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Show 1 HE SPRtOLLE INDcPcNDENT San. U. LeRoy, Eiitor-and Manager. Xnu-rcxlul tiie pi olttrc :it ISpriiiKvlllB ith. fur traniinlMtlon through tho mall iu lvnt-rlawi ioU!-r. Issued Every Thursday Morning. TERMS Of SUBSCRIPTION. One yar. Six month. Tbree month. $2.00 1.00 .50 rftEWBER OF gII1Alt PBESS r ASSOCIATION TIIE OLD ONE. On Monday morning a new comer But down at the editorial desk of The Independent and fliArpened bis pei.cil, the under-finned under-finned having vacated that position po-sition on the preceding Saturday Satur-day night. On that date he terminated a service of over two ii nd one-half year of newspaper work in Springville . In that length of time Gibson lias worked in nearly every department de-partment of the shop; he has devilled around and wahed forms and roller; he has built fires and wrestled with the silver question; has made advertising contracts and induced refractory subscribers to "cough up"; lias written good things about mean people, and mean things about people who didn't get half their deserts. The only thing he didn't do was to write poetry. He always tried to give people it square deal, and when folks gave him money he didn't know Jiow to use ho paid his bills Somo people regard this as had policy, but he differs with them, as he does not now have to lay awake nights wondering what lie will do with his wealth. tb4 ten months he has r and manacer of The Ynt he is proud to say liShas mad but one em) Had he known at first - r ,,hat he knows now, that enemy ago. If he has done the town good, Gibson is glad; if he has injured in-jured it he regrets that better judgment was not at his disposal. dis-posal. To the court of Time he trusts the arbitration of all disputes dis-putes and the righting of all wrongs when they gtt beyond 'his humble endeavor. To his friends he will now good-bye, with the hope of Vtyetime meeting them all again sfflrfiJilAr rtuv-Q fPn fh rtun r ) tk X ' 1 a I I Wttf qptfpgville he begs to sub viiu Lymacu ua men iiiciki, William F. Giuson. THE NEW ONE. In assuming the position of editor and manager of The Independent, In-dependent, the writer is pleased at this opportunity to renew an active acquaintance with the press membership of Utah. Here and there a few of the other-day fellows yet remain, bravely and patiently bearing more than their fair share of the burdens of life, while othera are laboring in localities lo-calities remote from Utah. Thelndependeut will continue an independent paper. Jt will b free to discuss, advocate and maintain questions of public interest calculated to uphold the cause of good citizenship and to advance the work of those now putting forth their efforts in that direction. I have no new theories theo-ries to urge upon you, no religious relig-ious belief or political party to punish. There is no element of any kind in your midst for whom I seek to become the leader, lead-er, the sponsor or the apologist. The aim will he to rather make this journal a local reflection than to reduce it to a personal organ. I will support President McKiuley as president of all the people. He is your president, and he is mine. During this time when the natien is under arms, the position he fills certainly cer-tainly entitles him to an affectionate affec-tionate place in every America heart, and as united a support in American homes as is accorded accord-ed him in congressional circles for foreign effect. While it is desirable at all times to be promptly supported by regularlj reporting correspondents, corre-spondents, and this is a very valuable department and of especial es-pecial interest in a country newspaper, the attention of all interested is directed to that good rule, that tlio right, to publish pub-lish the signature of ny correspondent corre-spondent is at nil times reserved Every member (if society is duily thinking or fining something. some-thing. These thoughts and c- lions are, each one of them, of inoro or less interest and eon - cern to the ceneral nublic. When the subject matter is of public i.itpre-t, it is unfair to withhold the information. Wise thoughts, kind actions and approved ap-proved methods tend to public improvement, to build up. It at all times, however, requires n wise discrimination when to keep buck from publication anything any-thing which, if published, might deter some unfortunate from becoming be-coming a social maverick. I want to call your attention particularly to the ad department of this paper. I want you subscribers sub-scribers to read them, to criticise them. Then your attention is cilled to articles you see advertised adver-tised in the daily papers and in the magazines You perhaps want them. Many of you send your money away and buy them. The merchants of this city will stock up with anything which will here meet with an active demand. They cannot know just whatyou want till you make that want known. By un active and general interest theresprings up a better understanding be tween every element of a community. com-munity. The merchant, feels encouraged to mors closely look after the market for the surplus farm products. You should read the ails because they develop wants within you now lying dormant. dor-mant. They give voice to new desires, new aspirations. Amer icans measure the standard of civilization by the capacity for consumption. That consumption consump-tion includes all necessities and luxuries food, clothing, transportation, trans-portation, literature, tools and labor-saving machinery. The measure is applied not to measure mea-sure the quantity one consumes but the quality of our needs. The great advertisers are not filling expensive ud space as an experiment. It pays them, because be-cause the article advertised is a good thing. It is needed. Perhaps Per-haps you need it. In these days of close competition, you should have a reasonable collection of labor-saving implements, else you arrive late in the market. If there is anything advertised anywhere the possession of which you think will add to your wealth or happiness, you should at least inquire about it. Send for a