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Show OLD SCOTIA. The Burns Festival Properly Celebrated In Spanish Fork-One Night of Perfect Enjoyment. Great S;ot! So the bystanders at the entrance to Creer's hall in Spanish Fork, exclaimed on Thursday night aa they observed a pleasure bent throng filing into the large and commodious building, which upon examination was gayly decorated, not altogether American Ameri-can in its aspect, although the 6tars and stripes of our country draped the grand stand from which enlivening en-livening music was to be discoursed during the evening upon some grand and eventful occasion. In inspecting the various works of ert whicii enn-mi-. .oui.l-faH-"TT7UTrq Itic iO-m, " OVA) need t be Ion? in ignorance of the obje( the great gathering which was about to take place, the picture of Robert Burns and his Highland Msrv, facing the e trance was sufficient in itself to impress upon the mind of the visitors that the 135th nnniversarv of Scotland's bard was about to be celebrated, cele-brated, as has been the rule in Spanish Fork for many years. Burns' birthday has brought about a social re-union amongst friends that no other event would have had a lik effect. ef-fect. Brother has met brother, fa hers have met their sons and minima tneir lasighters and ior arewnouis ot tne 25 1 h of January, the aged have become young again an;l are happy in repeating repeat-ing some of their experiences amongst the bills and in the dales of their native na-tive land, Bonnie Scotland. The anniversary of the poet Burns was no less enjoyable on Thursday night than it was on any previous year. By 8 o'clock the hall was crowded to such an extent that it was feared many would have to be refused admit tance. Crowded as it was the very best of order was kept by the able management of Mr. James Hutchison. The superb music supplied by the Hitching'g orchestra, did much to elevate ele-vate the poor in spirit and infuse agility in old and young while dancing. After three hours dancing the company com-pany was treated to coffee, cake, pies and other eatables which had a beneficial bene-ficial effect upon the inner man. A splendid program had been managed and the rendition of the various parts contributed much to the enjoyment of the night. A most excellent speech was delivered by Mr, Hutchison. Songs by Messrs Geo. Rjbertsoa, Chas. C. Craig, David Hutchison, James Aitken and Miss Lizzie Chambers. Recitations Recita-tions were also given by two ladies whose names were not learned. I Dancing again was resumed and after two hour, which seemed minutes only, the latter part of the program consisting of songs and step dancing was gone through in a very creditable manner. Mr. James Miller's execu ton of the sword dance brought a neirty round of applause from those oresent. Mr. W. Creer and Mrs. Richard Money's singing in "What's a' the Steer, Kummer," is indeed worthy of special praise while "Annie Laurie," as an e icore was no less sublime. As the fourth hour of the day was approaching ap-proaching the proceedings came to a close by the company singing "Auld Lang byne." |