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Show VOL XV. AMERICAN FORK, UTAH, SATURDAY," APRIL 16, 1927 NUMBER 10 Ken lions Club Organizes . Willi Strong Officers Utah County llfi School flay Here May Sixth Of Rcfcredum Petition " At"I?TTn A XT TrvTT T-rm . . . StormifiGpesult . .... TW petition calling for a referea inm vote on the billiard parlor ordi which waiTreid to we council i regular session Saturday - wnln S Recorder Shelley proYed to be the.- "md an open "fight reaulted la the WcU between j)ie tactlona favoring W those objecting, to the signing of 'ja present ordinance granting om-' om-' rf licenses in this city. The petition peti-tion carried nsmesef 190 citlaeag or 'Ihe 15 P nt TOt1 accessary Lo bring this action. , ' , :::: : j One of the stormiest meetings rer beld by an American Fork city council Allowed. ' Charge that - the r- Mattel )aA been taken itatdchurca meettnga 'were made and before the diacaatlon i. j.j .ot nnilt( were indulxed In. joueu ir" -r - 'Although the petition recommezrded 'jut the election be called along with !ie coming city election Councilman Shelley moved that a special election V called to determine the question aa Con as the time specified by law 'would permit The Tote carried three jto two, Councllmen Abel and Rasmus -Cea voting nay. The matter was re. Jered to the Committee on Election!. The next matter discussed waa If Jtne mayor would . ilgn the blluaro Ordinance as passed. Mayor Grant feted be was still of the opinion that e ordinance should sot be signed. :onndlman Barrett expreasea we pinion that a principal waa Involved as to whether the mayor had the right tot vetoing an ordinance already pass ed by the council and felt that pro. ceedlngs should be Instituted to mandamus the mayor to sign. Action hvsjj defered on this point nntll the next meedpg.:" ' David l)avl8 aim '' John Robinson wers present and petitioned the conn. ell to change the lunch counter clos- 'in hour to 2:30 instead ot the present time, of 1 a. m It.J?SJ.t.J'.-, Councilman Rasmussen as ehair-mu ehair-mu of the Cemetery Committee waa anthorixed to purchase SI Norway Maple and 25 Silver Maple shade trees for planting In the cemetery. Authority was granted the mayor and recorder to purchase 10 shares of water from David SI Shejley from ih Mott ditch for use by the city. Ths recorder : wa alao authorix-ed authorix-ed to take necessary steps to transfer trans-fer the 10 shares from the city park. share from the city camp grounds and 9 shares from the McArthur ditch to the cemetery. An opinion from City Attorney Ells- more was read wherein he stated the city had the right to grant the Mutual Creamery company aT- right-of-way uum on second. East street for a drain: - It was moved that the r " dty graot the Creamery " company the Privilege to run the drain. : Adjoors. mett followed. TOh Central League Opens Hay 11th Central Utah league baseball will open on Wednesday. May 11H with ther eight or nine teams In the circuit. ... . Setting of the opening date. ae. ceptance- of Park City's ; application 'or a league franchise, and a doubtfal report from Heber Citr were the hleh points of the league meeting which was held in SDanlah Ftark Tn.l iRht. o . . C Oren Wllaon: secretarr-treasnr. LiJhe SaitXake-Amateiir , Baseball i . "Sues, and well known for hla nro. m n of all amateur sports was the "ia'n Bl,Pak in the general meeting, , 3 gave an interesting speech to the r6 n,lln'ber of baseball fans who ?re preaent. The league Alrtvtnra Mn.i "option of an official ball .t th. of the meeting, and decided uL f W,l80n ba"' tn me a. Is UB in the Pai.fl K,.. t - Offlntnl t . . .N..)7,,aurjBg,.iBe,ieaiIL..!..Tlia wHie rtlrctore-choa' tt. center, type' of - ban - ,k '1 !?XPtei d(scusiaon.oi;the:;coo. V'-oftheleagn. ditlnn. ."! anu aa- "tuna Wpr. w. n 4. . . - I ditinn om CBne "tl ad-ntlong ad-ntlong were mh. - m ;Iob af th7V-w z7.: . L VLropoiea ior,ma ana a aevoiea mounr,w,,w uicvuna;. 1 Oe leama . n to dr.." ; ; w" n mrcivj was rnstrnct ! ln!.,or umP,r'. considerable dls- "'"ction be In Floods of nn.,.,i . , iant Part of the game last season. ui urn import. STAKE C03(FfiCC SEXT JJATCBDAI ASD 8U5DAY The regular quarterly confer. cei0?JuP,n:Jk'wlll be held next Saturday and' Sunday, April 23rd and 24th, In the stake tabernacle. General authorities of the Church will be in attendance attend-ance and the stake chorister is arranging for special musical numbers. There will be two sessions each .day.