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Show foUtaoi-- 3 55 GS'3 tO;COi m - Editor's Note! The Ire Pootol h feu worn C Ife Provo City Moves Toward Goals Or 3 Sevage Disposal Plant, Svim Pool t Provo City chalked tip a num. of sdvancementa In 1X2, but counted as ltt major "achieve ment" combating catastrophe during the spring floods. The clty after withdrawing from the controversial county-wid- e sewage project, appropriated $100,000 for a study of a city sewage disposal plant, and hopes to have construction underway In 1953. Provo received a green light, late in 1952. on allotment of steel for Its. municipal ber ef the iree lo.t :'jrj was wrlttea hf Mr. Alice r- KrnuUoe, wellluewa reildrnt ed writer. kUtory wee rb(irrh lor bytheMr. KnudM avompllshed Peatman Harold Hartley. ij Paymaster W. Kay me ad Greea roopcratrd la the pre-ea i r-a- vi The HUlorj u Druevva w d the moat 'complete and ac- cural record o( Prate's tory yet printed. d his- By Alice HatWn Knudsoa A niece of writing paper, lomc fiik end a pen . . . thoughts and a sentiment transferred to the paper, then sealed and addressed a letter termed at mill from then on taken by courtesy n( an lmmleant train to a Salt City. Utah, and then on to i rort Utah In the year of 1819. It wai then that ltaae Hlgbee ho directed the first (the man company of Mormon Pioneers to come from Salt Lake to aettle Utah Valley in 1849) was In charge ol taking care of the mall at Fort Utah, later Provo.. In the year of 1850 the United Slates government took over thej postal aervlce at. Fort Utah and,e the envelope then carried a post-g- r k. i;" the year of ' m b FRUITS VEGETABLES Burninobsni - SALT LAKE CITY which burned down In 1884. (Photo obtained through the courtesy of UTAH FRUITS COUNTY & VEGETABLES Intermountain Seasonal Warehouses and Packing Facilities Association of .i i 8 PROVO Credit Men ' j - 33 I. 1st . SPRINGVILLE 0REM PLEASANT GROVE So.-4-- 457 Salt lako City 1 M EARLY-DAMAO. CARRIERS Here are some o Provo's first mail carriers. Left to right are Raymond Bachman. William T. Brlckey, William B irry, William Gay and Andrew Hartley. The only was obtained survivors of this group are Mr. Hartley and Mr. Brickey. The picture present-da- y from-thservice. through the courtesy of Mr. Hartley, now retired where the Carpenter Seed Store at 76 North wa- - once located and where Avenue, University Wakefields are now located. The following postmasters served in this building: John .C. Grsham from Oct. 26, 1897 to March 27, 1900: Reed Smoot as acting post master from March 28, 1900 to June 30, 1900; James Clove from July 1, 1900 to June 30, 1902. It was In the year of 1902 that the post office became a second class office. Mr. Clove continued to serve from July 1, 1902 to Oct e IP r-J! BT . pp That's a FOODS iil j - and m felejto VALLEY y Every FEEL BETTER! 1 Packed in mm1 kM up! And it happened 335,500 times during 1952 in the seven states and the part o! Texas we serve. That means a new telephqne was installed every 22 seconds of every r "r rr: working day.TTZZ7 LOOK BETTER, Grown in blng fa is movir.3 6..: People are always, moving across the street, the state or the they do, we install an average of four telephones to gain one in the total number in service. Despite this fact, our total . telephone gain in 1952 was 91,500. ipAnwt.. .Pk in Only nature's choicest fruits and vegetables from our own lush Utah Valley producers art used by the Pleasant Grovt Canning Company tht processing and packing of our quality lint. Utah Valley growers are to bt commended on excellence of their crops year after year an excellence which has made It possible for us supply the public with the finest in canned fruits and vegetables. Pi Our Reeky Mountain West Is When you buy food, remember you get high value at low cost in dairy foods. Milk . . . butter . cream . . . cheese faster than ... ice cream . . . and evap- Last orated milk they're all rich in wholesome flavor and full of nature's vitamins, minerals and proteins. of all Dairy foods make up nearly the food America eats . . . and yet they cost only about 15 per cent of the average American rv. li. -T- -N I' a job of expanding and improving telephone, service. But our 1952 record and our $71 million construction program for this year Eat better and pay less, with dairy foods. are evidence that we are doing our part to keep the West growing. Main Office Sales year the number of telephones in this The fast growth in the vast area of the mountain states makes more difficult our ..... Pleasant Grove, Utah -- natien... one-thir- d CciililS Office,; 175 Wert South Temple. Salf Lake City, ddinj tdsjfen if region increased 7 per cent. The gain for the entire nation was 5 per cent. family's food budget. In other words, dairy foods cost you only half the average cost of all other foods. , if tb Utah AMERICAN. DAIRY ASSOCIATION OF UTAH- - ,.'7.514 Cf 195J John T. Taylor.) Coal generates almost half of the nation's aupply of electricity. 