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Show Decoration Day Fittingly Obsened Forenoon tho People Went to Cemetery Ceme-tery n Masse, Decorated Orates and Listened to Silver Rand After, noon Went to Ball Game. Decoration Dny was fittingly observed ob-served last Saturday. All the business busi-ness houses closed, and it was gen-urally gen-urally observed as a holiday. Tho peo-plo peo-plo turned out en maaso to decorate tho graves of their loved ones. Tho cemetery commlttco of tho city council coun-cil nnd tho sexton arc to bo commended commend-ed for their splendid work in having tho cemetery cleaned up. Never be-foro be-foro was it in so pleasing condition. Most of tho old Individual wooden fences had been removed, adding much to tho attractiveness of the general effect. Thcro was water In all the pipes, bo that tho flowers and shrub-bory shrub-bory could bo freshened up. Dy noon tho crowd had. practically all dispersed. dis-persed. About ono hour beforo noon the crowd was immense. It seemed that every Inhabitant in tho city was there, nnd ulmost every grava received n sprig or flowers or a floral wreath. The fraternal societies wero present ns organizations, remembering their departed members. Much plnsure was given by tho silver band, which spent several hours nt tho cemetery playing sacred music. In the nftemoou there wns a base-bnll base-bnll game between Lehi and tho General Gen-eral Electrics or Salt Lako City. Lehl's regular team went to Provo, lenving' but a row experienced players to keep up tho reputation of tho homo team, "illddy" Jackson was back-stop, while his kid brother occupied tho pitcher's box for Lehi. They both did good work, but could not win single-handed. Tho scoro resulted 12 tn 1 in favor of tho visitors. The gamo nt Provo, which was one of tho league series, resulted in favor of Provo, tho scoro being 12 to C. Lehi was ahead in tho eighth Inning, but In tho Inst the Provoites got a batting streak and besides knocking four homo runs scored three others. Thero wero six hundred people in attendance. |