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Show BEAVER PRESS - - . Intermoiintain GRAN l an J - i ' Hews i i I tI I -- . A MM. -- Briefly Told for Busy Readers BANK TO RE OPEN f TREES PLANTED PLANNED DAY HRY D BEET CROP INCREASED POSTAL RECEIPTS GROW 1000 iiTSV IDAHO FALLS, IDA. A fifty per cent increase in upper Snake river V.! valley's sugar beet crop has been of predicted by the Idaho manager Utah-Idahcompany. sugar the University of MOSCOW, IDA. Idaho chapter of Sigma Alpha will begin construction of Its new $15,000 fraternity house on May 1st. The building will be ready for occupancy next fall. IDAHO FALLS. IDA. A tax decrease of $275,000, reached by cutting down expenditures of all bodies in Idaho Falls and Bonneville county was demanded in resolutions presented by the Bonneville County Taxpayers' Council before the statewide tax committee, In their recent meeting here. BOISE. IDA. Dry farmers of Franklin county have protested to Governor Ben C. Ross against the ruling of the United States department of agriculture, which they interpret ns denying them seed loans which were made available to irrigation farmers. CEDAR CITY, LT. After consistent efforts for the past three months, the Cedar City chamber of with the commerce, in Id board of directors of the Bank of Southern Utah, have succeeded In raising the $100,000 quota necessary for reopening the bank, which closed December 20th. PRESTON, IDA. The senior class, of 109, from Preston high school is the largest group in the history of the school to make application for graduation. 7 o .v III i , J J I Ep-sil- i tax-levyi- ng GrantMerrvoriaL Home SCOTT WATSON IIE date Is April 27, 1822. The place Is the little backwoods town of Point Pleasant on the Ohio V river, 25 miles east of Cincinnati. "C In thi home of Jesse Root Ornnt. foreman of a small tannery, his wife, Hannah Simpson Grant, has presented him with his first child, a BOD. For the first six weeks of his life the baby Is nameless. Father and mother, It seems, cannot agree upon a name. Then, In the words of W. & Woodward In his biography "Meet General Grant," "It was agreed finally to let chance decide the question. The assembled relatives so the story runs wrote the names of their choice on slips of paper, folded up the slips, and drew one. It was Ulysses, the came that had been proposed by Grandmother fclmpsott. Evidently the outcome was not wholly satisfactory to the masculine part of the family. Somebody who was there succeeded In tacking Hiram on In front of Ulysses, so the child was ealled Hiram Ulysses Grant." Thus, the first chapter In the story of a man and a town. The scene shifts now to the north and west some 450 miles. On a high point of land rising abruptly from a little river which empties into the mighty Mississippi six miles away, a settler from Kentucky, named Thomas January, has established a trading post. French-Canadiaand American traders call the place Jan- j' By ELMO II n voy-age- ur -- safes fgs v Arch Erected in Honor of Granta Return tn lses-.-" g CITY, UT. A course, lasting ten days, will be conducted under the auspices of the agricultural department of the Branch agricultural college in the near future. SPANISH FORK, UT. The 8th CEDAR annual Utah County livestock show opened here with one of the - i 0mm' ' p it i uarys Point There Is a good reason for establishing i4tr vice-vers- a. distinction. At that time it had no way of knowing that In lees than half a century It would become a town that had died on Its feet, a quiet little village resembling noth ng so much as an old man basking In the sunshine and dreaming of the days of his youth. It could not have known that It would come to be famous principally through the Unking of Its name with the name of a man who had not yet walked through Its narrow, winding streets. It probably had never heard ef the town of Point Pleasant, Ohio, and certainly the birth of a son to Jesse and Hannah Grant there on April 27, 1822, meant nothing to Galena. Except for the adding of another business enterprise to Its list. It meant nothing more to Galena when the elder Grant, then owner of a tannery In Covington, Ky., sent his two sons, Jesse Boot and Samuel Simpson, to open a leather store In the Illinois town. So Galena could not realize the Importance to It of an event which took place In April, 180O. Hamlin Garland In his "Life of Grant" describes it as follows: "Men stood on the levee watching the steamer Itasca' while she nosed her way up the tortuous current of the Galena river; as she swung ep to the wharf, attention was attracted to a passenger on the deck wearing a blue cape overcoat. As the boat struck the landing this man rose and gathered a number of chairs together, evidently part of his household furniture. "'Who is