11-- 'to FRESH 15. Uua THE GROWERS SALUTES Center, was the post oflice, as Indicated by the sign over the second door. The fourth building down the line was a general merchandise store. The fifth was a photographer's shop and the sixth a millinery shop. On the corner at Third We&t was the old Acsdemy building POST OFFICE. BUSINESS DISTRICT IN JI Here's a view of Provo'i Center Street In 1879, looking west at the block nqw occupied by such business houses as Utah Valley Furniture, Taylor's and the Farmers and Merchants Bank. In the Immediate foreground can be seen the Mill Race meandering across Center Street. The first building, located where the B. and B. Cafe now stands at 204 West Beginning with the names Including Mr. Kenney and Mr. Bees- ley, as noted above, the following names and dates of terms served as postmasters are taken from the records on file at the Federal This Infor , Post Office building. mation was obtained through the courtesy of Incumbent Postmaster William Raymond Green. J. B. McCausland next served as postmaster from Dec. 1, 1889 to April 18. 1894. The Dost office again hp pan in move eastward, and the next location was next door south of the State Bank, where Ralph's Radio and Television Is now situated at 23, 1916. 65 North University Avenue. The year of 1902 noted the Avenue was. first . beginning of the carrier servUniversity known as J. Street. It was In this ice In Provo. Starting out building that William .D.. Roberts . with three postmen In service was postmaster, and served from at the time. Raymond Back-ma- n April 16, 1894 to Oct. 25. 1897. started on July 1, 1902, Another move of the post office across en Page it the to street (Continued orougnt. th LARGEST SHIPPERS Muir- - Roberts & - two-roo- m In UUh County. j '1853, mm SUNDAY, MARCH SUNDAY HERALD i y m The city took pride hi the fact that It operated within its eonttmrUea ef 11457.744. budget in 1952, deplte large emerMajor buildings constructed In gency flood expenditures and at) 1952 included the tl.824,000 Brig- ham Young University family life (Continued en fate II C) MAIN OFFICE Lucius Scovllle became postmaster and served a term. Benjam r Bachman Sr. was also one ot the early-daposimas.era, olflciaUng In the 1860 s In a adobe bouse at about 40 iorth Fifth West. John Marlon Cunningham later served as postmaster la the same building; A few years later the post office occupied a portion of the adobe octagon house across the street at about 91 N. 5th W. At the death of Mr. Cunningham, his wife, Mary Hooper Cunningham, became postmaster. Later she married J. B. McCaus-land- ,' while still acting as postmaster, and the post office was moved to one section of the long row, about! a(obe McCauslahd Vhere ,the Reed's Rlteway Store bow stands at 164 W. Center St. Later the post office was located where the B. & B. Cafe is now situated at 204 W. Center St. James G. Kenney was serving as postmaster at this time, and he served in office from July 1887 to Sept. 30, 1888. The post office at this time was considered a third class office Again there was a move tor the post office to a portion of the George T. Taylor store at 250 W. Center St. with a Mr. . Thnm aai mm Tta1ak v vJ mm v in m sv a t in postmaster from Oct. 1, 1S8S to Not. 30, 1(589. .'i-- 720. me. -- In -- . j 7, 1860. Starting UTAH'S "'1 Ike -- the $: 1 p i BVU bookstore, the S4i)0.(X0 WiaaUit school, the 1373.000 spent on the Central Utah Vocational Prhwil and four churches, costing t25, laboratory, Yf ... itamp. It was In the 1850 s that the rony and be- operation Express- r.ibegan . lit.. acame oiiiciauy yiu irmj mi A.il swimming pool, and appropriated. S50.000 towards construction of the ftoo.000 pool and administration building. The city eaftaeer's office btafd building prnilU la 1351 totaling M.liMlt, spprett-natel- y three Umea the 1151 |