- These rules will be passed upon at the next meeting. The secretary also was instructed to draw up an article pertaining to regulation of the championship cham-pionship series. The league board went on record as favoring the playing of Sunday baseball at Heber City, and will in. form the Heber city council as to its decision In this matter. - Park City's enthusiastic application for a franchise was announced, and the mining town was admitted by un. animous vote. The secretary; was then instructed to draw np for approval two schedules, sched-ules, one for eight teams and one for nine, a matter depending upon Heber City's decision, which will be announced an-nounced at the next meeting. Wednesday Wednes-day dates appear to be the most popular popu-lar throughout the circuit U3udden Death Of lire. L. 0. Harrington Shocks Citixens - The entire community was consid erably shocked and saddened Tuesday afternoon when word went out that Mrs. Leonard 8. Harrington bad pass ed away at the family residence after a very short Illness. Mrs. Hairing ton was apparently is the best of health and spirits wheat her husband left the house in Use morning, bet when he returned home for lunch after 12 oock his little baby grand daughter greeted him with the words "Mamma failed" and guided him up stairs where he found his wife lying on the floor unconscious. She had been moping a floor and It Is supposed that the exertion of bend Ing over caused a blood vessel to burst . Mr. Harrington; tmmedlawly summoned assistance and everything that loving hands could do was done to restore her but to no avail, and ihe passed away without regaining consciousness, ta the afternoon. About 11 o'clock Mrs. Harrmgton . phoned one of the local stores to place an nntor Wflil nvldSitlT WIS Seised With Illness between that hour and noon. ' Melissa Roxmna Chtpman Harring-tan. Harring-tan. rtanshter of James and Salena Huntsman Chlpmsn, was born In American Fork June 13, 1869, -being 57 years of age. During ber ch0d howl. she. attended school herd and later "on was si 'seitlFtne BHgham Tonne- University. On October 23, 1890. she was saarrled to Leonard S HrrinrtAB who survives her and fmm thin nnlon five children have been born. They are: Leonard E. Harrington of Long Beach, Callfor. nia; Vera, who died m infancy ; Wash- burn-Harrington pt this city, Lavon, deceased, and James Harrington, who Is on a mission to the Hawaiian Islands, and an adopted daughter, baby Lavon, daughter of their daughter daught-er Lavon who died when the child was born." She Is survived also by the following follow-ing brothers: James Chlpman, Ajfonso Chlpman. Stephen U Chlpman, Washburn Chip-mad Chip-mad and William Chlpman, all ot 'cw.Mi.kft -svn!" lano Chloman ,o! nuwi v - Provd Etnmett Chlpman of Lebl,. and ; I by one sister Mrs. May Cosens- oi ts&it Lake city,:apd: bI ; ! granddaughters and one grandson. I ... . . - a. hIiI . WA Mrs. Harrington was .j v- flced her Ufe for her family, and no man had a more considerate patient and loving wife than did the bereaved husband. Funeral nervices-were-bemf heU Friday afternoon commencing at Vclock In the1 Alpine atake ta.bernacls. I'ep and Enthusiasm Shows Promises . American Pork City One of livest Clubs In Bute. If the first meeting of the "newly organised .American Fork Lions Club, which was held Thursday evening in the City Hall, can be taken as any indication of the organization's future activities our city can look for some real civic work from this group" 'of citizens. FortyJour live townsmen had Joined and forty-two were present at the organization meeting. .Among these were District Governor, Harvey L. Selley, Field Director Fredrick C. Kanzler and President H. F, Fern, strom all of Salt Lake, The meeting selected a very strong group of officers choosing William Chlpman as president; Joseph ' H. Storrs, 1st vice-president; 1 . B. Adamson, 2nd vice-president; Thomas Coddington, 3rd vice-president; Joseph F. Walton, secretary; " e. W. Paxman, treasurer; C. A. Grant, Lion tamer; Earl Hohnstead, tail twister and J. B. Chadwick, William Thornton, K. J. Bird and J. - L. Flrmage - direotors. Suitable eommittes will be selected later to assist the officers In carrying out the future work and projects. , The meeting was presided over by Joseph H. Storrs in the absence - ot William Chlpman. The visitors briefly brief-ly outlined the work of Llonism and told what some ot the other flfteea Utah Lions clubs are accomplishing. A few minutes at the