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Show 1930 f ... ,.4 t PL..??1-. No. 3 housands J oin In Lehi's Greatest Celebration : . LEHI, UTAH, THURS DAY, AUGUST 21, 1930, U0s to 20,000 visitors and specta- im from all corners of Utah and ad- LiSag states, flocked to Lehi to Join tv Pioneer and Indian war veter- L encampment and Beet Sugar Day iie1:' 'ton, neia August i . Over 350 pioneers ana veier-,1stered veier-,1stered at headquarters and ; hundred descendants register-the register-the Bureau of information. Jng went over big and the iion from start to finish prov- one of the greatest in his-1'he his-1'he huge parade, two miles in fith 1158 people participating, fsidered one of the greatest lid in Utah and according to in charge the three-day rodeo I best ever held in the West. I B. Hughes, commander in fplin J. Banks, Adjustant gene- other state officials were in uring the celebration. The jees. worked efficiently and fy and are to be congratulated splendid success ot, the cele- Ir; I I morning, through the courtesy f Lehi Poultry association, two r each person camping on the ; I grounds were delivered to 5 .. I 'I i f F :I3. ..... .f isitors proclaimed Lehi a very beautiful little city and were leased with its people, ijous Crowds Attend :Wins Praise 'I enormous parade of 147 floats, passed in revue Thursday morn-son morn-son the admiration and praise lousands of spectators. Two of 'ist outstanding floats were ; conveying the "Sugar Day i Mrs. Oral Evans and "Miss t!,. .Miss Helen Davis. adei t :orei .queen's float was in white and aizing colors with the queen in white georgette with span-felre span-felre sat back on a magnificent -and held streamers leading to f a 1 little Misses, charmingly . Each one represented one various Sugar factories. ' The represented Lehi, the mother of .ar industry. Miss Lehi sitting Lion Club float was in a beau-hite beau-hite satin evening gown. The cheme was lavendar and gold. beautiful and distinguished t -were those of the Lehi Roller fchich held a gorgeous peacock g, i-ed turkey; Utah Power and h p., with an iron as their motif; f ts Club, "The Seagull Monu-nd Monu-nd a Pioneer Mother"; Ameri-I'j. Ameri-I'j. I egion, portraying Flanders Field; ST Vheel of Progress," by the I Ward Relief Society; "The Old Ji - wed Quilting Bee", Athenian ub;ood win's Golden Rule; Peoples i. ? . . -. and Lehi Lumber Co.: Payson J Float; "The Bowery", Third arcs ll. I. A. and many others too Jous to mention. P Lehi City officials, Utah County issioners and the guests of hon-, hon-, Pioneers and Indian war veter-' veter-' i led the parade. Next came the w section, beginning with Esca-' Esca-' and leading down through the Soap making, the Old Sorgum pioneer wagon, spinning and arding, trappers and hunters, am Young, Prairie Schooner, Carts, Pioneer School, Indian 4 old prospectors, old time music, n activities, adobe making and other activities and phazes of er life were cleverly portrayed " appropriate costumes and set-by set-by the various ward ''organiza-n ''organiza-n "The Scouts Of Yesterday" ' ye Lehi Scouts and the float carry- "Sunkissed '.Beauties" were both 'tive floats. Utah-Idaho Sugar Co. had a unit of six floats, each representing a district of this mammoth organization. Those represented were West Jordan, Spanish Fork, Garland, Lehi and Idaho. Ida-ho. West Jordan's float depicted the laying of the cornerstone of the Lehi factory; a huge imitation beet was the motif used by Spanish Fork; Lehi contributed the Queen's float; Garland Gar-land entered the float displaying sugar and the float carrying the huge basket, containing miniature sacks of sugar and candy was entered by Ida-ho. Ida-ho. ,V . Two large busses carrying the men who started at the Lehi factory, entered enter-ed into the line of march. The beet growers and beet fields were also represented. . The Wool City Band of Fountain Green, the only mounted band in the country with the exception of the U. S. Cavalry and Circus bands, was one of the unusual attractions of the parade. pa-rade. The Provo Drum and Bugle corps was another outstanding feature. feat-ure. Other bands playing in the parade pa-rade were the Lehi band, led by Abe Anderson. American Fork band.'led by fa. J. Bird; Pleasant Grove band, led by Earl J. Beck, the Springville band and the 38th infantry band of Fort Douglas. The American Legion color guard and color bearer were in the line of parade. The comic section is not to be forgotten for-gotten with the "famous Amos 'N Andy, Madam Queen and Ruby Taylor, bei sides a series of Fresh Air taxi-cabs. The Rodeo