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Show 34 Hew Businesses Added To City's Growing Trade Roosevelt is growing up at an abnormally fast rate. Perhaps Per-haps few people stop to consider consid-er that about 34 new businesses have been added to the towns growing commerce within the past four years, joining such distinguished dis-tinguished predecessors as Les-i Les-i lie Ashton's and Sons Uintah Power and Light Co., Shurtleff hotel, Uintah (formerly Utopia) theatre, Cash Market, Roosevelt and Fredrickson garages, Roosevelt Roos-evelt State bank, Steve and Ned's cafe, the Roosevelt Standard, Stand-ard, and others. Count them: Farmers' Co-op service station, Carlson cleaners, Fitzgerald Tractor Co., Roosevelt Roos-evelt Bakery, McKinlay Motor Co Roosevelt Implement Co., Hanson hotel, Uintah Motor Co., Garden Gate Floral, Bradshaw Auto Parts, Record Furniture. Snow machinery Co., Hi-Land dairy, the dental and medical offices of-fices of Doctors Vere and Don Johnson and R. V. Larson, Uintah Uin-tah Sportsmen . Center, Small Frye Shop, Frontier Grill, Rob- TKE ROOSEVELT STANDARD. 1 mmmmam wrrarrm msmmsmmmmm iKmijmwumis&MXmMmMXim&iTMFi uisiii,iiwimi mm imam i i,iin-.. - & wywnJ w,v w,.1Bi ''' , . . ? f . f r - .jy-.--i I i , i ; ... i s - . -4. V' - " i Back in 1916, when tile Roosevelt Standard had a staff of two, Ernest Clayton, apprentice, and Arnold Reef, editor, shown left to right, the total circulation of the. paper was about 300. Now the newspaper keeps four full-time employees busy, anci the circulation has jumped to over a thousand. The present staff bie's Shop, Turner Building Supply Sup-ply Co., Hollis G. Hullinger IBuick agency, Roosevelt Coffee Shop, Laris Motor Lodge. Phillips Motor Lodge, Dillman Mortuary, Olpin Mortuary, the ,. Basin Accounting Service, Essie's Es-sie's Beauty Shop, Harmston 1 Supply Co., the Owen Co., (I Sprouse-Reitz Co., Sather's Jewelry, Jew-elry, the Roosevelt Laundry, Roosevelt Sand and Gravel, '. the Landscape Nursery and Flor-; Flor-; al. Have we missed any? The new developments are a far cry from the old days, when the city could boast only a few thriving business establishments of any size. Because we think it proper to pay tribute to the pioneer businesses of the town, in recognition recog-nition of their ability to keep their heads above water through the past 20-40 years, including a depression, and to encourage ' more establishments, to locate '7 h 'rri;--v-tll--L-NDHRD " ' 1 'eft to right, includes Bob Johnstun, printer s devil, bandy iucr.-""an iucr.-""an part-time pressman, Phillip E. Pack, plant foreman, George W ffightower, Jr., editor, Bernice Felter, part-time clerk. Mrs. Irene K Fretwell, publisher, and Peggy Oldroyd, clerk, ad salesman sales-man and society reporter. . f;! , " .T-'i : . '"""" - iLZ.-. : I i - f; ' -i -r a- - The Cash Meat Market in 1921 looked pretty much a it does today. But don't let appearances fool ypu. The building has been gradually enlarged since then. The grocerymen, and woman, standing garbed for work in front of the building are, from left to right, Marrell Wilkins, Mrs, Elda Calvert, clerk, and the late Elroy Wilkins. in the vicinity, we have chosen several of them as the subject of this" article. They and Roosevelt Roos-evelt are growing together. First we might mention the Dry Gulch Irrigation Co., which is still thriving, and several other early firms that have fallen fall-en by the wayside. J. U. and William Page, Joe and Willard Anderson, Ed Heller, Hell-er, and Mr. Wood, during the winter of 1908-09, hauled 250,-000 250,-000 feet of lumber from the Ly-berts Ly-berts mill on the Dry Gulch to build the Dry Gulch Irrigation Co. building. In 1906 the Roosevelt Mercantile Mercan-tile store, the firstxto be built in the town, was started by Frank i Orser, Nick Harmston, and J. I B. Harmston. j About the same time C. J. I Johnston' opened the Consoli- dated Wagon and Machine Co. n. lew ijl nv uuia uuaiucaars springing up between 1906-15 were the Ed. F. Harmston "Farm Shop," the Rough Rider saloon, the Shurtleff hotel, Pat Markey's barber shop, and Leslie Les-lie Ashton's. . The Sjiurtleff hotel was built about 1910, by Charley Shurtleff, Shurt-leff, who is supposedly now living liv-ing in California. Most of the present building was erected then: later seven additional rooms were added. In 1931 Mrs. Mary Beecroft purchased the hotel from Pete Nelson, who in turn had bought it from Mr. Shurtleff One of the most remarkable records of any business in town is boasted by - the Roosevelt State bank. In 1943 the total footings amounted to $1,234,-313.41; $1,234,-313.41; now the figure has almost al-most doubled to $2,287,443.59. The first report of the bank, in 1920, listed the total footings foot-ings as $162,503.70. The first president was Elroy Wilkins; the first cashier, E. Ray Caldwell. Cald-well. In 1933 a group of local citizens citi-zens bought out the controlling interest and appointed Chester H. Hartman, Ray E. Dillman, Sam G. Weiss, W. G. Gentry and Fred Neumeyer as the new board of directors. Upon the death of Mr. Wilkins, eight years ago, Ray E. Dillman became be-came president. The building which houses Cash Meat Market, Inc., was built in 1913 by Xavier Bellon and S. M. Hancock. Two years later Mr. Hancock sold his interests in-terests to Mr. Bellon and F. M. Taylors In 1917 Elroy Wilkins came into the firm as a partner, and the following year' H. L. Allred bought Mr. Bellon's interest. Mr. Wilkins bought out the interests of Mr. Taylor and Mr. Allred in 1919, and with his son, Marrell, ran the store until un-til other members of the family Farrell, Paul, Marc, and Herbert Her-bert came in. The firm was incorporated in-corporated in 1941. Elroy Wil- kins remained active in the busi-1 busi-1 ness until his death in 1941. The building was gradually enlarged, en-larged, and extensively remod-leled remod-leled in 1948. , The Roosevelt garage began operation in July, 1928, when Steve "Wogec bought it from V. L. Murphy. The original establishment estab-lishment was located in the Lar-sen Lar-sen building, which now houses the bottling works. After about two years, Mr. Wogec moved to his present location on Main street. He now operates the garage gar-age with his sons, John and Joe. The Utopia theatre, now the Uinta, was started in1 1925 by the City Holding Co. George Harison and his son, Howard, bought it in 1927, showing a silent film, "The Yankee Clipper" Clip-per" as the first feature. During ft? l r nU "".-The fearfi$ combining CWaiA' fcham. and PHn' sai J: Steve andfeL i '' years old. It WTS ce u ';. ; - stree taS; tion. At first . & window w .uwfe the town's oldi" U : buness; sandwh :' main fare on the Is iJ'J cook and a waiL T V' cafe Was moved ala!f"i -street and comDli ss 3' ed. 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