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Show I " Pioneer Day's Doings THE METROPOLIS OF THE BEAR RIVER VALLEY GLORIOUSLY CELEBRATES JULY TWENTY-FOURTH. 1 Wo are fully satisfied that I fow towns in the state of Utah I had a bettor, more enthusiastic I , or glorious celebration of Pio- neor Day July 24th than did I the little burg of Garland, the I metropolis of the Hear River I ' Valloy. From early dawn until mid- night, the day's doings was full of special features which made H tho celebration a rousing sue--B cess from start to finish. The H big guns announced the dawn- B ing of tho day and at sunrise B old glory floated in the breeze fl from every flag polo and busi- B ness house and most of our B ' residents were tastefully decor- ated in the national colors. 1 East Garland's Military Band m filled tho air with strains of X pakiotic music and tho kids m i joined in with fire-crackers and K shouts of joy. V Over 2,500 people camo to town to colobrato and everything I was a bustle and buzz in the m "Sugar factory town. I City Marshal T. L. Snook and B Marshal of tho Day, L. J. Som- son, assisted by a force of spec- ' ial officers, saw to it that evory-B evory-B thing moved along like clock-B clock-B work. No boisterousness, ill B behavior or rows of any kind B marred the place of celebration B and fortunately there are no B accidents to record. Tho first crowning feature of 8 tho -day's program was tho big i Pionodi Parade, nearly three-1 three-1 fourths of a mile long, consist-1 consist-1 ing of handsome floats, mount-1 mount-1 ed horsemen, band, Pioneer I wagons, otc, etc. Tho lino of I march was from tho Sugar fact- t ory on Factory street to Evans I avenue, tnonco down Evans I avonuo to Ingalls street, thonco J up Ingalls street to Main and north on Main to Porter street, thonco down Porter street to Hanford avonuo and on Han-ford Han-ford avonuo to tho Amusement hall. The order of tho parade is as follows: No. I, East Gar-laud's Gar-laud's Military Band in decorated decorat-ed float. No. 2, J. F. Owens crossing tho plains ono mulo and 3 cows hitched 'to old covered cover-ed wagon in which was a pioneer pio-neer family. J. F. Owens rode ono cow and drove the mule and other two cows, water barrel on side of wagon. No. 3, A. H. Gleason and boy in old time covered wagon drawn by ancient ponies. No, 4, J. J. Hawks with an outfit like Gloason's, only a little more up to date. Nos. 5, 0 and 7, 1847 wagons rigged up for the occasion by Danil Anglo, Mark Hall and Lorenzo Smith. No. 8, Sorn L. Sorenson's Homo Industry float spinning wheel I and old lady making wool bats. No. 9, Mounted horso back ridors decorated in flags and bunting in pairs as follows: Sarah Fowler, Ed Wilcox, Ethel Porter, Sylvanus Porter, Dessio Gleason, Horace Gleason, Pearl Jensen, Lane Gleason, Iva Van-fleet, Van-fleet, Ernest Jensen, Ezra 'Jensen, 'Jen-sen, Kattio Gilbert, Archio Munns, Hannah Hall and Lula Lundquist 3 in a bunch, Ada Bingham, Curtis Brown, Hazel Evans, D. C. Chapman, Clara Smith, Azair Evans. No. 10, Religion Class in very protty float. No. 11, Religion Class children in decorated hack. No. 12, Geo. Austin and family in automobile. No. 13, Garland Sunday School Bees of Desorot in beautifully decorated be-hive be-hive float. No. 14, Utah-Idaho Sugar Agricultural float. No. 15, F. D. Wolling's header. No. 16, B. M. & P. Co. float ro-peesonting ro-peesonting 18471909. In this beautiful float Mrs. Elizabeth J. Zundol represented 1847 and Miss Maggio Creor 1909. No. 17, Utah-Idaho Sugar. Co. Lab-ratory Lab-ratory float, distributing match eases. No. 18tJonson Bros, float furniture and hardware. No. 19, Tho Foulgor Co. in decorated de-corated carriage distributing fans and advertising Star Brand Shoes. Nos. 20-21, M. Rogers and Ross Evan,, clowns on bicycles. No. 22, Decorated bicycle, bicy-cle, Vornon Rhodes. Following tho parade an excellent ex-cellent program was carried out at the Garland hall and stand-up stand-up seats wore in demand. The hall was very tastefully decorated. decorat-ed. A special feature of the program rendered, that follows, was tho splondid oration by Milton Mil-ton H. Welling. Program at tho Garland Amusement Hull at 10:30 a. m: Chaplain, Joseph E. Corbott; Master of Ceremonies, D. B. Foulger; Orator of tho Day, Milton H. Wolling. 1 Prayor by Chaplain, Joseph E. Corbett. 2 Singing "Como, Come Ye Saints," Garland Choir. 3 20-minutes Oration, Orator of the Day, Milton H. Wolling. 4 Music, East Garland Military Band. 5 Recitation by Thos. Hampton. Hamp-ton. 6 Cornet Salo, C. O. Anderson. 