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Show 16 SPRINGVILLE HERALD Thursday, September 6, 2007 Been There, Done That: A Glimpse of Red Liz Elder Can you believe the leaves are turning on the mountains? I was driving driv-ing down Spanish Fork canyon the other day and glancing to the side I saw red. I almost drove off the highway. How could this be? August isn't decently over yet; the temperature has never dropped below a thousand all summer: where did these trees get the energy to turn red? My gaze is normally glued desperately on the road in that canyon because be-cause small cars filled with infants, better known as "drivers younger than me," speed past like lemmings lem-mings hurling themselves to their death. They dart past my lumbering Suburban, Subur-ban, following their hormonal hor-monal need to pass the campers and oil trucks which feel it's their sworn duty to use that road. They need to build an eight-lane bridge over that whole mountain range.' Anybody caught out of line would fall off the bridge to a horrible death and those of us who slow down to 55 for all the curves could slowly coast home on our laurels. Anyway, that brings . me to the subject of the first day of school. All the nerdy fat kids will have bought new clothes with too many zippers and buckles; clothes seemingly seeming-ly designed by sadists to bring out the worst in the pre-teen body. I know this because I've bought those clothes and been that girl. How will I ever forget the purple, and I mean GRAPE-colored purple, wool pantsuit I bought one year as my presentation outfit? I looked like one of the dancers on the Fruit of the Loom ad. It was obvious immediately imme-diately that I had on the wrong clothes. For one, it's never fall when school NIPPITTS of Springvifle History Helen Beardall As more of Springville history is researched, the more new things come to light. How many of you have in your possession tokens, coins or certificates certifi-cates for various types of merchandise or services that have been given out by merchants in this amazing town, or any town for that matter, in the early days of its history? his-tory? Money was scarce in the early days of Utah, and businesses were using us-ing all kinds of entice- Wood tAerc.Co. 6'S. kW ie.C. QfntjVi If i it A A I i r e I 3 :-:. - -:-..::,,. I M i Q JUMKTART YOUR SUCCESS at RVU RIO VERDE UNIVERSITY Springville - Orem Classroom Facilities . For information regarding upcoming classes, certificate, audit, and online degree programs: 801-607-5025 491-0956; fax 801-607-2010. informationrioverdeuniversity.org Certificate courses: "Introduction to Personal Finance"; "How to Start a Business" M. Davis; B. Reynolds; G. Till. "Raising Private Capital" Dr. R.D. 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Tokens and coins became be-came the new item and were readily dispensed by many enterprises as a great way to gain customers. cus-tomers. Many materials were used for the manufacture ing of these coins and tokens, to-kens, such as aluminum, zinc, brass, nickel, wood, etc., (later plastic) in a variety va-riety of shapes and sizes. The phrasing on the coins varied greatly, such as: a token good for one drink, which would have been given to someone who had visited the local bar. Usually the one free drink would lead to a few more drinks, which would cost the customer. Good business practice. Another token, worth 5 cents, to be used toward the purchase of a bottle of milk, a cigar, or a cob good for 12 12 cents in trade. 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Springville & Mapleton good for $1.00 in Trade; DEAL BROS. & MEN-DENHALL MEN-DENHALL COMPANY, SPRINGVILLE, UTAH GOOD FOR 50 cents in trade; MAUD SENIOR -- SPRINGVILLE FOR AMUSEMENT ONLY; PALFREYMAN & SONS - SPRINGVILLE, UTAH GOOD FOR $1.00 IN MERCHANDISE. SPRINGVILLE BAKERY BAK-ERY - GOOD FOR ONE LOAF BREAD; MENER-AY, MENER-AY, & CO. CITY DRUG STORE, SPRINGVILLE, UTAHGOOD FOR .5 CENTS IN MERCHANDISE; MERCHAN-DISE; CRYSTAL DAIRY, PHONE -81 -- SPRINGVILLE, SPRING-VILLE, UTAH GOOD FOR 1 QUART OF MILK. The list goes on, but there was an importance to these coins. They were great for business. There are many coins not connected with Springville which have wonderful histories to them, such as one which states: MATT WARNER, GREEN RIVER UTAH, and on the other side it says; GOOD FOR ONE DRINK OR CIGAR IN TRADE. Warner was part of the Robbers Roost gang along with Butch Cassidy. 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I will never, nev-er, ever forget how that felt if I live to be a zillion. That pants suit could still be in my closet if I hadn't given it away because I don't think I ever wore it much after that. The first day of school is filled with so much expectation. expec-tation. For me, the whole enterprise pretty much centered on getting the right notebook and the question of how I was going go-ing to decorate it. The smell of new pencils! pen-cils! How could anyone not love the smell of new pencils? And the first smooth feel of this year's textbooks? Soft, smooth tissue-y pages filled with new information that would give you the secret se-cret knowledge of what it meant to be a junior or a senior. Able to say you took geometry or calculus or European history. Wonderful Won-derful subjects far removed re-moved from the boring stuff of grade school or junior high. . , . , . , Nonchalantly tilting the stack of notebook, big book,, smaller book, English Eng-lish novel against your hip as you walked down the hall, queen of all you surveyed. sur-veyed. Sitting in a hot desk by the window in your, last class, head down on your upper arm, trying not to drool while you slept. See Liz Elder page 17 Let the Sunshine in! More than, f JS xl SSOLATUBE ' 1 v" Daylighting System Professional Installation in about 2 hours SAVE $$ SAVE Energy We do swamp cooler switch-outs! Solatube prices starting at $499 call for details CALL TODAY Toll Free 877-873-7652 SLC 566-1264 Bright Concepts tc www.brighterrooms.com 482995 07-06-07 mm T d Vprc in w W mum a row! Cat Today! HARRIS HEARING CENTER 330 W. 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