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Show PEACH FESTIVAL DRAWSCROWDS Brigham Acts As Host to About 10,000 in Annual Celebration BRIOHAM, Sept. 21. At midnight Wednesday night the most successful and the largest Peach Day festival in the history of the city came to a Even In tho early morning hours; some of the great crowd lingered on the streets unwilling to leavs until they had wrung every drop of enjoy-ment enjoy-ment from the festivities. Tho committees, tho city off Icials. the fruit growers ami farmers were overjoyed nt the success of this years festival and the thousands of visitors went away feeling that Brigham had i well repaid them for their Journeys fr..in all parts of tho intermountala country. Not before in the history of the r!l has such a crowd visited tho Peach Day festivities and It was estimated thai when the festival wan at its height there were 10,000 persona present. Thousands witnessed the big Industrial Indus-trial parade which outshone any previous pre-vious attempt of former years More than r 0 floats were in lino depicting the rapid Krowih of tho community ! A feature of the parade was the xho ing made by the students of Box Elder i hind a float entered by ;he school. Compliments were showered upon ithe committee members Wednesday I night for the excellent manner In Which the program was conducted. A grand ball and street carnival closed the day's activities. The Committee members and Mayor N C Simonsen thanked The Ogden Standard-Examiner, which sent staff mi (1 to the festival and produced a sp. ul Peach Day edition. 2500 copies cop-ies of which were distributed free to the crowds, for the co-operation and support given. |