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Show what" Mice SAW ON TWENTY-FOURTH Wide-Awake "Devil" Finds Much to Amuse Him, Particularly the Afternoon Sports. DIDN'T CARE FOR PEANUT RACE, BAD LUCK IN SACK Boxing ontesls Appealed to Him, as Did Tilting of the Rings Plnety of Pink Lemonade and Ire Cream, and a "Whale of a Time" Was Had. "Hid we have u good time at the celebration of the Twenty-fourth in Cedar City?" "Mickey nays we did." "O' course there wasn't no cannons fired off at daybreak, 'cause that wuz so superbly done on the Fourth, and bein' about all they had, that the 24thers decided to can that stuff and go right on with the meetin' and snorts and show the old fellers a good time. Well, I gueas they had it, all right, the way they wue sportin' them selves n round. too s Mould a seen' Uncle John Chatterley, when he . walsed out onta the race track and told them young fellers standin' a-round a-round in their bare feet and their pants rolled up, ter get out o' the wny and let somebody run what kin. Then the little fat feller on the big horse , with a magafone hollered that Brother Chatterley wuz only 84 years old, but thet he wuz willin to dash any old codger over 71 present if he didn't object ter his age. Well, nobody had the guts ta except the challenge, so tha little fat feller, who is named Dr. I.eigh, but han't no doctor 'cause he only pulls teeth, handed Hro. Chatterley Chat-terley a yeller boy just fer bein' the oldest man present and fer bein' a , pionear. But I don't think he deserved deserv-ed it, 'cause he turned right around and split the five between the Primary Associations of the East and West Wards. An' whatda ya think o' that Speakin' About the Meetin. "Guess I got ahead o' my story a little, thinkin' so much about the races an' the pionears, 'cause I never writ nothin' about the meetin' at the tabernacle tab-ernacle tier the make belief prcession of emegrants, what wasn't nothin' but a lot o' kids fixed up in tiny men and wimen's togs, an pushin' baby buggies bug-gies all deckerated and fixed up ter represent handcarts and sich. I wuz there too, but maybe yer didn't no-: tice me much, cause 1 had on a loppy hat an' I pulled it down over my eyes sum 'cause I didn't want all the folks to see how comercal I looked in them long pants and hickery shirt. (Josh, the pionears must a' looked funny a hikin' it acrost the planes in them rigouts, and pushin two-wheeled carts acrost, even wadin' thru ditches an' rivers. I guess we must a looked cute tho, the way the folks all raved and carriol on when we went past. A lot o' prizes wuz giv fer the best rigouts, rig-outs, but I never got nun. About this h time the autos wuz whizzin' around gathorin1 up the old vets and other widdcrs and bringm' them ter the tabomaela fer the meetin', but shucks they never got many an' half uv the ears muz empty 'cause tiny said the old folks didn't care ter come. "Well, any how there wuz a meetin' house full o' folks and the old ones up close to the stand in the front, an' they sure had some meetin'. I didn't . ,u much o' what 1'rcfesser Lewis .ml about the pionears. 'cause Hon ilauis wuz tryin to trade me three pennies an" a aquawker fer a new kite I had just made, and 1 wouldn't do it. wud you'.' But, I guess the pre- foaaer said Mmethlif the way every-' i. budy clapped. Misses Billingsly read a piece of poetry almut the pionears what her grandfuther, John V. Adams rote afore he died. It sure made them old folks and lots uv' us kids wipe our eyes and snuff our noses. Misses Janson she read a piece an' Brother Chatterley told about some o' the things what the pionears done when they furst come here an' there wusn't no houses ner nutlnn worth mentioinn' only sage brush and rattle snakes. "Yes, there wus plenty o' singm' but I wuz sorry Perfesser Johnson had gone ter Salt Lake 'cause there wusn't no band, an' I allers love to hear the band on the 24th an' sich. The Old Folks "Bust." "I noticed all the pionears and wid-ders wid-ders an batches a goin over ter the Relief hall after the meetin' and 1 guess they had some bust, but there wussen't enuf room fer kids and so 1 didn't go an' can't tell you what they had ter eat. "Soon as I got the pigs fed fer noon I hiked it out ter the B. A. C. where there wus a lot more fellers waiten