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Show FRIDAY UTAH THE PAYSON CHRONICLE, PAYSON, Tlie Pay son Chronicle FEDERAL BUILDING m-i- I tid.ij at layson, Utah, a city of 3,500 loyal, progreaait. and contented citizen. Treasury Department Ready to Begin 142 Structures. ashington. Using funds from the n i.oi kj granted by the emergency a, ail matter. re! ef and construction act passed by tbe lust session of congress, a federal public building program that will ultiSUBSCRIPTIONS mately give employment to hundreds $2.00 Year ... of thousands of men is under way ..$1.00 throughout the country. Months That 4ki,ijo0 persons are at present In connection with soma employed AI ERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION. of the construction of 41 post phra-- e otlices, custom bouses, and other build .p ppp p p P 5.p lugs was pointed out In WiishingtuB hv Ferry K. Heath, assistant seer tary of the treasury, who Is director of (lie build, ng program. A total of 64 Py Mrs. A. R. Wilson Phone Iihi.oih arc actually engaged in vvoik iug on the buildings and 300,000 others Burdick and daughter In fabricating and material plants, lie Blanche spent the week t nd in Salt said. Meanwhile, plans are being made to A lake. On Mo inlay Mis. Burdick ttier fl m n fat ,n launch work on 142 more such con - th'- tui v ed in Provo. struction projects. In 35 states Involv ing an outlay of $20,810,000. This list When fire Inol.e out the includes new federal buildings that Mi-- . t Le Maigaret Wilde left this week will cost between $.",00,000 and $100, other day ni wif-i. ngilc- - to .pend the winter O00 eaeti. The 41 projects now being telephone operator r"f lit lp. She . months with relatives. She visited in erected each will cost more than tilt phoned all who could reach her with , Inland befote her departure quickly. Workmen in the West have also been son and daughter, Alonzo Wilde and Suddenly the wind changed iticouruged by the act of the ReconMrs. Lorin Creer and their families. struction Finance corporation In grant and another appeal to the operIng a $ 10, nuo.noo loan to the Los An ator brought additional help to poles metropolitan water district, sine all our building. which covers more than a dozen southern California cities. Deseret Moriuary Co. This loan Is to aid In piping water Service Above All from the Colorado river above Hoover dam at a final cost of about $220,000,-ooo- . Why pay more for less. The loan will be made through Phone 107 the purchase of $10,000,000 of 5 per cent bonds of the water district. Walter Rigby, Local Hugs Sum Not Allocated. Mgr. In announcing the loan, officials In Washington said that 1,000 men probA. O. SMOOT The Mountain States would be employed by the end of ably District Manager tills year and about 4,500 by next & Co. Telegraph Telephone Lady Attendant July. Besides creation of employment directly bn construction work, much Indirect employment will be created, for a vast amount of materials and sup plies will be required. The aqueduct Itself will be 239 miles long. Eighty-fivmiles of 16 foot tunnel must be driven through the mountains and lined with concrete. Of the $100,000,000 set aside by the last congress through the emergency relief and construction act as a means of providing employment through a public building program, $74,500,000 m lias thus far been allocated, leaving $25, 500, (XX) yet to he assigued. It Is expected that the greater part of this balance wdll be distributed for the construction of federal buildings that are to cost less than $100,000 each. This third list of construction Jobs We have all passed through a long and trywill be forthcoming soon, according to announcement made at the time the ing period during which this bank has second list was made public. n N In the list of 142 projects costing faithful to its original tradition X between $300,000 and $100,000 each. w of conservation, a tradition that has upheld New York state receives the largest number of projects, 24. California Is our ccnimunity, that has gained for this second, with 17. Of the 35 states receiving such buildings, only 12 rem bank the feeling of security that all deposiceived hut one structure. n N Another federal agency, the War dechoice. their of bank the in have tors must Is also planning to provide partment, work through a vast construction proWe invite you to call at anytime and disgram. This program calls for the excuss financial matters with our officers. penditure of $11,577,260 on flood control and rivers and harbors projects. By this program War department officials expect 25,000 persons to be reYour Money A Safe Place To Deposit r; moved from the ranks of the Jobless. Work to Begin Now. No delay