Show M MERS VISIT SOUTHERN TOWNS Five Hundred Bundre and Fifty BusinessMen Business BusinessMen Men Make Pilgrimage to Nephi MUCH PLEASURE IN TRIP C COUNTRY COUSINS GATHER TO GREET VISITORS second Get Acquainted excursion of the Manufacturers Merchants as association delivered the goods yesterday to the citizens or of Salt Lake Utah and Juab counties The vIsitors were received In every city and vIllage with enthusIasm The gathered at the depots and h crossings as If it were circus day dar and perhaps it was It was a public pubic holiday from the small boys standpoint No Nobody Nobody body thought of attending school untIl the big special came stopped long enough tor the bend band to play and departed Wagons tIlled with children and parents were ere driven to the station and there they 4 waited They brought their lunches and ani hitched the horses to the back wheels of the wagon In the meantIme the lious wives did theIr shopping but when the Get Acquainted special arrived at the station everybody in that put part of the country was there Delays were frequent all along the line and the I had to be cut short The excursionists arrIved at Nephi at p m which was the scheduled time for the train to leave on Its return This was just two hours tate late Half Haifa a Thousand Boosters When Then the train pulled out of Salt Lake there were about on board At about hungry excursionists got off the traIn At every sta station station tion there was a delegation eager to join the boosters and get acquainted with their southern neighbors The towns south of here sent about iO representatives tives on the The pilgrImage was a 8 sue suc success cess because the assocIation reached every cl citizen en The did it Ir in inthe the right i ht way and th the people of the southern counties accepted it with en enthusiasm They were made to feel that the merchants of the state needed their help in building up home industry and that in return they would be benefited This was the object of the excursion and It was vas impressed upon the memory of the people When hen the members of the association stepped from the train about 1 this morning they were tired Even at atthe atthe the last Jast they were and de declared dared that it was worth while The were all in favor of taking another ex excursion excursion further south in the state and it itis itis is probable that steps will be taken within the course of a few weeks to complete arrangements Spend a Lively Day From the tints time the train left Salt Lake at yesterday morning until Nephi was reached at In the afternoon never did the pilgrims stop At every station they climbed out of the cars and greeted their southern friends A deluge of advertis advertisIng advertisIng Ing matter was scattered at every stop stopping stopping ping place Ribbons buttons and flags were given to the children It was a full dress parade for tor the small boy and It is safe to Say Cay that he Is still wearIng hIs decorations toda today Everybody was given ghen givena ghena a chance to talk and most of them deity delivered ered an impromptu speech somewhere along the route There was a 2 rush for the lunch coun counters counters ao Nephi especially provided for the excursionIsts when the train pulled In Provo was the only city en route provided with a restaurant and aU all th could be secured while the train stopped there for fora a few minutes was a sandwich When Nephi was reached the mob was starved and they were not backward in making theIr wants known For an hour the counters in the armo 1 and hotels were filled After the visitors had satisfied their appetites a meeting was held in the meeting houfe houe and a given Mayor William Williom H Pettigrew presIded and welcomed the visItors to the city of Nephi In a few remarks he told what the l club of Nephi had ac for the cit city and stated that the several men there were mem members hers bers of the M M lL association President Hewlett Speaks President O 0 II H Hewlett of the I lion addressed the citizens at the meet meetIng Jag Ing on the purposes of the organization of the association and showed them how tho they would be benefited by it ithen When hen you keep your mone money at home and patronize home indu industry try you UI bend yourself P President Hewlett said It the business man who helps to build up your city he helps to pay the taxes put in hi sidewalks reconstruct roads and aids you This Is why th the men want to get better acquainted with aU all the pee peo people pie of the state and boost for home bu bi I 1 Iness ness enterprises Manager Gordon H Place of the assocIation association gave somE striking illustrations of the business carried on by citizens of these southern counties the eastern catalogue houses He said that the offers made nade by bv these houses were no better than the home merchant could make if he was given the chance Attorney Mat Thomas and several oth others ers em made talks to the audi audience once ence After the meeting adjourned the train pulled out at i 5 ip p m at Provo The Provo meeting house was filled when the excursionists reached there In Inthe inthe the evening and an excellent musical pro gramme was rendered in connection with the addresses by the I tabernacle choir the by the tabernacle choir President R It E 11 Irvine of the Provo Corn Com Commercial mercial club introduced the speakers after making a short talk himself Mr Hewlett Manager Place Mat t Thomas Thom s find and others made their little speech band and the glee club lead by Charles O 0 HarrIs Hanis of Salt Lake L e were on the musical When the traIn left Pr Provo vo at p m it made only the necessary stops Twice the train was delayed b by southbound trains which made it more than an hour behind ached sched scheduled time in arriving in Salt Lake Band Is Almost Lost When the train arrIved at Murray in inthe Inthe the morning about persons were at atthe atthe the with a brass band Seventy fIve the band boarded the special Held s a band clImbed from the train as it stopped and while they were playing An Any Goods the special pulled out A rush was made for the train but the members of the band lacked speed Conductor I F Donohue stopped the train and after half a mIle walk the band boarded the train At Sandy the traIn was seventeen min minutes mm utes late About twenty persons Joined the pilgrimage here The at Draper to enter the school house until the special passed The band risked another chance on getting left and played two selections Lehl Lehi citizens numberIng about greet greeted ed the excursionists at the station with witha a bend band They w were re marched to the tab tabernacle and ADd a was given John JohnY Y Smith was ir in charge of the meeting A J Evans of Gf Lehl Lehi George Austin O 0 OH H B Hewlett and others de delIvered talks Similar were held tild in other villages and e everybody was enthusIasticallY impressed with the boost idea |