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Show STEELMEN ARE ENTERTAINED BYKIWANIS ' ! Sprinffvillo Business Men Get '. Acquainted Wiih Columbia Steel Officers. , waain iuu sc-hool, Thursday evening, ' March 27. ! I. S. Brown introduced C. T. Keigley, superintendent of the coke plant and asked Mr. Keigley to Introduce In-troduce the other men. Responding to the request Mr. Keigley said that the men had all come from different states and that only three of them . . had ever met before, so in Intro- . ; '' ducii them he would give tbe state '. from which they came, which was as follows: r. W. Jackson, suporin-- !, tendent of the blast furnace, from . , Wierton. W. Va., ; Fred Cornell, general foreman of the blast furn- , ace. from Buffalo. X. Y. ; J. J. Hale. . resident engineer for Frein Rrnssert I Co., from Chicago. 111.; J. D. Wat- 1 son. field engineer from Los '! : Angeles, Cal.: A. (I. Stewerwald. ..: creeling engineer for Pittsburgh j Pipe and F.iuipoinoht Co., from ! j Pittsburgh. Pa.: A. W. Christenm, ' ! employment agent, from Salt Lake;, ! L. 1'. Guy, purchasing agent from ' Juno. Alaska; I. Palmer, master j mechanic from Portsmouth, Ohio; J. !' J X". Crawford, mechanical foreman t J of the coke plant, from Milwaukee, j; , j Wis.; II. B. Makin. general foreman 1 i of the coke plant from Portstnoulh, I Ohio; R. C. Street, battery foreman :' ! of the coke plant, from Pueblo. Col. ; ; and C. T. Keigley. superintendent . ; of the coke plant, from Birmingham, i '' ; Alabama. ! In response to a call from the j 1 toastmnster for a speech Mr. Keig- ! ley expressed appreciation to the J; i! club in behalf of the other guests J for the entertainment. lie stated ; that he had been very favorably im- P 3; pressed with Springville. that some ' i;' of tbe men had adready located ' l here with their families and that , more of them would like to locate ( -here if they could get housing ac- , comodations. Tie said that he re- ' cognized the fact that more homes . to take care of the increase in popu- , lation is now one of Springville's big problems. When asked what effect (he steel ; industry had had on eastern eilies ' Mr. Keigley replied that in 1S70P Birmingham. Alanama. bad less j than one thousand population while j : today it ha? more than two bundled I thousand and that Gary, Indiana, bad grown in less than 15 years to n population of seventy-five thous- . and. J A. L. Garbett acted as toastmas- ter. Community singing was led by . M. E. Cramlall, Jr. Ernest Lee re- ported that at least twenty five ; couples would go from Springville j to attend the international Kiwanis ! convention at Denver and Hint it was possible that they would chart- or a private Pullman over the D. & j II. G. W. R. R. Mr. Cramlall gave a report on the steel day celebration to be held in Springville and Provo on June 7. t He said that it would be expected that Springville furnish some kind of continuous entertainment to take care of the visitors all day on that ' date. He said that fifty thousand ; people were expected to be here and while part of them were visiting the steel plant, the rest would have to be cared for in Springville and Provo. R. L. Done announced the opening open-ing of the National Art Exhibit at the Springville high school and extended ex-tended an invitation to tbe club to! be present at the opening program. Mrs. Frank Saulislmry gave a reading and Miss Catherine Dougall rendered a vocal solo. Both responded respon-ded to encores. |