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Show HIS HONOR IGHTIIIMIET Reunion to Be Held on Eighty-eighth Birthday at Hotel Utah. Bishop George P.omr.ey, prominently Identified for more than half a century with the development of Utah and Sal: Lake, will celebrate the eighty-eighth anniversary an-niversary of his birth this evening by a reunion and banquet at the Hotel L'tab, One hundred and forty children and grandchildren are expected to te present. pres-ent. Invitations have been given to the first pre?y3ency of the L. D. tS. church. ! ti.e ; residing his.iopr.c. the bishopric of the Twentieth ward, tne counsellors and j tne h pritiit c iorum. Their wivt also I , will be in attendance. p;hnp Romr.fv w.ts born in Dal ton. ; Lancashire. Lnc.and. August 14, Il. He i first mrde his home in .i'.t I-ake in IS'l. i and since tnat time h?s been one of the foremost workers in the improvement of the city ani state. Construction of many cf the historic bu:id iris's of t no city wu.s suii-rvlned b)1 Mi s np Komr.'y durlrR h.S rly residence resi-dence In Knit I-ike, Among the more Important Im-portant structures are t'e old city hail, now tne central fire station, the gait Luke heater, the county courthouse and the Lion and tne pe.-hl'-'e huse. Since he parsed his eightieth birthday, he ha supervised ti.e building of the Hotel Ho-tel T'tah. trie T eseret News annex and the r."eret National bank, as well as several sev-eral lefr struct urea. He was a membt-r of the city council : for two terms, from until laM, and from 193 to t:'T. bides having traveled in almost every plate In the union. I31hop llomr.ey has m;t !e trips to Mexico, tne Hawaiian islands, isl-ands, AlhHkui, England, .Scotland. Wales. Ireland, Italy, Prance, Holland and cn- He ern'M on a mission to England from W.9 to 1ST0. For twenty-right yours he whs bluhop of the Twentieth ward. hav. ing ben re-ensed from tht offire In Au-I.1 Au-I.1 12. At procnt ho Is president of the high pr'rsts' quorum of Enslcn Ftahe. Pisli -'P P.omney wan one of the firs: mi'ii to f inanv e and develop sugnr beet gruwirg and pavo.1 the way for tlie great j'Toport tons reached by t hut Indsutry in Ct.ih and Idrho. H is a director of the l:-.h-Mal.o Hurar company. He is prominently aaoi.iHtd with vart-oua vart-oua b'.ilne-v Interests of thi tt;ite. Ho 1h vice president and director of Zlon's i "o-oier.Ttive M ream lie Instttutlon, vice presifUnt and director of Pie George Rom-m-y l.iitTitirr com pan y, vice pi csulent of ti.e Home Eire Insurancp company, vice president and director of the 1 'rueret Imrn bu nk. (1 i red or of the I eFerrt National Na-tional bnuli, dlrt-clor nf the p-'tief icln l,jre insurance company, director of the I'tah-Iilaho I'tah-Iilaho Sugar company, and director of the or en on I -urnbe" conij n ny. Four gcnernilons will be reprernte,i t the relebr:itlon tin evening by Mi Hen HiifNel). Willinni H. llut-mdl tf Fillmore. Mi;-s A. Itomley of Sa.t Luke and Hts'nnp Hornr ey. Mi? Heien Iturwill Iw the tlHugh-ter tlHugh-ter of Miies A. Konir.ey of H;ilt Wike. son of Hinhup liomnoy. |