opening ot the meeting was pleasaaUy need la sing ing Lions songt. which InsUntly broke down the restrained feeling us- unit yiClftKUfc U V.WU.. meetings. Following a very free and live meeting resulted in the selection of the above officers. The first lunch' eon meeting will be hed next Thursday, Thurs-day, the place to be chosen by Pres. Chlpman and Secty. Walton. ' The town can expect some - veff creditable work from this new organ!, ration In the future for every mem- Iwsnthuslastifr about the-clubliourthandJPayson last system and everyone of the members will ever be In the harness to build our city and citizens. ' 1 o Matrimonial Mistake The most serious mistake (lie average aver-age married man muken U showing bis worst side to his better half.-Day-ton Dally -News... ..... ....... . . . An Amazing Quarter Century Sliver Jubilee Discloses Fact that Original $500 Invested In "Mother Store" has Grown To Annual Sales of $120,000,000. "T ByCe3rtte u pntlrplv a matter ot moral fibre. The opportunity for achievement is greater today than ever before." When asked to .comment on the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the founding of the original J- C. Penney store, Mr. Penney made this remark. Upon his firm belief in the truth of it rests the foundation of the system of department stores, bearing his name, which now cover the entire country These stores are not chain stores In the ordinary acceptance of the name. They are a closejy knit group of Individual community stores, con tributing to the welfare of the com-wunit. com-wunit. in. XhS same manner as other local. stores .but with we -aaaeu p- vantoge afforded by co-operation wltn other Penney stores. "Ther have "all been developed on the theory and practice of partner ship. They have all contributed in a poreliylocarmanner to the- development develop-ment of the towns where they ere lo. cated- The strength ot the group has been used to serve the welfare of the local community, v The original X C. Penney store was founded to KemmeTer,! Wyoming, LTIL1T1ES COXMISSIOX HOLOIXG IT LOCAL EGG PLANT Continuing Its , nsusl high ..handed manner ot handling questions coming before It for settlement the Utah Utilities Commission is unnecessarily hold ing up the building ot the , sew Utah Poultry Producers plane Everything is ready to start the minute permission Is given the BaK Lake and Utah railroad to pnstruct a spur Into the prop-... erty. The local company has Investigated In-vestigated locations on all three" railroads snd after weeks of ' deliberation have decided to "build so ai fo'gef service f rom ; two railroads. Property owners have authorized the building of a switch over their property to the new plant and the city has by ordinance granted permission permis-sion for the switch to cross Main street , .. . In the face of all this, with pot a single protest from here, fhe Commission withholds permission per-mission for some unknown rea-- rea-- son having had ten days tir ready In which to make a decis-. sion. The question naturally arrises. ar-rises. Is the commission tune-, tioning for the ' public or ; for certain interests? Similar action to this is slowly, but surely, arousing the . citizens citi-zens of the state and oltimafejy the powers of the commission v win be limited or It will be en- rply abolished. . ierican Fork Motor- Wins County Contest The American Fork Motor. Com pany walked ay ar with TJtahjBounty honors In the March selling contest In which all six Ford agencies of the district competed. The local company-scored over 100 percent in all five of the contested sales. These were cars,-trucks, tractors. Dearborn 'and : apodal savings sales. Provo came second in the contest Lehi The losers had to finance a banquet for. the garage forces of all the six contestants. contest-ants. Manager Halstrom, Salesmen, Wm. Condor, Roy Iverson and shopmen 'Milton Adams, George iMltehell and Hugh Cheever all attended the banquet at the Hotel Roberts at Provo Tuesday, Tues-day, evening. , :., on April 14th, 1902. Today there are 773 J. C. Penney stores asdplans are already under way to increase thin number to more than" 800 before the close of this year ' Ini 1902. the "mother, store" In Kemmerer did a business of $28,89A 11. At the close of 1926 the 745 store operating at that' time did total of $115,682,737 in sales lor the yeay. - - . The $500 which was the original Investment ot J. C. Penney . in the HttJe store at Kemmerer was turned better