| Show farmington LADY REPORTS UEN GEN PALMERS RECEPTION IN SALT LAKE CITY FEB editor clipper possibly your readers would be interested in a few features of the royal reception tendered the commander in chief of the grand army of the republic and wife gen and mrs T D palmer in salt lake city feb the odd fellows hall was fairly alive with veterans and G A R ladies all the afternoon who trul truly y enjoyed an informal reunion at p in gen and mrs palmer arrived duly escorted the program was intensely enjoyed particularly the address by gen palmer who paid a high tribute to the fathers of our nation as imen men inspired by god to establish the greatest government on the earth and said 14 1 I hope and believe that god will point out the way by which our own united states shall be instrumental is establishing 0 universal peace the entire audience was profoundly moved and effected throughout the meeting but bill never before have I 1 witnessed witness eda a congregation so moved as was this one when a confederate veteran was introduced as one of geri gen picketts boys who charged through 0 h the lines and over the breast works in the bloody an angle le in the battle of Gettys burgh the veteran said gen pal mer as one of picketts veterans who went over the line in that awful slaughter 0 when I 1 was a only y 11 14 1 1 years and 10 months old I 1 present you these flowers asa as a token of peace between the north and the south the blue and the gray there is no north there is no south there is no mason and dixie line weare we are one united states one country one fla flag the commander stood and wept and the entire audience was convulsed with emot emotion IOD while to me at least it seemed a real glimpse of tle the millennium mrs A B richardson |
