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Show City Birthday Celebration Pleases Many The largest miniature parade held in this community featured the celebration Friday, commemorating commem-orating the founding of Springville. Spring-ville. Cars lined either side of Main street for a distance of several sev-eral blocks and several thou-s-and local and out-of-town people are estimated to have reviewed the parade. Led by the high school band, more than a hundred floats of every conceivable design, together with Indians, negroes, and numerous numer-ous decorated tricycles and doll carriages passed in the line of march. Immediately after the parade, a sports program was conducted at the high school campus. Bus Carson Car-son with his educated horse "Pat" thrilled a large crowd with hia trick roping and riding. A football game between the high school and alumni teams, with a score ending 0-0, was an interesting feature of the afternoon's after-noon's entertainment. In the evening a pioneer pageant, pa-geant, written and composed by Mrs. Eva Maeser Crandall, was presented at the high school, before be-fore a large and appreciative audience. au-dience. The general theme of the performance carried a pioneer couple from the pre-existance state through the hardships of early colonization. The latter part of the entertainment was based on actual facts from the life of Tamma Durfee Miner, mother of the late Moroni Miner, pioneer who died shortly after reaching the 100th milestone. Beautiful stage settings and scenery, and appropriate costumes and stage arrangements made the entertainment one of the best of , its kind given here. The day's activities concluded with a dance ! at Memorial hall. According to present plans of i the local Sons and Daughters of Utah Pioneers Camps, the day of the arrival of the first company com-pany of pioneer settlers in Springville, September 18., 3850 will be celebrated here, annually. Special tribute will, each year ! be paid the surviving pioneers I and early settlers of the vicinity. Among those who were special honor guests at the pioneer celebration cele-bration Friday, was Mrs. Melissa Messenger, 93, oldest resident of Springville and Amasia Hay-mond, Hay-mond, 88, second oldest. Others who have aided in the development of this community and who will be honored guests at the annual celebration cele-bration are: Mrs. Louisa Bulkley, Mrs. Frances Peterson, Mrs. !-mina !-mina Bramall, Mrs. Phoebe Singleton, Sin-gleton, Mrs. Mary J. Finley, Willia K. Johnson, Sr.," Carlos Hutchins, E. M. Marshbanks, Hyrum Perry, Joseph Allen, Mr. and Mrs. James Wignall, A. L. Finley, Mrs. Abner Worthen, Mrs. Sarah J. Spafford, Mrs. Esther Condie, Joseph Har-mer, Har-mer, Mrs. Abbie Bird, Frances Snow, Edgar Whiting, Eliza Mendenhall. |
