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Show III ' PSOVO ENTERTUNS jjjyi More Than Thousand "Old ! t Folks" Are Guests of the hi 1IEBER F. GRAXT SJXGS ! j r "FLAG WITHOUT A STALV ' Other Unique Forms of Amusc- p r 1 incut Provided for Galhcr- ' I ing of Old People. tl'' 1 Special to The Tribune. ' h! H PEOVO, June 30. The special train ly- on tho Salt Lako route, bearing tho old It I folks from Salt Lake City to Provo, Jsf f nrrived at 10:30 o'clock and was met l! I ' at tho depot by a coniniittco. a band. VI and 500 little girls dressed in -white. l As the old people alighted from the ill ' train each ono was presented with a lr bouquet of flowers and was escorted i ' to a carriage. Seventy vehicles wcro I' I . . required to transfer tho visitors from I" the depot to tho slake- tabernacle, n I - where- a short program mo was -reucterod. it; Thero wore on tho train from Salt H ' Lake City 1193 people who have passed 1: tho seventy-year milestone of life's y -journej", together with 130 attendants and train crew, making a total of 1323. p-f Added to these were those from Proyo h , and. vicinity 72G totaling 2000 old pi I 7)eople entertained by Provo today. (1tJ 2ino of tho guests were 00 years of $ L age and over and these were given i. i fiCRts of honor on tho rostrum of the ?, jl tabernacle. ft-m Their names and ages aro as follows: 1 Jane James. 03; George W. Slade. 02; (V Rachel "Whipple. 91:' Isaac Lewis Man- ; , ning, colored, 93: Anna M. Peterson, l- 92; Elizabeth Babbett. 90: Jainos , I Leatch. 93; Miriam G. Chase, 95, all of fh 1' Salt T.nko Hit. v. ruul Thomas P. Clark, i U5n i F "90, of Provo. " rj S- Aged Are Welcomed. ' I Services in the tabernacle were op ened with a prayer bv George Margetts, of Salt Lake City. The old folks' choir of Salt Lake City, led by Thomas Butler, But-ler, furnished the music. In a short and neat speech Mayor C. F. Decker of Provo bid the old folks welcome and said ho hoped ' 4 they would enjoy every minuto of tho day, and assured them that tho people Of Provo would do their best to make the visitors and guests happy. Bishop O. H. Berg, of the first ward, chairman of tho "old folks" committee, had charge of the exercises and created considerable enthusiasm in his talk on Utah and her pioneers. He said: "Utah is the home of a loyal people who are proud that wo aro citizens of so great and glorious a- nation. ' ' The Provo apostle was introduced as Senator Smoot. who said he had been asked to make "just a short" talk; he was "parotid to be the son of a pioneer," The audience conceded the latter. The Senator sivcccded n working himself him-self up to a slobbering, love-sick point in attempting a peroration, but the audience would not be enthused. One of the Salt Lake visitors was heard to ) remark: "Why, Brother Berg can beat , him a block when it comes to creating enthusiasm." x 1 Grant Sings. In a burst of eloquence the Senator taid: "Provo is the garden city of Utah " and Utah is the garden state of the nation, thero is no more loyal people on the j face of the earth than dwell in Prof. A. C. Lund of the B. Y. U.. rendered ren-dered a solo, entitled, "Dear Old Home Land." In the afternoon. Apostle Heber .1. Grant sang his favorite. "Tho Plag Without a Stain.", Among tho visitors from Salt Lako Citj who were accorded seats of prominence were Apostles F. M. Lyman, A. II. Lund and George S. Richards: C. R. Savage, the pioneer in such affairs, .and who on this occasion was in chargo of tho excursion from Salt Lake: S. W. Richards, one of the few remaining surviving associates of Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder of Mormonism. After the exercises in the tabernacle the guests were banqueted in the basement base-ment of the old tabernacle, the first ward social hall and the Mozart pavilion, pavil-ion, and over two thousand old people were given the best that Provo af-. af-. fords. ' In the afternoon short talks were made by Apostles Lyman, Lund and ' Richards. Apostle Grant also talked, 1 f and he also sang; it was hard to dis- Hf , tinguish between the talk and the sing. Bf TIie tl!l.v wns warm and pleasant, and 1 3 T accidents happened to mar the en- ln' .toymen t. |