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Show 'A' "THE BULLETIN Published At Commercial Printing Co. 2044 South 11th East Hyland 361 WEATHER FORECAST For Salt Lake and Vicinity; Fair tonight and Saturday. " 9 Vol.5 PUBLISHED IN SUGARHOUSE SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FRIDAY, HOME EDITION NUMBER 21, 1937 SO Fire Damages' Stock at FURNITURE GREATEST INDUSTRY Granite Furniture Co. For Local Youth ITS EARLY INDUSTRIAL LIFE Funeral By H. MAY N Funeral Rites Held THE FOUNDING OF SUGARHOUSE AND NON-PARTISIA- services for Harold P. Dangerfield, 24, accountant and for mer assistant purchasing agent of the University of Utah, were con ducted Wednesday at 12:15 p. m. in tho Lincoln L. D. S. ward chapel by Bishop Willard B. Richards Jr. Bur ill was in City Cemetery. Mr. Dangerficld's body was found Saturday afternoon in City Creek canyon, about three miles from Salt Lake City. He had been missing from his home since November 4. C. Young EAELY LIFE ON KANYON CREEK No one will be able to write a description of the hardships that came to the early settlers on Kanyon Creek. We just can't comI have often wondered what you and I would do prehend them. If we were raising our own food and not depending on other parts of the country to produce it for us. Then Just as our potatoes, wheat, corn, .beans were coming along nicely, out of a clear sky the sun was darkened with clouds of winged insects that came down and devoured the substance for sustaining life for our families and for which we had labored for weeks! How would you feel? Some winters with these empire builders What would you do? were hard, having hardly enough to eat Let us relate a story that a living pioneer told me: This pioneer was born in a humble room on the north side of the Hollow about one block west of Ira Eldredge home, February The house had a dirt floor slabs and dirt roof, adobe 27, 1837. front, and the rest of the walla were the walls of the bank. About two years later the family moved to what is now 12th East and 18th South in a two room rock house. At the age of four years with his brother six years, he was sent barefooted to the hills all summer to get fire wood of brush. The little tots would lug three or four loads on their backs every day. Thus supply the family At the age of six their father purchased an with winter wood. old wagon and a boney old team. The wheels of the wagon had to be put in water over night to soak so the tires would stay on. That summer his father sent him with his brother eight, to mill "D" in Big Cottonwood Canyon for a load of wood. This mill was Just this side of Brighton. They had to spend the night at the (Continued on Page 2) Bom July 18, 1912, in Salt Lake City, he was a son of Ernest E. and Margaret Phillips Dangerfield, 2026 McClelland street. Surviving are his parents and seven brothers and sisters, Raymond, Ronald Sidney, and Lorna Danger-fiel- d, Mrs. Virginia Fisher, Mrs. Margaret Bio sen and Mrs. Phyllis Goodwill all of Salt Lake City. IN SUGARHOUSE Fire destroyed furniture in the warehouse of the Granite Furniture Co., rear oi lduJ East 21st South, causing a loss estimated at $2i000. The blare originated in a boiler room adjoining the warehouse, but owned by the Snclgrove Ice Cream roinpzwy, iuuj CjUBL kivi ouuiu strtet. Battalion Chief L. B. Egan.l of the city fire department said. Oscar Carlson, a city fireman, suf fered first degree burns while fightHe was treated by ing the blaze. the firemen first aid crew. While firemen were cleaning up after the blaze they received a call to fire in a varnishing shop at 2004 South 11th East street, where more than $200 damage resulted. In the early day of Sugarhouse Furniture in the borne was Just as essential is it is today. The poorer had to make their own class tables and beds, however. chairs, . th were, due to lack of tools and machinery, thrv were . ,m , ,,. than todays furniture. If you could go into some or the old nomcs where these old unique pieces grace their floors, you would wonder how they mastered the art of making such beautiful furniture. To freight furniture across the The plains was far too expensive. eastern was had furniture only they that which they brought with them or elso traded grain for a piece of SON BOKN furniture to 'some passing emigrant Mr. and Mrs. 'Charles Powers of who had run out of supplies on their the Marij Twain Apartments in way to California. It wasn't until announce the birth of a the Railroad came In the early 60's con born Tuesday, May 18th that furniture was shipped into the D. S. Hospital. Mother and baby Sug-arlious- .,.! e 8-- lh -. Relief Society Pageant Thursday, May 27th valley. As Sugarhouse grew into a thriv industries sprang ing community, up to meet the demands. Today in Sugarhouse there are 4 large furniture retail stores name ly: Southeast Furniture Co., Granite Furniture, J. A. Rockwood Furn iture Corp. and the new Sterling Furniture Co.; one large secondhand store, the Eleventh East Furn iture Co.; 4 upholstering and Furniture manufacturing business, they are: Kunick Furniture Co., Ideal Furniture Repair Co., Sugar House Upholstering and Repair Co., and the new Modernistic Furniture Builders. This great industry today is doing annually nearly $2,000,000 business in Sugarhouse, establishing well the fact that Sugarhouse Is the Furniture center ,of the West. . Inter-Mounta- in arc doing nicely. A pageant unfolding the history of the House of Israel will be pre sented Thursday evening, May 27th at the Granite Stake House, by the Granite Stake Relief Society. Following the customof having the closing union meeting a special program this pageant was arranged under the direction of Eleaner Thomas, by the Theology leaders of the One of the large furniture Co. In different wards. Mrs. Thomas conSugarhouse Is the J. A. Rockwood ceived the idea from the Theology Furniture Corporation which was lessons In the Relief Society course located at 2051 South 11th East oi study. Mr. Rockwood, one of Sugarhouse's first furniture men and who pioneerto Sponsor ed the Granite Furniture Company P.