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Show BOY .BURNS b BARN TO GET BIRD'S NEST Hydo Park, July 26. Hydo Park Pioneer day celebration was very In-ferlor In-ferlor to the celebration we usually have. Quito a number of the com-mlttoo com-mlttoo appointed decided at the last moment to spend the day elsewhere, and tho tlmo was then too short to appoint others, so tho celebration was a rather tame affair. There was a meeting In the forenoon, and tho following program rendered: Musi by the, band; prayer by Chaplain H. E. Hancey, Sr.; muslo by band; Pioneer experiences by Mrs. Johan-nah Johan-nah M. Peterson; song, Mrs. Jean Llndqulst, enchored and sang an other. Mrs. Llndqulst is tho same sweet singer as In days gone by and always pleases her hearers. Stump speech, II. W. Hancey; oration, Martin Mar-tin Reeder; quartet, F. C. Dallam, Arthur Peterson, It. S. McQuerrlo and Geo. Seamons; "Tho Star-Spangled Banner," band; benediction by , the chaplain. A danco for tho chil dren in the afternoon ended tho day's exercise. The band played for a crowded houso In Smlthfleld In the evening. A large number of Hyde Parkers spent tho aftornoon in Richmond. Rich-mond. There was qulto an exciting tlmo here last evening when tho large barn of George Saunders was sot on fire by llttlo seven-year-eld John Saunders, who wanted to burn down a bird's nest In tho barn. He burned the nest, the barn, several tons of hay, and camo very near burning Jesso S. Hancey's barn a3 well. There was a loss of several hundred dollars to Mr. Saunders. Mr. Saunders Saun-ders was at Benson ward at tho time of the burning. Had it not been for fc the heroic work of the large crowd S that gathered, there would have been several other buildings burned. In talking with a number of friends in Benson ward today, wo were assured that many of them have seen and heard aeroplanes hov-rlng hov-rlng over and near Benson ward the last few evenings. Ono was observed ob-served traveling northwest some time beforo dark; A well dressed man has been traveling about thero recently, hut for what purpose no one seoms to know. There are many thousands of small fish still going down tho canaM and ditches, nnd out on tho meadows and "beet fields, where they soon die. Wo believe that somo of tho finest beet fields to bo found in Cache county ire In Benson ward. |