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Show AfClTY IN READINESS TO frl GREET HOME COMERS Arrangements Practically Completed for Biggest Pour Days' o9 Celebration in City's HistoryUnexcelled Strcot Decora- tions Biggest Parade Ever Seen on Strcots Great Line fiWS of Sports Something Doing All the Time. ""B pne hundred inuit ami women, I r wrVIni? and jilnmilnB nlmost dny ami I tkBa pfcM for ",0 pn8t 80Vornl Wfi0,t"' ,mv" t $(.' no practically gotten all In rondl- r,, ' , (or Hip biggest celebration in tho I fliy'g history. The army of Home-;B Home-;B Miners who will commence arriving VfcS n Iho middle of tlio week will find I every dctiill completed for lliclr roccp-H roccp-H don, entertainment and pleasure. "ri(B Thcre W bo something doing nil tlio 7"B tme. Meetings, BportB, reunions and aB amusements have been provided for fflH ,nd tlio city will fie docorntod ax H never before. QB The committee on reception hns iH been working Hko Trojans. Every jBJ fundi)' lin been visited to find out 'H how many can provide sleeping rooms a and places to cat for the vast hosts jHf who will 1)0 here. The commttlco's H lists show that tlio pcoplo's homes will ''mm he thrown wide open. In almost every 'HJ instance preparations are being made 'fl to provldo for from one to n dozen ,Hj Tliltors. In nine cases in ton the ,' peoplo ofTcr to do so without charge. In lerenty-flvc out of every hundred .H llioro visited nay that from letters re-'H re-'H eel veil they expect rolntlvcM or por- H tonal friends. Judging from the re- jponscs, IndlcutioiiR aro that the 'H town's population will bo doubled, iU notwithstanding whicli there will be H ample accommodations for all. H The big reception committee will ,mm meet nil trains on nil the roadtf and ,H direct the. visitors to whnt In known , , as the "Old Adamnou Building," next UMm to the. Intcrurhan depot, which lias MW been secured nml filled up as head-HBl head-HBl quarters for tho reception committee. Hm Horo thoy will bo given home-comers' iYJ badges, showing the woarer entitled NHS to all tho special considerations. Hero qAwm the visitors will bo assigned to their o(Si TirlouH plnces to stay. This building hiH will also bo filled up nB a rest room i JmW or rest rooms,- where strangers will mjMW -always find a place to recuperate. iiBf ThQ preparationb'yfor decorating the ifeBf city arc moro elaborate than over nt-jlMW nt-jlMW tempted by any other city In tho state JVf of not mora than live tlmcH the pop-4jH pop-4jH ulatlon of American Fork. Every uMW business liouBo and residence In tho Umm city will be decorated. All tlio mcr-cBJ mcr-cBJ chants have had to placo special or-JWm or-JWm ders for buutlng and flags. But .be-ItW .be-ItW sldcR this there will bo flvn blocks of jjBf main strcot n blazo of glory. The Sf plans for tho strcot decoration laid H out by tho committee proved to bo so ,H big that tho sorvlccB of tho Utah ,H Iiolmilcal Decorating company of Salt ,M l-nko City wero secured. This Is tho H conce.ru that helped decorate Salt ,M Lnko City for tho "Wizard of tin Wa-H Wa-H satch," and tlio Keith building for the M big nutomobllo show. One thousand M dollars worth of flags, pennants and bunting will he used In decorating live flockH of "main street, and across which will bo several streamers announcing an-nouncing welcome to the homc-riim-blocks of main street, and across striking. The flveb locks are lined on both sides with poles recently erected erect-ed for carrying cross-wires on which will bo strung tho when for the cleo-llro cleo-llro road. There will be ropes strung Tor five blocks on both sides, carrying pennants of varied hues. Thcro aro twenty-seven crois wires In the live blocks, each of which will carry five big flags. Thoso on either sldo will be fifteen feet long and the bottom festooned ngalust the pole. The center cen-ter Hags will bo eight Tect long mid thoso between tho center and side ones will bo live feet long. It will mako no illffercnco to these decora-tlons decora-tlons whether It rains or not, as they arc made of material Hint will not fade. Representatives of the decorating company who arrived Jast Monday will nlso construct n dozen or more of the floats which will bo In the parade. They will mako six for tho general committee, thoso for tl0 god-doss, god-doss, Utah, Columlila and Tnclo Sam, American Fork, Liberty Hell and Scgo l.lly They will design and build as ninny more for the merchants, and arc preparing some of the most novel and artistic ones ever seen outside of tin' stnto capital. As a souvenir of the celebration tho commlttco has purchased a Journal, which will bo kept at headquarters and in which all tho visitors will sign their names and aildressea This, with a brief history of the week's doings, will bn kept in the archives of tho city. The committee on sportn have been lying awake nt nights to get up n lino of sporlH commensurate with tho occasion, and will publish a detailed program in our next Issue. Tho snjno commlttco has tho arrangement rt of Mm iiriiirrams. An outline of the re sults of their Inborn follows: , JULY 1D1I. '... !d -rftmllvJIeunJmL.,!? 2 P. M. Assemble In Opera House Alma Greenwood, Chairman. Music. Invocation Music. .. ... Address of Welcome--Mayor Karl S. Greenwood. Music. Response In Uehair or Visitors- Daniel Harrington. Music. Announcements. Informnl hnndshake. Kvonlng at 7:30-Oncii-Alr Concert-City Concert-City Hall Grounds Family Reunions. Reun-ions. ' From' 'J to"l2 o'clock will be devoted to sight seeing. All visitors will be taken to plaroa of interest, anil an pluco they desire to lslt For this J purpos" automobiles have boon, pro? vlded Tho Second Ward Scouls.fiU tired In uniform, will net as guides At 2 P. M. nt ball grounds Field spoitn and ball gntue, horso rnc"p? etc. f I'nipram for l'.'ening of flnl.ffl Master of Ceremonies, S U ChlpmniiR At 7- -Hand concert. 0 At 8--llome-Comlng reception, CIIW Hall grounds. Music, reminiscent rei mm ks, icfreshments v"? M,,8,tf- ' Invocation. t C-l; Address of Welcome President" Chlpiniin. Si' Music. . ;$ Brief History or American Fork, MO. minutes) Joseph H. Forbqn. w? "Tho Pioneer" Visitor. ' v Quartette, "Hard Times Como Again, No More" Ladles. ' ' " SK lmliau Remlnliiccncea Visitor u8 Tho First School Visitor. ". r"wm Solo-William Grnnl. Remarks Visitors. --A Music -.. Itemarks President Hiultl. "d Refreshments. " ".."3 Governor Spry and staff nnd Presl? dent Joseph F Smith will be .lunt tendnneo July I ?3hI .H'IiY i-si'mhsi: SAM'Ti:. sh At 0 Parade. ' ffi3W At 11 -30 Patriotic exorcises.!? WSt Orator or the Day GovcrnorSpryJ At 2 Hall grounds, ficldsportfl horso races, ball game. MjtM Evening Grand ball, Apollo HnUjSB SI'NBAY, TIIK TII- Wt Religious exercises. i3 |
