| OCR Text |
Show pr I ' Idaho's Southern Metropolis 111 ; I! j ' Club Banquet, Fine New Pavilion, Rail- I , road Activity. Sketch of W. P. Monson. HJ' "I'uksiox, Idaho. Mmch i"), l'JOO HJb The Commercial Club opening ban- 1 'ict and ball held last Friday nle,ht Mf ' was a success In umij way. The HJ t oration of the evening Klven by .Indue HJ ! Alfred limine will Ioiik le lemcm- HJ be red by those present Other parts HJ . on the program worth; of special HJ ; mention wcie the piano solo by I'.IIcl HJ Tapper, the solo by M .1. Mallard and HJ J the toasts which were Kiven at the HJ baniiet. The haniuct which was HJ served by the Hess icstaurant was HJ the most elaborate alTalr of the kind HJ which has ever taken place in I'reston HJ There were about two bundled kucsIs HJ seated at the tables at one time. The HJj Commercial Club promises man more H j such occasion'! In the future. Hj ( Popular People Married. HJ Last evening about one hundred HJj and fifty youiiK' people met the train HJ from the south All were well pro- H, vlded with bans of rice and old boots Hi and Shoes The occasion of the ix- HB cltcmcnt was the home-coin Iiik of Mr. HK and Mr W. II Ilobbs, two of our HJ, most popular younn people who went HH married at the Logan temple jester- HI; day. As the couple alU'htid from the HB train they were almost burled In i ice HI, wheat and old shoes. This evening a HJ wedding reception was given to mem- HH bcrs of the family at the home of the HI bride's parents The bride is Miss HH Uctta Smith, the eldest daughter of HBJ 'Mr. and Mrs J. O Smith Mr. Smith HJ i Is one of our leading merchants. The HJ groom is the eldest son of Mr and HH Mrs. C K. Ilobbs Mr. Ilobbs Is the HJ proprietor of the Ilobbs opera house HJ Mr. and Mrs. W. It. Ilobbs have rent- HJ cd apartments of Itubc Spldcll on HH State H ! After Cut-off. j ' The rail i o.nl commute of the Com- Imeiclal Club Is busy. As n result of their efforts the Shoit Line people sent Mr. Armstrong, of their engineer corps, up Saturday to go oer the ground between Preston and Soda Springs for the purpose of ascertain-Ing ascertain-Ing the feasibility of extending their line up through (lentltle Valley to HI connect with the main line at Soda HJ , Springs In company with Messrs. A. HH W. Hart and (ieo 0 I'.irkluson, Mr HH . Armstrong Inspected the gic.il syphon HH !' on the Oneida Ii ligation Canal The HH j gentlemen leport that the ditch Is In HJJ l excellent condition, there being al- HJJ A -ready ipiite a stream of watur running HH i tluotigh part of It Kiigiueer Arm- HJJ -strong who has been closely connected HJJ with some of the greatest engineering HJJ i entei pises In the west reports HH ! that syphon No'l on the Oneida lr- HJJ -rigaton canal Is one of the greatest HJJ pieces of engineering of Its kind that HJJ ' he has seen. Tho watei was turned HJJ , Into the syphon for the tlrst time to HHJ H , $12,000 Pavilion. HJJ I At a meeting of the stockholdcisof HJJ ( the Preston Opera House Co. held last HJJ Kriday night, It was decided to com- HJJ ' ( mence Immediately on construction of HJJ a $r.',(XH) dancing pa Won. The build- HJJ lug of the opera house, which was to HJJ be done In connection with the danc- HJJ lug pavilion will not take place until HHl Marshal Missing. Wanted Information as to the whcicabouts of the I'reston village marshal, for the past week there have been several head of cattle hanging around the gate of the stray pound, walling for the man with the key to come and let them in. It Is feared that thev will die of starvation unless some liiformailoncan be gained as to the whcicabouts of the village marshal. The Very Latest. The "latest thing" in 1'ieston Is the souvenir postal card fad. On these cards are printed smne ery line photographs pho-tographs of our public buildings, business busi-ness blocks, private icsldenccs and street scenes. Hy means of the souvenir souve-nir postal cards our city Is being an-vertlsed an-vertlsed far and neai Tho cards aro on sale at the Co-op drug store. Republican is Boosting. During the next month there will appeal in Tine I'icitmmian a number num-ber of articles on I'reston which will be Illustrated by cuts of the main points of Interest Tiik Kki'Uiimcan Is endeavoring to follow out the watchword sounded by .Judge Iludge In his brilliant speech at the recent Commercial Club banquet, "Kvcry-body "Kvcry-body Iloost for I'reston". II'. '. Mon sun, I President of I'reston Commercial Club and head of Superior Lumber Co. W. P Mouson was born In Richmond, Rich-mond, Utah, on Juno ,10th, 1ST.') Is a son of the late C II , and Kilen Monson. Mon-son. In early childhood he was obliged to woik with his father and j other brotheis at the old planing mill which was located on the main street in Richmond In the year of 1SD0 lie was taken to Franklin, Idaho, where his fath'ei had entered the milling business at that point, and gradually worked from one position to another until in thejear llM (al the time his father took 111 from which he never recovered) Waller was called