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Show 75th Homecoming Anniversary Celebrated; Has Country -wide Attendance Of Former Dixieites Pioneers Honored In Meetings; Gov. Blood, Pres. Grant Guests On Saturday "A success from every point"., is the opinion expressed by th,ose who attended the 75th Homecoming Home-coming anniversary celebration held Jo St. George " last Thursday Thurs-day Friady and Saturday. The celebration was topped off with Governor Henry H. Blood an President Heber J. Grant ipenU, 5 mOtUiVheid me program started off Thursday Thurs-day with the Pioneers registering register-ing and meeting' in the Tabernacle. Taber-nacle. All of the Pioneer hidings hid-ings were well attended with the Tabernacle being filled for the meeting on Saturday. In the afternoon af-ternoon the sports program got underway at 2 p, m. and that afternoon at 5 n. m. t,hP Pirv- neers were served a banquet on the Temple grounds. In the evening there was a band concert, con-cert, given under the direction of Professor Earl J. Bleak; wrestling matches and the evening even-ing closed with a dance. Parade Friday was the biggest day, so far as crowd was concerned, although Saturday was a close' second. Over 6,000 people viewed the parade on this day. Following it was another Pioneer Pio-neer meeting. In the afternoon there was' the sports program and a performance of Seal Bros, circus with both programs attracting at-tracting large crowds. Wrestling Wrest-ling was again on the docket for the evening with another performance per-formance of the circus and the evenng was closed with a dance. Saturday This was designated as "Governor "Gov-ernor Blood's Day", and the Governor and President Grant were the featu:e rpeskcrs at the meeting held in the Tabernacle. Taber-nacle. The meeting was opened by a prayer by Stake President, W. O. Bentley. Mayor Albert E. Miller gave the address of welcome. wel-come. In speaking of the Pioneers and the work that they accomplished, accomp-lished, Governor Blood called attention at-tention to their fortitude, courage cour-age and faith. He went on to declare that he had never heard of a man or woman from Dixie who was not proud of his birth place. "The blood of the very best of that period flowed in their veins", said the Governor. "They were members of a new faith and came from all walks of life. They had to leave their homes and sever family ties only the strong and courageous cour-ageous could have done this." He went on to tell how there was a weeding out at the various points along the Journey from their homes until they arrived at Salt Lake City and atated that only those who had proved themselves were called by President Presi-dent Brigham Young to come to Dixie. "President Young called only real men and women , ior this reason they had great sons and daughters", the Governor Gov-ernor declared. In speaking of the changes that had taken pjace here he i pointed out that this section was building rapidly and permanently. perman-ently. He expressed it aa his opinion hat the water resources would be better husbanded in the future and that this would bring about a further development. develop-ment. I Governor Wood pointed out how tile development of roads had helped and told how Luther liurhank stated, when he saw and tasted Dixie peaches, that they were the linest he had ever seen. If commented on the college col-lege and the buildings and the work and money that had been put ink) them. lie gave it as his opinion Unit as iniuch or in'ore progress was being made here, than in any other part of the state. Irrsilcnt Gnint President Grant told how he celebrated his ninth birthday in St. George seventy years ago. He spoke of the kindliness shown nun at tnat tune and during his many visits to this city. "The two most serene women that I have ever known", said President Presi-dent Grant, "were my mother and aunt Anna Ivins. I have always held a most profound respeot for Erasing Snow and Anthony Ivins". He went jn to toll of the groat work that was done by Anthony Ivins in Mexico and congratulated Dixie on the typo of people that have been sent out from here and on the work that they have accomplished. Attention was dirwtod by President Grant to the fact that millions of dollars are made each year off sugar beets raised in I'tah and declared that h (Continued on page 4) HOMECOMING (Continued from first page) great proportion 'of this is made possible by the seed raised here. In speaking of Erastus Snow he said, "Erastus Snow, in my opinion, was second only to Brig-ham Brig-ham Young as a colonizer and leader". He stated that he offered of-fered his respect to the leaders that had been chosen from Dixie. Hand Concert The band concert, under the leadership of Professor Earl J. Bleak, drew a large audience. The response of the audience indicated in-dicated the fine caliber of entertainment enter-tainment that was offered, de clares the committee. Fruit Festival The fruit festival and displays came in for many fine compliments compli-ments considering that is was so late in the year. An enthusi-asic enthusi-asic crowd partook of the fruit and the many comments indicated indi-cated that Dixie's fruit had not gone back since the days when the Pioneers were here. |