than 230J0OO times last year. ' The original $500 Invested In the Kemmerer store has grown to over $30,000,000 of Invested capital. This growth has been brought about In side the group of stores. No outside caphalxinvestednihJJPwney Company, and the only time that out side help was ssked for waa in 1911 when an Issue of preferred stock was offered to furnish funds for tax pur poses. This preferred stock has since been retired- - Based on the statement ""of the founder of the bulAesi;;that 'Success Is entirely a matter of moral fibre", this achievement - has-"' been1- without equal In the business annals of , the country, : .. ; - The growth of the Ford Motor Com. pany was founded on an original $28,-009 $28,-009 and was continued without the use of further outside capltoL But this $28,000 has not grows in the iame pvefniage ratio as the growth (Continued on page 6) Utah County High School day will be held in American Fork on Friday, May 0th, This city was chosen aa the place Is which to hold this gala "day for high school students of the county, MoBdaynkftCTBoeat- county school officials and principals, held at the Provo high tcsooL.- According - to Ihe plans drafted at the meeting this day will be one of the biggest ot Its kind aw held and will fittingly climax school activities in the various high schools of Utah county for the 1926-1927 ternu t , ( The finals of the declamation eon. tests wQl be held in the stake tabernacle taber-nacle commencing at 10 : 15 a. - m. The music contest has bees eliminated eliminat-ed from -the program this , year and there will be aubstltuted tor this event a musical number from each high school which win be rendered on a noncompetitive basis.' .;,;;;. :"-.v : The preliminaries In the declamation declama-tion contest will take place la April Those for Alpine district will tak place April 22nd at Lent when the Alpine Al-pine District high school day will be held. - The jchoola of the county havs bees divided as follows tor this preliminary pre-liminary conteat: . Alpine: . j.LehU Americas Fork, Pleasant Grove, and Lincoln; Nebo: Ptoto, Springrille, Spanish Fork and Payson. The outstanding feature of the day will be the track-meet which will take Place In the afternoon at the city ball park. The order ot events will be the same as scheduled for the , - Mu. . k. V.l Im O.I T . Va w ,v ! May 13th. Officials ot the sUU as- ... i.- . -v . .v.i soclatlon wllj be In charge of the events. Three officials for the - meet hsve already been selected: EL L. Roberts, referee? Owen Barnett, an. Bouncer; E. JL Rasmuson, scorer. A dasce Is the Apollo Hall is the evening will close the activities ot the day. x" 'i','r,'??A''pV''U -f'r'4' :: The school officials who ' attended the meeting in Provo : Monday afternoon after-noon were: Principals Jesse M. Walker, Walk-er, American Fork; IX R. Mitchell, Lehi; Karl Banka lineolnrl . B. Harmon, Prbvo; E. B. "Knndses, SpringvlJIe; LaVar Jenses, & T. TJ.; James Clove, Payson; X W. Nielsen, Spanish Fork; and Superintendents David Gourleyjf Alpine District; Heivin tvuKn ot niwr- lbu-ivi, Coaches Bun Wooley of Payson and Fenton Reeves of Spanish Fork. ' o . " : Death Claims John Alma Singleton John Alma Singleton. 68, Ufe-lcng resident of this cl' 'passed; a'way'at the family residence on the East State Road early Wednesday morning. Mr. Singleton, although not is the best of health, had bees able to be about untU two days before his death which was due to Brlghfs Disease. The deceased was born March 21, 1859. in American Fork the son ot John and Catherine Creer 8Ingleton He was raised to manhood here at- tendlnc the subtle schools when - a youth. He marrledS Miss Sarah Jane Files and together they have enjoyed 42 years ot wedded life. Although no childres blessed '. thelrl nnlon they reared an adopted son, Louis, whom they took into their home when - baby of about two years and reared to manhood. - v " - : Mr. Singleton was a farmer which occupation he has followed since a youth For several years he held the position ot watermaster. . In the Lat ter-day Saint Church he was a ward teacher tor several years and also served on We Old Folks Committee, and at the time of his death held the position of High Priest In the Church. wHe JsjurYiyed J7 ,hiswife,of this city snd adopted son, Louis J. Singleton Single-ton of Salt 'Lake City, ajso by one brother Robert Singleton of this city, one sister, Mrs. Mary Jane Taylor of Ferron, Emery County, ; two