that? asked one man of a friend en the river bank. That la Captain Grant, Jesse Grant's oldest son; he was in the Mexican war nut A rrJx-- V 1 t' rv fk ii ii" A Relic of Grant, the Business Man Crave of $amuel 5 ;mpson Grant he Is moving here from St. Louis,' was the reply. Captain Grant took a couple of chairs In each hand and walked ashore with them; his wife, a small alert woman, followed him with her little flock (four children, Frederick, Ulysses, Jesse and daughter, Nellie). The carrying of the chairs ashore signified that Ulysses Simpson Grant had become a resident of Galena." So Ulysses Simpson Grant (the change from Hiram Ulysses to Ulysses Simpson had taken place during his West Point days) this army captain who at forty was a failure at everything he had attempted, became a clerk In his brothers' leather store at the munificent salary of $000 a year. Apparently he made but little Impression In his new surroundings. There was nothing about him to mark him as a man of destiny. But he did make some strong friends among them Ellhu B. Washburne, state senator, John A. Itnwllns, a farmer and lawyer ; W. It. Rowley, clerk of the Circuit court, and Dr. Edward KIttoe, an Englishman by birth but a naturalized American. Even when the event came which was to set his feet firmly on the ladder of fame. Grant was still pretty much of a nonentity In Galena. At the news of the firing on Fort Sumter a mass meeting was ctlled In the courthouse and at that meeting Grant offered his West Point training and his Mexican wnr experience for the service of his country In the new crisis. When some one criticized the offer because of the likelihood of Grant's sympathy for the South since he came from St. Louis and It was reported that his wife owned two slaves. Immediately Washburne and Rawlins came to the defense with the emphatic statement that "Any man who will try to stir up party prejudices at such a time as this Is a traitor!" So at a later meeting to raise volunteers Grant was made chairman and within a few days he was busy drilling troops on the broad lawn which surrounded the Southern colonial home He was offered the captaincy of Washburne. of the Volunteer company that Galena raised but refused It, although he announced his Intention of going to Springfield with the company. His departure from Galena was almost as unmarked as his arrival had been. He simply walked from his home to the Illinois Central depot over a miserable pathway through the muddy streets of the town, carrying a little was "unsatchel In his hand. His leave-takinnoticed and unhonored." When the war was over and the victorious general returned to his home In Galena, the man who had slipped away so quietly In civilian clothes In ISfil was welcomed back with wild acclaim. From all over the West thousands came to join with Galena In honoring her first citizen. Across Mfcln street In front of the De Soto house was an Immense arch bearing the inscription "Hall to the chief who In triumph advances 1" Galena further honored Its returned hero by buying a fine brick house, located on a hlg hill east of the river, and presenting It to him for his home. There the Grants established themselves and took a leading part In Galena society until his election to the Presidency In 1808. Again In 1870 he was given a great reception after bis trip around the world at the conclusion of his two terms In the Whits House. Ones more he settled down In Galena, only to find the quiet life which he had sntlclpated disrupted by the Insistence of his friends that he be a candidate for a third term. d g Grant, who was sitting In the office of his frietui Rowley when the news was brought to him that the Republican convention had denied him the nomination and given It to Garfield, had just lighted one of his famous cigars. Walking out to the sidewalk he stood for a moment in thought, then tossed the cigar in the street, turned and went back into the office. "I can't say that I regret my own defeat," he said quietly. "By it I shall escape four years of hard work and four years of abuse. And, gentlemen, we can all support the candidate." Across the street was a jewelry store. When the son of the proprietor saw Grant throw away his cigar he sent a clerk to retrieve it. That cigar, the symbol of the end of Grant's public career, Is one of the Grant relics which Is preserved In Galena to this day. But It Is only one of the many which you find on every hand. A modern paved highway leads you into Galena, but the moment you enter the town, you realize the aptness of someone's description of Galena as "a town where time founds still." The crooked narrow streets which wind in and out among the old stone and brick houses are the same streets along which walked the notables of a century ago. But the