Show price celebration was safe and 8 sane a n e the celebration of the tho nations anniversary niver sary held in this city saturday was not planned to be anything lou loud and expensive but rather an cutting for the kiddies and in this it gas as a success at 10 in the morning there was a patriotic program at city hall ball and that place was crowded with women and children with a few men sprinkled in for seasoning the program started with a selection by the band followed by the invocation by bishop bryner after a selection by the eko orchestra la selle whitmore read the declaration of independence C S price had been selected as ag orator but had declined on account of pressing bu business in court and post maste olson took his place on 20 minutes notice mr olson directed a few remarks to the children expressing the hope that they realized the importance of keeping in mind the things for which the day stood he was afraid many of the men of price were not doing this as several who had been appointed on committees had failed to perform their duties he ile commented on the total absence of american flags and other decorations sirs firs harry ackerman and miss cornelia stevenson recited appropriate selections and were lib brally ano lauded the exercises closed with another number by the orchestra and the benediction by bishop brner in tho the afternoon there was a dance for the children at city ball hall and foot races and other athletic ath latic sports in the streets near the hall there were threet baseball galeb during the day first came a game between the boy scouts of troop I 1 and a pickup nine of boys this game was as played at 10 30 a m and was won by the pickups score 18 to 8 at I 1 the Ju juniors tors took on the Cast ledale team and beat the visitors by a score of 5 to 4 it was a fine game and was enjoyed by a large bunch of loyal fans Theft bird game was between the price league team and a pickup team from Stand standard ardille mile the price team won by a score of I 1 11 I 1 to 1 the committee in charge of the childrens sports had a bag of dimes and nickles and every winner of an event was war given a dimo dime while the other cont contestant estante were given a nickel each in this way two hundred kids were entertained and amused the closing event was a dance a at city hall and the committee made a little money on this feature which went to pay prizes in the other eye events ants |