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Show GOOD-WILL TOUR FROM CEDAR CITY COMES TO MILFORD FORTY MEMBERS OF CEDAR CITY C. OF C. GUESTS OF LIONS Cedar City's good-will tour, composed com-posed of members of that city's Chamber of Commerce, arrived in Milford Wednesday noon, and a pleasant pleas-ant two hours was spent with them by the Milford Lions Club. About forty men and women composed the party and they were guests of the Lions Club here at luncheon at the Union Pacific dining room. Several were present also from Beaver. President Jones, of the Cedar City club, introduced the members of the party, which was composed of farmers, farm-ers, merchants, ministers, college professors, pro-fessors, the heads ofthe Cedar public pub-lic school system, and in fact, representatives rep-resentatives of all of Cedar City's industries and enterprises. Entertainers were supplied by the Cedar bunch, who furnished their large audience with delightful entertainment. en-tertainment. Mrs. Bartholomew, Mrs. Granger, Miss Alice Williams, and Mr. Luke obliged in vocal selections selec-tions which brought storms of applause ap-plause and to which they responded with encores. Occasion For Meeting The purpose of the tour was explained ex-plained by William R. Palmer of Cedar City. The occasion for the joint meeting, said Mr. Palmer, lay in the need for more neighborly interest. in-terest. The throwing down of boundary boun-dary lines was advocated to make one big unit of southern Utah. The wonderland won-derland of southern Utah was extolled extoll-ed and the large group of listeners - ' " was told that they, the citizens of southern Utah communities, must regard re-gard themselves as custodians of these wonders. A point brought out by the speaker was the fact the tourist was entitled to be regarded as something other than a prey that he should be treated as a guest and should be helped help-ed to see what we have in southern Utah to be seen. This can be accomplished accom-plished he said, by supplying correct information, on roads, and in making his stay pleasant, encouraging him to stay. Lauds Pioneers Reverend Bartholomew, pastor of the Presbyterian church of Cedar City, expressed his pleasure at being in Milford and paid high tribute to the pioneers of southern Utah. Utah, lie stated, was always a land of romance ro-mance and mystery, and a fitting land for the men of yesterday who faced their destiny here, alone. Principal Anderson, of the Cedar public schools, gave a humorous talk which consisted of Scandinavian im-. im-. personations. Milford Speakers Sam Cline presided as toastmaster. As a result of the meeting, he said that never mroe would he ever be able to walk very far down Cedar City's streets and feel a stranger. Neither, he declared, would any members of the Milford Lions club, because of the good results attained through the meeting. Karl S. Carlton spoke in regard to the scenery and beauties of this part "f Utah. Comparison was made with those of California, which he declared to be largely man-made. He lauded such civic organizations as the two bodies present and spoke of how they had been able to circumvent business jealousies in building for better . .- ; owns. More liberal thoughts had !een advanced among competitors in business since the advent of such civic clubs. Not a knocker on any good suggestion for the betterment of Mil-foid Mil-foid could be found on the membership member-ship rolls of our Lions Club, he said. Song-leader, C. R. Parrish closed the meeting by leading the group in a closing song. Beaver Invites Frank Smith, of Beaver, and Clerk of the County Board of Education, on behalf of the Beaver Lions, extended an invitation to Milford Lions to come along over to Beaver and share in the entertainment for the Cedar City visitors, with the climax of the evening even-ing to be a fish dinner at Puffer's Lake at six o'clock. Several Milford men took the trip up through the canyon and attended the dinner. |