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Show OUt Folks' Excursion. Tho old folks' excursion and jubilee, yeoteid iy, was a grand afUir. At 7."it a.m. the pin-i-l train of ti n earn, with ooO pti.'jilw on board, left llm depot tor I'rowt. Then) were in the company oOO who were over (I.) yearn ot ago. The oteursion was under the direct niating.'inent of Bit-hnp Hanti r, George (ioddard m; l C, U, Savage. Among the parly vcr. KLh-n JmIiii Taylor, Orson Trait and W. WoiHlrulV. On tho way down the bauds and choir-tot tho soveral Hetllo-ments Hetllo-ments were at tho depots and serenaded sere-naded tiio venerable exeurMoniflta, and with our Dunbar's wooden band and Foster's string baud on the train, there wtu music enough to soothe any number of savage beasts. luu qiiufttiuu ut uiu tiny was, iumv old are you ?" an J people who; hadn't sojourned on this mundane , sphoro for sixty -five- years, didn't ap-! pour to join in tho conversation to any great extent they wero too youthlnl. Arriving at Provo the train wuh met by a brass band, and by Bishop Smoot, who had arranged to have between sixty and seventy teams, with carriages, buggies, spring wagoua and other vehicles to .convey tho veterans to Graves' grove. At tho grovo lunches wero spread, and one would imagine from tho manner in which picnic disappeared that Kge had not injured any appe'itea in the company. A stand had been erected for the occasion, from which Bishop Iluut-T and Gtiorgo Goddard delivered briel appropriate addresses, and introduced intro-duced Mr. aud Mrs. Vincent, aged respectively 101 and 00 years; ais Vianna Jaques, aged 00, who spoko iu an interesting manner to the company. Elders Taylor, Pratt and Woodruff blessed the oldest couple, after which Mr. Dunbar sang "My Old Wife and I" in his usual excellent style. Tho Provo people made yesterday a holiday, aud about MX) people from the settlements, w.io had come in to meet their aged friends, joined in the good old song, "Auld Lang Syne." With muv.c, singing, swinging, dancing and eating eat-ing all saenied to enjoy thumsetves. They returned to the city last evening in good spirits, no accident or disagreeable dis-agreeable circumstance having occurred oc-curred to make anyone regn-t the out. |