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Show Efi C. SILVER STARTS THINGS II HOLLADAY From the Canadian Rockies, through Oregon and Salt Lake, Hiiam Clawson Silver wended his way to settle in Ilolladay, earth's chosen spot, to build a growing business and to work with Holla-day's Holla-day's ambitious merchants. Here he has assisted in making Holladay a most convenient place to shop, thus adding to its growth. Born of a. line of English sea ; T his place of business, and here telephone payments may also be made, as well as safety deposit boxes rented. Good-natured, pleasant and ever obliging, it doesn't throw Hi to be told it's completely different to be named for a horse. He merely reminds one that he had the name before the Lone Ranger and Silver came along. A small part of his activities, other than his church work, could "be attributed to his wife, the former for-mer Virginia Russell, three daughters daugh-ters and a son, who take turns in serving you at the post office; two horses, six ducks, one hen, a dog and a parakeet not to forget for-get a sister-in-law, Gwen Chris-tensen, Chris-tensen, company clerk). It will always be "Hi Silver" who is ever at your service at the pioneer business, Silver Company in Holladay. H. C. SILVER captains and engineers, Hi Silver foresook the trades of his ancestors ances-tors (for lack of an ocean) and went into the business of merchandising, mer-chandising, household appliances and hardware, capitalizing on his schooling and education, for he majored in the field of business at the University of Utah. While attending the university, he was well known as the founder of the Barbarians, a non-fraternity organization. or-ganization. He was a student body president during his LDS junior college days. Always an organizer at heart, he started the Holladay Commercial Commer-cial club among the businessmen. With the ingenuity typical of him, he started the first Holladay newspaper, news-paper, "Out Holladay Way," thus his life has also been dipped in pinters' ink. The paper, which claimed a large readership, has since been incorporated in The News Bulletin. Never lax in his efforts to promote pro-mote a future for Holladay people, and better community service, he secured a sub-station post office at |