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Show mmmm mmmmmmmmm w shhhhm nm Pioneer Day a Pleasing Success Fifty-Eight Pioneers Receive Badges and Occupy Seats of Honor. Lolil's Pioneer Day celebration came oft as per schedule excepting tho flre-men'a flre-men'a demonstration which fallod to materialize becauso of a misunderstanding misunder-standing ns to who should supply tho boxes for tho conflagatlon. The High School Hand, commencing nt sunrise, supplied enlivening musk for several hours, giving tho people tho spirit of the dny. A good sized audience assembled in the. Tabernacle nt ten o'clock to listen lis-ten to tho excellent program as out lined In our lust Issue. Residents who camo to Lehl before 18C8 were given distinguished places and budges of ribbon of stato colors. There were 60 of theso presont, thrro of whom came to Utah in 1848. The only LchI resident to come in 184? Is Mrs. M. A. Norton, who was a guest of tho Salt Lnko committed Saturday. Lcsllo Ooatcs nctcd ns master ol ceremonies, l'rof. 0. N, Child, whr dollvorcd the oration, n trlbuto to the pioneers, was nt his very best ns h told'ot tho trials nnd hardships of tin pioneers, cmphnslzlng particularly the loyalty nnd patriotism of our first settlors, set-tlors, who enmo to this wilderness, then a foreign laud, one part of then under President Young to subdue the soil and build up cities, nnd tho other part, as a Mormon battalion, to fight under tho banner of tho Americui flag. Mr. Hnrwood'B violin solo plens. cd Immcusoly nnd demanded nn en coro. Tho bass solo by Mr. Ktrkham and tho original poem by Miss Lott, nil woro well rondered. Miss Lott's poem follows: Of all tho states of tho forty-eight, Wo first of all fair Utah rate: With its smllo of plenty that now abounds; Its acres of sagci brush turned lute towns. Did tho pcoplo who climbed those peaks sublime, i Think whnt it would make in a fow years' time? ', To honor thoso pcoplo today wo hnv a; ' met ' To show thom respect this day has been sot. ' Our pioneer forofnthors wo long wll praise, MonumontB to them wo also havo raised. - Tho chlldron we teach, whllo yet vor small, To lovo nnd honor nnd respect the. all. 'Tvs'as not money that enmo to this sago brush Innd, When Urlghnm first entered with his little baud, ,Twns men with muscle and honest will nut few of theso remain with us still Twas men who tried with their mind nnd might, A homo to mako and to do what wu. right. When wo thcvlr past llfo stop to review, re-view, With prldo wo say "We descend from ifi, you," For first In lino como our pioneers, Descendants from those of earlier years, Who leXt tholr mother country's breast For God's own truth and what seemed best. Tho rovolt of thoso forefathers on tho const, Gnvo us n freedom wo like to boast: For In tracing It back, us nil things run, Twns tho very best families thut carried car-ried tho gun. And from thoso, tho old Mormons, ns thoy aro called, Can traco their llueago back straight to tho wall. Tho hnrdshlps endured and trials o'ercuino; Tho colds of tho winter and tho sum- mcr's hot sun; Havo been told and retold In prose of tho best ny thoso who passed through them and aro now laid to rest. They laid tho foundation nnd built to tho square, And left us tho work to complete- with gront care. Then comes tho company of Ilattnllon men, Who saved tho church from the en- emlcs ken, And made that grnud old march so bold, 'iw honored by all great Btudents, wo'ro told. Some helped to dig from the sands of ' tho west First gold of California which ranked with tho best. 'I'll o hunger and rold and burning heat, .Vns endured by all for they had no f retreat: Till thoy built It up by feet and hand Through long weary days In the sun- ' baked land. Uut God gave them courage In tho mr And they liuvo given us lives we lovo nnd rovcrc. The handcart company follow next In line; The bravery they showed 'twould be hard to outshine How they lnughed and sang us they crossed tho plain: Wo can hear tho story from tho fow. who remain. Some compunlcs by disease lost nearly near-ly ull, Whllo others could answer to ii name tho call. Just stop and ponder and see how through nil, The honor of these people supported their cull. Tho first who came gave up land and homo And were driven like refugees to roam They wem kicked and scorned nnd sneered by nil, To uphold n religion that could not full. We certainly can say of our heroes wo'ro proud; Cnn they say thnt of us If they look through tho cloud? Do we stand for tho right, as they did of old, Accept tho truo gospel ns by them was told? Does our country stand llrst, arc we loyal nnd true, Do we love nnd salute our Hed, White) and HIuo? We certainly can sny and say with u vim, On suffrago fair Utah's Ininps were in trim. For tho women of Utah worked right with tho men, FromVtnrt to tho llnlsh with tho cour-ngci cour-ngci of ten. From tho fighting of the crlckotB nnd grasshopper pest, To the mnkliig of homes nnd by children chil-dren were blessed. Ilcvlow In the history or ull the states And seo If their bloodshed has smaller rates; And also just sco If they were hunted by men, tnstend of encouraged to mako homes In Its glens. Tho motto our forefathers held high as tho sky, Was "Do unto others ns you'd bo done by." Oh Utah, wo lovo you, tho fairest of states, E'en through wo woro frightened by recent earthquakes: Wo lovo thy numerous rocks nnd X trickling rills; Thy great dry farms and mighty IiIUb; Tho running creeks nnd canals that How, Whoro vorduro green cnn bo seen to grow. Thy sago brush gives us thoughts of thoso Wo woro tho homespun, nnd helped dlsposo Of sunflowers, thistles and mighty weeds, And plowed tho ground nnd sowed tho seeds; And mndo It homo thnt wo might llvo; Oh Utah, fair Utah, duo homngo we give. Tho afternoon's program consisted of games nnd sports for the, children and a ball gamo between l.clil mid Draper, tho visitors winning by n score of G to D. |
