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Show Personal! pill! Hems.- For Friends & Neighbors. We sent out quite a -number of statements last week and all but ONE have made returns. So we call that a pretty good average o! honest men in Utah. Mrs. J. W! Co trell, a very pleasant personality,was in and said she and her husband liked the paper. And they are the kind of people we are glad to have on our list. To Neighbors J. De Zwarte and WmHalliday we say: Keep right on bringing your literature, litera-ture, we want it, read it, use it. J. T Jardine. good Friend and Neighbor, nearly ran himself him-self out of breath trying to catch lip with us when we were on the trail of a delinquent. We were remenbered ike the widow who had a cruse filled with oil. Personal il Items. There appears to be more honesty hon-esty and morality than in most towns of its size. Neighbor Thomas L. Allred is one of God's noblemen, a plain, hard-worhing hard-worhing mac. We would rather have him follow us on the last journey than some of those who sat in the high seats at Ex-Governor Blood's farewell. C. V. Hansen is another of Provo's upright and honorable men. He has gained some fame as a writer. He reads, studies and thinks. Read his contribution contrib-ution in this issue. He has a fine way of remembering his friends in their illness. Mrs. Lund thanks him for that. Judge Nephi Jensen comes in occesionally to see how the mental temperature is and always al-ways leaves some inspiration. If reincarnation is true then we fancy that he once walked and wrought with the 24 immortal im-mortal men of Greece and that he is the reincarnation of one of one of them. ri i The city will never be with out an honest man as long as Joseph S. PriGe is living. He is a reader and a thinker and he keeps himself very well inform ed oh current events. And he is never a bit afraid to express his opinion. He is business manager of some of the large office buildings. Neighbor Heber . Hale, one or. the prominent citizens and churchmen of Salt Lake, is a reader of this paper and we nail that a tribute- -If aU men were, as righteous as he they would now be laying the Northeast corner stone of the millenium. One of the charter members of our family of Neighbors is Harold F. Stewart, ranch and coal man, former bishop and at present is stake head of the Aaronic priesthood. He lakes a hearty interest in the paper. Like all of our good subscribers he is a substantial A-l man who proves by his works that he lives his religion and that he believes in human brotherhood. By their fruits ye know them. One of our veteran Neighbors is M.A. Faldmo. He is 86 years of age and quite hale and hear ty. He has led a very active life He was one of the Argo-naughts Argo-naughts who dared the snowi and cold and roughness of the Klondike in its golden age But most of the gold he went to get ' is still there. Good luck to you Friend, and peace and happiness happi-ness and contentment to your declining years. Don't look upon this paper as small and unimpnptant for it is quite important. In this state it circulates from Logan to St. George and reaches every library. It has readers in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Washington, Detroit, ChicagOj and the cities of the West coast and goes into some big newspaper news-paper and magazine offices.and several national clipping bureaus bur-eaus It is quoted across the country, and that more often than any other Utah weekly. So don't call it unimportant. It cover this city like a blanket. Howard Christensen, the bar ber, sometimes thinks out loud and he did just that when we said there was no graft or corruption cor-ruption in Salt Lake and Ogden What will say now when we say there is only one dishonest man in each of these towns. Of course the records of the jails and the board of pardons dispute dis-pute this, but might not the Jecord keepers be mistaken? Much good comes out of Provo. Continued in next Column' |