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Show THE SENTINEL Thursday. Ftb.18,1982 2 Ptg olin Smart Smart Dairy founder s. . Begins work oh his second century. By Janelle Stoddard ' Sentinel Staff "You can go through quite a bit in a hundred years" chuckled John Smart. The Sandy centurian was finishing up his breakfast in the kitchen of the same house he was born in, facing the view of the dairy he and his three sons founded and still run. A letter from Pres. Reagan congratulating him on a century-lon- g life overlooks Smart; his wife. Fern; two of their I 1 think I'm as good as when was 10 years old." three sons, Verl and Lyle; and Verl's daughter, Sheila Chasten. Smart claims that "I'm as good as when I was 18 years old." It was easy to believe that as we carried on a lively conversation around the : ; : : : v : t kitchen table. His only complaint was that he doesn't hear as well as he used to. I asked Smart about the start of the dairy, and he recounted a story that produced a ' gasp of disapproval from his wife. "Since I was big enough to drive the horses, 1 used to deliver milk with my brothers. One time, some rats were playing in the ceiling above an open pit of cream and milk and fell down in it. I, being a small kid, remember a man took them by the tails and threw them out, saying They make the cats sick.' Today you have inspections all the time. There was no inspection in those days." "That's why he lived to be a hundred," his granddaughter : Sheila laughed. "But, Grandpa, have everyone 'afraid to buy you'll yourmflk."- " " comforts have improved a lot in his lifetime, Smart said. :. "We had no phones, electricity or automobiles. All we had was a covered wagon, a shovel and a crowbar. That's about all. Hie : reason we got along all right was that we didn't know any different." v "If you wanted to say hello to : someone in Salt Lake, you got on a j: horse and rode up there. You : couldn't yell loud enough to make I. him hear. :. "You used to have to go and buy : a piece of ice at the ice house to s keep something cool for a couple of hours. Now you just open the door ; of the fridge and help yourself. You used to have to go get logs - : from the canyon. Now you just live in your house and don't worry. "All the inventions have been done in the last 100 years. Back then, if you'd talked about a man on the moon, they'd have put you in the crazy house," Smart added. Smart remembers working on the construction of the railroad that hauled the stone down from Alta for captiol Lyle explained . that John Smart's father, his grandfather, homesteaded the place in 1860 and received his papers of ownership of under the presidency Rutherford B. Hayes, when the area was still the State of Deseret. iF'i "When I worked on the railroad, I worked 10 hours for $150. I could live better and save more than I believe you can today." "I was born before the state. was born," Smart said, explaining his philosophy. "I lived in the territory. I think it's too bad they save more than I believe you can made a state out of it. It's now. In those days, it was help today. "Two dozen eggs cost a quarter, one another. Today, you can't five cents bought a loaf of bread, build an outhouse without asking and if I saved a dollar for 60 days, I .could buy an acre of ground. You "I was born before the sfo'fe can't buy an acre for $80 today." was. f think It's too bad they Smart worked constructing. the mode a state out of It. It's first Utah Power and Light state's now. " building up Big Cottonwood " . permission to do it. They have to Canyon. know what you're building so they "The power company told me if can tax you on it. I could get six subscribers, they "Back in those days, our taxes would light my house for nothing. I were $45. Today they're about went here, and I went there, and $11,000. That's because of the state they all didn't want any, saying it government. I ask you, which is was a fire hazard. They didn't call thebest?" a small kid carrying a coal oil Smart is proud of his mother, lamp a fire hazard though. "I sold one subscription, but Mary Ann Ramsey, the first school teacher in the Salt Lake Valley. they lit my house anyway." She was called a "walking Smart chuckles when he dictionary" because she had to remembers a friend's first know and spell every word before experience with an electric light. she graduated with her teacher's "There was a fellow from degree. Wyoming who came to see me one was ma the teacher only "My night. When he went upstairs, I that Reed Smoot had, and he was a yelled, 'Put the light out.' Then he senator for 32 years. That's a yelled down, 'I blowed and I blowed and I shook it, but I can't pretty good teacher, isn't it?" Thomas Henry Smart, his make that damn thing go out.' little cord father, was a tanner in the early -- , . i'So I said. 'Take-tha-t days of the Salt Lake Valley. "One and give it a pull," He did, so I day, ZCMI wanted all the leather said, 'Give it another pull and the they could get. Pa said, 'Oh, no. light came back on. The shoemaker's going to get He came down and said 'I gotta some. The beltman's going to get hurry home and tell the folks what some. You're not going to get it you got. I don't have time to have all'," Leather was scarce in those no breakfast." When Smart was growing up, days, he explained. "I could dress the hide, but I there were few homes in south couldn't make it soft. My father county, and none east of their could make it as soft as a home on 1000 East. Smart handkerchief, but I couldn't. If I remembers "Indians living in had known how he made it soft, I tents all the way across the hills," would have been a tanner. along the east bench areas. "There "Ma was married to Bishop were , a lot of them, too. The Cunningham first. But he got younger ones spoke English. They kicked by a mule and it killed him. had chidlren my age, and they'd go She ran to Pa's business for help. along with me when I'd herd cows. That's how Ma and Pa met." They could talk so we could dog-eat-d- , dog-eat-d- 4 'J 1 ads and job placement and one another, as your house and never knock. I was the money that's in the cash children do. scared to death of them. They'd register." Sheila remembers that her7 "They didn't bury their Indian look in your drawers to see if you ; folks like we do ours today. They had any jewelry in them." grandfather had a "real blankets nice The advent in of the automobile hit them up wrapped operation" with the customers. and put them in a hole with all the Salt Lake valley in 1916, "He used to work out in the barn their stuff. there Smart weren't although says selling milk. He would keep one "You know how a kid is; he many. "I bought my first car in customer there, talking to him, wants to know what they're doing. 