Show My t Native Village ii C c n to rv i I Ic By B y David F. F Smith This week our minds have been beer I on heroes monuments honored I dead de ad and cemeteries Now vc we w think th ink would be a very y appropriate time ti ne m-ne to refer to a costly monument monument ment mn that David F F. Smith native of Centerville manager of Grow Growers Grower's Growers Grows Grow's ers er's Cr s 's Market in Salt Lake but in Ir I Ie the th e beginning practically a Davis lavi i county co concern recently obtained I at a cost of some which has lia S the he t inscription My Iy Native Vil Vii lage Ia gc He lie did not buy this monument t of o f a sculptor but from a printer It I It t will not be kept in the cem cemetery tery t ery where it will worry sorry the city cit y council c sexton and caretaker but bu t rather ather r on the tho shelf of the library y where here w everybody will have access S to t o it or 01 can own a copy themselves S It is not only a monument to t 0 the he t author but is a splendid his history bi 5 tory t ory of Centerville giving the tho th 0 names ames n of many of the seWers settlers S 'S and a nd what some of them achieved achieve d in i n business art education and an d many m any other lines of endeavor He ii gives g ives some early day practices re religious ri a. a l and civil which had been bee a ait pretty retty p welt well forgotten which will wi it now be preserved for future gen gen- a- a rations e The book is of af f rare are r and valuable information a some ome s of it even from outside Ic points p which would have been be bee n m I forgotten l if it had not been bce n brought rought b into this book I The book shows the author is familiar f with big business all over ov er the t he country and has crammed the U ie essence e of much of this expel exper experience r- r i ence in a very few words Shake Shake- Shakespeare Shakespeare e speare peare s said two of wheat at in i n a bushel of chaff but in this tt LIS book ook b it is all wheat and no chaff chal If My Native Village contains 62 02 i pages four full pages of pictures es of men settlers of Centerville two t ao full ull f pages Ox Oi L women of Center Cent er- er ville yule one page of Bountiful Bount ul tab tabernacle t ib- ib one full page picture of seventh s and eighth grado grade pupils pupi is one page picture of the quorum of seventy 4 years ago one page pago of pictures of school teachers one o ne page picture of the late William Willi im II II 11 Streper and the widows he took out annually for a sleigh ride ri dc one full page picture of Center Centerville Cent er- er ville yule Coop store A picture of the theauthor theauthor he author and his wife |