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Show I Queen Leona I Reigns Supreme I Most Successful Week of llnzaar ami I Festival In American Fork's Ills I tory Comes to n Close Tonight With I Piny "Tempest and Snnshluo." The American Fork subjects of I Queen Leona will tonight close one I of the most successful weeks In lo-I lo-I cnl history. Commencing Monday the festivities opened under the name of mi Autumn Festival. Monday, Tuesday Tues-day and Wednesday tho people were without a ruler, and enjoyed themselves them-selves without restraint. However, nt tho Thanksgiving banquet ban-quet Thursday, Queen Leona assumed assum-ed her royal sway and occupied her flag drapped throne In the banquet hall of tho Tabernacle. She was beautifully gowned in a creation of whlto satin overdrapped with white chiffon. Hor only ornament was n ncckless of pearls, and the crown also of pears, which was worn with a truly queenly air. The Queen made hor second appcaranco Thursday Thurs-day evening nt tho Queen's Dall In tho Apollo Hall, whero her subjects were pleased to do her homage by one of tho largest attendance, so far this flcaaon. Monday afternoon was children's day, and If thero were any children who were r?bt thoro they lived out-sldo out-sldo of American Fork. The basement of the Tabernacle was completely filled fil-led with them, and they enjoyed the dancing to tho utmost. Monday even. Ing tho musical und literary talent of the Drlghnm Young University gavo a most artistic concert in the auditorium of tho Tabernacle. This event was not patronized as it should have been, for It doscrved a crowded house. Tuesday was Relief Society afternoon, after-noon, und u dozen ladles gavo the Immltablo representation of a bunch I of old maids going Into n mysterious machine and coming out winsome talented, tal-ented, lC-ycar-old maidens. Tucs. Eve. was .the QueenViEIectlon i BoU In the Apollo, w,honw Hlfciflfla I Clark.Tono'of Am FdrfcjmoijBjti elected Quocn of tho Fostival. Up until tho last fow minutes of tho vot-J lug, Miss ArvllJd' Chrlstcnscn was IrJ the load. Just at tho last momciJ Miss Clark'' friends carao In wlthfl lot of votos, and when they were iV counted tho result stood as follow Leona Clark 4;fl Margaret Itlackhurst -fl Arvllla Chrlstcnscn Morlo Holey ItH Lillian Drown 1!M Nellie Duckwalter lsS Rosolla Storrs I84J Dorothy Chlpman 18rfl Alta Deck luH Myitlc King ljfl Ucrtha IJassott Lunn Chlpman 14 Ora Chlpmnn 1CCJ IClva Chlpmai -tffl H Wednesday evening was one oH I most delightful ovcnlugs of tho sH ,1 and It proved to bo tho most ponJ I 0110 also. Mr. Wm. A. Morton ofH M Lake City, originally from DejH I Ireland, took the big audlcuco iH .1 trip through Ireland. Showing U I the giant causway, and London diH H In tho north, tho Dlnrnoy Castle iM l QuconBtown in tho south, and l H roaming through Dclfast, DuLH H Cork and tho Lakes of Kilarucy, .M H compauylug tho pictures wns a taV ' with Mr. Morton's delightful IrliJB (H dialect, Jokes and wltlclsms. I Thursday was the climax of the week's festivities, when at high noon tho big Thanksgiving dinner was serv-cd. serv-cd. Tho mnln assembly room In tho bnsemont of the Tabernacle was tilled with four tables tho full length, and which accommodated over 300 people. Tho tables wcro filled sovcral times with banquetors. Dosldes this a table in anothor room was filled several times with working men who came In for lunch. The banquet used up 135 chickens, roasted and boiled, 109 mince pies, four boilers of plum puddings, pud-dings, one 250 pound veal, 30 pounds of butter, 250 loaves or bread. 20 pounds of pink eye beans, besides vast quantities of potatoes, cabbage, parsnips, turnips, beets, cauliflowers, celery, tea, coffee, sugar, pickles, carrots car-rots and cranberry sauce. Twenty ladles, five from each ward, were used as cooks, and as many more dressed In whlto caps and whlto aprons acted as waitresses, and did their work well, too. All who attended attend-ed wcro loud In praising the exccl-lonoy exccl-lonoy of the ropaBt. The local power company supplied four electric cook stoves and the necessary power to cook tho pics and chickens. Dcsldcs these there wore four othor cook stoves used. The Forbes band of Alpine Al-pine supplied music during tho banquet. ban-quet. Thursday afternoon the youngsters again crowded the Apollo Hall at anothor an-othor children's dance, and In the evening was tho Queen's ball referred to above. Last evening thoro was a repetition tho tho Old Maids' Cantata, with two rells of motion pictures, which again drew a big crowd. The bazaar feature has also been 11 great success. The sale of fancy work and wearing apparel has netted n good Bum, and been tho means of attracting at-tracting many to tho Festival. Each day, excepting Wednesday, tho com-mittco com-mittco has served meals and lunches and has boon well patronized' Another Anoth-er fcaturo also has been the two "Old Ladles" with doop voices and a hundred hun-dred pockots selling, their wares at 5 cents prgrab, ,.,;' ,,. vTb6(Vjetilval closes toklght rwltb one ol, the. best entertainments' of the,' woth;productionMBt Tempest atrf ilw 1i 1 1 KlitfrnWfifri rttww nit |