-and managed it for 21 years, left . Irving that company to establish his Own. On May 1, 1931 the company was 'Pinkie and the Fairies" a three-organized with J. A. Rockwood pres- act play by W. Graham Robertson ident and general manager, M. N. will be presented in the Irving High Lockwood Fisher as School auditorium, Saturday afterGeorge secretary, Lester Paul and noon and evening May 29 th," at 2 Huron Free as directors. The play is At this time the company also p. m. and 8 p. m. formed the Sugarhouse Exchange under the direction of Mrs. Edward at 1064 East 21st South, buying and E. Hoffman and Is sponsored by A. the Irving P.-selling new and used furniture. Les The is about three children. story ter Paul was; manager of this branch who are and Pinkie Tommy, Molly of the company. escorted three Pickle, elves, by 1937 In February of the J. A, Rockwood Furniture Corp. combined Whisper and Twinkle into the land with the Sugarhouse Exchange, due of Fairies where they meet the gardof ner the Cinderella, queen fairies, to the expiration of lease and the the sleeping beauty and Beauty and selling of the building, which the The story is skillfully the Beast. company occupied, to the Madsen Inbuilt around these characters. Estate. are furn and dances cidental songs Today Mr. J. A. Rockwood has retired from active business and his ished by, Dick Whittington, his cat, two sons Lewis and Wendell togeth' prince frog, fairies and rabbits. Acts- one and three take place in er with Lester Paul as manager aunts. have built a good business since the the garden at the home of tne (Continued on Page 8) combining of the two Companies at 1064 East 21st South. Sugar House Glass Co. J. A. Rockwood Corp. In New Building Established in 1930 The only and first company of its kind to establish In Sugarhouse Is tho Sugar House Glass Co., which is located at 2023 South 11th East. The company was established In September of 1930, at its present location. The Sugar House Glass Co. dos all types of glass work including store fronts, auto, art windows, plate glass and mirrors. Mr. Crowther has been in the business for 29 years and is an expert in his line. . A. T. Play At vice-preside- S. H. Upholstering Shop in Larger Quarters T. On March 8, 1935, Gregory Gaines, a very energetic young man, started his upholstering shop at 1105 East 2lst South working alone at his business for several months. Being an expert upholster, Mr. Gaines soon established a prosperous business. Today Mr. Gaines has his new upholstering shop at 1045 East 21st South where he employes 14 men. He engaged Ben Paul as his sales manager. In the two years the company has been operating it has grown in leaps and bounds and is doing a splendid business today. - Interior .of the Granite Furniture Company in 1912, showing the main floor and the stairs in the center leading upstairs. Since then they have built on to it four times. $2.95 EL APEX ELECTRIC COMPANY East 21st South in Sugarhouse One of the fastest growing companies in the intermountain West which plays an important roll in making Sugarhouse the greatest furniture centers west of the Mississippi, is the Southeast Furniture Co. The company was organized January 1. 1926. at the home of S. C Sorensen. with him elected oresldent and Horace A. Sorensen, his son, secretary and treasurer and general' manager. They leased the building located at 2024 South 11th East street and employed three men. During the next few months the company grew so rapidly that they to seek larger Range, Radio, Rug, Linoleum, Fashleased so part of the build- ion Flow Hall, Furniture Bargain quarters and close-ou- ts now occupy at 2144 South Annex, where trade-in- s ing they are offered to those shoppers 11th East. who want good furniture below mar Constantly growing, the company The main floors displays built its first warehouse In 1931, a ket price. Room, Dining Room, and Bed Living building 100 by 105 feet and In 1935 Room Suites. They now employ A built their second warehouse. are the only com45 people. They railroad spur also constructed by the In Utah that have trackage, D. & R. G. for shipping purposes. pany warehouse and store in one unit. Due to the Southeast Furniture Today the Southeast Furniture Company has leased all of the build Company's copywrited slogan "Drive m theV partially occupied, giving Out and Save," and their vast admem a rroniagc oz lov xeei wiia vertising campaign, they have contwo complete display floors. The eight departments of the tributed much to the development store cover part of the 50,000 squ- of Sugarhouse, and Is recognized by are feet of floor space. The depart furniture dealers as a truly modern, mcnts are: Washing Machines, progressive concern. found i it necessary ' Industry In S. H Sold Exclusively By 1079 Southeast Furniture Advances Rapidly Granite Furniture Co. Father of Furniture WILL PAINT YOUR CAB WITH NU-ENAM- Front view of the Southeast Fudniture Company at 2136 to 48 on Highland Drive in Sugarhouse. Since this picture was taken another 50 foot frontage to the north has been taken over which Is known as the Bargain Annex. Hy. 1738 v Builders of industries are not made, but are born. The spark of the furniture industry in starting Sugarhouse was born Into the men who founded the first Furniture Co Their fathers were great industrial builders so the spark of doing and creating was handed down from father to son, a The Granite Furniture Company at 1050 East 21st South In building to the East of it. 1920. Since then the Granite have built to this building four times and three-stor- y only two employees, J. A. Rockwood that the son, directors. B. and James Dean. Willard On January 30, 1910, Granite Furniture Company, the As the company grew they openwas for In the broke first ground organized. Richards Jr. Sugarhouse The organizers were J. A. Rockwood the erection of their own building ed their second hand store at 1064 president and general manager, Dr. at 1050 East 21st South. This was East 21st South, with James Dean It was known as the brick building 50x65 as manager. Steven L. Richards, a with W, B. Richards Jr., William Thomp feet. The company started out Sugarhouse Furniture and Hardware It was in the fall of 1909 vice-preside- two-sto- ry and remained as such until they moved to the basement of their main building at which time the Sugarhouse Furniture Exchange was organized and leased the building. (Continued on Page 8) Company |