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Show THE EMPLOYEES GIVEiyiQHET Manager W L Sewell of Firestone Company and Men Get Together i 1 Good th ngs to eat, speeches and good fellowsh p were the order of things when the members of the local Firestone Tire &. Rubber company branch became the guests of W L. Sewel branch manager a-t a get together banquet last Friday even ng at the Newhouse hotel Mr Sewe 1 pres ded and the entire sales and office forces were In attendance Prom all reports the Von Sk dists did more than justice to the sumptuous din ner pro lded by the hotel management After dinner speeches were n order First, was F E Mackenz e office man ager w ho had for his subject Eff ci ency His rema ks were pointed and In ptructive He Impressed thoroughly upon a 1 present the value of spec a z ng clt tig th Firestone factory as a strlk ng ex a.wple G M. Erockbank terr tory salesman, cai ed in from the woo es for th a spp ctal occas on rose and In an oratorical manner warned the shipping department to ship e ery t re he was going to sell next spr ng G C Hewes one of the fa ontes of auto row and expert on truck t res next took the floor He adml ted h s bashfu nees before the lad es and proceeded to fU funny stories He a so re ated some interesting narratives concerning h s eter rial chas ng of trucks and his anding of orders. W P Morton advertis ng representa tlve spoke on co operat on of sa esman and off ce forces He outl ned severa p ans which could be effect ve y worked to bring the departments together and keep them In closer touch W L Sewe branch manager and 226 fiounds of Firestone en hus asm was next n order Mr Sewe has recently been anointed to this branch hch contro s the states of Utah Idaho and parts of Won lng Colorado Nevada and Oregon. He was former y star sa esman at the Cleve and Oh o branch He expressed h mse f as be ng very much p eased w th this pa t of the country pe sona ly and where Fi estone Is concerned a ho He to-d of h s connection w th the F estone conpary of the opportun t es it afforded for advancement and of he spec acular growt the f rm had e'njojed Among other tl ngs he said The greatest jear the t re hus ness has ever had tn th s intermontane west will be 1916 The rap d increase in the number of au omob es mo or trucks and motorcyc es in th s reg on assures us that our branch tvI be taxed to Us utmost to supp y the de mard wh ch we are pos tfve wi I be made Last year we we e handicapped some because of the inab ty of our fac ory to cope w th the g eat demand for our products Th s year there hou d be no such d fficu ty Our factory has ecent y made several new add ons, insta ed much new equ p ment and assures us that t is ready to keep the Sa t Lake branch sup p led with tires At the conclus on of the speeches the dinner having been d sposed of the gath e lng adjourned. |