Show PLANTING TREES ix IN their recent epistle to the church the first presidency advocated the planting and ana rearing of trees reler refer ring briefly to such custom elsewhere where a day known as arbor day Is specially set apart and observed for that ahat purpose tim the following is descriptive crip tive of that day la in our neighboring territory wyoming at the town of laramie laramie and might be copied with advantage here we extract from the boomerang the talk of the town since the sun sign arose this morning has been arbor whenever heti over the 9 rea orb b of 0 it light we tinder adb a cloud 1 chwe 19 w was arts a light eur er igloos of all that it t might remain 74 until darunee dar knee kues ft e but bat etwas it was itou autv ge V the signal lor for an dapril april shower which h came to us a dozen times to today day do in afim we shape of little pellets of snow and not donough in number to lay lai the dust in the streets erts at la 12 every business house in the town closed its doors aud and thede the de pipe of the chief bathe tf the city as expressed in his proclamation w was a a carried out to the letter the mars marshal b al of the day formed the procession in line at the corner of A and second streets the uniformed rank of the into dependent order of odd first thin then the subordinate lodges followed ft by the E kneed ched sons of veter ka j ana society children of the public schools mayor and city ot of w acers and citizens on OB loot foot and in cart jaees the brass band headed the long procession ces slon discoursing its sweetest la music scud and the thelon long gline line made a hand nome bight to the hundreds ol of people who were elbut to see it when aften the ifie people filed into the park the aground presented an animated n acene there thare were scores of workmen ow ta 9 digging haplea lor fok the trees and the city officers had bad already had many p planted and older people wo too were jumius hither higuer and you yen with bushes insisting Insist lag they should be set pet out in some special e lal locality ahil 0 the members of tre the various su societies cleties were carefully looking after their own little plot of ground near the centre of the park aliat a platform had been erected and when there came a little lull in the excitement of putting out trees the programmer pro gramme graming of exercises which was published on saturday was carried out I 1 s |