In getting the program under wny Is expected by army engineers. Many of the projects already u M have been started, and plans have a been drawn up for the rest. FORK SPANISH Under authorization of the last conOF pi the War department also exgress, m m pects to spend $15,164,000 on construcMember of Federal Reserve System tion work at military posts. This Is expected to begin soon, and officials believe it will give work to 10,000 SaS3iSSllBaiSlSJi1iSESa;iaMail persons. In announcing the fact that 400,000 persons are now at work on federal construction projects under the emergency relief and construction act, Director Heath said that by June 30, 1933, the government will have under contract virtually 00 per cent of the public works necessary for the next 25 years. It Is expected that mllions of dollars will be saved the government when the construction of large working post offices Is completed. Among the large post offices now under construction are those at New York, Boston, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Chicago, Kansas City, Atlanta, and J at the Post Office at 1ayson, Utah County, Utah, as -. .- -- -- second-cla- AU ICCAAT OF THE DAY PLANS SUPPLY JOBS J. HAROLD MOUNTFORD, PUBLISHER W ,. 5 li k ip -- Local Items Tvleiicieino FI re Mailed vi-i- ! ''' $300,-OoO- (EiiEiisurai Faithfully Serving Our Patrons re-m.vn- ed COMMERCIAL BANK BUILD for tomorrow To assure todays satisfaction and comfort, build for tomorrow. To build for tomorrow, use lumber, the lasting material. Com- plete specifications and cost estimate for any building you may be planning will be gladly supplied. Just phone 127. We are here to serve you, carefully and well. Chase Lumber & Coal Co. EVERYTHING IN LUMBER rilONE ANYTHING IN SERVICE 127 Come, gallant bird! Come, emperor of your kind, And in your prostrate fortunes we s'c.-- ll find The juiciest joys that ever palate felt. Most fragrant odors that eer nostril smelt! And, in the gravy of thy soul, we li sense The fullness of misfortunes recompense For though you die, give ail you have to give, You die, that we, your worshipers may .ive! GIVING IN THANKS DARK DAYS OF REVOLUTION (1 lit lit (HO WASH Thanksl.MlY'o.VS giving day proehima lion at Valley Forge great pains to put before the solthe tremendiers dous reason for this ninbt special aeknov. lodgment of t! e divine goodness." We of today, In, I. Ing back with a full knowledge of the great trials and sufferings placed upon the Continental finny in that winter of misery at Valle Forge, may pi r haps wonder at the faith tins un'1 here is. however, one fact folded. which we, accustomed to observe the last Thursday of .W.omleT as Thanhs tin k It is giving day, should not overlook. thanksgiving day as up know it, with a definite place upon our calendar, did not comp into existence until IS .3. Thanksgiving duv orginated w itli the Pilgrims, who set aside a day for thanksgiving at Plymouth immediately after their tirst harvest, in 1021. The Massachusetts Bay colony first oh served such a day in 1030 and fro qnently thereafter until 1080, when it DECEMBER 13, 1621 receive the treaty of peace? Six months more of this starvation, this utter discouragement as to the use of it all the harassed general dared not Clink of what his poor hoys might b driven to do to end it all. 'I he Jo. vviili which the information was at last, received 1ro:n Sir Guy C.urleton that a cessation of hostilities was announced can scarcely be im, agine!. Immediate!-- tile commander in el ;ef issued his proclamation and direcBd that a public religious service and th.iiiksgivlng should take place on MAY 7, 1778 I proci'iiaation was made, appointing t day of thanksgiving, for the femn, welfare and stable condition of Union. This was issued from hie pern! nice hall, and February 19, 15, was thus set apart, on which day nation was with dv, nit reverem and aTcctionate gratitude, to rerun thanks for its national blessings tad As wift implore their continuant-.all of George Washingtons Xpert this proclamation abounds in patrol isin and counsel of the highest order both us worthy of emulation today l the yesterday. the same evening, April 19. This was probably the happiest Thanksgiving-At- . erica lias ever experienced, writes i. Welle Hairis in tl.e Bicentennial News, published by the Alexandria. Va., Gazette in with the United States commission for the cele bration of tbe anniver-s..iof Washington's birth. A conn try gained glory and honor, and home around the bend of the road. December 11, 17s3. the gloriously solemn day appointed bv congress, Dr. John Rogers preached his famous sermon, . . . We have taken our I'lai-among the nations and empires of the earth." Presidential Proclamation. T, e