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Show Seen and Heard 'Round the Town j By EDGAR ! j A Booster-Upper j St. George is losing a valuable citizen this week when Norman Johnson leaves for Provo. As you know, Norm has been seriously ill with heart trouble since last fall. He is just now able to be up out of bed, but has a long slow period of recovery still ahead of him. It is because of Norm's sickness that Ed. Firmage made the decision to close out the Firmage store here. Before that they had all plans laid for a 'larger store. Norm first came here about 9 years ago from Provo. He went to work for Hy Thomas in the Penney store and worked for him for about three years. He then went north and was gone about three years, when he returned to open the store for Firmage. During the years that he has been in St. George he has made a host of friends friends who are extremely sorry that he must now leave this city. Norm is energetic and a hard worker. He is friendly and enthusiastic, just the kind of a person that helps develop a community com-munity and make it a fine place in which to live. His wife, Edna, and fine family will also be-missed. Edna is full of life and was cheerful even when everything seemed to be going wrong. She showed fine ability in carrying on as manager of the store when Norm's health failed him- She has had a heavy burden with Norm seriously ill and the problem of managing the store, as well as running the home. We will miss these fine young people and this city will miss their abilities and work. I am sure that I speak for all of us when I say, "Best of, luck and good health to you both Norm and Edna". Letter from Dixieite Charles B. Petty, former Dixieite, Dixie-ite, now the outstanding Ford Dealer in Salt Lake City, has sent me a letter that cheered me up considerably. I think that Charlie has been unduly kind in his statements, state-ments, but we of the News staff put in a lot of work trying try-ing to make our paper what he says it is. Here is a part of his letter: Dear Edgar: I have been subscribing for four Country papers and I am also a member of the Salt Lake City Chamber of Commerce and get a chance to look over a good many country papers and I can truthfully truth-fully state that it has been my opinion for a long time that the Washington County News is the best edited and is the neatest looking of them all. Of course, you have a unique rural territory consisting of a people who are pretty united in most things and, I suppose, loyal to your paper except in the matter of lending your valuable paper from neighbor to neighbor until one issue covers a whole block. Now, I recall distinctly what kind of loyalty Editor John R. Wallis called this, but I will not repeat it here! If he hadn't been English he certainly would have sworn about it. Wishing you success I remain, Yours very truly, Chas. B. Petty. |