1917 and paid $700 for it. It was until another customer would So I went up to the graves to see quite a car, too. If you wanted to what they were doing down in lay down, you just pushed a button, there. When the folks found out the seats would fall down, and "J what I was doing, they said, there was your bed made. Two dozen eggs cost a from "When home with Salt them. came I might you They bury quarter, five cents bought a &tak you're a Lake one time (in 1917)rl told my loaf of bread, and If I saved e : Those Indians nrt had C9un)eo; six , .dollar fpr 6d'dayi, could buy papoose, and put you down in the automobiles there." .. an acre of ground." grave, too.' as Fern "the were Indians. Today, explains, good "They Anything that went wrong was on whole darn gang" works in the account of the white people; it dairy. Three sons, Lyle, wasn't on account of the Indians," Verl, and Wayne, and their come, call day long." Later in life, families make up the group. After he would sit on the porch and talk Smart said. His son, Lyle, remembers that the boys came back from the war, to the customers in cars as they when he was a boy herding Lyle said, they bought a few calves would drive around the circular driveway to the store. animals on the Flat Iron Mesa, and began the dairy as it is today. "It's too bad I lost my hearing," Smart said, "They run the dariy they would see little rows of Smart says remorsefully. granite around the Indian graves. and I do the bookkeeping. Pretty He also mourns the loss of his The Indians that Lyle good to have a bookkeeper that's a hair. haven't "I got much hair to remembers from his childhood hundred or so." He counts and I but helluva big face a have comb, were more transient "They never prepares the money for the bank. to wash." : Sheila said that he does all the , stayed the winters." Then John Smart smiles and "There was a lot of nerve in bookkeeping in his head. "He can settles to back work on his second count bottles the and the recalled. that those indians," Fern go in, "hundred years. ones come that into and come he'll know out, walking right "They'd , -" 1 I I. -- ' iKinnnnv I . if J w V Because - employment agencies are private companies, they ' charge fees for their services. However, there should be no charge for agency services until an applicant has accepted a position to which they have been referred by the agency. 'F ; Bingham High Minerettes pose In front of tour bus that developed some mechanical problems on its way out to Marlneland, during the group's recent trip to southern California for a national drill team and band competition. But, there was nothing wrong with the Minerettes' performance or that of the band. The band placed first in the band division and the 33 Minerettes second in the show division. The competition took place In Santa Monica last Saturday. The Minerettes are under, the direction of Nancy ' Qudmunson and the band by Roger Sorenson. ; 1 accepting the position. The law states any job that lasts for a period of less than 90 days is Finding the registration charges, you can consider and talk understand what the agreement says before signing. ' ' When you answer an ad run by an agency that says "fee paid," this about employment choice of the one you feel will be best for you to work with and have work for you. For more information agencies, call the BBB at And to receive a copy of the tips booklet on private agencies, send a stamped, means the employer pays, business envelope to the the entire fee to the Better Business Bureau, agency. If the employer 1401 21st Street, Suite 305, suggests otherwise; you Sacramento, California should double check with 95814. 443-684- 3. . an rtnin n an ! n 1 AlfMiniTwnfirA BVIUIVIa Hill IBW tsu ar 2. Recommendation to signs from the list requiring ' permits before posting. hccpibl request - approve the 1832-8- 3 school year calendar. 3. Recommendation to approve the revised driver education ' program and fee schedule. ; ; 4. Results from the General Aptitude Test Battery and review of achivement test selection 0 West Jordan Tuesday approved aIndustrial Revenue Bond resolution for Holy Cross Hospital's Jordan Valley facility. The $3.25 million IRB will be paid by the hospital: West Jordan taxpayers are not liable. The document was approved subject to City Attorney Stephen Homer's final review. ' - QjW W.J. council hears right person or professional service. And remember that because there are no Jordan School Board ' ; Board of Education meeting to be held Feb. 23, at 7 p.m., 9361 S. 400E. ordinance. Of particular concern is the fact , i. 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If you fail to report to work without and just cause, quit, or get strengths , fired through your own capabilities. i It's important to know fault, you may still be to pay die full where and how to find a required service fee. employment good agency and what to y I the expect. A: 350-anim- al employment agencies. an By pinpointing applicant's skills, an agency can help find a position that makes the best use of an individual n 7--s , folthaf t While these high school and college placement centers, union organizations can offer and trade associations, help in finding a job, many people seek the of helP . . . private H ' AiUkw ' understand distributing resumes, employment counseling etc. There are also numerous offices that offer help in sMtmntiLmd-- Fem and John Smart, and son, Verl Smart (center). - and pursue employment opportunities: knocking on doors, answering classified .... i, ir . 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