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Show REUNION OF NEPH1TES. Very Enjoyablo Affair at Which Former Residents of Nephi Played the Principal Parts. Material for a new book of N'ephl wns furnished at tho Thirteenth ward assembly assem-bly hall last night by SCO former recldents of tho Juab county capital. After looking over the assemblage It was easy to believe be-lieve that Xephl had produced more distinguished dis-tinguished people than nny other town of Its slxo in the State or United State?. Mayor Morris was there. State Auditor C. S. Tingey wns there, Mrs. A. W McCune was there, W. P. Read, superintendent of the street railway was there, as was- also Kenneth Kerr, who pained admission bv virtue of the fact that he onco built railroads rail-roads Into N'ephl. v The altalr was a reunion of the Nophltes In Salt Lake, the urn cvr attempted, but not. judging from tho enjoyable nature of the proceedings, the Inst. The progrumniu began with somo speeches by Mayor Morris. Mr. Read, Mrs. McCune and others. Then came a banquet, ban-quet, and the evening was finished up I with a dance. Almost everyone present contributed something of historical Interest Inter-est to the stream of reminiscences. After Aft-er hearing some of the stories It was unanimously agreed that truth wns stranger than fiction and that Kenneth Kerr was stranger than both. Mr. Read first went to N'ephl In tho sixties, and was one of the first settlers. Several of those present had been In the Nephi Dramatic company, which played "East Lynn" and "Lady of Lyons" as a protection against tho hostile Indiana who threatened to wipe out the settlement. settle-ment. Nephi Is olmo3t as old as Salt Lake, It was established In the early fifties by a colony sent out by Brlgham Young, and notwithstanding the number of Its citizens citi-zens who have- ono to Congress, Salt Lako and other deslrablo places, it 13 as big now as it was at the time of Its foundation. |