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Show In Our Town... FRED R. DAVIS i One of the nicest things we have learned when interviewing newcomers new-comers to Springville is that their first reaction is invariably, what a perfect place to live and bring up a family. Fred is no exception excep-tion to this sentiment. He likes our town well enough that he has please note.) and, until September Septem-ber of this year, has very successfully success-fully steamfitted his way through most of the major oil fields and practically every oil-bearing state in the Union. But it is no way to live and raise a family. With this in mind, Fred and Mrs. Davis (who is a Wyoming girl whose grandfather was one of the first settlers around Grey-bull, Grey-bull, Wyo.) decided that Springville Spring-ville was the one place they had found that was ideal for a permanent perma-nent home. This last September, Fred took on the Fuller Brush Agency for this locality and from now on, here he is, your Fuller Brush Man. Georga Ann, Fred's oldest daughter, worked for Lowry Anderson An-derson until school started and is now enrolled at B. Y. U. (No wonder won-der she has a high regard for Springville, after working for a grand guy like Lowry.) Fred's youngest daughter, Trudy Rae, is a sophomore at Springville High. Well, there they are, Springville. Let's give them a big hand and make them welcome. THE CATALYST. been willing to give up the kind of work that he has done all his life and to build something entire, ly new and different for himself and his family. At 45, this is not an easy thing to do. Fred was born in Franklin, Pa., Sept. 8, 1899. At the age of 19 he followed, naturally enough, his father's footsteps and went to work in the oil fields as a steamfitter. His father, incidentally, was an oil well shooter. For forty years he did nothing more exciting than handle nitro-glycerine and treat I stubborn oil wells all over the country. In spite of this, he died a natural death which is nothing less than a miracle in that hazardous haz-ardous profession. To get back to Fred. He served 'in World War I (Jack Miller, |