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Newspaper
Lehi Banner
Location
Lehi, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1914
Page
7
This unreadable OCR fragment mentions places and names in a weathered note. It hints at a local event or notice but contains insufficient clear facts, dates, or identities to form a coherent summary.
A long travelogue reviews a trip by Mr. and Mrs. J R Halliday and their two daughters visiting Chicago Battle Creek Grand Rapids and New York City among many sites. They discuss Mormon history Niagara Falls and Washington including the Library of Congress and Mount Vernon. The narrative notes the strawberry crop season in Pleasant Grove and local commerce gearing to harvests with area firms handling large daily loads and a growing trade network.
Strawberry season reaches peak with shipments from Anto and Carland. Fruit Growers associations report steady supply and rising futures as local growers push harvests and packing efforts across regional ranches.
Work began on the foundation of a new canning plant under Alex Thornton. Once the foundation settles, brick walls will rise. Bricks are on hand and brick yard work is to start this week to speed completion for the upcoming apricot harvest in July.
Stake Old Folks Day this Wednesday gathers residents from Lehi American Fork Pleasant Grove Lindon Mantle and Alpine at Measurnt Grove. They arrive by auto buggy and interurban for a noon banquet with farm strawberries from local growers. The event features informal visiting and a dinner program without formal entertainment led by stake officials and local ward representatives.
The Orem Interurban car began regular service with the Lindon and Pleasant Grove run on return trips. The line will be corrected to date, work continues on tracks poles and substations, and electric cars are promised next month though a berry express from Provo Benel will not run until electrified.
A. L. Cullimore built a popular small shop on the State road cross street near the bench in Lindon. He earned the people’s confidence with up-to-date methods and ample stock packed in every space, drawing fruit trade and other patrons from Utah County. The piece praises his approach as a model for departing merchants to follow.
Guy Robinson returns from a business trip through the Ver no and Uintah country noting parcels post freight is cheaper by about 76 cents per hundred. The Reservation is viewed as the coming development. rail and carrier shifts favor Salt Lake City and Denver region logistics. Thirty tons of parcels are planned under an offer totaling around 2000 dollars, to be shipped by parcel post through multiple packagers.
The town’s merchants deserve local patronage as they fund taxes and support churches and institutions. Mail order houses spend thousands to ruin small merchants, aiming to centralize business in large cities and financially destroy smaller towns. Are residents willing to partake in that destruction?
Piled at Calton awaiting pickup Wyte ine Reservation M Thompson orders Advines Nee one order of BIX OK six items completed in Ally ponindeka Walling de te taken THU. One outside firm Inet week received any order for two earloads of four shipped by mall.
Local baseball notes show frequent rain interruptions at Central Park Provo and Eureka, with Provo tying 3-3 and Eureka rallying late. Keetch struck out thirteen against Provo, but Provo fans see upcoming games at American Fork and Pleasant Grove, plus train and interurban schedules and community events.
Miss Ming Wadley, a Pleasant Grove leader, will wed Joseph Mickleson in the Salt Lake Temple. Miss Herve Johnson and Miss Johnson’s fiancé Martine Christianson plan a Salt Lake Temple wedding on the 4th. Engagements include Pern Halliday to Lucius Landie and Vida Halliday to Glen Adamson in Salt Lake Temple ceremonies. Raymond Christen et al. expected to marry Susie Bullock of Murray. Horace Monson leaves for Manuasa. Ming Kila Deverans wed Cyrus Andrews at Provo. Showers held in her honor in Pleasant Grove.
A Sunday School convention shuttle runs from Lindon at 2 20 PM Pleasant Grove at 12 30 PM American Fork at 12 40 PM and Lehi tomorrow schedule includes a return car leaving Lehi at 4 90 PM.
This week saw multiple births. Monday a baby boy arrived at Mr and Mrs John Altwood home. Friday a baby boy was born to Mr and Mrs Ole Chelu iena. Sunday Mrs John Sorrensen presented her husband with a five baby hue. Mogens Newal welcomed a boy Monday, but the infant died shortly after birth.
The note urges residents to boost the locality by ordering the Roosters' Edition now in production. It promises to spread news to distant friends, highlighting Utah county's north end as the subject, and suggests the issue will be worth many letters.
Salt Lake Route offers a special excursion for Temple workers from Alpine Stake with a round trip fare of $1 to Salt Lake City. Departures: Pleasant Grove 6 50, American Fork 6 40, Lehi 6 50, return from Salt Lake City 7 00 p.m. Relief Societies guarantee 100 tickets. tickets valid only on this special and it will not stop after leaving Lehi Junction or upon reaching Salt Lake City.
Four and a quarter million dollars in money loaned cash paid patrons and business written in satisfaction of five per cent loans. The National Mercantile Co. (Ltd) J Watt Storrs, local representative, American Bank. Phone 49-W, 90-41.
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