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Show Ward Reunion Is I A Big Success Serving close to 500 people over 16 years of age with a hot supper, an excellent program and free dancing Friday evening of last week and following this with a free children's dance and refreshments refresh-ments the afternoon and early evening eve-ning of the next day with 423 youngsters in attendance the 1935 reunion of the Milford ward of the L. D. S. church will long be re-membersd re-membersd for the good time enjoyed en-joyed by Milford people of all faiths, with special remembrance and appreciation for the very fine way in which a stupendous undertaking under-taking was taken care of by the reunion committee and the Relief society, assisted by a large corps of women workers. The serving of hot suppers to relays of guests in the Relief society so-ciety room of the new chapel building began before 7 o'clock and continued until nearly 10 o'clock but without deay or a hitch of any kind, the food being prepared in the kitchen adjoining. As group after group was served serv-ed they gathered in the recreation hall, where they were entertained temporarily by phonograph selections, selec-tions, preliminary to the scheduled program, which got off to a good start with two numbers by the high school orchestra. Other numbers on the program included community singing under the leadership of Alvin H. Baker, address of welcome by Bishop E. H. Bird, a dance skit by Misses I Elizabeth Sherwood, Elaine Kirk, Hazel Tribole, Margaret Moore, Marie Gillies and Ardith Bird, representing rep-resenting the M. I. A.; chorus numbers by the Relief Society Singing Mothers and the Milford (Continued on last page) Ward Reunion (Continued from first page) Male Glee club; a one-act play by the high school, and an original presentation of Milford ward history, his-tory, written in poetry form by Mrs. David C. Heslington and read by Mrs. Lamar Outzen. As the names of various personages connected con-nected with the ward's history were read, all those who were present took their places on the stage. The feature was an outstanding one, displaying real talent on the part of Mrs. Heslington in the assembling assem-bling of the information and weaving weav-ing it into its original and entertaining enter-taining form with the rendition by Mrs. Outzen such as only Mrs. Outzen can do. The chorus numbers, num-bers, too, were revelations to most of those in attendance and were given spell-bound attention. Following the program, the remainder re-mainder of the evening was devoted de-voted to old-time dancing to music furnished by the William Thompson Thomp-son orchestra, with modern dancing danc-ing following to music by the Milford Mil-ford orchestra. |