section came last. Several Seve-ral of the famous riders, horses and steers, along with the clown were represented. - Most every business concern in the city contributed beautifully decorated floats and are to be highly congratu lated and commended for their splendid splen-did co-operation which made this feature feat-ure such a big success. l Far nnrl V tr;: nicc V fwperly fitted are a great -Qifort. - :tisfaetion Guaranteed.. j Jeweler and Optometrist -"Ur J,The Gift Shop" IN STREET LEHI Thrilling Rod Each day during the three-day rodeo, ro-deo, enormous " crowds gathered at the grounds t6 witness the famous riersi steeirs and horses perform, which they did to perfection. It is estimated that 10,000 people attended the rodeo performances. About 40 of the best riders in the country participated and have expressed ex-pressed their desire to come again next year. Jack Rich of Garland, with 35 of his famous trained bucking horses, helped greatly to make the show the success that it was. Some real hair-raising riding and bulldogging held the interest of the many thousand spectators, who proclaimed pro-claimed it one of the best shows they had ever witnessed. . Bert Sibbetts, the world's champion rider, took first place, Oral Zumwalt came second and Marvell Hunt came third. . A definite report of the financical outcome has not yet been reached, but the committee is assured that enough money to cover all expenses with a few hundred dollars over has been taken in. The committee spent considerable time on the arena and grounds and it is their intention to make the rodeo an annual event. They Intend to enlarge en-large the gr'andstand to about double its present capacity and to improve the public address system. Many of the visitors and officials stated that they had never seen a shadier, prettier or better rodeo grounds. Jerry Wilford, the Vagabond of the Air, and Walter Hutchings did the announcing and the Lehi Band gave several selections. Pictures of the riders, bucking horses etc. have been taken by the committee members and will be used in the advertising campaign next year. George H. Brimhall of Provo was one of the many visitors at the rodeo and he expressed the fact that he never had seen a cleaner or more pleasant crowd than there was present pres-ent at Lehi's rodeo. No serious accidents happened to mar the peace of the day and every event came off as scheduled. The committee expressed appreciation apprecia-tion to the public for their patronage and splendid 'support and solicits the efforts of the people to boost Lehi as the "Pendleton" of Utah. This celebration has put Lehi on the map Let's keep it there. Programs Given Daily-Programs Daily-Programs held both in the open air and indoors, ere given daily by tie various posts and were very largely attended. Thursday evening Fountain Green and Moroni presented lively and interesting open air programs. Friday morning the old veterans and pioneers presented an Impromptu program and Friday evening Ephraim and Provo entertained hundreds of people with two exellent programs. Richfield and .Mantl also presented spicy programs and special numbers were given by Springville. Commander Command-er John B. Hughes of Spanish Fork presided over the entire encampment programs. Heber City was scheduled to present a program, but due to the wash out in Provo canyon they were unable to get through. Dancing Program Each Evening Another important feature of Lehi's greatest celebration was the, dancing enjoyed each evening, both at the Saratoga dancing pavilion and at the LaVeda Ballroom. The famous Columbians, Co-lumbians, Ariel, Carters and the Cowboy Cow-boy Orchestra from Evanston, Wyoming Wyom-ing were on hand and furnished splendid splen-did dance music. The Greenburg Amusement Company, Com-pany, with a total of .thirty-four concessions, con-cessions, was an important entertaining entertain-ing feature during the celebration. Saturday the many visitors, pioneers and Indian War veterans and their descendants, who had camped here during the encampment left for their homes. All were very pleased with courteous treatment and the fine hospitality hos-pitality shown them by Lehi people. In spite of the rain storm Wednesday they stated that they enjoyed their visit in our city very much read con gratulated the Lehi people for putting over such a successful celebration. ' All played the part of host well, thus making the ninth annual encampment encamp-ment of the Pioneers and Indian war veterans and Utah Beet Sugar Day combined, one of Utah's greatest and most successful celebrations. . Sugar