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Show THE OLD FOLKS REUNION Sumptuous Feasting and Two Excellent Programs at the College-Large Attendance. It It not been (or the happy (aces of of the mourners one would have said It was a mammoth (uneral procession that started from the tabernacle square last Thursday morning and .gradually wound its way up toward the pollege. It was the old people of Cache Stake, ' who to the number of nearly 400, were having their annual summer outing. It was a perfect day ior a picnic and seldom have more -successful picnics been planned and carried out. The arrangements were i in the hands of the Stake committee, 4 -consisting of President Joseph Knowles.Secretary U. T. Barrett.wlth Mr. L. C. Farr and Mr, George Cole as assistants. There was also a committee com-mittee from each ward to have special care of Its guests. Never was committee com-mittee work better done. A five dollar banquet at the Knutsford could cot have furnished moro abundant or more toothsome viands than were spread on the long tables in the college col-lege reading room, Roses were everywhere every-where and threw pleasant bits of color -among the gray heads. The role of iionor for the stake contains over three hundred names and they must all have been present for with invited guests there was a body of nearly five-hundred. five-hundred. All the bishops with their wives were there, besides the stake committee of Benson stake, the stake presidency, Presidents Wldtsoe and Llnford, and the following representatives representa-tives o( the central commlttco with their wives from Salt Lake, C. H. Savage, Andrew Jensen, and George Margetts. Of the old people two were over ninety, Mr. Wilson and Mr. Schroder, both of whom have the -venerable age of ninety-seven; twenty- five were over eighty and the rest were youthful citizens In the seventies. seven-ties. Before going into dinner a program pro-gram was given In the auditorium consisting of speeches by C. R.Savage, Andrew Jensen, Brother Meikle of Smithfield.and President Isaac Smith; songs by George Margetts and a piano solo by Miss Mamie Brown. Dinner was served promptly at one, President Wldtsoe made a hearty, graceful speech of welcome. President Smith said grace, and during the meal a photograph was taken of the happy (easters. After dinner another program pro-gram was given, opening with a song "Who's on the Lord's Side? Who?"by Brother Savage. Then followed a comlo song by Brother "Margetts, the "Star Syangled Banner" by August J. Hansen, reading by Mr. Norton, selection selec-tion by Hyde Park quartette, Danish jodnllng song by Andrew Jensen and Inging by the Fifth ward choir. Then at rive lunch was served and' the old folks went home, happy and content, for the day had been a pleasant one all through and they had been royally entertained. |