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Show Prizes Awarded To Provo Men In Orem Line Contest I The Salt Lake and Utah railroad 1 announces that a cash prize of $100 ; has been awarded to Thomas 1 Schott of 270 West First North j street. Provo, for the suggestion I submitted by him, and a cash prize ! of $50 has been awarded to Rupert j E. Lee Wixom of 215 South Fourth West street, Provo, as second prize , in this contest. - ' Tho purpose of the contest was i to interest the public in the Salt ! Lake and Utah railroad, and to ; secure suggestions as to the most practical "way in wiiTCh this road 1 can increase its revenue. Hundreds of suggestions were submitted from people all over the state, and also lrom many people outside of Utah. The suggestion of the first prize winner is based upon each em-! em-! ployee of the railroad doing "one , good turn a day" for his employer, thus building up good-will among all the business men and enthusiasm enthus-iasm in the various communities for the road that has done so much for the development of Utah county. coun-ty. Mr. Schott -says. "Out of admiration ad-miration for such fine, efficiency and spirit manifested towards the public, and the public are - able judges. the response in patronage should be more general and abundant, abund-ant, realizing It is their home industry in-dustry in which all citizens of this great commonwealth are Interested." Inter-ested." The second prize winner, Mr. Wixom, believes that a program of more wide-spread publicity should be carried on with a view of bringing bring-ing to the attention of the public the value of the road to Salt Lake and Utah counties, and the splendid splen-did service that the road is giving. James Dalton, New York, sought a divorce from his wife, Marie, recently, re-cently, because she insisted on doing do-ing reducing exercises in bed. |