| Show ARBOR DAY PROCLAMATION MONDAY APRIL 15TH WILL BE OBSERVED AS A HOLIDAY Gov Wells Recommends That Citizens Citi-zens Refrain From Ordinary Labor and Engage in Tree Planting Monday Week April Ifith Is Arbor day and by act of the Legislature lo a public holiday when citizens will refrain re-frain from their usual avocations and engage In treeplanting Gov Wells In accordance with the law of tho State yesterday Issued a proclamation recommending the observance of the day The proclamation reads as follows fol-lows In pursuance of tho laws of this State making the loth day of April of each yearn year-n public holiday to be known as Arbor I tinY und directing tho Issuance of n proclamation recommending Us proper observance ob-servance I hereby remind the people of the State that Monday lho loth day of April 1001 Is a Arbor day and 1 recommend recom-mend that the spirit and Intent of tie sllrltand Legislature In tho enactment of the law bo carried out no far as possible by the planting of trees shrubs and vines In private premises public grounds and thoroughtaies and by such other and further efforts and undertakings ns shall i result In tho adornment of homes and public places and the promotion of forest culture In our State slt Is of great importance that tho children of tho Slate who arc the guardians guard-ians of the future have Inculcated Into their minds the ncfpsslty of preserving oUr native crests from devastation and enhancing year by year the beauty and cplcndor of our homes It Is especially enjoined upon nil ofllccrs and teachers of schools both public and private to proscribe sucn exercises on thai day as will emphasize the wIMom of the law and naken the school children to a realizing sense of the benefaction that Is contrib uted to humanity the causing of two blades of grass to grow where but opo grow before and of the duty we owe to ihosp who come after us to beautify and make moro delightful and attractive tho cities towns and villages which by the Indomitable Industry of our pioneers have been wrung from the heart of the great American desert In testimony whereof I have hereunto I set my hand and caused the great seal of the State of Utah to be hereunto o I affixed at Salt Lake City this 6th day of Aurll 1901 fScalJ IIEBER M WELLS By the Governor I J T Hammond Secretary of State I |
