Show AN John Rl-Anniversary in On Saturday evening the a group of friends gathered at the home of and John P. Meakin in the Zimmerman of E 1st in honor of the Anniversary of his residence in Salt Lake On Aug 1869 Meakin come here England as pion-neer for his fathers family who followed him in Forty years is quite a long time to live in one place and work for the good and welfare and uplift of the and its such is the record of John P. The thinking people all over the state know it and appreciate the intellectual and kindly work of this genial It is to be hoped that some the city and state will recognize his labors in some substantial which recognition up to date has been badly The following lines were dedicated to Meakin by C. Skinner of Colorado while Meakin was lecturing in behalf of the Woodman of the and are appropriate for now When you and I are dead and When ne'er a slab remains To mark the spot Beneath the The little we may The times we seek To raise the standard of the To aid the poor and May count with what I was about to say was the writer and his wife were among the fortunate ones last Saturday It was one of the most delightful social evenings that has ever been our lot to no card no prizes for childish games or booby no chatter about your no but to the contrary an intellectual and joyous feast for Meakin has arranged ami what he gave for our monologue or in terms a poetic other everyday chats with the poets of the The arrangement is a word picture panorama of street Home funny happenings pathetic stories with philosophic sentiment happily making one of the newest and neatest vaudeville entertainments we have ever We hope to see his act put on at the Orpheum in the near and Meakin sang several and John M. Chamberlain of the Chamberlain Music played a number of Ins own beautiful The guests were and J. M. C. H. P. Meakin and daughter Willard Johson of Idaho and V. S. Harry Haines of and Harry J. E. and W. H. Griswold of New York Fred W. Meakin and E. A. Warren Hall Meakin and F. Hardie Meakin and Robert Light refreshments were All present declared that the enjoyment of the evening was beyond expression in simple As the hand clasps were given and the good nights were the hope was expressed by each and all that and Meakin would live another 40 years to help to bless and to their brothers and sisters of humanity on life's rough and rocky His Future Meakin will leave soon after the 1st of for a tour of Utah and He will give his lectures and entertainments Meakin will journey with him and assist him in entertainments and in distributing the best hook on Utah ever Leaves of Meakin is a Fraternal His religion is love God and my all my He has no quarrel with His work is not m the skies but here on earth amongst the In conversation Meakin I am not I can see the the the the the the the dishonor amongst I know I have been the means of arousing thought power in a number of people during my past 25 years work and this is my purpose in I have only a more years now work and will bp devoted to the uplift of my The preachers may do the soul I will aim to develop embracing the elements of common cleanliness of body and kindness and the strife for livelihood shall not give the heart Touched with sense of each will give and take his The lecture subjects are Honest or Human Live and Lifters and and with the t His work may be summed tip in a few words as How to Live and Act on After a life's Meakin has the finest of any man on the He has committed fully two hundred poems to The people who listen to Meakin will be instructed and and a nobler manhood will be the cannot have a pure civilization until mankind are |