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Show STAfENFWSl BIG DAY FOR 0. C. T. AT BRIGHAM Brlgham City, June 20. Yesterday the United Commercial Travelers of Utah were in possession of the keys of tho city, which were turned over to them by Mayor R, L.. Fishburn in a neat speech. The merry knights of tho grh -o here In big numbers, and came t Mty In special trains from Ogder Lake and Provo, which arrived m -.righam shortly before 10 a, m The Salt Lake and Provo visitors came in a special train over the Oregon Ore-gon Short Line while tho Ogden people peo-ple had a special train over the Ogden Rapid Transit company's llm-s. Parade Is Feature. Tho first feature on the program was the parade, and the special train from Ogden carried many to the Oregon Ore-gon Short Line depot, where the Ogden Og-den delegation awaited the arrival of the Short Line special train from Salt Lake. Tho special pulled in on tlmo and as soon as the excursionists could alight from the train they were placed In position In the parade. The parade marched up Forest street to Main street and the lineup follows: Headed by tho Brighara City military baud and followed by tho Box Elder Commercial club. Next came the officials of-ficials of Box Elder county and office employes; Mollerup-Klenke concert band, first division of United Commercial Com-mercial Travelers; Ogden City band; second division of United Commercial Travelers in uniform. The parade disbanded in front of tho county building where an open-air open-air meeting was held which was addressed ad-dressed by the mayor of Brigham City and prominent members of the United Unit-ed Commercial Travelers, A platform plat-form had been built which was decorated dec-orated with the U. C. T. colors; overhead over-head hung a banner bearing a hearty welcome to the U. C T. Clyde H. Spencer of the executive committee presided, and first Introduced Mayor R. L. Fishburn, Jr. The mayor made I a unique speech, extending a hearty I welcome to the U. C. T. and turning! tho keys of tho city over to them. He also gave a brief review of the city's I resources and invited tho people to come here and make their homes. In l a comical manner tho mayor said j "We know you are a "dry" bunch in a "dry" town, but we have made special spe-cial arrangements with the city superintendent su-perintendent of waterworks to turn an extra supply of pure water Into tho mains for your special benefit." George Goddard of Salt Lake council coun-cil No. 81 responded to Major Fishburn Fish-burn and complimented him on his speech and hearty welcome to the "boys." Joseph Yates of the Provo council followed Mr. Goddard, and mndo a brief speech, wherein he paid tributo to Brigham City and tho U. C T. G. J Carpentor, paBt grand marshal mar-shal of the Provo lodge, was introduced intro-duced by Chairman Spencer, and boosted the public utility commission, giving advice to traveling men in that they should not overload distributors with goods. J. S. Carver of Ogdon was the concluding con-cluding Bpeaker. He mode a nice Epcoch In favor of Ogden, Brigham City and tho U. C. T. He also advised Commercial Travelers to boar with retailers and distributors, not to overlook over-look the fact that they have troubles as do other people. After tho meeting a band concert was given at the court house by one of the visiting organizations which was enjoyed by the mass of people who bad gathered for the purpose of hearing the music. The city wa3 literally lit-erally filled with music. In the ovening tho Mollerup-Klenke concert con-cert band gave an open-air concert Owing to tho threatening weather of tho past two days, the city was not as elegantly decorated as it was the wishes of the committees to havo, but as it was tho telephone poles from tho Oregon Short Lino dopot up Forest street, south on Main to Fourth and north on Main to First North, were decorated with flags of the colors col-ors of the U. 0. T. purple, white aud yellow. The business houses arc making a fairly good showing in decorations, dec-orations, using the regulation colors |