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Show Palisade Park Is Scene of Reunion The ninth annual reunion of the Christian Willardson Surname association, associa-tion, held at Palisade park Wednesday Wednes-day of last week, wax one of tlv most successful and enjoyable held by the organization, was the declnratir.n of those attending the event. Vra.n the early morning until the clo.iinjf exercises at evening, the 133 attending attend-ing enjoyed the exercises to the limit. lim-it. Mrs. June Metcalf, who served 6-S president during the past year, presided pre-sided at Friday's festivities, and when her successor was named at the buei-""ss buei-""ss session, a vote of thanka was extended ex-tended for the efficient work and undivided un-divided attention given the oign :a-tion :a-tion during her tenure of office. In the selection of officers to ? :i ; the organization for the coming car. he following were named: Mrs. Las-'t Las-'t Braithwaite, Monroe, president; Fred Willardson, Manti, vice-pi si-!( si-!( nt ; LaVoide Willardson, Mo:.' . swretury-treasurcr; Mrs. Roiand Tiet-jen, Tiet-jen, Monroe, chairman program committee; com-mittee; Peter Willardson, Monroe, chairman finance committee; Mr. M. D. Beauregard, Gunnison, permanent historian. Monroe Hot Spring" wan named for the convent ioiii.il y for l!KiO. s The morning hours of the reunion Were spent in visiting a if I getting acquainted, and at noon a splendid ; dinner, consisting of roast chicken, salads, cakes, pickles and all that go (Continued on last vt) and enjoyed bathing and boating. An impromptu program before the evening- luncheon and a dancing- party at the Palisade dancing pavillion, were the enjoyable closing features. PALISADE PARK IS SCENE OF REUNION (Continued from Page 1) to make a fine dinner, was enjoyed on the park tables, which were especially trrungt-d by the park management An interesting program, comprising readings, musical selectoins and talks, was given. Christian Willardson, the principal speaker, gave interesting reminiscent'S pertaining to the Willardson Wil-lardson family those that are living and of those who had been called by death. Emery Willardson of Los An-geles, An-geles, and who had served as a missionary mis-sionary for the Mormon church, gave a talk relating his experiences in the missionary field. Others taking Dart on the program were as follows: Saxophone Sax-ophone solo, Armont Willardson, Eph-raim; Eph-raim; reading, LaVerde Willardson, Monroe; violin solo, Earl Willardson, Ephraim; musical reading, Pearl Willardson, Monroe; comical reading, JameS Willardson, Ephraim. During late afternoon the children staged some interesting sport event3 |