Show midway didway now has I 1 clean slate respectfully do wo we present the story etory as given the salt lake telegram by geneva B cliff ot of how bow our sister town not 20 miles alier from here through its progressive gres sive helpful citizenship has conquered its difficulties it Is some contrast to what we have in park city where recent observations found some folks throwing the snow from their roofs into the path way where autos and pedestrians are wont won t to travel which in itself suggests selfishness and dont give a dam clarn lack of 1 civic help read it over all three men ma 1440 1 1 armm 1 2 4 ihas ih whose names appear in the article ui known in our town let us invite then over and give us the recipe for imp improved conditions in camp and what we c to prescribe for our belly achere 1 insolvent and without credit ten tea year ago the midway town corporation s taft ed the year 1930 iree free irom from debt and ana with sufficient funds on hand to finance the municipality until the end of the year the rise from ba bankruptcy 11 to compare a tivo affluence has been accomplished tv by the strictest economy in public affaire and by a civic pride which has hag impelled the residents to undertake lm im prove ments at their own expense 1 I in n 1920 the indebtedness of the town was the state was threatening suit for 1000 interest long past due and no one was re reckless ekless enough to td extend credit to the corp corporation oration unless the debt was guaranteed by individual citizens with the n municipality a apparently t r hopelessly sunk in debt the to town w board resigned A new board with john H X carroll as president and state Re represent presen alva J B E wilson as a member was ap api pointed and the economy regime be begun tl s the first year total tax ca collection ecal was not sufficient to meet the int interest t on the tow town n d debt c bt and public 11 P III citizens were asked to dig down in their own pockets to make up the deficit I 1 i prom from that time on the financial post I 1 i tion of the town has been constantly improved until the last debt was wiped out in december 1929 during that time public improvement were not permitted to lag old wooden bridges have been replaced with steel and cement roads have been graveled and the water supply increased practically an all ot of the work has been done by the citizens themselves who have responded with a 1 will to such pioneer institutions as public gravel hauling days I 1 I 1 mr carroll was president of the tows towi board until about two years ago when samuel hair took over the position to carry on the campaign against debt to its conclusion |