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Show Vol.l.No. I December, 1943 CENTERVILLE, DAVIS COUNTY, UTAH NEW TOWN PAPER SEEKS NAME If You Like It Sportsman Looks Bac- k- Do Your Part! An Interview with This is the initial issue of what we hope to make a permanent features of our town. For a long time past we have pondered the good that a monthly publication could do for Centerville. We believe it can be an instrument of interest and value in recording life as we live it in this little community. We all live in Centerville because we love it here and would rather reside here than in any other place. We feel that in our midst can be found the best friends and neighbors to be found anywhere. So many of our Servicemen, in letters to their families, have wondered why someone did not take the responsibility of compiling and publishing a little Town Paper containing the accounts of our doings here at home as well as news of the different Centerville men and women who are in Uncle Sams military forces, and sending them a copy each month. Because we are convinced that this is a not very meritorious project only in the interest of those in the service, but for our town, we now undertake to do also something about it. It is true that our news may not always be first, but we can carry announcements of future events, as well as record for memorys sake the things that take place from month to month. Much fine history has been forgotten because it was not recorded in print as it happened. We intend, by interviews with old timers and others, to uncover and publish as much of the past as is possible. This paper can also be to Given For Best Title Prize Be Neslen H. Smith By Clinton Barber Remember when Centerville Town had the best basketball and football teams in this part of the Have you ever had the urge and most people have to give something a name that is your own idea? All you need, then, is a chance. Your chance is right here, and its yours as much as Of course, the younger boys and girls of the ward would not remember because that was some thirty-fiv- e years ago, but one your neighbors. Our little monthly publication state? sportsman who well remembers those days is Neslen H. Smith. We interviewed him recently and asked him what was the most thrilling sports event or events that happened in those days. he began, one of the most vivid memories I have is of Well, a football game between the Centerville Town team and Petersen, Morgan County. It was played in the lucerne patch west of Will Clevelands old store, which stood next to the house that Henry Cleveland now lives in. The team played such other teams as the University of Utah, Park City, and other teams the state over. I was only about twelve then, but I took great pride in watching such guys as Bert Reading, Jess Chipman, Dale Parks, Bill Rigby, and others smear the other teams into the ground. Then, it was around about 1906, he went on, when a few of us boys got up the first basketball team around here. We used a hoop which the blacksmith, Henry Rampton made for us and put it on what is now Milton Smiths old barn. We played teams such as the Y. M. C. A., L. D. S. High School, and finally Farmington interested in it until it gradually grew into the present league. amoki needs a name just something appropriate to this town and this paper. Read the paper through (especially the editorial on page 1) and find out the purposes and contents of it, then you will have an idea of what is needed. To add to the fun of having your entry chosen, we are awarding a surprise prize. Send your entries to the Edi- tor, Box 143, by December 15. Will your name be on the front page next month? Town Board Notices To all IDO drinkers of the town, the Town Board announces that the chlorinator will be in- stalled in the near future for purifying of the towns water. This was recommended by the state, so please forgive the Town Board. The Town Board requests all persons desiring their garbage disposed of to set it out on the last Saturday of each month. our league games in the old Alberta Hall, a large frame building which stood south of President Tingeys house. We We played got big crowds to the games and to dances we had there. The place was run by Merlin Rockwod. It blew down a few years ago. Yes, those were the good old days. |