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Show PARTY IN HONOR OF NEWCOMERS TO GUNNISON VALLEY GRAND SUCCESS. Guests Are Impressed With the Hearty Welcome Extended. A 11 the new settlers, including the Jewish colonists, in Gunnison valley were on Wednesday evening extended the right hand of welcome by the citizens of Gunnison at a party given in the opera house complimentary. The honored guests numbered , about seventy-five, a crowd totaling, over 300 joining in the most aw?ll affair Gunnison has ever known. The various committees took up the work with an earnestness that spelled success and the party terminated without disappointment in any detail. The hall Was brilliantly lighted for the occasion and all present enjoyed such freedom and sociability as to make the "get-acquainted" feature one of comparatively small effort. our midst railroads, telephones, electric lights and all the conveniences of modern life. Here, iudeed. has been founded a typical American settlement, set-tlement, Then taking up the poetic strain he quoted : "Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod ; They have left unsUiaed what here they found Freedom to worship God." We feel that we need you and are truly glad that you came. We hope to help you and know you will be of great advantage to us. We stand ready to join hands with you ; let us work in harmony, dwell together as brethren in unity, and strive together to build up the brightest, wealthiest and healthiest spot in the great state of Utah. We want you to feel you are among friends and fellow-helpers, and not among enemies. We want you to kuow that you are amon'g Americans The danciDg opened by a grand! inarch in which Austin Kearns aud wife, pioneers of the city, were selected select-ed to lead out. There was no cessation cessa-tion of the dance until 2 o'clock, and all the while banqueting took place on the stage. , . PROGRAM. A prograia, announced by Chairman Chair-man J, W.. Edwards of this special sjommittee, was a pleading introduction introduc-tion to the evening's function. The following numbers were rendered : 'Friendship, Love and Song," glee club; overture, orchestra ; piano solo, L, Thompson; baritone solo, E. L. Swalberg; cornet solo, 0. E. Halver-pon; Halver-pon; humorous declamation, Mrs. Villmd ; male quintet, Messrs. Swal-berg, Swal-berg, Thompson, Ferre, Kearns and Gledhill ; selection, orchestra j "Love Shall Guide Thee," vocal duet by Mias Emily Larson and Mrs. Eva Junseu ; piano olo, Miss Nora Weis- 8PEECHMAKIIQ. Mads Jorgeusen responded in cheerful vein on behalf of the complimented com-plimented guests. Mayor Chriitensoon gave a talk on : local agricultural conditions. He presented his theme with logical force, especially pointing the fact uat it needed only iutelligont application appli-cation in order to make the land and water in Gunnison valley sufficient for twenty times the present number iif eeUtlers here and assured the new comers they had made no mistake in casting their lot among us. " The welcome address by Judge A. N. Cherry had a most telling effect. The judge said in part : WELCOME ADDBESS. To those of you who have recently turned your footsteps westward and made your home in this valley of sun-ahinn sun-ahinn and health the people of Gunnison, Gun-nison, and of Gunnison valley, on this occasion desire to receive you wiih and not in a land of heathens, as some of the shriveling souls of bigotry would have you believe, . The great atate of Utah has in its confines, j as intelligent, aa progressive aud as moral a class of citizens as any other western state. True, we find hete as elsewhere the good and the bad mingled together, aud if you should seek the bad and vicious element your search may not be in vain. But on the other hand if you desire the companionship of the pure, the kind-hearted, kind-hearted, the moral, the honest and the intelligent American citizen, you will find them dwelling in every hamlet and valley in this gr3at state. Gunnison valley may not have been the original Garden of Eden, but if that old story were to be repeated I doubt not but that this would be the chosen spot. Let ua take each other by the hand tonight and get better acquianted. Let us look each other in the eye and pledge ourselves to harmoniously and fraternally strive to build up in this valley the richest and most prosperous community in the state of Utah, The great West is the hope of the East. With our salubrious climate, our refreshing air. and our health-giving health-giving water distilled on the snowcapped snow-capped peaks of the everlasting mountains, we are destined to become a great people. "Of all types, the very best are men and women of the West," the Judge quoted in conclusion. COMMITTEES. The various committees that had the affair in hand for the citizens and, worked so zealously for its success suc-cess were : Executive committe Reuben Christenson, chairman, H, A. Kearns, E. B. Kearns, O. B. Berg-lund, Berg-lund, J. W. Edwards, J. M. Knighton, Knigh-ton, H. M.Childs, William Metcalf, Gua Villard, L, Ludvigsoa and G. S, Francis, Invitation committee J. M. Knighton, chairman, O, B. Berglund and E. B. Kearns. Recepuon committee J. 'M. Knighton, ohairmau, E. B, Kearns, C. N. Jensen, C. 21. Madsen, H. A, Kearns, and their wives ; Mes-dames Mes-dames E, U. Metcalf, E. E. Peterson and A. Burns, and A, H. Kearns! Banquet committee L. Ludvigson, chairman, and Mrs. Delia Ed wards aided by the Misses Nettie Wilson, Jane Metcalf, Dora Day, Ruby Jensen, Lily Parshall and Mary Bywater as waitresses. cordiality and true friendship. We MBk you to ''take off your things, and make yourself at home," ''Westward ''West-ward the course of empire takes its way," he quoted, and said this true sentiment, inborn in the Amirican, doubtless led your footsteps in this direction, until you saw thia beautiful valley, rich in nature's Btores and guarded on either hand by the snowcapped snow-capped peaks of the majestic Rocky Mountains. This gathering is intended to be an occasion whereby the old Bettlers, the pioneers, may show to you, that you are . not entirely "strangers in a strange land." Finding here fifty years ago nature's wilderness these pioneers of Gunnison city, toiling through disappointments and hardships, hard-ships, have built comfortable homes, turned the arid, sun-baked valley into fruitful fields, erected churches and schoolhouses, and have brought to |