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Show HEARTS ARE I LIGHT AT I WARD REUNION I A Happy Gathering of Downey B People in Their New Meeting House Wednesday After- I noon. M Tho niinunl reunion of the Downey H wnrd of the L. D. S. church occurred H Wednesday nfternoou and evening H and proved to bo one or the most on- H Joynl.lo affairs ot thu kind ever held. H The gathering was In tho now H church building, which was open for H the first time on this occasion. Dec- H i orations In festoons, vvrenths and H flags, appropriate to the occasion, H gieeted the eye, nnd a largo banner H displayed the word "Welcome." Tho H ' tables for tho bnnuuet u-rm lnn.to.i 1 with n feast of good thlugs nnd nt H 1 o'elock nearly 300 pcoplo wero seated about tho festive board. H S. F. Johnson was toastmastor of M tho occasion nnd In n genial manner M presided during tho afternoon. Tho H program propared for tho occasion H was as follows! M Selection Downey Ilrnss Hand M Invocation C.J.Johnson H Mixed Qunrtot "Greeting Gleo" H Toast, Our Guests Hlshop Geo. Hydo M Selection .. ., Hnnson'H Orchestra M Toast Our Hosts .. .. J. A. Brim H Toast Our Now Homo, C. E. Layton H Duet Mr. and Mrs. Sedgwick H Toast Our Mother .... K. C. Smith H Toast- Our Children . .John Crlddlo H Male Quartet ... "Fairy Moonlight" H Toast The Old Yenr ... ... ... H Frank Laurenscn M Duet Hilda Johnson-Elmer Stoddard M Tonst My Strongest Impression M V. A. Dowoy H Toast Lasting Friendship . . . . M II. P. Plnkuey H Solo Mrs. C. W. Wakloy H Toast Chicago Land Show .... H . . W. L. Johnson H Toasl Downey's Growth President W. A. Hydo Selection Hnnscn's Orchestra H Toast Downey Twenty Years H Hence Dr. J. C. Arnout H Toast A Trip on tho Now Railroad H Mrs. Emma Hydo H Selection Hansen's Orchestra H Toast Happy Thoughts A. Schwartz H Toast Our Cooks D. II. Scdgwicka Selection Downey Hrass Band H One of the features ot the Interest- H lng program was the uddress by W. A. Hyilo of Pocatcllo, prosldent of the H Pocatello stake. Mr. Hydo was ono ot H tho first to settle In tho town of Dow- H ney, and ho spoko In a remlnlscont , H manner of his early experiences In H business here. Ho nlbo spoke encour- H aglngly ot the progress ho noted ( hero and of-tho future ho believed to be in xtoro for Downey.- H Another feature of the program was tho music furnished by the H Downey brass band and orchestra un- dor tho direction of Uvan IlauBcn. Several numbers wero played during the afternoon which wero greatly np- predated. M At tho idoso of tho program the toastmastor announced that "oxtra tonsts" had been prepared, and C. H. " Smith, speaking In terms of highest regard on bohalt of tho pcoplo of Downey wnrd. presented Hlshop George T Hydo with n solid gold H watch and chain ns n token of tho H esteem In which ho Is hold. Tho cnni bi.ro tho legend, "To Hlshop uoorgo H T. Hydo, f i oin Membors of tho Dow- now Wnrd, Jnnunry 10, 1912." Another gift was that ot a leather H upholstered armchair to John Criddle H Lars W. Johnson mado tho iresent.' H tlon speech, and spoko of tho great esteem In which ho is held by all H Tho evening was given over to a H dnnco lu Hydo hall, when thcro was H presont not only a Inrgo numbor of H townspeople but many from outsldo g points ns well. iff Tho general committee on arrange B mentfl nnd program for the reunion H consisted of tho blsuoprle. Gcorgo I H Hyde. John Crlddlo and O. V. Mor H rill mid S- F. Jolmson. L- W. John H son. D. 11. Sedgwick and Mrs. Emma H Hydo. Tho committee on tablos nnd H seating was N. P. VanLouvon. Wnl H tor Spnckman and David Johnson. H On decorations tho commltteo was H E. C. Smith. A. R. Woodruff. D. II- H Sedgwick. Allco Morrill and Mrs. M qontlnuod on rat? 8 HEARTS ARE LIGHT lit REUNION Continued from Page I. Charles Wakley. The reception com tnlttoo wag S. F. Johnson, L. W. John son and Mr. and Mrs. N. U. VanLeu' von, Tho preparation and serving of the banquet was In charge of tho relief re-lief Boclety under th'o direction of Mrs. N. 1). VanLeuvcn, Mrs. L. W.-Johnson' W.-Johnson' and Mrs. S. Sessions, and tho young ladles of the wanKservort nt tho tables Downey Idahoan. |