but it wusn't no use 'cause there wusn't nothin' doln' till 4 o'clock. "There wuz a lot o' races fer little girls and it looked like about every kid got a sack o' candy whether she leat or not. I didn't care much fer the peanut girls racin'. It looked too cheap, but I tigered sure on the sack race, an' I guess I'd a beat all right if I hadn't a tripped and fell down. I got a good start, just afore Mackal-lister Mackal-lister said ter go. But I allers did have kinder bad luck on holerdays. Soldiers Wallop Each Other. "But say, I did shure enjoy Main them big husky soldier guys maul eachother up with the boxin' gloves. There wuz too fellers from St. George there what wuz pretty handy with their dukes an' I guess they thot they had it over our Cedar Sammies, but I guess they had a guess a comin' afore the show wuz over. The furst scrap wuz between Earl Urie and a St. George feller named Cannon. They went at it as soon as the em pire sed go! just like they had allers hated one another and wuz glad of a chaiist ter get even, an' I guess they dul the way ioth their faces wuz a blooden and they wus panten and purlin. It looked at first like Earl wuz goin ter give Canon a knockout in ! the furst round, but he didn't. Cannon Can-non kept hookin his left mit fer Earl's jaw but it seemed like Earl allers happened ter have his hand up ter ; side uv his face like he wuz thinkin' an' it didn't seem ter hurt him much. Well, I guess the fight wuz a draw, 1 fer they only boxed three rounds an' nobody got knocked out. "The next match wuz between Viv. Milne of St. George an' Del. Smith. ! I felt sorry fer Dell because he wuz sure game and dived right in an' giv. the St. George bin! the best he had; but Milne has a reputation as a boxer ' in the army and was too much fer , Del. He blooded his nose and batted him around so much that they stopped the firht in the second round. "Grant Walker never giv his name in ter fight until Doctor I.eigh hoi lered it out and asked the fellers if ! he had a yeller streak, an' sed P. M. Walt Granger challenged him. Then ' Grant just sauntered up careless like I an' put his name down. Then they started to hunt for the P. M. but I guess he wuz hid in' in the wodshed at home, 'cause he heered they wanted him to box with Grant. Well they wuzn't nobody else to fight Grant, so Milne went in again, which wasn't exactly fair, 'cause Viv. wuz already ' partly tired out. Hut it wouldn't a made no difference if he'd been fresh. Grant wuz too big an' too good a box- i er fer Milne, and soaked him first in ' the face an' then on the body till ' Milne wisht he hadn't come. Hut he i , wuz a real sport an' never laid off I till Dad Dalton sed it wuz enough an called it a draw. This wuz acordin' to agreement cause they had ter prom- ' ise to split the purse ter get any budy ter get into the ring with Grant. "This wuz all the fightin' an' the next thing wuz the spearin' o' the rings with biliard cues. It tuk 'em so long ter get their names entered and let loose uv the three bucks each, an' then ter prance their horses up an down while the fellers practiced pintin' their ringers at the ends uv the wires where the rings wuz sup-posened sup-posened to be that everybudy wuz jest about ter go home without the 85 dollar saddle what Doc. Leigh had been tryin out all this time, when all of a sudden they yells 'all set' an' the show started. First one an' then an- I other of the felers on horses galloped past the rings an' tried to run the biliard cue inter them. I guess they I could a got more "if the rings had a boon bigger, more like barrel hoops, but oust in a while a guy would get one on the stick an' gallop back ter the other end of the line with it. "After everybudy had had their ' trile it wuz found that all the horse- j men had fell down an' that Frank j Wood, who didn't know nuthin' 'cepl how to Mil men's togs, hail got the most rmj.'s. Frank is goin' ter put the soddle on the iron railm' jest outside uv his store an' practice ridin' when lie 'amt busy with customers "1 gucs the kids wuz purty much all too busy tor bother about the child rn'l dance, tho 1 hearn some uv the ill les WUZ there. "Course there wu. plenty of pink lemonade and ice cream cones fer cv erbudy an' we sure had a good time. "Wish the Twenty fourth come 1 twist a year " |