7 Song, Utah, the Queen of tho West," Sopranos Essie Foulger, Hazol Evans; Altos Maggio Wixom, Alice Grover; Tenors D. 0. Chapman. John J. Shumway ; Bass F. D. Welling, Well-ing, P. A. Nordquist. 8 Pioneer Song "Utah a Desert; Des-ert; Now a Stato" by Justin C. Wixom. 9 Male Quartette, D. C. Chapman, Chap-man, J. J. Shumway, Howard Evans and P. A. Nordquist. 10 Music, Garland Orchestra. 11 Sinmno- "Tho Rons of T)oh- orot," under direction of Mrs. Gt. S. mo wry. 12 Reading of Toasts and Sont-imentsl Sont-imentsl Mosiah Evans. 13 Singing, "Utah Wo Love Thee," Garland Choir. 14 Benediction, Chaplain. 15 Music, East Garland Military Band. 12 to 2 p. m. Lunch and Refreshments. Re-freshments. After luncheon, overybody hurried to tho City Park to see the base ball contest between the Fort Douglas Soldiers and the Champions. Every seat in tho grand stand was taken long before tho contest commenced and; tho bleachers only half ac- commodated tho vast throng-many throng-many stood up and tho park was jammed with rigs of every description. At 2 p. m. tho contest began with the Soldiers first at the bat. Garland's nine played a game of guilt-edgo quality and their batting was. excellent to say nothing of tho good plays made both in tho in hold and tho out liold. Keller tossed ball for the Champions up to tho 7th inning, when Jon-sen Jon-sen took tho box and finished the game. Tho Soldiers played the punkest gamo of ball over put up on .the diamond. They wore poor at tho bat and their fielding was simply "rotton." J. A. Mortonsen umpired the gamo until tho 7th inning, when the Soldiers objected to his good-oyo judgements and requested re-quested a change. C. J. Camp-boll Camp-boll umpired the balance of the gamo. Owing to lack of space we omit the line-up, but hero is tho score by innings : Score 12 3 45678 9 ' Garland 2 3 3 3 3 0 1 1 .22 Soldiers 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 39 East Garland s Military Band furnished good music during tho ball game and sports, Boyd and Francis supplied tho crowd with ico cream, candy and summer sum-mer drinks, Will Gidnoy kopt part of the crowd amused in having them throw base balls at the "Nigger" dolls and the Japoneso gave a fine display of day fireworks. Tho sports began be-gan at 4: If) p.m., 1 hour behind time, owing to the long drawn out base ball gamo. Sl'OHTS. following is the list of prize winners in the various contests: Orange race for boys Mason 1st, McFerson 2nd. 2nd orange race for boys Orgil 1st, Coombs 2nd. 100 yd dash Bowcutt-Lish-man, Lishman winner. Will Thornton and Poto Nichols Nich-ols gave a fine exhibition of riding bucking broncos and a purse of 1(8.50 was divided oq-ually oq-ually between them. Girl's race 2 doz. in bunch Irene Phelps winner. 100 yd dash Van Leuvan-Parke-Wilcox, Parke winner, Wilcox 2nd. 1st kid's race Manasa 1st, Smith 2nd. 2nd kid's race Bingham 1st, Crompton 2nd. 3rd kid's race Vanfloet 1st, ' k Hansen 2nd. 4th kid's race, kncoling start I Andorson 1st, Adams 2nd. Big kids race Manning 1st, t Boss 2nd. ' l In tho race for boys with their '. j legs tied together in pairs, ( Mcssors Boss and Munns wero 1 tho winners. 1 Whoolbarrow race Wood- . Gleason, Gleason winner. ' Mosiah Evans, chairman of tho financo committop, scattered '. about 50 nickols in the dust and -gave tho girls a "nickel grab"-contest grab"-contest wliich was very amus- WRESTLING MATCHES. 1st contest Wilcox-Lishman, Wilcox won. 2nd contest Davis-Bowen, Davis won. " About $60.00 was distributed in cash prizes. " At 6:30 p. m., on South Main v jiH street, tho followincr racincr LH events drew the crowd and they woro well paid for attonding: 1st race G rover's buxkin and Nichols gray. Tho buxkin came ' out 50-ft ahead. 2nd raceRich's gray, Week's black and Mason's bay. Rich's gray won tho race, Weok's black second. Saddle pony race Sorrel and Split-ear. Split-ear lost by 2 lengths. 4th race Jap Brown and American sorrel. Sorrel the Girl's ra?e Sorrel, ridden by Arverna Grant and Pinto, ridden by Mouida Hunsaker. The sorrel won by pinto flying" the track. The last raco was botweon r G rover's buxkin and tho Jap brown. Buxkin an easy winner. A fine dis)lay of lire-works was sent up at the City Park in the evening, under tho direc-tion direc-tion of I. Saraha, Japaneo. Tho grand ball at the hall in tho evening was woll attended and ovoiybody liad an enjoyable 1 time. Thus ended tho groat Pioneer Day Colobration in Garland, that will go down in the annals of history as a "hummer."- H |