that be had It has li. in intimated that the plans all one to us Wo sell coal S its m with Sauiult is ot the tailiond people all tor v ho-- t oimtii'd 10.7 if the non bist quality in any quan1 com-worth of its ol at Brvi owning similar to that lie apor, ot mon stock and $.70. non worth of its m Zion national sje tity incoins, it you and tie' paik, order the carload; cheap by At last he had th Inun- vest mint lias been placed at various preferrd. enough if you buy in smaller dation of a fortune from $15u.mmi to $300,000 figures quantities Figure it out as After the organization of the at Brv vou may, best coal at best khurn Company he conceiv- advantageous; lch a tion prie cS hero. ed the idea of a chain of grocery The last legislature passed a bill stores of hi own. a n t hot izing th commisstate land The lirst thing -- he rail' up his sion' r to leas, f(,r hot tint! r ort & mind was to hit on a catchy name, purposes all or part of he school and he thought of dozens upon doz- land section which lontains the most PHONE 17 ens, hut rejected them all. location for the apadvantageous Pigglv-Wig-gl- y Suddenlv the name proach to Brvce It as underwood o curred to him. then that the Union Pacific was deHe dismissed it with a smile, hut sirous of obtaining control of this it came back. section, and the legislators wc busiwill of out you laugh People willing that the section might he ness if youd choose a name like leased, but made the specific provithat and try to christen a lot of sion that the stat land commissiona .stores with it, lie told himself, but er must reserve' from th' lease the name kept returning and return- - sufficient- amount of ground to proSELLS suitable vide ing. camping public At last he gave up in disgust. grounds. Old Pigglv-Wiggl- y prodIt was understood at that time1 its going to be, I decan think of nothing else. that the railroad interests were sine uct. foshe demiled. And Pigglv Wiggly it sirous of purchasing the section if i was. and has been ever since. could suitable arrangements huThe next thing was how to obviate made with the state. However, it the expense of clerks, always one of quicklv developed that a proposal to the greatest items in the manage- sell this sec! ion would probably meet ment of a grocery store. The legwith strenuous opposition. Every child should have at I might as well get rid of clerks islature then passed the act providleaf one quart per day. he said. It ing for the leasing of the section or and counter' both, wont hurt to do it in my imagina- any part of it. The state land comtion. anyway, and counters clutter missioner, it was understood, already in compliance up a store and generally keep a per- had full authority. son away from the very thing he with the statutes, to sell the section wants to look at. or any subdivision of it. But the Our fitting of glasses and examinaHe closed his eyes again and vis- leasing of school lands for hotel or ualized a store without clerks or resort purposes, and particularly the tion is done by the latest scientific counters. The result was a picture leasing for other than mineral purof a store much on the order of a poses for so long a term as twenty-fiv- e method and expert skill. HeadPiggly Wiggly store today. years, wdth powers under which store which the commissioner might renew The first Piggly Wiggly blurred sight reache, eye-straiwas opened in September, 1916, get- for another twenty-fiv- e years, were its start at the same time, the new features which are incorporated ting moved. Saunders-Blackbur- n firm at last was in the legislation passed by tlio 1923 struggling to a paying basis. By legislature. Absolute Results Guaranteed. March. 1917, there were seven Pig- GRAZING LEASE EXPIRES. It was rather expected, at the time gly Wigglys in Memphis, and May, 1917. saw' Houston, Texas, getting the legislature adjourned, that, so DR. G. H. HEINDSELMAN the first one to be established away soon as the governor should approve from the Tennessee city. Today the bill, the railroad people would With Heindselman Optical and Jewelry Co. there are 1,260 Piggly Wiggly be ready to open negotiations. And stores. They are valued, with their at about that time the Utah Parks Broken Lenses Replaced. company filed its articles of incor- holding company, at $27,000,000. poration. ESTRAY NOTICE Formal action was taken by the agdIii6cggctBfgICg I have in my possession the followstate board of land commissioners ItLS, ing described animal which, if not some years ago, soon after it was flaimed and taken away, will be sold learned that the state owned such an 1 WE SERVE YOU at public auction to the highest cash advantageous site at Bryce canyon, H bidder at Provo City Estrav Pound the effect of which was to withdraw pj You appreciate prompt, polite, efficient service, dont on Wednesday, the 17th day of May, this particular section of school land c from application to purchase. Since gj you? Service is the cornerstone of our business. 1923, at 6 oclock p. m. Description: One bav horse colt that time it has been for the most a single spark plug, a tube, a lens, or a Whether about three years old. weighing part, under what was ostensibly a difficult job, our purpose is the same, to serve you. about 700 pounds, brand O with grazing land lease; and the lessee, R. vertical line through middle and line Syrett, constructed the present imWe would like to do business with you. at bottom on left thigh; no other provements on the ground under that brands or marks visible. right. This lease was not renewed Said estrav was taken by the city last year, but Mr. Syrett remained in police on the 4th dav of May, 1923. possession of the ground and operated j BURT BROWN. the hotel and constructed various there. These included Poundkeeper of Provo City. improvements 44 5 West 5th North. attempts to develop a sufficient supply of water from springs on the face clinker of the cliffs themselves. SALE FOR brick bungalow, modern; all the latCommissioner Oldroyd announced est built-i- n features, hot water heat. vesterdav that the former action glassed-i- n sleeping porch, new ga -- withdrawing the entire section from or unfurnished. Lib sale has been revoked, and thus the furnished rage; eral terms. Apply 230 South 2nd way is opened for negotiations along 2 East. any line that may be desired. ant job. Our Own Money to Loan on New Homes TO STORE When bo PROVO GREENHOUSE Thev locked askance at him. but DELAYS Per Annum papers kept in our or write. vaults. LIFE INSURANCE Floor Salt Lake Boston Building Utah m 1 j - 5 -- . ns . v rs-BI- .u i v 1 1 1 - e Saun-ders-Bl- af . Smoot 1 Spafford CHERRY HILL DAIRY r-- - Bosseys Shes the ter mother of the man race. n, j j j its Six-roo- m : M-1- |