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Show WHY NOT NORTH SPRINGVILLE? There appears a disposition on the part of some of Provo's good citizens to annex too much territory. Just recently re-cently some Provo men proposed that officials of the Columbia Colum-bia Steel Corporation be asked to change the name of Ironton to South Provo. They seem to forget that Springvilie had as much to do with locating the plant on the state highway, midway between be-tween this city and Provo, as the latter city had. It was in Springviile, you remember, that the first meeting meet-ing with Messrs Rains and Botchford was had, in the offices of the Springvilie Banking company, where it was first suggested sug-gested to the Columbia Steel Corporation that the site visited that afternoon be accepted, and, as the writer's memory recalls, re-calls, it was Senator Reynolds who volunteered the suggestion sugges-tion that Provo and Springvilie give the plantsite free. Even before that memorable day Springviile had offered the land of the pastures, and Springvilie citizens had financed the trip of a representative to San Francisco to urge the selection of this site. If there is any argument in favor of South Provo, there is fully as much in favor of North Springvilie. The Springvilie Herald-Beacon suggests that if the name be changed it be changed to North Springvilie! The following poetical tribute formed a part of the program pro-gram at the recent annual gathering at Springviile of the Sons and Daughters of the Indian War Veterans and Pioneers and was written by A. J. Jacobsen, teacher in the Springviile high school. |