Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1915-07-17 | Page 5 | Daughters of Mormon Battalion in Reunion

DAUGHTERS Of MORMON BATTAliON IN REUNION t Celebrate Anniversary of Beginning lof of Famous March I by Appropriate Program Appropriate o exercises at J Liberty park yesterday t marked the ninth annual an an- annual nual reunion of the Daughters of the tho Mormon Battalion and the sixty ninth anniversary of the start of oC the battaIon's battalions battalion's battalions battalion's bat bat- march from Council Blurts Bluffs Ia la to California One hundred guests attended Judge George F. F Goodwin being the orator of or the ti-ne da day Music l was furnished b by Miss Anna Morrison Miss Dorothy Morrison and John Bowers Sowers A short talk also was made b by John Pettigrew a member of the committee named b by the state to take up ho lie work of ot selectIng select- select lug InS a site for a n monument to the battalion bat bat- talon on the capitol grounds Mrs ha J- J B. B Wells V ells recalled the da day the battalion marched awa away from Council Bluffs to the tune tuno of ot The Girl I Left Behind Me lIe Mrs Is Wells ells told many reminiscences of that day when Capt James Allen of the United States army rode up to President Brigham Young and handed him an official communication communication com corn from Gon General ral Kearny re requesting requesting requesting re- re questing questing- the Mormons to furnish OO of their number to aid the government In the Mexican war h by blazing blazing- a highway high wa way from tine te Missouri wirer her near neal Council Bluffs to the Pacific coast t. t Mrs Ia May Belle Delle T T. Davis secretary of ot the monument committee who was tas present pointed out that the battalion also blazed a n trail back from Cajon Pass Cal to Salt Lake Toasts were tere responded to b by Will Hl tam lam N N. Williams Mrs Irs Annie Wells Cannon Hannah Lapish h and Mrs l Alice Allee I Merrill Home Horne I i i