booming river town of those days is no more. The river itself, that was 350 feet wide In IS 14, is but a thin trickle now, barely kneedeen. The levee where once scores of packet honts tied up is gone. For once you realize that the much overworked words of "sleepy" and "quaint," as applied to a "little town" are true because Galena Is both. There are Innumerable landmarks which stand unchanged by the years to take you back to another century. They suggest innumerable Interesting stories of frontier times In Illinois of the days of the voyngeur f.nd the trader, of the Indian wars, of the old steamboat river days. But dominating them all Is the memory of one man a late comer In the history of Galena to whom Galena clings as giving it now Its only claim to fame. It Is the memory of Grant. Galena will show you the store In which Grant clerked and the First Methodist Episcopal church in which Grant ar.d his family worshiped. They will take you up along "The Street of the Generals" and point out to you the homes of Rawlins and Rowley, who were generals on Grant's staff during the war, and that of his friend lKetor Kltto who medical director of the Army of the Tennessee with the rank of lieutenant colonel. They will take you out to the cemetery and show you where rests "the only Grant who stayed In Glena"--5amue- l Simpson Grant, Ulysses' brother, who died In September 180l' and Is hurled there. Through the principal park In the town, named for the general and dominated by a hronre of him. they will lead you up the hill the brick house which Galena once gave to her distinguished citizen and which his son. Gen. Frederick Dent Grant, gnv. back to Galena to be preserved as a Grant memorial There you may look upon Innumerable relics of the citizen, the soldier and the President and his It Is for furnished family, and kept as It was when the Grants occupied It. In fact, there Is scarcely a place in the town but that has Its memento of him or can con tribute some Incident to the story of his career Grant and Galena, Galena and Grant-t- he words hav become Inseparable. His ashes In the magnificent tomb on Riverside may rest Drive In New Tork city, but the living memory of him cin be found only In a little Illinois town "wher time stands still" 1931. POCATELLO, IDA. Contract for the construction of additions and alterations to Banncck county courthouse has been awarded to a Pocatello contracter, whose bid was $2,102. LOGAN, UT. Farmers in Utah have received federal seed loans aggregating $170,874 since the opening of the western loan headquarters In Grand Forks, N. I. The open season on loans was started last fall. TROVO, UT. The summer camping program of the Timpnnogos Boy Scout council will be conducted this year practically the same as last year, with five camps being held. Arrangements are being made to accomodate practically 1500 scouts. CEDAR CITY, UT.-- In commem-oration of George Washington's anniversary, the American history classes of the Branch agricultural college will plant 200 hardwood trees on the campus PAYSON, for rs UT.-I'etl- e FEVERISH tions CHIL With Casforias regJ When your child tosses out In his sleep, it means heV comfortable. Verv nw, .. is that poisonous waste matter u Bowels need help IUUd, genfl! but effective. Just the kind toria gives. Castorla la ..... table preparation made special,!1 children's aliments. Tt harsh, harmful drugs, no naJ sjvh i. juui Liums rest and own be interrupted. A prompt of Castorla will urge stubborn bowels to act. Then relaxed and restful sleep! Genuine Cast! always nas tne name: CASTORI 1 Relief Wanted When you fake your J temperature she must place the mometer under her tongue andi her mouth closed for two mind Mr. Jones Have yon one Doctor takes a little longer? ANY COUG Is Dangeror b. a largest exhibits since Its establishment. NEPIII, UT. Schools of Juab school district will close April 22, because of a shortage of funds. Plans are being made to cut the school operating expenses heavily for the year 19.12-'3MIDYALE, UT. The report for the quarter ending March 31 shows Increases of almost 100 per cent in both the money order and postal savings divisions of the MIdvale postoffice. OGDEN, UT. Salaries of teachers in the Ogden city schools, receiving $1,000 or more per year, will be reduced ten per cent for the coming school year, effecting a cut of $00,000 from the present schedule. OGDEN, UT. 1000 seedlings, 500 Douglas fir and 500 Ponderosa pines, have arrived for planting In this territory. They were shipped from Colorado hy the forest management unit of the United States forest service. UT. The horse show OGDEJX, committee of the Ogden Chamber of Commerce has fixed the following tentative dates for shows: Logan, May 19; Salt Lake, May 2G, 27 and 28; Ogden, June 2, 