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Show A Little Travelogue Or Sight Seeing Trip For the lienellt nftlie HiindriiNof Our Vlhltors I lie Follonlng I. Idle 'I'm. tcltiicues are (ilwu. Von havo piobablo noticed how much we have grown since you moved away, scwral years ago. A few of the old sun dried adobe homes are still romamlng, but most of these old land marks have been supplanted with brick one of modern designs, for you will have noticed that probably no other city In your travels lins a larger percentage of modern, comfortable homes, and on the Inside you will llnd ilium comfortably nnd in many Instances, Instan-ces, luxulously furnished. When some of you Ion, tho side wulks were little more than cow trails. You have probably remarked on the linn cement pavements you have been walking on in going to and fro. Well, wo have thirteen miles of them, tho last half ot them were put In by American Fork conn actors, llehwun tho sidewalks and Hie homes are hun. dreds of beautiful lawns and Mower gardens !lnc you ever hi en nunc of them In (i town of our nitv" Standing on 'he isciiDi up if Main at Its Junction with Merchant Street havo you over seen a more prosperous looking business center than Is presented pre-sented by this site, In a town of our sIzoV Looking west Is Thornton's Drug Store, The Royal' Tailors, The Uolucu Ilulo, tho .Noyes' building, Homo Coming headquarters where you may rest, tho Orient Theatre, tho Opera House and tho Grant Hotel with a number of smaller businesses ho-tween. ho-tween. Directly in front and to your right Is the ilig Hod Chlpmun Store, tho biggest big-gest department store south of Salt i.ako City. .Next and across tho street In tho now llro brick building Is the liank of Amorlcan Fork with its nearly near-ly half a million of resources and the strength of Glberaltor. Up stairs you will nnd most of tho legal talent oi tho elty. isext Is "Joo's Place," Joe is secretary of thu big Homo Coming committee. Tho long row of buildings housing three of our four drug stores, a meat market, real estato onlco and several confectlonurlcs Is principally owned by tho Chlpman Co. Th Adam-son Adam-son block on tho corner of Church nnd .Main Is occupied by tho Southworth t ash Store. UppoBllo la tho now Peoples' Peo-ples' State Hank and in tho building next to it Is tho Co-op., onco burned down, but now bigger nnd butter than over and ono of tho leading lustltu tions of tho state. At tho end ot the street Is our home, where Is printed three of tho best country weekly papers pa-pers In tho state. Across tho utreei and a little cast la tho old reliable storo of Win. Grant, whoro you traded ears ago. Directly at your back la tho modern Mountain States Tolophono te Telegraph Co's. exchange whoro you ran call up any of your friends, and at your olhow Is Hickman's Heal Estate Es-tate olllco whoro you can buy some ot tho best dirt on earth. As you look directly north tho long string of bulldlugB is owned own-ed and largely occupied by the Chlpman Mercantile Company Tho building labeled "Hank" but with tho words Post Olllco on thu window, Is where you will gel your mall while visiting h,ere. Further up Is ono of our clubs Into which some of yon may bo Initiated before roturiilng, and bejond is tho homo of the Utah Light & Power Co. Speaking ot power, you havo probably prob-ably noticed that American Fork Is ono of tho best lighted cities In the Btnto. Wo have two magnllleleni power plants In ilio canyon, ono at the mouth and the other two miles fiirthur up Combined, iiioy generate owir I'.fHM hors -power of electrlclal ctinoiil. What a contrast to thu days of kerosliio lamps when joii left! Slopping to tho next street east you can see the big red building on the hill 'Ibis Is i In' new high school erected at the coiji of our f fid nan nnd ("lilid rn rt'L i-i mil' I in . ;ir - Ukc 1 A four year high school courso Is glw ' tn and tho credits given hero will P'k ' prepare the student lor entranco to i. A any coiiege or university In America. wi Directly to tho right and north oi xhoro tho old city hall used to stand , .J our now city hall, second to non '""" m tho state, In a city of our sire. "'" ' just to the north nro tho Forbes andHi' .i. i.arrlngton School buildings. Moum Uu nro sorry that tho Alplno Stab ,'"", labeniaclo down tho street to tho cart ,or. has not yet been seated and dedicated ,m so you can hold tho homo comltl Hiatid meetings there. It Is a building 'Hm-most 'Hm-most striking and plenslng archils UWL turu, both Inside and out. Scvcntj.H no, live thousand dollars has already beciHto ., expended on It, and by tho tlmo th Jpn ' organ has been Installed, tho amount will havo reached approxlmateljB fct,, fluU.OUu. It was built by all tho ?,... plo ot tho Alplno Stnko and they artH "0(l proud of it. Lille In taking a stroll around tho cltf.Bll.aki you will dud four fluo meeting housclH,. also the Presbyterian church, bcskWB tho hundreds of nlco now homes. ' This ovonlng you will probably to Jrite to one of our two theatres, mouern,Bn , sanitary and up-to-dnto In every te-HLtc spect. When you como out wo wn,H.iriI to know whether you know of anjM' "' jthor city our slzo with two of as n"(B '" ' show houses. You will also go to tb(Biiln Apollo Hall on Church street. :Vls here, too, you will bo taken up ',,. Hie Immense spring Moor and Its inag-HT1" illlclent proportions. To show j on tho grand old caii)0 that has lost nonu of Its scenic KW dure or letreslilng breezes since yo . lert, we will havo to take you there In automobiles. You will probablj have noticed the heavily loaded ore I teams as they como Into town Then is moro acthlly In the canyon iiilur this year than for years past and thtf bid tair to repent their history of tl" oarly days when thousands of in woro employed there. t ., Wo will also havo to uso automobiles auto-mobiles to take you to tho lake, where wo now have a line resort and where SJ gasoline launches now take tl' place of the old row boat a'1' 'TJI which will tako you to Saratoga. Geneva, Gen-eva, MoHldu or any landing desired lu the olden times you used to i"" of street ears coming here. Now havo a reality Thero aro now elp ' cars n day lu and out of America" Fork In the near futuro tlm B'J1 line cars will bo supplanted with electric elec-tric cars and the schedule will V& vide for fourteen cars per day l'01lJ eslly Is not this a pretty good lo'' . Have joii round any better since )" l)1 left ? |