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THIRD PLACE SHORT STORY BUTCHER SHOP-D. HENRIE Ruth D. Scow 94 West 400 South Manti, Utah 84642 The Home Sentinel, 17 July 1885 published at Manti, Utah p. 4 bottom of page. DANIEL HENRIE "Daniel was a butcher, and in those early days of 1890 he being about the only butcher in Manti, he would kill his animal and at 6 a.m. would hoist a red flag at the corner of Union and 2nd West streets that he had beef to sell. Thus buyers would come from all directions and by 8 a.m. there was very little left for the late buyers. He had a primitive way of bookkeeping. Those customers who did not have the money to pay at the time, he wrote their names on a board he kept hung up, and relied on their honesty in paying him when they could. The old lumber butcher shop has been taken away for many a year, but I pass the spot almost daily as I 79 |
