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Show I-: I-: TO USUM. WORK ' Peach Day Celebration Said'to Be Greatest in City's History (Special to Standard-Examiner t BRIGHAM. Bepl is Now that the 1 1 'each Day celebration is over Brlp-jham Brlp-jham will turn Its attention to other matters of Interest to this community Tin sixteenth annual iJenrh Day celebration eclipsed all previous attempts at-tempts and will gro down In history as ';he greatest undertaking ever pulled Soft In Box Elder Olint j In costing about to ascertain Why this was the biggest and best celobra-Jtion celobra-Jtion ever held here there are t?eeral I litems that stand out prominently Some time ago ihe members of the Commercial club decided that in order or-der for the organization to accomplish accom-plish what it started out to do it was .necessary to have a permanent Secretary Sec-retary and publicity man on the Job. I.eRoy C Shelby was named ns the man and In addition to his duties as l( ( retary he was made manager of the Peach Day celebration, with an adisory committee and was told to get bu9y on th" job SURPRISE VISITORS, Mr. Shelby got busy and Wednesday's Wednes-day's celebration demonstrated a por-' tion of his activities in this community, commu-nity, with the assistance of the ad- Isory committee and the parade dim-tnlttee, dim-tnlttee, K M. Tyson as chairman, the I i;--ltors were compelled to sit up and t;ke notice when a parade n mile long RiOVed Slowly nortn on Main street' I led by Brighnm City Military band, fol lowed by D troop, mounted, anil numerous nu-merous floata and ib eoi -ili 'l uiloiuo-i uiloiuo-i lies The Hyde Park band, the I Jack Bowerlnr's raxi band and tin-Hube" tin-Hube" band from the state fair as bociation, occupied their positions In the parade The Judges, R. A Rummel of Og-den, Og-den, Mrs. Ellen llineklev and Mrs. .losle Jensen of Brigham, H. K. lted-dlings lted-dlings of I'orinne and Leo Uunsaker of Honeyville, awarded fir" prize to the Commercial club float a hucc basket filled with some of Brlgham's "live poaches." Second prize went to the First ward Bee Hive girl3. the third to the Cash Feed & Fruit company, com-pany, a beautiful display of fruits and a egetables. OTHER FLOATS Other verj attractive floats were contributed by the Relief society, the Second ward fee Hive fcrla, three blocks of ice With fruit frozen In the center, from the liiicham Ice oi Cold Storage company plant, a hug- pho-j i:ograph from the, Hansen Furniture '& Music company, a dining room suite from the Stohl i urniture company o display of mill products from th Ji n-ben n-ben Bros, mills, the Box Kldcr High school float, three livestock displays, pure-bred sheep from thr ranch of J.; J. Crancr. and Hereford bulls owned by C. G Adney. both of Curium Lnd pure-bred sheep from the farm ol W S Hansen of Welding The livestock were exhibited riding in motor trucks which were beautifully decorated. There were man;, other floats worthy of mention, but space will not permit Iiunner details. Another attraction that created Interest In-terest was the announcement that Governor Tames M Cox, candidate for president, would arrive in the city at ,1 o'clock to deliver an address. A special reception committee loaded by Mayor J w. Peters was appointed to meet the governor with ten automobiles auto-mobiles to convej the distinguish I party from the station up Forest street to the decorated platform erected erect-ed immediately in front of the court house. The train was nearly an houi late, but the large crowd awaiting tho arrival of the governor was patient and when ho arrived he was accorded a hearty welcome, delivered his message mes-sage and was then photograph, d with the bevj or pretty girls In the large peach basket that had prevlousl) .appeared .ap-peared in the parade lie was then presented two bushel boxes of the El-bcrtas El-bcrtas that have made Brigham famous, fa-mous, and then departed for his next blop Ogden-The Ogden-The enthusiasm created in baseball this year was another advantage to the Peach Day celebration and hundreds hun-dreds flocked to Pioneer park to witness wit-ness the contest between the Brigham Brig-ham and Layton clubs The Peaches proved to be the better team and wor, i he game on Tuesday and Wednesday Will) EST SHOl . Follcwlng the ball game came the V, lid V'est show w hen some of the outlaw horses from nil oer the 'Country 'Coun-try w. r.- ridden and there were1 many thrilling; stunts The large crowd that assembled at the park had their ''fill' of Ihe sweet- . nd fussiest peaches to be found In the orchards of this vicinity, and devoured, too. ocr ten tuns of melons. mel-ons. j In the evening tho wrestling and boxing contests at the ball park, tht-blg tht-blg street dancing carnLal, the Brown m us mint company shows, and the cuncesslons that lined the sidewalks I attracted hundreds of people. Not until un-til long after midnight did the noi.se and rush of business quiet down I It was the end of a perfect .1m y, foi not an accident was reported during th. entiro proceedings and several thousand automobiles lined all tho streets In the city. oo Sapphire is sometimes found embedded embed-ded In gneiss, but more cften in clay soils. |