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Show REJ0ICSN6 AT" CLINTON FRIDAY A grand social entertainment, including in-cluding banquet was given by the people of Clinton Friday, Feb. 24, tho occasion being the formal open- , ing of the Clinton Ward meeting house, which is nearly enough com- pleted to be used. The houso and furnishings cost about $15,000, and is a good subslan- ' tial brick building with numerous apartments in the basement for class I work. It Is a credit to any community, communi-ty, and a building that the people with thoir bishop O. D. Hadlock may well bo proud of. The work aud tho ma- J tcrlal are of the best. I The architects and contractors who were present were pleased to hear tho expressions of satisfaction with their work. The Y. M. M. .1. association, with I Leo W. Child as president, composed tho committee on social entertainment; entertain-ment; the 'Relier society with Esther M. lladlock as president, prepared and supervised tho bannuoL The morning exercises, which began be-gan at 10:30, consisted of singing by tho choir, with Mrs. May Bonham as organist; solos and recitations and music by the Clinton orchestra. j At noon the people gathered in the basement where plates were laid for 10f people at one time. These tables wero filled four times, and one splendid splen-did feature of good mauagoment was tho serving of about 250 children, in rooms by themselves, seated on chairs and on tho floor, but enjoying their dinner just tho same. The good people of Clinton were asked to furnish the eatables and so well did they respond that they nearly doubled the amount alloted to them. They are lenown for their generosity. gen-erosity. Ono speaker stated it would be impossible im-possible to sample all the different dishes, as there were at least 30 varieties, with everything well cooked, cook-ed, and artistically arranged. After tho feasting much of the food was sold, but there still remained a good dinner for about 30 people the next day. Tho young ladies acted as waiters and saw that all wero well served. Tho program contlnuod In tho afternoon, after-noon, with music, singing, etc Among those who rendered solos wero Mrs. Clara Anderson and Mr. Roy Robinson Robin-son of Clinton, Miss Ellen Thomas of Ogden, Miss Retta Sessions of Syracuse, Syra-cuse, and Miss Carrie Browning of Ogden as pianist. Tho out of town guests were President Presi-dent Joseph F. Smith, John Henry Smith of the first presidency, David A. Smith of tho presiding -bishopric, and their wives of Salt Lake, Lowl3 W. Shurtllff and Charles F. Mlddlo-ton Mlddlo-ton of tho Weber Stake presidency, and George McCuno of the High Priests quorum with thoir wives, of Ogden, Joseph H. Grant, James A. Eldredgc, Jesse M. Smith of the stake presidency of tho Davis stake; Thos. J. Steed of the High council, Bishop Holland of Roy and a number of others oth-ers from Ogden. Tho speakers were Prest. Joseph F. Smith. Prest. John Henry Smith, PresL Joseph H. Grant and David A. Smith, All spoke words of encouragement en-couragement and congratulated tho people on their new meeting house. All voted the day well spent In the evening thero was a dance at the hall where the crowd was large. Tho dance continued ail night. on |
