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Show such gatherings as well as for our family purposes. George Lewis, a likeable youngish man who lived near Blue Knoll, was elected president. Although he had excellent capabilities, he found actual services limited by his work on his homestead six miles away. But he did help to design the club stationery-he had aspired to be a commercial artist in his youth-and to persuade his brother Sam, kept from much farm work by a crippled left foot, to haul prospects to available half-sections. Father bought a shack from a disgruntled homesteader and had it moved near the store. He and Sam battened the cracks, tacked tarpaper on the roof, and installed a bed, stove, chair and table. There Sam lived. The Lewis brothers and their wives, who had several homesteads, took turns lending horses to pull the buggy Sam used. Sam would drive to meet the Local. If a visitor arrived, Sam would bring him to the store, Mother would show him claims still open. After the newcomer had made possible choices, Sam would transport him to see the homesteads. But Mother still had to feed the prospects and provide beds for them until they departed. She and Father decided, after a year or so, they must ask 25 cents a meal and the same for a night's lodging. Sam Lewis made a small charge depending on the hours a visitor used the buggy. Mother, Father and Sam had a good deal of informing and reassuring to do before visitor took the train to Milford to file his claim at the land office, or left disillusioned. Early in 1915 Father induced the Grocer Printing Company of Salt Lake City to print a folder praising the Nada area. George Lewis and other club officers, Mother and Father wrote the material. The leaflet appeared under the title Government LAND In Iron and Beaver Counties |