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Show "OLD FOLKS DAY." The snow-crowned peaks of the Wasatch today nod their welcoming heads and send their crystal streams of refreshment to the long line of railway cars loaded with the old folks of the valleys, who, from the north and the south gather to their annual reunion: this year at picturesque Fayson. With the joy-fui, joy-fui, white-haired fathers, mothers aud wise men, go attendant young men and maidens to be met t I'ayson with hearty welcomes and greetings from the gathered population of the town. When rested and refreshed they will gather around the ample, well tilled tables and enjoy every material luxury lux-ury w hich the season can furnish, and participate par-ticipate as well in a feast of reason and good fellowship, with song aud story, music and dancing, for many of the "old folks," especially es-pecially from foreign shores, can yet take good steps to the music of old-time dances. A generous community and road management manage-ment furnish everything free to all comers "0 years of age and upward. The invitation and welcome is to every male and female. Mormon and gentile, without distinction of race or color, creed or no creed, party or no party. It is but fair to say that this beautiful beauti-ful annual festival of old folks was inaugurated inaug-urated by the Mormon fraternity some years ago. It is now honored and participated in by non-Mormons and seems destined to become a permanent perman-ent and christian institution in theg" "alleys of the ui on tains." It may well be patterned after by the growing communities communi-ties of the west as the early pioneers, under tha pressure of growing iniirmities aud personal isolation, feel the necessity of times iud seasons of social enjoyment and festivitv when the aged and the young can ttnti mutual help and enjoyment. Here !a Utah this annually recurring reunion re-union is a precursor of that neighborly feeling feel-ing and union which is growing up between hitherto warring element.-., which, under the glorious flag of the Republic is destined, eventually to make l.'tah a rich and prosperous pros-perous stale in the Union. |