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Show oo OLD "YOUNGSTERS" IN SCHOOL-DAY "STUNTS" Buhl, Ida., March 5. More than 300 Illlnoiflans attended the first annual reuidon of former residents of the prairie state held in the Buhl opera house yesterday and participated in an enjoyable program during tho afternoon. aft-ernoon. C. M. Booth of Twin Falls was the principal speaker of the day,; delivering a masterly address on "Grant, the Citizen, the Soldier." In "the evening there was a grand ball preceded by a program, "The i Last Days of School," the features of v.hich was an old-fashioned spelling . school, at which the old folks all f stood up in line and "spelled down" ,P1 and "spoke pieces." Several of the jU boys and girls who spoke were well m past 60 years of age, but they recited 1J with much enthusiasm the "pieces" ' they spoke iu their childhood dajs. . rV7 Johnny Glenn, aged 60, spoke "The J rfjtk Drunkard's Course." Willis Atherton, '-ml Raiphle Wlliams. Willie Brewer, Stel- '1( la Van Riper and several other of the I old boys and girls, were the star per- I formers. The ball was one of the 1 largest attended social events of the I senson. The Oregon folks will have their day on March 11. oo i |
