Show I lURK hORK AND Old iti Polk UTe itro l Children OhI rita In III Ii School American Fork J urk Jan 30 Schools open il to all healthy children here hore to today today day Since the holidays there has hilA been an of nf only out of or an nn enrollment of at pupils Yester Yesterday day a petition was lIs circulated among lImon the parents praying tha tho school board to follow tha the lead of ot Salt Sail Luke Lue City and open the schools to all healthy health children In response to this an all an announcement announcement was made late lae yesterday evening that no healthy hea thy child would be excluded this morning Jt It did not become generally known but 1111 when your I correspondent c tre called upon n Principal Forbes at nt noon he hi estimated that thai 90 00 per cent of ot the enrollment were pres prell present eat ent The children are all nil happy tho the groups of ut that have been so o much In evi el evidence dence on our streets for lor a II month past were not nol so o conspicuous today OLD FOLKS DAY This has hns been Old Folks lay day with us For Bomo tonio time Um past the tho various committees walking under tinder the tho direction of oC Thomas Thoma John Tracy Win Wm Grant and Mrs Ir K 1 Adamson Adam on have hao been busily engaged preparing to 10 give all RII over oer the tue ago age of oC 65 05 years to 10 together gether with tho widows an nn extra good time Ume at lie tho Old Folks ban banquet banquet Those who were ere fortunate enough to 10 molt look In at the Opera house houe today can cun bear lJ ur testimony that these tillS admirably lIu Precisely llly nt tt 1 p 1 in m vet vel veterans crane erans surrounded o long hong tables Placed across the hO stage that were ere fair air ly I groaning under th weight of oC th the good things piled upon them th The 01 Oh Old Folks did ample Justice to o the repast proving that Father u ther Time e has haA no robbed them of the vigor of oC youth al altogether altogether together At 22 p 1 m oil nil had hall gath gathered ered erld In the body of o the hall which had hai been tastefully decorated for tor or the tho oc oe caslon with flags bunting tim banner to listen to the program had bind been arranged For nearly three hours they sat and listened to the pongs songs i lions and experiences of ot their comrade The fill first order of ot business s was the tho reading of ot the names together with n a short life lIro sketch of oC those who hall had passed IJ away since the last of at the old folks talks was follows followed by a selection from the Old Folks choir In memory of ot the tho departed A At Al a short recess r CC 8 was taken Inken and re passed There has usually been ben present at these gatherings Brother Drother 0 C n R Savage Ravage and ami others from Salt Lake City This tune time their places were vacant Cant with the exception of oC Philip Marietta He lIe par V too took of the spirit ot of UI the occasion and amI did his part In entertaining In his hi usual usua clever elew style stylo Tho The Old Folks wan rant Brother Savage to know that his pres Idres presence ence once wan Willi missed on this occasion There wn one of at the Mormon Mornion Battalion present Brother Joseph Jo eph Ship l ley hey and a II number who were acquaint acquainted ed cd with the Prophet Joseph A census taken at nl the tha close of oC the meeting feting showed 41 U between the ages of ot W G and 70 23 between bel 70 iO and SO 80 and ana 9 II over oer SO 0 Brother Joseph Shipley wan sa the old oldest oldeSt est man present being 88 Sister Mary n H 8 was the oldest lady present from front American Fork being 82 Among all nil this crowd erod of ot aged ones your cor car correspondent correspondent respondent only onh aw lIaw three Thin be evidence of the tho I healthfulness ss of oC our climate and nn the tho I nouns neWts of or our pur ur people Special mention should be made of oC the ho Old OM clinic choIr which very cr creditably tendered I veril excellent selections Reid and of or Brothers and nn have havo been heen untiring In their efforts to make lank the occasion a II success A dance Is l given for tho bene betie fit of or the Out Old Folks Foik olk tonight which Is III largely attended 11 |