half-brothers, half-brothers, Thomas Singleton ot American Ameri-can Fork' and"" Bamuel TBIngleton 'of Ferron; . snd' two y halfi-slaters, . Mrs. Mary Ellen Pulley ot 8alt Lake City and Mrs. - Phoebe Blood of American Fork. . ' ".: - 'l;--'"r Funeral services will , 1 be held bSaturday wmmenclng at 3 o'clock ov in the First ward chapeL . . ' o ' . , No Pace f o Try it It may ..oe. true, as scientists say.H that stretrlilng Is an aid to health, but It dixwu'l iVciii to help truth Hiiy. Alpine Stake Honora -' - j ; Eeturn Of Pres. and --' lira. Stephen L.' Chlpman A fitting testimonial of respect and esteem was tendered President Stephen" U Chlpmsn and Mrs. Chlpman Sun. day afternoon In - the stake' taber nacle by twelve-hundred people of AL. pise stake. The meeting was arrang- ed as a welcome-home tor President , and Mrs. Chlpman. who have been In California," President Chlpman serving as a missionary In the San Jose con.i fenence for about, fouytees ' montha, ; During the major part ot this time he : waa president oyer, that conference. - There were present as special guests Apostle Melvls 3. Ballard ot UP Council ot Twelve, and President . Emeritus George H. Brlmhall ot the Brlgham Young University. Occupying Occupy-ing places on the rostrum with we honored guesU also were JHdeTs Loyal Loy-al Carter, Delbert FugaJU Ell Bi HawV' klna, Carlos Schow, Miss Oneida Els. more and Miss Alice White, who ail labored as mlssionartee in; California with President Chlpman. , - Clifford B. Tonng, stake superintendent superin-tendent of the T. M. M. I. An was ta charge of the meeting. The program was preceded br a adeetloa played on the plpa organ by Mrs. Velma W. Jeriing. . The ISTOcatloa was offered by Patriarch Warren B Smith, followed fol-lowed by as anthem by the, stake ubernacle choir directed "7t wT Kenneth J. Bird. by -Prot Mr. Toung made a abort address of welcome In which he expressed the lore and esteem Is which ' President and Mrs. Chlpman are held by the enure en-ure slake and to than. - Mrs. ; -EJIssv Bnckwalter, : stake president ot the Relief Society, presented ia behalf ot the1 stake membership a large beautiful beauti-ful basket ot rosea, accompanying the " presentation with a fitting speech. ' President and Mrs. Chlpman feelingly feel-ingly responded to thle tribute. They , expressed their appreciation for the honor given them and their pleasure at being back among the "homo-folks" again. Both said that although Call, fornla has many beautiful things to see not one could rival In their. eetU . matlos the large congregation of friends before them. "Lovejler than .waxlowett :"oti.aHforslaltaX,g human bouquet before me" said Mrs. Chlpman. J . - Apostle Ballard conveyed the ap- preciatlon and pleasure ot the Gene ral authorlUes of the Church tor cha splendid missionary work doseKbr President Chipmas wnne in cauor nia. ' President BrlmhaQ paid trfbute-to trfbute-to the good Judgement which charao-. terised the service of President Chipmas Chip-mas as a member of the) Board ot Trustees of the Brlgham Toung University. Uni-versity. , '. - .- ; , ' The faithfulness ot the people - ot Alpine stake la supporting President James H. Clarke and President: "Abet" J. Evans in the absence ot the .stake president was the theme of their remark re-mark a. Both said they were glad to be able to cunt over to President Chlpman the affairs of the stake la aa good condition as when he left, thanks to the co-operation given tbem by the stake membership. .-nr.- " Other musical numbers were ' aa Instrumental fluartette by Misses Mth ba, Blanche and Edna Clark and W. E. Clark, Jr. of Pleasant Grove; a vocal duet " by ' Mesdamee . Margaret Klrkham and Sadie' Klttlnger ot Lehi and two anthems by the choir. The benediction was pronounced by John R. Hlndley of Salt Lake Cky. The stake heads of the auxiliary organizations of Alpine stake arrang. ed tbe program which was most successfuly carried out 0 ;:..-'; OppotedAll Machir.tt fit I i .' - nWkera In Enyliind who. fn 1811-10. un def Moflie" sort of rtrjranWrt Ion,' w ont i bimt . ,4lt wiPSv. iextU "muMsm .r--.-. un.l.,; sometimes wrecking fHCtorlea. Tl'e cfntec.ot jthe Ludtiite mow.meut r , , whs In NottlngliHin. though It extended ilso to other purls of the countrr. Tree Go$ After Water A self-reliant eucalyptus tree grows in western Australia. During the hot drv month it haa hin Imwd ta aend - dtwn a root thr.mirh nrt In lime stone to a depth of 100 feel lo reaixh of tnoiMuiy. . .. . 2 I. . 4 |