Show haver BEAVER MAID OF HONO t TELLS ABOUT TRIP f in ft a letter to the county commission ors orp dated at denver colo miss irene jackson who was beaver countes Coun tys maid of honor tit nt the recent docent irrigation con grebs thanks tho the board for the honor conferred upon her and gihei n very interesting Inte g account of hor her experiences it at tho the congress ron groes the letter ls is too long lone to reproduce in full but tho the moro more hu hii por portent tint passages passage saro firo given 1 I 1 am truly grateful tor for tho the estremo extremo pleasure and for the honor you gave too me by choosing ino smaill nib il of honor from from denver beaver county to tho the international irrigation tion congress nt at salt luko lake city I 1 was very proud to represent our county tin and I 1 will always return retain a oly of tho tha magnificent event 1 I arrived in silt salt lake on sunday and was taken to tho the hotel utah where a very doiy beautiful room had been reserved resor ved for me A meeting of the queen and her bar maids was held sunday evening at which wo we met tho the members of tho the committee and mrs aim Wetzal Wetz olour our matron of honor and became acquainted with each other monday morning wo ao met atthe at the hotel at eight a bus called for us tin and we were token to tho the corn forcial club choro carriages cart lages awaited us drawn by beautiful white while horses borses here the parade ana forced for nod with the queens carriage tit nt its ile head followed by i tho the maids maida of honor ond and members of tho the commercial club the procession made its way to the tabernacle Tabor nacle where the congress con co greis grecs was waa formally fort nally opened by the queen cf irrigation abe music for the occasion was furnished by professor mcclellan ollan with mr E P kamboll at the organ mr air liand hand and mrs taylor pei ry soloists and ft a chorus of more than a hundred voices voices the oue ode to irrigation composed by mr mcclellan for this occasion was most wonderful erfil after the program wo we were taken to the commercial club to a handsomely hand Bomely i appointed luncheon we iet were ihen ahon i taken back to our hotels to rest and prepare for the mammoth electrical electric nl pageant io in the evening the pageant was a beautiful sight bight it was thirteen blocks in lyneth and the cheapest chea fest yest float in the parade was waa valued at more than three hundred bundred dollars A reception at tho the commercial club 4 followed the pageant tit at which wo we were lio honored nored with introductions to Gp governor spry mayor park senator nowland newland teed reed smoot B 11 II robertp S B young and many other prominent people tuesday afternoon we spent at salt air whore where wo we all learned to acim tuesday evening we wore were entertained at a theater party where we saw willord willard mack in the man from home wednesday ato wo we wore wo taken on a delightful do trip up emigration EmiR ration canyon we spent thursday afternoon noon at the orpheum aud thursday evening came the crowning event of all a ball at the hotel hole utah |