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Show GOSHEN'S CELEBRATION. A Grand Day Enjoyed But the Festivities Festivi-ties Were Marred With the Usual Accident Ac-cident -Wedding Receiption. Goshen, July 2G. Correspondence Dispatch. Another Pioneer Pay has gone into history. It was loyally and well celebrated at Goshen. At sunrise the stars and stripeB were furled to the breeze amid the firing of cannon and music by the Bilver band. At 9 o'clock the procession waB formed under un-der the direction of Robert Gourley, marshal of the day in the following order: UTAH'S PAST. Young lady dressed in ancient apparel. ap-parel. The cart she rode in and those that followed her with teams showed the ear marks of the pioneers all combined com-bined to represent Utah's past. utah's present. Young lady dressed in spotlesi white in a chariot drawn by a tram of spank-iDg spank-iDg grays, followed by twent-four young men snd twenty-four young ladies all mountedon prancing steeds, and the silver band. Then came tha village blacksmith busy sharpening drills for a party of miners who were drilling a large block of granite, in the rear part of the wagon. Harvesters, reapers and mowers followed. Then Goshen's rock and brick builders mak - ing brick as the procession moved. The tail end of the procession I will not attempt to describe. Readers may imagine it. After marching through the principal princi-pal streets those in the procession and other citizens ENTERED RUDD'S HALL which wastateiully decorated for the occasion, one Bide representing Utah as it was when the pioneers found it the other side beautifully displayed dis-played Utah as it is. There was a very instructive program rendered consisting con-sisting ot songs, epeeches and sentiments senti-ments concluding the first part of the day's exercises. young: and old danck. The after part of the day was devoted de-voted to the children's dance. In the evening a grand dance was indulged in by the adults. A EOT HURT. In the afternoon festivities were sadly marred by an accident which happened to a little son of Dan White'B. The little fellow was playing play-ing with fire crackers. He had picked up a giat powder cap and was holding hold-ing it with the fingers of his left hand. The gas from the fire-cracker exploded ex-ploded the cap which tore the little one's thumb and two fingerB off. It is doubtful if his third and fourth fingers will be saved. Portions of the cap entered en-tered his body at different places. He is now at Payson with his parents under un-der tha care of Dr. Fort. |