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Show BUILDS BASE OF MONUMENT IN SPRINGVILLE i Springville Chooses Home Architect for Soldiers' Memorial Monument. Iwis J. Whitney, architect and one of Springville's products will build the base for the Dulliu soldier's sol-dier's memorial monument to be erected iu the Springville city park jii ineinnry of the Springville and Miipl''tou boys who paid the supreme sacrifice iu the recent great world war. This was the decision arrived at ;it a meeting held at Reams Hotel by the memorial committee last Fri- day evening. Wayne Johnson who for the last , month has been acting as a commit-lee commit-lee to get estimates on the cost of this work reported that he had con- suited contractors in Springville, Spanish Fork and Salt Lake City and had written estimates from I contracting firms of eastern cities j and that the lowest estimate re- ceived was $1300 and that they run i up-ns high hs $;jooo. ; Mr. Johnson said after talking f with all these different firms he siimbitted the proposlion to Mr. Whitney, Springville architect and that Mr. Whitney proposed to give his work free as a contribution toward to-ward the erection of the monument monu-ment .providing the memoriul committee com-mittee would pay for the materials used and the common la I tor. A phone call brought Mr. Whitney to the meeting within a few minutes time ' and after listening to his proposition the committee unanimously voted in favor of accepting his philanthropic roa he monument base will be made he) composition granite. This is diyiuid granite mixed with cement d has the appearance of granite d0t. is said to be more durable. firv't is estimated that the cost for Bllt' material and labor will be in oth neighborhood of $1,000 more i half of which has already been west treatise tr-eatise theyn(- memorial comm," pnyfn t iember, decided give all the organizations in pringville and Maph'ton the privilege privil-ege of contributing for the cause md have credit given to the organi-,a(Htn organi-,a(Htn or club as the case may be. I'd to the nresent time the follow- ing contributions have been made. The Springville Central committee of the Mutual Improvement association associa-tion was the first organization to announce their contribution and it know' ,IR1 "'ut of Sluu, this was fhpy btlVV-1' U C01lt ri,IUt'n 0t ftmce rheviSl)rinKvmo ('ity count'n from extra f;L rL'lin'(1 froni and the same ytr s'll",! ll,ls -wutly t apples thoir check for $25" Price and 18 tn til0 nutwu'icement fie coun orftnnizntions would be ' "We uilG l'1"'1'0 f limiting an or-Tlieee or-Tlieee V0" c'niitr""Hiou the Service ers im't'K'"11 n1"' American Lesion 0f on ,'li llieir efforts had collected grade ri'n'nt sources the amount nhol ;r,.,!' this includes a contribu-his contribu-his I o from Hie old Spring- is il' commercial club, making a prod) 1 ",1 lo "f S7u i'- ..i'linse wbo were at Ihe committee pjr.oeting were: Wayne Johnson. Mrs. . , .'iola Koylance, Mrs. Drucilla Clark, AV. II. Kearns, Mayor John S. Boyer, Mrs. M. (. rackard, Tborn C. Miner, "Win. flrooms and Mrs. Jesse Groes-beck. Groes-beck. -Mr. Wbilney bus already begun culling Ibe forms for the erection of. Ibe bnse of die monument and it is exiicclod (lint Mr. llallin will be hero to Ibe unveiling of the monument monu-ment somelime this coming summer. |