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Show Birthday Party Honors Pioneer of Sugar House ), vv.c:.v. i' i' . y ,J i Days of Old Recalled at Smoot Banquet DThe original Sugar House, the gar processing plant built in pioneer days and located on tuo southeast coiner of the inter section of Twenty-fust South and Eleventh East where the Leavitt service station now stands, had been in operation only ten years when A. C ( lien) Smoot first saw the light ot day. On Monday friends and acquaintances ac-quaintances of liert Smoot. gathered at the Granite slake tabernacle on Ninth East to du him honor on the occasion of his eightieth birthday. "Uncle belt' as he is affectionately known by thousands has spent his entire life in the Sugar House area, seeing see-ing it grow from a frontier Arming and milling coinmuni-to coinmuni-to a teeming metropolitan business section, and in every way possible assisting and contributing con-tributing to its growth and development. de-velopment. M. O. Ashton, lifelong friend of Mr. Smoot and for many years a leading citizen of this section, was host at the grand birthday parly Monday at which old acquaintances and business associates paid tribute to the guest of honor, recalling the good old days and noting the tremendous growth of this section. sec-tion. As the guests assembled, they lit the eighty red and white candles spaced along the banquet ban-quet tables and in the mellow candle glow they sang "Happy Birthday." During the toasts and through the remarks made as the evening progressed many thought back on that December day four score years ago when Bert Smoot was born in the old I W. C. A. Smoot farm house located lo-cated where the Apex Electric company now stands, directly north of the Sugar House monument. monu-ment. Toasts to the honored guest were given by Mr. and Mrs. Willard Richards, C E. Crock-well, Crock-well, Lorenzo Hatch, Alex Curtis, Dr. W. H. Reherd of Westminster, Westmin-ster, George Dixon, Will Lowe and Sam Leaver, president of the Sugar House Rotary -club of which Mr. Smoot is a charter member. The club presented - I'iO.VKKR A. ('. (Heel) Smoot, honored at com-miinily com-miinily hatiqurt on occasion of his SOtli liiilliday. Cut courtesy the Deserel News. BKKT All around this Sugar House town ,You hear one word and it's a noun. It is the friendly nickname "Bert" His pals are legion and all assert as-sert He is the real genial sort And part of the town's life and sport. His other and longer name is Smoot But his horn you ne'er heard him toot: He is a modest kind of man In every type of club or clan And is wholly void of pretence pre-tence But he has loads of common sense. He makes no boast of pious crede But worships with his generous gener-ous deed: He never did have any foes. But is beloved where e'er he goes: We all delight to call him friend And wish him joy to the trail's end. NEPHI JENSEN. him with a bird bath whiph will be placed in his yard. This gift was inspired by Mr. Smoot's daily custom of feeding the birds. Mr. Smoot's son, Bert Jr-, sent 80 roses which were set in vases flanking the giant birthday birth-day cake which the guest of honor cut at the end of the dinner. Jed Ashton showed a number of family pictures and old-time films, and musical numbers were I given by Mr. and Mrs. Stewart McMaster and readings by Mrs-George Mrs-George Goff. |
