4 THE ACORN OGDEN IS GROWING Wright's new store is indicative of Ogden's growth. The immense trade which has come in the past few years has placed Wright's name among the large dealers of the west which means power to buy merchandise at the lowest cost. The policy of Wright's store is and will continue to be Quick Sales at Small Profits. To sell a great quantity of clean merchandise at a moderate rate of profit is our idea of good business Wright's New Dress Goods New Underwear New White Waists New Dress Skirts for Spring at The Paine & Hurst Store mr. axel lindstrom is now with us Just a Word to Our Customers We are contemplating putting in a 25-foot Becker fountain some time during March of this year, giving Ogden the largest soda fountain in the intermountain country. F. W. Matthews Candy Co. Don't forget we have nothing in the candy line that will not pass the pure food laws now being enacted. The Acorn Volume Four FEBRUARY Number Three Tim's Valentine ST. VALENTINE'S EVE usually brings gladness to us all. The girl who receives a token of love from her sweetheart is made happy, and even the dirty little urchins of the streets find pleasure in sending and receiving some valentines. None of these pleasures were ever shared by deformed Tim, who at one time ran around with the boys, while they sent their valentines. One day an accident occured, which crippled him for life, and day after day, month after month, he sat in the little room of the garret, watching, and sometimes helping his mother sew buttons on shirts for the factory. Tim hated the thoughts of Valentine's Eve, not that he was unable to share the pleasure of sending, but now, on account of his misfortune, he was the recipient of the kind of valentines, which cut him to the quick pictures of hunch-backs, cripples, walking on crutches, or being wheeled, and at the bottom of which would always be a stanza of doggerel. He would cry at times, then curse at the senders. His mind was incapable of realiz- ing what it would be to receive a real pretty valentine. There was one crowd of boys, who seemed to take a special delight in tormenting Tim each year. Each one of the crowd would buy two or three to send to him. This year they got together early and were going to send the ugliest ones they could buy. They were even going to make up stanzas of their own, which they knew would tease him. These boys weren't bad at heart, and had Tim possessed a less fiery disposition, they probably wouldn't have teased him so much; but every time they took a valentine to the door, he would curse them and call them all kinds of names. When they saw that it teased him, they did it more often. Jack Sheldon seemed to be a leader in this crowd. If he wanted anything done, the rest were willing to help, so it was not surprising to find the whole crowd assembled at Jack's request, two days later, in his cellar. They couldn't imagine what he wanted them for, and while still surmizing, Jack came in. They all crowded around him and asked why he had called