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Show A Little Travelogue Or Sight Seeing Trip I'm- the llcuclll of the llundrcilMif Our Visitors the Pollening Mtllc 'I'm-telegiiCN 'I'm-telegiiCN lire (ihcil. You hnc probable noticed how much wo hno grown since ion moved away, several years ago. A few of the old sun dried adobe homes are Bllll remaining, but most ot these old innd marks have been supplanted with brick one or modern doslgus, for you will have noticed that probably no other olty In your travels has a larger percentage of modern, comfortabh homos, and on the Inside you will find them comfortably and In many luatan-i luatan-i oh, luxulnusly furnished When some of ou left, the side walks were little moie than cow-trails. cow-trails. You have probably remarkee on tho lino cement pavements you hav been walking on In going to and fro Well, we have thirteen miles of them the laBt half of litem wcie put In b) merlcaii Fork contractors Between iho sidewalks and the homes are bun . ilreds or beautiful lawns und llowcr gardins Ilnve you ever Been niori of them In a town of our aire' atundlue on tho south sldo of Main at Its Junction with Merchant Street have you over scon a more prosperous looking business center than Is presented pre-sented by this site, In a town of our size? looking west Is Thornton's Drug Store, Tho Royal Tailors, Tho Golden Rule, the Noyes' building, Homo Coming headquarters where you may rest, tho Orient Thculre, the Opera lloimo and the. Grant Hotel witli a number of smaller businesses between. be-tween. , Directly In front and to your light Is the Big Red Chlpman Store, tho biggest big-gest department store soutli or Salt i.aku City. Next and across tho street in tho new lire brick building Is tho Bnnk or American Fork with Its nearly near-ly half a million of resources and tho strength of Olboralter. Up stairs you will und most of tho legal talent of Iho clly. Next Is "Joo'n Place," Joe Is secretary of the big Homo Coming committee Tho long row or buildings housing threo or our four drug stores, a meat market, real estate olllco nnd several couiccllonnrlcs Is principally owned by tho Chlpman Co. Th Adam-sou Adam-sou block on (ho corner or Church and Main is occupied by tho Soulhworth Cash Store. Opposite Is tho new Peoples' Peo-ples' State Bank and in tho building next to it Ih tho Co-op., onco burned down, but now bigger and belter than ever and one or the leading Institutions Institu-tions ot the state. At tho end or tho street Ib our home, where Is printed three or tho best country weekly pa-pors pa-pors In Iho state. Across the street and a little cast Is the old reliable store or Win Grant, where you traded years ugo, Directly ut your back Is tho modem Mountain States Telephone U. Telegraph Co's, exchaiigo where you can call up any or your fi lends, and at your elbow is Hickman's Real Instate Ins-tate ofueo whore you ran buy some of the bent dirt on earth. As you look dltectly north the loin: string or buildings iu own ed and largely otcuplod by the Chi p inn ii Mercantile Company, The building labeled "Bank" but with the words Post Ofllco on tho window, is where you will get your mall whllo UBltlug hero. Further up Is one of our clubs Into which some oi you may ho Initiated before roturnlhi , and beyond Is tho homo of tho I'tali i iglit ti Power Co Speaking of power, you have probably prob-ably noticed (hut American Fork Is one or tho best lighted cities In thc state, Wo have two magiilflolout power plants In tho eau)on, ono at tho mouth and the other two miles furlhiir up. Combined, thoy generate over S!,000 horsepower of electrlclal current What n contrast to tho days of Itcroslne lamps when you left! Stepping to tho next street oast ou tan seo tho big red bulldlnr on the hill This Is the new high sel.ool crt'eted nt tho cost of over fiiOOOO and occupied for tho first time, last year. A four year high school course Is slv- K'i en and the credits glvou .hero will HV'i prepare the student for entrance to Sffi ! any college or university in America. HH Directly to tho right and north of HE ' ; where tho old city hall used to stand IBfcl Is our new city hall, second to none IB' In the stale, In a city of our size. MB .' Just to tho north are tho Forbes and ml Harrington School buildings. Hffi ' Wn aro sorry that tho Alpine Btuko 9ftf ' Tabernacle down tho street to tho oast flii 1 ban not yet been seated and dedicated f' ; so you can hold the homo coming HKit meetings there, It Is a building of MB. most striking and pleasing archltec- SH ture, both Inside and out. Seventy- lyv flvo thousand dollars hail already been Vm' expended on It, and by tho time tho 1S organ has been Installed, tho amount US1 will have reached approximately B I10U.00U. It was built by all (ho pco- jK plo of tho Alpine Stake and they urn WK proud or It. IHf In taking a stroll around the city, ( ; you will find four fine mooting houses, P also tho Presbyterian church, besides IK- the hundreds of nice new homes. IB ; This evening you will probably go H lo one of our two theatres, modorn, BX" ' ; sanitary and up-to-date In overy re- R j spect, When you come out wo want HI : to know whether you know of any IK other city our slzu with two of as lino Bft ; ' show houses. You will nUo go to the H ' Apollo Hall on Church street, nnd BV here, too, you will bo taken up with BS ' the Immense spring floor nnd Its mng- Bx, ' nlllclent proportions. Bff , I To show you tho grand old canyon Bb ! that tins lost none ot Its scenic gran- Bt f dure or icfrcshlng hrcczes since you Hfj r left, we will have to take you thore Br In automobiles. You will probably Bvt ' hae noticed the heavily loaded ore wB' teams an they come Into town, Thore HL , Is mora activity In (ho canyon mines nfl' 'i this year than for years past and they Hr I hid fair (o repeat their history of tho? IB I ' early days whou thousands of men Hit ' worn employed thore. Hi Wo will also have to use auto- Be ' mobiles to take )ou to the lake, where jBj" ( wo now have a line resort and whore SB! 1 gasoline launches now take the fW: I place of the old row ' boat und jiH i which will take you to Saratoga, Oeu- SliS J evn, Moslda or any landing desired. mf' I In the olden times you used to talk HJ) I of street cars coming hero, Now wo nil t have a reality There aro now eight wf j cars a day In and nut of American Bfi i Fork. In tho, near future tho gaso- BTj line cars will bo supplanted with oloc- Hf' 1 trie ears and. Iho bchedule will pro- HL vide for fourtoeii cars per day. Hon- Jfj' f estly Is not this a protty good town? M- 1 Have you found any better since -you & JJ |