descriptive catalogue. Study it. Ask for it ut the local store most likely to carry it in stock. Take no substitute. If your local merchant will not keep it on sale, then your conscience con-science need not prick you if vou send your money out from the community, fay.no attention to the wrath of anv merchant who insists on selling to you ten-year old yeast cakes. The people are entitled to the best. Merchants should bear in mind and note what goods are having a big run on the general market. He should get them, and then not be afraid to tell the people he has them. It is news. It is the very best kind of news. The country paper is peculiarly pecul-iarly an American institution. It is a weekly manifest of local events. It matters not how necessary to your happiness may the magazine become, nor how liberally you patronize the splendid splen-did daily papers. None of them dispossess the country journal. On the conirary, they rather lend to increase the local paper's circulation. The retiring editor, Brother W. F. Gibson, has won an enviable envi-able reputation among the Utah fraternity. His warm geniality has been helpful at all times, his example always a guiding light for a higher plane. His labors were performed with clean hands and a pure heart. W all wish that he may be speedily returned to permanent good health and to Utah. I want at all times this paper to be read, to be talked about. I want you to read it. I want you to discuss it with your friends. Say what pleases your own good self say something. Speak up. Sam. M. LkRoy. The initial number of The Sanpete Democrat has arrived. It presents a neat typographical a jiearance, and is printed in the popular form of lli.ree column col-umn quario, wide columns It is with a great deal of pleasure that its printer and publisher, Brother L. A. Imber, is flMi u welcomed to u seat among tht 1 ''salt ol the earth. i - - CANNOT ABATE TAXES. A decision of the supreme court handed down last week Wednesday states that all acts passed by the legislature which permits boards of county com missioners and city councils to abate taxes upon property not exempt, from taxation, except in casts of double assessment or excessive ex-cessive taxation which may be adjusted by the board of equalization, equali-zation, are unconstitutional. An extract from the decision reads: "No one would contend for a moment mo-ment that thr legislature of thit state has p iwer in express terms to exempt property from taxation, other than that enumerated for exemption in trie c institution, and yet. in the enactment enact-ment of the statute in question, the legislature has undertaken to indirectly indi-rectly exempt property not so enumerated. enum-erated. This is an attempt lo do indirectly that which could not he done direct I v, and the statute therefore there-fore is in violation of the constitution and Is void as in excess of legislative authority." Section 2, article 13 of the state constitution reads: "All property in the state not exempt ex-empt under the laws of the United States, or under this constitution snail tie taxed in proportion to its value as provided by law." Robbed the Grave. A startling incident, of which Mr. John Oliver of Philadelphia, was the subject, is narrated by him as follows: "I was in a most dreadful condition. My skin was almost yellow, eyes sunken, tongue coated, pain continually contin-ually in back and sides, no appetite gradually growing weaker day by day. Three physicians had given me up. Fortunately, a friend advised trying Electric Hitters;' and to my joy and surprise, the first bottle made a decided de-cided improvement. I continued their use for three weeks, and am now a well man. I know they saved my life, and robbed the grave of another victim." No one should fail to try them. Only 50 cts per bottle at C. J. Peterson's Drug Store. The Profession of Forestry. The American youth who is looking for some field worthy his best efforts might go further and fare worse than to adopt the profession of forestry. The New Uork legislature, educated to consider this branch of science by the presence of the Adirondacks and iheir splendid covering of timber, has passed an act "to promote education in forestry and to encourage and pro vide for establishment of a college of forestry at Cornell university." This is a long stride forward; it is the proclamation of the need which ex- ists and of whose pressing importance the people ouitc generally have been ignorant. The value of the products of the forests in the United States for 1897 is estimated roundly at $1,375,000,000, exceeding that of all the gold, silver iron, copper, coal and lead mined during dur-ing that year. At the rate at which timber is now being cut the magnificent magnifi-cent forests of the states east of the Rocky mountains will be exhausted during the next decade. How to meet the great change which this inevitably must bring, how to supply the loss which this involves, in-volves, and preserve to future generations gener-ations the.beauty, the ultility, the sanitary and economic blessings of the forest these arc the things which education in the science of forestry must Include. Could a nobler calling be designed than this? It is one which will require, the finest skill to replace by art the rent made In nature's na-ture's royal mantle; the broadest intellect, in-tellect, the loftiest mind and that love of nature which beckons ever on and on to Letter and more perfect knowledge these will be required to do the work well, and what an inspiration inspir-ation will the task prove to be! Very naturally the legislature turn ed to the Institution which has done so much for agricultural science when it had so great a work to do. Forestry Forest-ry and agriculture are related subjects. How much our prairio states of the West might accomplish, if In connection connect-ion with the agricultural colleges of the several commonwealths schools of forestry were to be established, is past all computation. Certainly it is worthy of consideration, and what New York's legislative has done those of our Western states might profitably profit-ably be led to