Show sunday school festival material progress vu MENDON jan jau 24 1575 editor deseret we had llad a grand time yesterday with the members of our sunday school a day which I 1 think will be long remembered by them the gramme pro of the performances was as roi rol follows lowS at twelve in the teachers add and children to the number of about assembled at the meeting house I 1 where we enjoyed ourselves in a grand picnic after which we nye commenced drawing for the prizes which had been purchased for the occasion and which consisted of apples candy penhold genhold ers pencils handkerchiefs babies stockings etc which were hung in a small pine tree situated in the centre of or the hall each peize was numbered then there were other numbers placed in a small box which corresponded with the numbers on the prizes and und as each drew his number I 1 can truly say it was a pleasing sight to see them wending lemr way to the little pine tree were all lucli much de lighted ight edwith with thil this lart part of the pro gramme awill I 1 will all nil trains could leave 1 evira hour and arrive every halah avri our making in ten hours ten tew trains each way ono one half of which may be wide guage and one half narrow narrow i and by adopting tho the staff a system four stant staffs for the whole time would ren render der it absolutely ible far fort fory egi A an accident from elti citi either elther her hen rear or but bia ting collision to occur whether the traffic for lor some time timo to come will require more accod mo dation ithan than can be thus afforded ivery lvery I very much doubt if it should I 1 all that would be needled to double it in 11 amo amount would I 1 le e to dou double bliS bits the number of turnout i and travel at thirty miles milea per hour of course couro either arrangement ruid w r uld require d a considerable increase of rolling stock but not so much as a second railroad besides requiring but little ex extra tra grading and tie tle viz a at t tha I 1 turnouts ENGINEER rr here state that there were just as many prizes as there were scho beho scholars iara larA v present BO so that it was waa no blanks unlike most of the lotteries ot teries of the day ay after we wo had bad enjoyed ou melves ourselves in this thib style for two or three hour i we all retired to our homes to do our chores and prepare ourselves fur for the dance dince which commenced phe pro precisely at six pm and it was amusing to see the little ur chins trip the light fantastic toe 21 in this delightful amusement we enjoyed ourselves until about clevn when we retired to our homes each perfectly satisfied with the tile amusements of the day and with a nixed fixed determination that this thia shall not be the last day days of the kind I 1 am pleased to tell teil you we havet have a good thriving sunday school un un I 1 der den the able ablo management efelder of elder elden john donaldson superintendent isaac sorensen asi as stant supt bupt and a good troupe of teachers the united order is is progressing favorably the majority of the people here hero ure are deter determined tined to carry it out some surae of the brethren have been off to the tile kenyons kan getting gut cut lumber to build a dairy which I 1 think will be in operation sometime next summers summer rummer with brother andrew andersen superintendent alfred GARDNER cor secretary ay |