. Provo: the garden city of Utah. Its resources and attractions /published under the auspices of the Chamber of Commerce . as the best district school housein the territory, recently erected at a cost of $20,000. The foun-dation is also laid for the Brigham Young Academy, the costof which, when completed, will not be less than $75,000. Thenew Northwest Educational Association has also erected a finebuilding here, known as the Proctor Academy, at a cost of$8,000. There are a number of other school houses, new andcommodious, which would swell largely the aggregate amountthis thriving city has pu
. Provo: the garden city of Utah. Its resources and attractions /published under the auspices of the Chamber of Commerce . as the best district school housein the territory, recently erected at a cost of $20,000. The foun-dation is also laid for the Brigham Young Academy, the costof which, when completed, will not be less than $75,000. Thenew Northwest Educational Association has also erected a finebuilding here, known as the Proctor Academy, at a cost of$8,000. There are a number of other school houses, new andcommodious, which would swell largely the aggregate amountthis thriving city has put into institutions for the education ofits young. PROVO ILLUSTRATED. 33 One of the finest buildings in the territory is the Tabernaclein Provo. It has already cost close on $75,000, and when allwork is done on it, will not run under $100,000. Besides thisthere are a number of lesser church buildings, as well as Pres-byterian, Methodist and other edifices for the worship of God,which give the city a metropolitan air, and offer a variety offorms of worship for those who are not particular where theSabbath is HON. S. R. THURMAN. S. R. Thurman was born May 6, 1852, in La Rue County, Kentucky; received an•academic education; moved to Utah in 1870, and at once commenced teaching school-at Lehi City, Utah County, which vocation he followed almost exclusively for eightjyears. He then began the practice of law, and went to Ann Arbor, Mich., 1879, at-tending the law lectures for several months at that place. He is associated in his profession with Mr. George Sutherland, a firm which,•without doubt, has the largest and best practice of any south of Salt Lake City. commenced official life at the early age of twenty-two. From that periodto the time of his going to Ann Arbor he was an Alderman and member of the CityCouncil of Lehi City, and in 1882 was elected Mayor of that place, an office he re-signed when moving to Provo in November of the same year. He was a me
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