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Show Seen and Heard 'Round the Town liy EDGAR 'iil;iUii I'iureM There has been considerable question in Ihe minds of a lot of people as to what was happening happen-ing to the population of St. George. Many were convinced that the city was on the toboggan slide from its top population figure fig-ure of the 1910 census. This, to many, seemed inevitable when they they considered the number of Ixiys in the armed services and the numtx-r of people who have seemingly left to take defense jobs. . . . Once before I checked with the rationing board to see just how we slacked up and at that, time the figures were just about at the top figure of the 0'IO census of 3,589. Now, Mayor IX C. Watson, comes through with figures released by the rationing board which show that this city hasn't slipjx'd, but rather shows and increase in population if the sugar rationing figures are to be taken as accurate. And, they are generally accepted as the nearest to accurate figures obtainable. As reported by the rationing board to Mayor Watson, the population of this city is now 3,875. . . . Since the census was taken in the summer sum-mer time when many of our people were out on their ranches, this increase could be accounted for to a degree in that respect. Likewise, it is well known that our population goes up in the winter over the summer due to many moving in here for school, Temple work and to take ad vantage of Dixie's climate. But anyway you figure it, the population popula-tion is definitely up at this time. . . . Information coming to me indicates that the telephone company com-pany connections are at a peak for that company. Likewise I know that News subscriptions are higher than ever before. Both of the latter might be effected by the fact that more people have money and are willing to spend it on these two services, while in times when they are hard up, they take advantage of their neighbor's phone and paper. |
