| Show Spanish Fork Splinters This place is fairly struck with a building build-ing boom especially anoas the marchants The Co op store is now enlarging its large building to huge dimensions When completed it will outdistance any store south of Salt Lake in size convenience and value The Young Mens Coop have recently purchased a valuable piece of ground on Main Street and are preparing for the erectionftof an elegant store Mr David Malcolm T3 pushing his store building build-ing upward and the Hon Wiliam Creer is now laying the foundation of a business busi-ness house probably legalin the heart of own Mr Daub has just had a superb glass front placed in his new brick store and has recently completed and finished its upper story for dancing purposes S The ecclesiastical board of the church of Latter Day Saints lately purchased of the city an excellent site whereon build a now meeting Chouse and the Presbyterians Presby-terians have bought of Samuel Cornaby a corner lot near Main street on which to build n church anprobably a mission house and school Mr Joseph Bayack has built him a neat little store on the East Bench and is doing thriving business Henry Gay has added to his celebrated bakery a very handsome variety store where all receive kind treatment and the best of ice crcacif Across the street from the coop store Mr Hughes is putting up a barber shop A new schoolb use will be built this fall opposite Mr Petersons furniture store 1 his it is expactfed wUl be a model schoolhouse school-house built on Improved plans and furnished fur-nished with thebest of seats and desks and all needed appliances and apparatus The farmers are delighted with their prospects this year A heavy crop of grain an abundance of hay a moderate prospect in places for lucferne seed and the potato crop promises a plenty The orchards are heavily laden with apples grapes being in large heavy bunches but the peach the cherry and plum are awaitug another season sea-son to decorate their now fruitless branches Spanish Foik is moving solidly forward For years past it has been quietly but steadily amassing wealth in land homes mills home industries education machinery machin-ery etc It will soon turn its attention more direct towards the beautiful the healthfuland the comfortable Beforelong Mnin street will be made passable the cpbbles will be removed The numerous unhealthy un-healthy green poisoned ponds will be drained or filled up Our water ditches choked with decaying organic matter will receive due attontiori when the subject of health is better understood More and better shade treeswill adorn the streets of our city when our present ordinance relating relat-ing to horses and cattle running at large is better enforced A regular police will be appointed anti the peace and quiet so devoute4Ijf wished for will be usl oed in Fast dangerous ahd defiant driving will then moderate UHf interests oj the lawabiding saloqnkceper will be more zealtusly guardedand the slumbers of the S ojry will not bo itfcessantly disturbed bJ the shouts and yells of perambulating hoodlums all times of the night Water pipes will be laid from the penstock of tho Coop mill or some other headsource and hydrants will bfi located at convenient places for the sprinkling 0 f lawns the extinguishing ex-tinguishing of fires ahd other needed purposes pur-poses The people have long since seen the necessity of having our school grounds made attractive and convenient and not many years will elapse before they will be enclosed with substantial fences or even hedges and the now shadeless and barren play grounds will be decorated with elegant ele-gant lawns shrubbery walks and shade trees among which artesians wels will spout forth cool refreshing draughts for thirsty children and at the same time sprinkle and water the delightful sur roundinps Sucua condition of things is i in store for us whether the railroads pass through our townor not and as to them coming staying away the people are not overconcerned at present believing that some day some railroad will find it very profitable not to treat Spanish Fork wit tne contempt of tlio Union Pacific Several attemnts have been made to rid our town of thatscour called script Our I merchants denounce it as1l curse the farmers abominate the tradesman and toiler pronounce it a speculating ulcer and strange to relate the ones who curse it manufacture it the ones who abominate it I treasure it in sackfuls and the ones who denominate it an ulcer hug it to their i bosoms as one lover will another The fact isit keeps cash out of the market and will i continue to do so until the people demand i money or money value for their produce and the merchant is compelled to sell his goods on a cash tjasis at a fair valuation The Suffrage association holds meetings regularly and with a degree of success Con HER SPANISH Fens Aug 22 1890 |
