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Show SPRING CITY The Sixty-fifth Anniversary of Pioneer Day was celebrated in grand style in Spring City this year. A committee of seven persons, per-sons, who had crossed the plains before the advent of the Railroad, Rail-road, with others consisting of thirty persons or more, had the affair in charge. Wm. Robinson was Marshal of the day and Joseph G. Scho-field Scho-field acted as Parade Director. The Parade formed on the Public Square at nine o'clock. It was a quarter of a mile in length and took one hour in passing through the principal streets of the city. First there came the road and bridge builders. Then Utah in 1847 Pioneers eld time muscians, etc., then following a train of wagons representing S the pioneers of 1847 with a number of families disguised in old time costumes representing typical incidents in pioneer life, Then came a train of hand carts which had many striking features of this mode of travel across the plains. There was a number of wagons representing those who came to Sanpete County in 1849 and several wagons representing the different families who settled Spring City in 1859. Then came representatives of the different trades of early days; old time costumes in the home and on the farm. The Brass Band was also in line with a number of clowns who made merry amusement! ' About twenty five Indians were represented in their primitive state mounted on horseback, consisting of chiefs, squaws and papooses, there were two Indain skirmishes while the parade was route. Between tenand eleven o'clock the long train formed in a typical Pioneer Camp on the Public Square wherfe camp fires were made; old time songs were sung with music and old time dancing; near by was the Indiana camp and an attack was made en the pioneer camp, burning up one of their wagons. There were about two hundred people who took part in the parade . and pioneer camp which lasted from 9 o'clock until noon. At 2 o'clock a program was given in the Tabernacle which was well filled with old and young. The decorations were suitable for the occassion and Utah of 1837 and Utah of the present eccupied prominent plaees on the stand, thirty-five people who crossed the plains with ox teams and five persons who crossed with hand carts, were present and occupied front seats. Isasc M. Allred and Annie Eliza Hyde were the oldest pioneers present. They both came to Utah in 1849. Bp. Lj- 0- parson wa master of Ceremonies at the Tabernacle and the program was as follows: Selection Brass Band . Song choir "Oh ye Mountains High" ' Invocation, J. F. Allred. ' Song, by the choir "Utah the Queen of the West." j Speech of Utah "The Past" Mrs. Sarah Ashworth, seventy six i years old. I Song by the Pioneers, "come, come ye, Saints" I Song Joseph W. Griffiths. An Indian Reminiscence, Ellen A. Nielson. solo, "Hard Times come Again No More," Henry L. Acord. Speech, Samuel Allred. cornet solo, John A. Omansen. Recitation, Laverda clawson. Song by five members of the Scandinavian choir, speech, "Utah of the Present," Mrs. Rhoda Thompson. Song choir, "Utah, We Love Thee." Benediction, Isaac M. Allred.- There was a children's dance in the Opera House at 4 p. m., and a ball at night. This was one of the greatest celebrations spring city ever had and everything moved in grand style. I . - . ; . MOUNT PLEASANT The people of Mount Pleasant on Wednesday honored the memory nf that dauntless band of pioneers, which more than half a century ago defied innumerable perils and braved countless count-less hardships in making their way through a wild and u nkr.own country to Great salt Lake valley. 1 From early morn till late at night the appreci ation and indebtedness in-debtedness of many gallant hearts was shown in some manner or other. Long before daybreak' the heavy shouting and roar of guns disturbed the peaceful slumbers of the citizens At ten o'clock a meeting was held in the Assembly hall in which a program very appropriate for th-: day was carried Out. Beautiful eulogies, paying tribute to the memory of that Dauntless Band of Pathfinders, were given by the Orator of the Day, George Christen-sen. Christen-sen. There was singing by the audience, ''O, Ye Mountains High." Invocation by Chaplain Peter Matson; music was furnished bv the band; a quartette, "Utah, Star of the West," by Henry Hasler and company. A reading was given by Dorothy Jacobs; a paper, "The Pioneers," Cassie Rasmussen ; a piano solo by Miss Ida Merz; trombone trom-bone solo by Louis Peterson, anil a vocal solo by Mary Carter. The audience sang "Utah, Queen of the West," and the chaplain pronounced pro-nounced the benediction . The band again furnished music for the people. Games and sports for the children were given on the church grounds at two o'clock in the afternoon. Many new features were carried out which furnished amusement for the little folks. At three o'clock a children's dance was given at the Armory Hall which the juveniles thoroughly enjoyed. Folfowing the dance the people gathered at the City Park to witness the ball game between the Rio Grande Clerks and the local team, at which the home boys defeated the visiting team. The day's amusements encled with a dance at the Opera House in the evening. Taking the day as a whole, there were very few untoward events that marred the pleasures of the day. |