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Show THOUSANDS ENJOY PIONEER EXERCISES Parks, Resorts and Mountain Moun-tain Retreats Greatest Attractions. Pioneer day passed quietly in Salt Lake this j-ear. The resorts were well patronized and largo crowds congregated congregat-ed in tho parks, while many took advantage ad-vantage of the holiday to visit mountain moun-tain retreats and river streams in search of fish. Only at Brighton was an official program pro-gram held. This was given at the home of J. G. McDonald, where canipfire exercises ex-ercises and singing of old songs were the features. Among those who attended at-tended were Apostles Orson F. "Whitney, Anthony W. Ivins and Andrew .lenson. The event was in commemoration of the time in 1S;i7 when a number of pioneers pio-neers sought the Brighton retreat that they might celebrate Pioneer day in safety, despite the approach of Johnston's John-ston's army, news of which had .just been received. Descendants of those who were present at that time were yesterday guests of honor. At Liberty park Hawkins's military band gave two concerts, a special program pro-gram from 4 to 6 o'clock, and the regular reg-ular one from 7 to 9. Mrs. Laurinda Brewerton, soprano, and Alva Woodward, Wood-ward, baritone, furnished the vocal numbers of the programs. A community celebration was hold at Riverside park, Fifth North and Thirteenth Thir-teenth West streets. A baseball game was held in the morning aud a baud concert and program in the afternoon. The program was under the direction of Gus P. Bachman and Oscar Evans, and the Evans quartet furnished vocal numbers. num-bers. A concert was also given in the evening. Inmates of the Utah state prison were given a program under the direction direc-tion of Mrs. Esther Husbands and Miss Bess Nickerson. Miss Jesse Evans, dramatic dra-matic reader; Miss Eva Osborne, whistler; whis-tler; Fred Spaulding, saxophonist, and David Chapman, vocalist, were among those who took part. |