Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1921-06-24

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year ago the dollar had buy
ing power of 81 cents as compared
with its value before the war. Now
the power has increased to 65
cents.
]. A. Kopp has just received a
new five passenger Buick car,
which in all probability he will dis
pose of within short time to a
prospective customer who is inves-
tigating the most economical make
to purchase.
We have been informed by +. S.
Burkholder that James Middleton,
son OF Mrs. Eliza Middleton of this
city, is now in Los Angeles work
ing as an electrician and making
from So to 81 per day.
Remember that the chautauqua
comes in August, and this year
the program will be superior to that
of last year. If this is true it will
be well worth the peoples time and
money to attend every session.
Heretofore, it has been the GUS
tom on the Fourth of July to have
children's dance in the afternoon,
giving the little ones about an
hours dancing. Let's make it two
hours this year.
Frank S. Burkholder of Ramona,
California, is here visiting with
his brother, c. ID. Burkholder. The
gentleman intends spending about
month hereabouts and will take
in the Cedar Breaks, Zion Canyon
and other places of scenic beauty.
A chain store report of 153
stores shows that, comparing pres
ent day prices of thirty-three sta
pies, and what they sold for during
the war, $7.49 will buy now what
it cost $14.08 to purchase at the
war peak. This is, So cents will buy
what ST did during the war.
Mrs. Isabelle Baker, who spent
the past winter in Los Angeles,
with her daughter and who stopped
off on her way home for months
visit in Cedar with relatives and
friends, left Wednesday morning
for her home in Monticello. While
here Mrs. Baker was a guest at
the home of her lister, Mrs. julius
Rosenberg.
Albert Anderson Of Hurricane
was in Cedar Monday and Tuesday
Of this week, negotiating for the
manufacture of fifty thousand
bricks. Green Bros. of Cedar were
given the contract and will move
their machine to Hurricane within
the next week or ten days. The
bricks are to be used FOR the cree
ton of a new school building in
Hurricane.
Nearly every one makes the
statement that there is no money in
town, yet we notice that quite a
few dollars pass over the counters
of the stores every day. 1t might
be added that talking hard times
will not relieve the situation and
only makes times that much harder
at least in the minds of the people.
Let's all think and talk prosperity
and soon we will have a brighter
view of the situation.
A party composed of Mrs. b. +.
Knell, Mr.. and Mrs. John Fuller,
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Garfield,
Miss Lille Knell, Cass Root and
Mr., and Mrs. Joe Whitmer, mot
ored up Coal Creek canyon last
Sunday morning for breakfast.
After breakfast several hours were
spent in climbing the mountains,
the party returning late in the af-
ternoon with reports of very en-
joyable outing.
The new postoffice fixtures
have arrived and are now installed
in the new location and we want
to tell the people of Cedar that we
have one of the best, if not the
best, equipped postoffices south of
Salt Lake City. There are $50 steel
lock boxes and the entire equip
ment is made of steel, The build
ing is being newly papered and
painted inside and will be ready to
move into in a day or two. Post
master Granger and his employees
will no doubt be able to appreciate
The new office, after having been
SO crowded in the old building,