hist Pro idential Thanksgiving proclamation named November 26, 759. As far as the people were con-crued, they could join In with any md all services, for they felt the nation was saved again now that the errfat Washington was at the helm. As for Father George himself, he was entirely too busy to write much in i , tW the 1 became an annual festival in that Connecticut also had a sim colony. ilar festival annually from 16 i7 on ward. Usually these dins for thanks nnd were giving followed the harve-trot a; hie primarily to give thanks to the Lord for the blessings he had upon the Colonists. During the Revolution, the Continental congress appointed' one or more days for thanksgiving each year, except in 1777, when not even a congressman could find any blessings to point out to his constituents ns reason for rejoicing These Revolutionary Thanksgiving days usually were founded upon some military success and fortune smiled wanly, Indeed, upon the Continental army In 1777 the winter of despair at Valley Forge. Valley Forge Observation. Washington's Thanksgiving day proclamation at Valley Forge came after the snows and the hunger nrnl the sufferings of that terrible winter Albany, N. YT. of 1777-7had departed and spring use the of arch! Through private smiled ngaln upon the fertile valleys tects for many of the projects, progThe occasion wiis ress In carrying out the building pro- of Pennsylvania. the entrance of France int the war gram has been speeded up more than as an ally of the Colonies. The Val 100 per cent. Since the program was begun, contracts have been made with ley Forge Thanksgiving May. 1778, 264 architectural firms for plans on was a military celebration, with the of brigade directed to otter buildings representing a cost of more chaplain up thanks and deliver a discourse suitthan $200,006,000. able to the occasion. Then there was During the last ten months 105 fedcannon fire and huzzas, and cries of eral buildings have been completed at Long Live the King of France cost of about a total $310,000,000, ac"Long Live the Friendly European cording to Mr. Heath. Powers!" and finally a general running fire and the huzza, The AmeriMiss Leita Lant entertained her can States:" Celebrations of Peace. contract bridge club at her home Thur Another special Thanksgiving day sday evening. Miss Madeline Robin- was ordered by General Washington son and Mrs. Wallace Brown received at Newburgh on the Hudson, April 19, the bridge favors. 1783, eight years to the day from the shot fired at Lexington. Ultimate Mrs. L. D. Stewart was hostess to peace had been assured ever since the surrender of Cornwallis, but the ques the Saturday afternoon bridge Club tion had become alarming!- acute ever Mrs. Byron F. Olt received the prize since: How was It possible to keep even a remnant of the army alive to score. t.ie day appoinetd for a Tlunluihii I went to St. Pauls chapel, thoajhj was most Inclement and stonaH few people at church." The sipaj of the confederation articles was especial occasion. Duelling the insurrection la sylvaiiia was again a deliverance Iron danger, and cause for great rejoica; on the part of all the people, and t Much Re'::i for Thanki. In looking back to these sped!! Thank-givin- g days of early America otic heart can belt no pi.tr, history, feeling the beauty and approprale ness of those gatherings. Also, tk lit part they played in keeping the nation as one Ideal family, until could walk alone, the American (s thers In filing before It the truths ca it NOVEMBER 26, 1789 tbe foundation rests, 1!W whatever t equality, integrity. For the fouett lias or I. as not happened, rests tlon of this nat'on still thankful! be to much and thore is stars to on Thanksgiving day. The and course their in not faltered earth good don. still reigns. The Mr her blossomed and fruited which KK'7 and l.A lord, man. as In has marked toj autumn now that this Ish of her harvest Mr her sa drawing back Into chemicals her and th storeroom, to be covered J , 1 blankets instead APRIL 19, 1783 l hat diary of his, that Is such a precious legacy to his people. Here Is all be says: November 20. Being of green ami relieving fl for next ready making of glory. spread OH, NOBLE BIRD! Spiritual Significant ' JJf gd The Thank-givin- g I as it often has take on a sacramental m a it Is not more than keeping of out wholly fp t.Uh l spirit of the day, found spiritual bete as it doea poUible J God and man. It iscommon !ace, utilize the most mirltus' even material t,lir,s9 lg surri "the upper room d haS ago, anksf1' twenty centuries and both as a sacrifice . Lede Inc. Philadelphia It First Proc1 The first Th:,"'!''Vg mation ever !':i""! '5l,ipgton, i Th o . Irfimi is said to be ps the ! J P |