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Show PLAY GROUNDS' lIEGHT AT PlTjlSDSy Prominent Citizens Will Speak; Progress in . P-reparing Plot for Children. Afc a meeting of the Play Grounds association Saturday evening, elaborate preparations were started for a big event" next Thursday ovening, beginning begin-ning at 7:30, which evening has been turned over to this association by the Liberty park commission. George Y. Wallace, president of the association, will havo chcargo of the affair. 3iavor J. S. Bransford will preside and Judge O. W. Powers will De the principal" speaker. In nddition to this, Fred C. Graham is now working on a musical programme for the evening. The park commission, tho clty council and the Play Grounds association will all be in attendance. At the mooting Saturday night, it was decided to award the contract for the furnishing of the apparatus to local contractors. The sub-committee on grounds was authorized to arrange for the construction of a wading pool in which the children may wade in tho summer and on which they may skate during' the winter. Resolutions wero adopted in appreciation 'of the work of Mrs. Mary P. Loomis, who has done a great deal for tho movement, and who leaves next week for Seattle, where she will mako her home in the future. Mrs. C. E. Richards was placed on the sub-committee on grounds in place of Mrs. Loomis. Miss Anna Bitner was selected to be first supervisor of the play grounds and the selection of an assistant, to serve until school begins, was deferred until next week. Miss Bitner is a '10 graduate gradu-ate of tho TJnivorsity of Utah, where she specialized in physical culture and kindergarten work. |