upon to tike the Initiative of the business, besides being the foremost man in the mill, manufacturing lumber, lum-ber, shingles and planing lumber. At his father's death In lS').i he was placed in charge of the entire business and besides having this In charge had the laboi of looking aftei the interests of the widows and orphans. This duty he did In honor to himself and famll) on the salary of W.1 per month,. Uhus fullHllug the promise made his father upon his death bed, to remain with the business until it should be entlrel) out of debt December 1st. Isht, he quit tho milling mill-ing business and commenced woiking for the Oneida Milling ,. Klev.itor Co. under the management o( tho O M. Union, and after entering their employ tluee weeks, he was called on a mission mis-sion to the Northwestern S'tateswheic he served .is tiavellng elder, clerk of conference, president of the Portland i conference when Hist organised and liter sei ved as counselor to tho presl- : dent of the mission, lelurning home i to Franklin on I'ebruarj n, 1TO0 Upon ' hlsanlval home he moved to I'reston ! and entered tho employ of Sludebaker Hi os, as salesman, and when he saw an opportunity of going Into business for ' himself, although he had ab-.olutly no money, he let his long experience with the business of his father serve as capital, and with this and the aid of afilend or two was enabled to borrow bor-row money to commence operations j Itclug an adept at this line of business , he succeeded wonderful!) and soon had a trade larger than he was able to take care of and sought more help, which was found In the person of W. A. Skldmore, also of Richmond. This was the birth of what is now styled tho Superior Lumber Co , of Preston, of which Mr. Monson has been mauagei since It wasorganled in the year 1000. That ho has been wonderfully successful in this can be Judged from tho nppeaiarice of theii place of business on Main St. Preston. Mr Monson has held many positions posi-tions of trust among the people of tho towns where he has resided and acquitted ac-quitted himself In honor In every Instance. In-stance. Ho Is a firm believerlnorgan-bed believerlnorgan-bed effort and with this In view sought to build up hishomc town and commenced com-menced the movement of Commercial club work which was organbed Feb. 27th, at which meeting he was unanimously unan-imously sustained as president of that organization, which will help shape the future destiny of the most thriving town In the north, Preston. General Items. (co O. Parkinson is ollerlng.for sile two blocks of his land adjoining the new First ward meeting house. The land Is being cut up Into city lots Since the Hume has been constiucK'd acioss the "Academy Hollow" all of this pioperty can be Irrigated, making mak-ing It one of the most desirable residence resi-dence spots hi Hie town The piop-city piop-city is selling tapidly and a number of new buildings will go up In the near future The Idaho political pot Is beginning to boll Mi I) (!. Farmer, chairman of the I cpubllcau County Ccntial committee of Oneida county, has called a meeting of the Kxecutlve committee for the purpose of tilling vacancies In the County Central committee com-mittee and to lay plans for ai active campaign this fall It has been suggested by the Commercial Com-mercial Club committee on adveilisc-ment adveilisc-ment that the following excerpt from Judge Iludge's speech at the banquet bo copyrighted and placed on lapel buttons for general distributor "Kvcrybody Iloost for Preston." The tlrst year normals of the O. S. Academy will give a dancing party next Friday evening The school will not be closed for the regular conference confer-ence vacation. The baseball players have been practicing for the last two or thicc days. A team will bo organized soon and an active season Is anticipated. The recent heavy rains and the warm days following have taken the snow from the ground. Plowing will commence In a few days Personal Mention. William Hawkcs Jr. returned Monday Mon-day fioin Iloston, where he has been cnagaged in missionary woik for the past two years Mrs Ilcrt Lewis, of Clifton, to whom a child wns born about two weeks ago, is seilously 111 with pneumonia. pneu-monia. W. A. Skldmore, of the Superior Lumber Co., leaves for a mission to Great Britain on the lstli of April Mis Stephen Ohiistcnscn is quite ill with pneumonia. At last reports she seemed to be out of danger Miss Hannah Jackson, of Smith-Held, Smith-Held, has been spending a few days with friends In Preston. Miss Myrtle Ilobbs, of Franklin, has been visiting this week with her sister Mrs. A.C. Smith Mark Keubergcr, of the Cache Valley Val-ley Soda Water Co., was up fiom Logan Lo-gan Tuesday. Miss Lydia Lowe, of Franklin, Is lsitlng with her sister, Mis. A W Hart Di. and Mis. Cutler weie visiting with relatives In Salt Lake last week. Miss Josic lickuap spent the last week with relatives in Ogdcn. Mr. and Mrs, Thurman Jones arc v islting friends In Ogdcn. A daughter was born today to Mr and Mrs. Joseph Oollghtly |
