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Show OLD FDLKS DP IS ! SUBJECT OF PRAISE IN THE EAST A clipping from the Wide World) inapazine for December brings to no ! tice the fact that one 0f the most, commendable celebrations of the people peo-ple of Weber county and I'tah. that of "Old Folks Day,", has created wide) spread interest In connection with the clipping lei published across the top of two pa-1 ges a photograph of a group of plo i tie rs. taken at Lagoon last summer 1 In the picture are plainly seen a number num-ber of well known faces Tho comment of the " ide World " j referring to the photograph and the occasion on which it was taken, follows fol-lows . "The photograph reproduced abo 1 depicts an 'Old Folks' picnic' recently held in Utah, U S A and la remark I able for the fact that the ages of the j participants shown reached the aston j Ishing aggregate of ren thousand I yeats! Only one person was under seventy, and the oldest the woman dressed In white In the front, row had reached a hundred and three These old folks' picnics' are annual affairs, committees being appointed in each district to superintend the ar rangement Even' old person in each district Is called upon and furnished with a silk badge (red lor seventy years, blue for elght and white for ninety.) These badges secure free transportation and entertainment for the wearer, and an attendant If neces sar. The da is passed in feasting, ' "tic '"-rts, and sports and amusements of varied descriptions Hundreds of prizes are awarded in tne numerous nn!e6ts. as. for Instance, to the oiliest oili-est man. the woman with the most children; the youngest civil war vei eran. the youngest woman who cross ed the American desert, the man with the baldest head; the woman with ih" oldest child accompanying her on the .Grounds, and so on, Games and athletic ath-letic sports are also indulged In dancing dan-cing contests for women between the ages of seventy and eigh'y; potato races for the less active who have passed four score; and yarn-winding I contests for those who have passed ninety." |