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Show Prize Essay Number Two "Why I Should Help Build Better and Permanent Homes In Duchesne County." We need ibetter homes in Duchesne County, to make It look like something. Better homes ' makes us contented, comfortable, happy, and healthy. Beautiful homes make our city look better. Most of the homes In Duchesne County Coun-ty are nothing more than shacks and cabins. There Is about one permanent home In Duchesne County to about fifty shacks and cabins. The reason why there are so many of this kind is because Duchesne is just new. People are moving in all the time. They just put up shacks or cabins to live in, something to shelter them. Then they go out and start to till the soil, to grow crops so as to make a living. After that they think of building better homes. Homes like we have now hinder us from having a richer and better county. People coming through here see the kind of homes we have and think that it is hard to make a living so they do not stop here. They see what kind of living we have, see the homes, hotels, stores, and other business places, then they go on and do not stop. People should build better homes in Duchesne County because some of them are going to live here the rest of their lives, they do not want to live In the same shacks that they do now at present, because they have a long life to live yet. I can do a great deal to help build bntter and permauent homes, I can fix fences, gates, plant lawns, flowers, trees, and shrubs,. I can clean yards plant gardens and water them. I can keep the house in order and I can fix things, like putting In window win-dow glass, fixing pipe, kalsolnining walls and ceilings, paint floors, doors and door casings, and any thing that needs painting. When letter homes are built In Duchesne Du-chesne county you will see n greut change in It. People will start coming in more because be-cause they will think they can make a good living. They will build better homes to live in and perhaps they will help others to build also. I think that building better and permanent homes Is a very good thing to do. It will give us a better start iu life and it will help us all through life. Douglas Smith, Cth Grade, First Prize. |