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Show WRIGHTS TO OBSERVE S BIRTHDAY Wrights' Storo Is forty-five yeara young tomorrow, and thcy'ro going to celebrate. Forty-five years is a long tlmo to have been In business and to have kept growing all tho time. Few Ogdon people know it nowfdujs, perhaps, per-haps, but Wright's Storo Is ono of the oldest retail stores In Utah. Wm. H. Wright, tho founder of I he business, came 10 Ogdcn a long timo before the store was opened. He tried farming up In Cache valley, and afterwards after-wards worked for the old Z. C. M. 1. of Ogdon under the management of D. IT. Pcery. "Billy" Wright, as most every one called him in those days, was a good ml.vor. and the little store, which was located on tho west sklo of Main street (now Washington avenue), ave-nue), soon grew until Liio father had to bring "the boys" In to help with tho clnrking, which consisted of ttiu-ing ttiu-ing off calico slicing bacon selling grindstones, or taking buttor and eggs In "on trade." After hours some of the boys did the dollvcring In a wheel barrow. On tho opening Jay, which would be about for'y-flvo e;ir3 ago now, tho store took In thirty-five dollars dol-lars In cash, which the proud proprietor pro-prietor carried home Jif a hand bag borrowed from stock ho icjolccd that his fortune wan made. Strango what tricks fate plays in lifo. The building over which the namo of W, IT. Wright stands today is tho very same building In which ho had his Initial start as a clerk. In those days nil the clorkn brought their lunch and went homo after the .'tore closed, anywhero between ten o'clock and, midnight. "Billy" was an Englishman, Eng-lishman, and therefore fond of a good meal. Also ho had a dear llttlo wife, with whom ho was very much in lovo and who was a wonderful cook so Billy used to slip out occasionally ;-.nd go homo for a ''warm bite." The boss caught him at it twice and said, "Brother Wright you'ro fired." Wm. IT. Wright always gave a great deal of credit to his wife for his success; suc-cess; he used to say, "If I hadn't boon blessed with such a good little wife who was a wonderful cook and whom I wanted to go home to see I would never havo been fired and being fired was tho best thing that over happonod to me It resulted in my getting Into business for myself " Wm. H. Wright had ono dominating quality that brought him success he had a big, noble heart. Men about town used to say that he would never make a big succe3s because he was too free-hearted. Thcro are widows living In Ogden today who tell of it But the bread that ho cast upon the waters returned after many days. Hist handshake was cordial and genuine. Men there, were In tho early days of his struggle who took advantage of his goodness, but he returned only his sympathy that they should care to do so. There'3 a picture of Wm. II. Wright in tho main offices of the store. When tho boys show jou through, thoy say, "That's tho picture of father ho was the best man I ever know." nn |