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Show i Pioneer Day Celebration Meir.bor.-j of the Springville Volunteer Fire department are to 1)2 coii.yrauilaU'd upon their enterprif.e in spc.ni-oi'inp; the -:-g ct!ol!T.tioi: ii-.-re July 21. U j a practical dernmi-sti-nt on of tlu-ir faith in ihc city, and also of their Appret-b-lion of ihe v.'dtie ot' the publicity .such an event gives SprLiy-viMa. SprLiy-viMa. . , li 'h,--e n: n arc v, iilln.-r to devote the time and energy iha . uoh an e.vcmt requires, they should have the unstinted xuppwl of every business house and every i-ilizen.. Merchants a':f lasmer. enterprises should lend their support In- con-i i.reHil-.iLr -floats to the bir parade it's the only thing'to do. i Citizens r .-sidinjr-hcre should make it a point to assist bv j . extending invitations to their out-of-town friends to .visit the ; it.v c" ..-.a nay ami participate in the eelebraion. The more; people that come here and lake part in the day's events, the' easier it is to put this kind of a celebration over success! 'ui!v - j ., 1 ne program of events as outlined in this issue of Sprinjj-viile Sprinjj-viile Ikrald has the -appearance-. of . a genuine celebration, j From early morning until midnight there will be something aom;r every minute. Tell your friends this. Urge them to ome do y :nr bit. and the men responsible for the celebra-.txn celebra-.txn will fee, that their efforts are not in vain. Pioneer day is one day in the year that Utahns can well at'lor,! to commemorate. Its significance is far: reaching, it is ihe day when that sturdy band of pioneers, under the Icaders-i.iif'oi' that matchless leader, Brigham Young, entered these valleys of the mountains. It is a day that harRens bacjV to the beginning of another great commonwealth. Of Ihis period-a poet has written: .-. "THE P10NEEH"- .Uiuuh liic. givat s in-bliiHlcu valieyj vnefe'-Bolies ot thi 16.it ure shewn " .u-iili:u.g-i.utJtf. wh.p-cii.cK, and Utter groan, to iuulii.. o.- ccccr.u v,i;;o.iS am, din ot huuseUuJ ),niis, -' "a.cli wan tl.e Ood or Hosts ia the d.,t oi iMr caravans. cara-vans. - . .. . riuh- Lro:u!-bi imrafd hal.s wilh taltrred rims arc whit,- with, alkali, ..i.-y ibliKl and cliol.o while the woivcn crouch by pallets wucre madia, mad-ia, -n die, J'hoy 1-lu.Mn a cloud toward setting sun. that old and lurid flame l-hio,,;,h r.,rc.w and lever and fortune Ihiust. for -ihj gloty of C.)r name The e.rnjns eome.i and the scout, drift lr., v.ilh long, black sllnj ,( j -,nd the wcsoii wheels and the horses leap, urged on with l.,.;h and mm-l..o,,,:lhe mm-l..o,,,:lhe vast black n,;;lU that closes down like evil doom of man Where, fuebeds glow there rises a chant to the God of rhe sons of Dan. 'Come. Come. Ye Saints," is the thundering hymn, tl.at shakes the -. prairie sod, Which quivers along ir. a battle song to that grim old Mormon God Lor these are the men of the covenant, of the word and avenging s.vord Through plains ot death, through lonely trials, and floods with never a ford. ' They follow a splendid prophesy, a flame and a Holy G,'a:i They ride to the blast of Gabriel, on way to a goodly v- For- the word of the prophet is written, they shall build an abiding place And men of the Lord shall raise them, np. new seed nf a mighty "race: . ' I And the sword of God shall go with them wherever their bu,les blnr,. rhey shall make them another- Jerusalem., with a taber nacle of prayer " There are hones where the wagons rumbl,- there are skulla in the prairie grasrv But the "Sons of Dan- will greatly thrive, whenever it comes to pass. On on they ride through storm and sun in the might o, a firm aro,, ! They shall burld them a mighty city for the Glory f ,ho ij0rd. j |