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Show 00 HERR PROVO WANTS TO KNOW. Provo, July 15. The secretary of the Commercial club of this city has had some correspondence with Hermann Her-mann Provo of Schwetzlng on Baden, Germany, 'Herr Provo Is desirous of literature which will give aim some .Idea of what the town bearing his name in the far west is like and when and how the name Provo originated. orig-inated. There are several stories told of the way Provo river received its name, but the one best authenticated is that a Frenchman named "Proveaux," while fishing and trapping in this neighborhood many years before the advent of the Mormons, named the river after himself, or that it was so named by others who were acquainted with the Frenchman who made this his headquarters for some time prion to the settlement of these valleys When the settlers came here they knew of no other way to spell "Proveaux" "Pro-veaux" ' than Provo. |