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Show M,JU . J NOTABLE ANNIVERSARY j,l WILL BE CELEBRATED I; Salt Lake, Feb. S. The birthday of f tho patriarch Hyrum Smith occurs on ' ' Friday, February 9, and it will bo eel- ebrated by a commemorative meeting ji; to bo held by tho Genealogical society j' In tho Bishop's building on tho even- t ing of that date. The program will i doal principally with tho hlHtory of J tho founding and swift building of Nauvoo, 111. , In five years tfme that city grew ' , from nothing to twenty thousand In- )' habitants Here, led by tho Prophet , Joseph Smith and his counsellor ' . brother, the patriarch Hyrum Smith, ' a commonwealth was built which laid ' a city in the midst of a water-soaked swampy, forcst-covorcd tract, Twonty thousand inhabitants ' swarmed into the city before four J vearB were past Mills, shops, schools, a great co-educatlonal university, a censored theater, printing presses and ' ( two dail papers with adjoining farnni and fields, soon made it a rose blossoming blos-soming on tho edge of the almost virgin vir-gin wilderness. ' 5 It is of thc6e events and of tho Q men and women who made them pos. j siblo that the speakers will treat In I tho memorial meeting. The address ' will bo given by Bishop Ellas Wood- j ruff, a grandson of that Kirtland-Nau- j voo-Utah pioneer. President Wllford ; Woodruff. The paper of tho oen!ng ' will bo read by a gifted daughter of . a famous fa-ther and mother Mr Annie Wells Cannon, daughter of Squire Daniel II. and Mrs Emmeline l B. Wells. The music old-fashioned songs and hymns will be under tho charge of -Jrs. Zlna Y. Card, a daugh- ! ter of Zina D. Younr. Tho program , will be In the hands of Mrs. Edna 1 . Smfth. tho wife and daughter of Nau- voo pioneers. |