Beet and Alfalfa Tour Conducted Tues. More than 200 farmers and Sugar Company min attended the fourth annual sugar beet tour of Utah county coun-ty Thursday morning and afternoon. The tour commenced at the city and county building at Provo at 8 a. m. and progressed north. Fifty farms were viewed by the group on their tbur. The advantages to be secured by using phosphate fertilizers, rotating rotat-ing crops, preparation "of soil, using early planting and watering methods were stressed by the officials. The men were later guests at a chicken dinner and program given at the Lehi Fifth ward chapel by the Relief Society of the ward. The program pro-gram consisted of vocal solos by Miss Lillian Knudsen; a reading by Win-zell Win-zell Gray and several shout speeches by various officials and experts in attendance. at-tendance. The speakers included: Dr. Blood of the U. S. A. C; J. W. Gillman president pres-ident of the Central Utah Sugar Beet association; Douglas Scalley, Utah manager of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Co.; A. J. Barlow, of Idaho; J. E. Kelly, agricultural superintendent at Shelley, Idaho and Mr. T. L. Cannon, the gen-ral gen-ral manager of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Co., of Salt Lake. Mark Hopkins Brought ' Here For Burial Sun. Funeral services were held Sun-afternoon Sun-afternoon at the S. G. O'Donnell Funeral Fun-eral Chapel in Salt Lake City for Mart Hopkins who died in Salt Lake August 14, 1930. Bishop IverB conducted conduct-ed the services and Bishop R, J. Whipple Whip-ple of this city gave a sketch of the life of the deceased. Several beautiful musical numbers were furnished by the Elgin Quartette. Bishop Whipple offered the closing prayer. Interment was in the Lehi Cemetery. Ceme-tery. . ' Mr. Hopkins was a resident of Utah for about 30 years, 22 of which was spent in Lehi. Mr. .Hopkins is survived by one sister, Miss Fannie Hopkins of Loa Angeles, California and a host of friends throughout the intermoun-tain intermoun-tain west. Hospital Notes Mr. J. Harold Brinley was taken to his home in Pleasant Grove Saturday. Betha Wagetaff of American Fork and Doris Fitzgerald of Draper had their tonsils removed Tuesday morning morn-ing at the local hospital. Laurel , Fox of Salt Lake City had her tonsils removed Thursday at the local hospital. Former Lehi Boy Dies Following Pro-Longed Pro-Longed Illnes3 Friends in this city will be very sorry to hear of ths death of Marvin Lewis Sims, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Sims of American Fork, formerly of this city. The boy pass ed away carry Tuesday morning, following fol-lowing a prolonged illness of heart trouble. He had been ill one year and seven months and in spite of all the medical aid available he gradually be came worae until his death. He was born at Lehi, August 17, 1911, where he lived until two years ago, when the family moved to American Amer-ican Fork to make their, home. He attended the public schools here. His parents and the following broth ers and sisters survive: Thomas, Glen. Donald. Elmer. Georee. Emma and Mable, all of American Fork and Mrs. Mildred Richins of California. Funeral services will be held Thurs- day at 2 p. m. in the Lehi Second ward chapel and interment will be in the Lehi Cemetery. Parents Announce . Pair's Bethrothal Somewhere on the route of the great Utah Bee&Sugar Day Parade with its ' 147 floats and 1158 ' people participating, "Madam Queen" lost her big white hat with a gorgeous white plume on it. The finder would greatly oblige "Her Majesty" by re turning it. Intrinsic value it had none. It was but a relic of days that are goner .; Engagement Announced Mr. Roy Fox announces the engagement engage-ment ol his daughter, Wynona, to Mr. William L. Davis, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. B7 Davis of Salt Lake City. The marriage will take place in the near future, in the Salt Lake temple. Miss Fox is well-known in Lehi,' being be-ing prominent in the younger social set and church affairs. Her many friends wish her much future happiness. happi-ness. Mr. Davis has just ; recently returned re-turned from the Hawaiian mission. He is a talented young musician and takes an active part in church and social activities. He is well liked in his community and has many friends in this city. Several socials are being planned in their honor. v Peach Date Set For Sept. Final arrangements for conducting conduct-ing the 26th. Annual Utah Peach celebration in Brigham City on Friday Fri-day and Saturday, September . 