3 and 4. LOGAN, UT. Final statement of Logan city for the month of March and the first quarter of the year showed receipts for the quarter exceeded those for the same period in a tradAway back in 1700 a French- ing post there. man named Le Suer, ascending the Mississippi, had discovered Indians working rude lead mines tear this river and in his official report he called it the River of Mines. Later In the century a French trader named La Fevre established himself here and the name of Fevre river was tacked on to the stream, American frontiersmen later Anglicized that name to the Fever river and that name, with its unpleasant a uggestlon of ill health, persisted until 1S20 when Januarys Point became known as Galena and the Fever river as the Galena river, because galena is the name of the valuable sulphite of lead which was mined there. So while Ulysses Grant Is growing up Into a ' lusty young manhood back In Ohio, the trading post on the Fever river is growing into the lusty little settlement of Galena In the new state of Illinois. More trading posts are established, because this is still the heart of the Indian country, and the red man has many things the white man wants and But the thing, which Is bringing a rush of migration there and which would have Justified a proud chamber of commerce boast of "Watch Galena growl" (If there had been chambers of commerce in those days), is the lead mining Industry. Next to St. Louis, Galena was the most Important town In the West and Galenians began suffering from delusions of grandeur. They boastfully predicted that It would soon overshadow the old French and Spanish metropolis to the South. Httd some one told them that It would soon be displaced In Importance by a little town named Chicago, which squatted down among the marshes on the shores of Lake Michigan, they would have laughed long and loud. For everybody who went West In those days Tlsited Galena. And "everybody" Included national and world notables the Marquis de Lafayette, the Prince de Jolnevllle of the royal House of Bourbon, Dolly Madison, wife of the fourth President of the United States, Martin Van Buren and Zachary Taylor, future Presidents, Mrs. Alexander Hamilton, Joseph Smith, Mormon prophet, Charles Sumner, and Jefferson Davis, then a young lieutenant In the United States army but later destined to lead the Lost Cause of the Confederacy. By 1S0O Galena had reached the apex of Its fame and lta claim to sheep-shearin- RESTFUL SLEE for FRETFUL m, THE PENETRATING GERMICIDE CM STOPS COUGHS Ask Your Druggist $1.25 size or for At order from F. E. ROLLINS 53 BEVERLY C( ST., BOSTON, Wl Expense and Literatim "After all, reading offers the expensive entertainment." "I can't see It that way," ssH Meekton, "Henrietta is buying a Ing but fashion publications."-- ?' lngton Star. 3ES5:SSS T 7 5- -. A. 3 jF5 Xf&L PARKER'S a n tn K.. 4 Color m .4 l Impart! m 60e and ttDrajiK 11.00 fr 6"L" Malta.'I FLORESTON SHAMPOO connection withParker aHairHamin hair soft and fluffy. 60 rati by mailM giats. Hiscox Chemical Worna, raicw . Mirthf ulness and the blues never chummy. Most people would fall measured by the golden rule. WAS RUNDOWN... HEALTH RESTOI) "I Denver, Colo. AC was rundown in health and the only thing that restored condi-tiomy normal n was Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription," said Mrs. Odilla Jordan of j 5 St. 1046-lOt- h ZJ "It was of great benefit to me at that time It&J r the very best 'Prescription' for women who become rundowj l n Imitate u IW lil. - i f J whenever I have to MOT i mend it vtryw j - r. n Ik A tht llii foaad laCHata rill md vail It IS Dr. Pkra'l a . fate, N. Y, for IrM BMUal RmJ in If na waal a trial ivr. Dr. Pierce's Prescript Salt Lake City Hewat Holt1. or-de- requiring the examiner in charge of the State Bank of Pay-sowhich was closed January 1st, to pay the claims of the towns of Goshen and Santaquln city, as trust funds, has been filed In the district court. The petitioners declared the bank received the money In direct violation of the provisions of state statute by falling to secure the or give bonds or collateral Becurity for the deposits. n, . OGDEN, UT. Approximately 200 tons of mill-rufor livestock feed has been made available to the Red Cross f,.od committee and Weber County Farm Bureau committee. ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo.-Kni- ghts of Columbus from various parts of Wyoming met here recently to cele- Onl,eVhe g",(,0n nnnlws',ry of the HOTEL TEMPLE SQUARE 200TJ.K 200 Rooms Radio connection m r iTTC a - -rc ivn i . v. C s a- JuH oppent Uarmo ' . nEN; ra-Pu- nW nt a cost of ioK) steel bands to repair the wood-stavplpniip eX,.nd. rn.1K(,Pn Cnnyon' b by the city commission. ERNEST C. 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