Show PRE PRESIDENT IDENT IRVINE REPLIES De Denies s Some Allegations s Made Nade by Dr Willingto Close Controversy Provo Pravo Jan Irvine of tile the Provo Commercial club has made the foi ol an answer to Dr letter aU all aUrela rela relating to unsanitary the news that has hasla la lately elY disturbed the people of Provo lIt Jn your issue or of Dec 31 there is a alett lett r signed bY Dr Slater In tills this let letter letter ter Is one paragraph that refers to fl personally th that t I wish to answer To n gin n with the doctor Is dodging the at Issue No good citizen will ever trite to with the carrying out of th the ordinances of the city particularly when the they apply to Its rhio objections that have been raised b by against Dr SJ Slaters actions are t on account nt of enforcing the 0 or dma ces but ut on ac account or of applyIng tl 14 staten state officials to help run the little af fah s1 of this little cit city Tills This cit city r with Its o and citizens should be and andIs andis Is amply able to govern itself and will willbrook brook rio unwarranted outside interior once b did call Dr Slaters attention to a apil pil of ashes that was eating its way Into our warehouse and expressed Ute the hope that lie he would be able to have it cleaned up but had nothing further to say to I the doctor In connection with this matter Now when Dr Slater says that I called d da a II of the citizens and studIously sending him an invitation lIe makes a statement that is false Furthermore the doctor knew of the mee meeting ing to my positive knowledge as h hO himself came Into the store while Iwas at lunch to ascertain whether or not notI I would attend The meeting was open to all citizens and was called about 11 and con convened at 3 The citizens who requested the call ot of the meeting together with myself spread the news about to those whom we chanced to meet The news of the meeting reached Dr Slater but lie hE did not see fit to attend Whether or not lie he studiouslY avoided it or feared the cenSure of his fellows I do not pretend to s say Y The Commercial club was organized fur foi the furtheranCe of the best Interests of Provo City and aud naturally Its members together with all good citizens would oh ob to the cIty cly bel being g advertised as beIng filth filthy and Incompetent Neither do j I that any citizen who had the in interests 11 of o the tho city at heart would so wish to defame it bY b calling on th the state of officers officers to clean up our dooryards i are arc the facts and as far as I Iam Iam am c the thc end of the contro controversy controversy It IRVINE versy |