do. Farmers Voice. Have It Done Right. Take your watch to F. N. West and have it cleaned and. fixed. Work guaranteed. Ih.AH ,jmut ftU USl fAltS. Coufk Syrup. Tuih Gml. to imw. fcM hr 1nii. W. C.T.U. Deparlment J Editttl b) the Sprinyrille Union. Loyal Temperance Leg-iou Work. Among our many departments of work, there can be no question as to the relative importance of those which deal directly-with the children. Inasmuch Inas-much as formation is better than reformation, re-formation, prevetitiou better than cure, should the first and best of our strength as an organization be given to so training the children that they will be not only the staunch total ob-stainer, ob-stainer, hut also the effective prohibition prohibi-tion workers of the years to come. Early VV. C. T. U. records show that the first convention which mei for organization emphasized the thought that the children should everywhere be gathered in societies of their own, and taught and trained along temperance lines. The committee com-mittee on' these Juvenile societies included "Mother" Thorn own, the crusade leader, and Miss Frances E. Willard. As a resuit of this action, more than .'l,000of these temperance bands for tioys and girls'cxist in our own coun trv, today, beside many more in for eign lands. Many go under the name of Hands of Hope while the name of the Loyal Temperance Legion has been adopted as their national cogno men. The original plan broadened, as the years went on, into three depart nients, viz scientific temperance in the public schools. Temperance work in the Sabbath schools of all denominations, denom-inations, besides the Loyal Temperance Temper-ance Legions. Each of these has its own blessed mission. The scientific temperance instruction teache definitely the destructive effects of alcohol and tobacco on the different organs of the body, thus giving them God's law of total obstinence as written writ-ten iu their bodies. The Sabbath school department gives them the same law as written in Gods' word, and adds the safeguard of the pledge and the help of suitable literature. The Legion does all of these things, and adds the training in practical work which is to make of our boys and girls a disciplined temperance army. It also brings to them the enthusiasm en-thusiasm of being banded together in a righteous cause, It also gives much attention to inculcating the principles of patriotism, peace, purity and mercy, and special instruction in regard to the evils of gambling. Any boy or girl can become a full member by signing this pledge. "Trusting in God's help, I solemnly promise to abstain from the use of alcoholic drinks, including wine, beer and cider, from the use of tobacco in any form, and from profanity." No child is obliged to sign the pledge in order to have the privileges of the meetings. The leaders try to be careful in the giving, of the pledge, never allowing a child to sign until assured that it understands what it is doing and has, if practicable, obtained obtain-ed the approval of its parents. While the pledges arc sometimes broken, it is rather a marvel that so many withstand with-stand the temptations all about them. The motto of these Legioners is "Tremble, King Alcohol, we shall grow up." Our Loyal Temperance Legion in Springville includes boys and girls from 8 to 15 years old. It has now 20 members. Its leader is Miss Anabcl Thatcher and its next meeting will be Thursday afternoon June 16th in the Baptist hall. Every boy and girl in Springville is given a cordial invitation to come and also any other persons who may wish to visit the meeting. Remarkable Rescue. Mrs. Michael Curtain, riainfleld, 111., makes' the statement, that she caught, cold, which settled on her lungs; she was treated for a mouth by her family physician, but grew worse. He told her she was a hopless victim of consumption and that no medicine could cure her. Her druggist suggested sug-gested Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption; she bought a bottle and to her delight found herself bene fitted from first dose. She continued its use and after taking six bottles, found herself sound and well; now does her own housework, and Is as well as she ever was. Free trial bottles of this Great Discovery at C. J. Peterson's Drug Store. Large bottles 50 cents and 11.00. What Dr. A. E. Salter Says. Hcfkalo, N'. Y. Gents: From my personal knowledge, jjained In observing ob-serving the effect of your Shiloh's cure In cases of advanced consumption, consump-tion, I am prepared to say it is the most remarkable remedy that has ever been brought to my attention. It has certainly saved many from consumption. con-sumption. Sold by C. L. Crandal & Co. S. E. Parker, Sharon, Wis,, writes: "I have tried De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve for itching piles and it always stops them in two minutes. 1 consider De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve the greatest pile cure on the market." Dr. C. J. Peterson'. THIS TT4-1 T) F. J. COVERT, Msr. Kates, $1.60 and $2 per day. Free Hack to and from trains. Have a Sample Room and Home-like . place for travelling men. -:o: SPRINGVILLE. - UTAH. H.G.Wood Tonsorial Artiste All Work Done in the Highest Style of the Art. Comfortable Bathroom Bath-room Attached. Fee 23 cents. Shop. Union Bank Bnilding, Springyille- G. E. ANDERSON, PORTRAIT AND LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHER. Dealer in FRAMES, PICTURE FITTINGS and GLASS in all sizes, Pictures copied and enlarged by home artists Pictures of family groups, residences, stock or any sub- ecis iaKen on tne spot. Keep your Money at Home. SPRINGVILLE, - - UTAH. ST. MARK'S HOSPITAL, Warm Springs, Salt Lake City. For terms apply to D. DOUGLAS WALLACE, Superintendent. If YoU Were acquainted with our system, you could under stand why we sell the best Men's Shoes! Ladies' Shoes! Childrens Shoes! Cheaper than any other house in the world - Ladies' Oxford Ties, Slippers for Dress or Comfort, Ladies' Bike Boots, Men's Bike Shoes, Men's Slippers, Children's Slippers, Baby Shoes, Rubbers for Young and Old. 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