12th. and 13th. were approved at a Joint meeting of the Executive Committee of the Festival and the Board of Governors of the Box Elder Commercial Commer-cial Club and Chamber of Commerce Free peaches and watermelons for the fruit hungry visitors will be dispensed dis-pensed this year by the prettiest girls In the county, who will be selected in a beauty contest to be conducted prior to the opening day. During a carnival dance to be held on Thursday Thurs-day evenin& August 11th, a group of Salt JLake City artists will select from the many entrants the most beautiful girl to be known as the "Box Elder Peach" and to act as the queen of the festival, and her ladies In waiting, who with the queen will greet the visitors and serve them the fruit Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Wing announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage mar-riage of their daughter, Lela, to Mr. Stanley Lptt son of Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Lott of .this city. The young couple will be married the first part of September in the Salt Lake temple. Miss Wing needs no introduction to the people of Lehi She - graduated from the ocal high school and later attended the L. D. S. business college in Sal Lake City, where she completed com-pleted her business course. For the past several months she has been employed em-ployed in Salt Lake City. She has been active in church and social activi ties and being musically talented has taken an active part In these circles. Through these avenues she has won many friends who are wishing her happiness. Mr. Lott Just recently rulfllied a mission In Germany. He, likewise, Is a graduate of the local high school and takes an active part in social and church affairs He has a wide circle of friends, who Join together In wishing wish-ing him future happiness. A number of entertainments will be given in the near future in their honor by friends and relatives. Mrs. J. M. McFarlane of Pleasant Grove underwent a major operation Friday at the hospital. William Walker, 74, of Highland died at the Lehi hospital Saturday, August 16, from injuries received when he was thrown from his buggy on the Alpine highway. The horse in some way became frightened, causing a runaway, which resulted in the acci dent and Mr. Walker's death, Marie Bringhurst of Salt Lake City and Miss Phyllis Smith had their tonsils removed at the hospital Mon day. Mrs. Real Nelson of Rupert, Idaho and Mrs. Sadie Q. Fowler of Salt Lake City were rushed to the local hospital Monday evening following an automobile accident in Pleasant Grove. Mrs. Fowler was badly cut tip and bruised, but was able to be taken to her home that evening. Mrs Nelson was hurt seriously and is still in the hospital receiving medical treatment. . Mr. and Mrs. Elaine Goates of Mc Gill, Nevada were visiting with Mr. Goates parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Goates, last week. Booth Family Reunion Held At Saratoga The descendants of Richard Thorn ton Booth and Elsie Edge Booth held their annual reunion at Saratoga. Bathing and a supper were venjoyed by all attending, after which a splen did program was carried out. A large crowd were present: Arrests Made During Week Bring Fines of $115 Four arrests were made during the week by city officers and as many nnes assessed. Howard Tuttle and Leslie Blair -were charged with liquor possession and each received a fine of $50. J. Skinner of Provb7, vas. charged with, intoxication and a fine of $10,00 assessed. Carl Peterson contributed $5.00 for reckless driving. The home of Mrs. Dwayne Mo Canlaes was raided Saturday evening and while evidence of liquor possession posses-sion was found not enough evidence was secured to make an arrest, o . Wee Willie Now Open For Recreation The "Wee Willie" miniature golf course, located on State and Center streets is now open for clean recreation. recre-ation. Come to the "Wee Willie." The prices are: Children 10c, adults 20c. ' r" ' ' 1 S 3 3 3 m 3 m 3 .JA Outing 3 3 Inestimable Modeety If a young father doesn't think his kid the smartest ever, he may be uncommonly un-commonly modest, but more probably be Is a liar. 3 S 3 s 3 f 3 3 . 3? a 2,- & r 3 3 Jo ? 1 r 2 & & 2 & & 2 S 5 UTAH COUNT? eoublicasi ENEVA Friday, August 22 Program 5:30 to 6:00 P. M. Caravans Leave Lehi, American Fork and Pleasant Grove For Resort. 5. X) to 7:30 General Basket .Lunch at Resort. 7:30 to 8:30 P. M. Program. Address Mr. Sabian, National Republican Chairman. Talk Inar Pett, Utah State Chairman. Musical Numbers and Stunts. 4 9 : 00 P. M. Free Dance. Every Utah County Republican Invited and Urged to Attend |