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Show I pur lit to I NEW GOVERNOR I Hundreds of Weber County Citizens Mingle With Crowds At Inaugural Ball More than 100 residents or Weber county attended the inaugural ball last nicht In the Hotel Itah In Salt Lake : and paid homage tn the new state executive ex-ecutive and the first lady of the state. ' Governor and Mrs. Charles it, Mabey, Music, flowers, and Jostling throngs; Uie sparkling colore of evening gowns the formal air of men's full drew; beautiful women, men of affairs and '.heir entourage, wore mingled in tho social homage. The spirit of Relcom extended from the dtlsenry of the state to their new chief, spiced with the glamor ofj great social occasions, blessed with the good fellowship Of a notable poli' k;iI success, combined to give tho thousands thous-ands af last night's .'unction an Impression Impres-sion that will live long. People from all parts of the state members of the iiw legislature from the senate and the house, the county, and local officials from neighboring i ;tics: retiring officers of Uie state: and county leaders In lam fall s election; elec-tion; former governors; those who recall re-call the ox-cart days and sub-debs out I I In society for the fust time; members of tho defeated party smiling In the slorv of their rivals, all the elcmentl of the state were represented there last night. Yes, there were some of-ficcscekers of-ficcscekers present loo. .l UID OFFICE Us. When the early comers arrived at the hotel before 9 o'clock they found the flld piece of the Utah artillery flag-druped and gracing the lobby. Officers, Of-ficers, of the state guard wore On duty directing tho guests to the mezzanine, wbere. the festivities centered. There ubles were set with the punch bowls and graced With flow i About the hill or the dance its.elf were many flags and in the supper room, where the governor and Mrs. Mabel with the staff and the now state officials offi-cials received the guests, the martial aspect was further carried out In ban-here, ban-here, in machine guns and others of the panoply of the war days Rone. but; BJi not forgotten More than one at the ball last night found In these weapons cause to give thanks that the new governor enters i his office in days of peace, after, dur-' ing the administration Just flowed, he had servod his country as soldier.) Once the first arrival- I. id dropped their wraps and prepared for the evening eve-ning of pleasure, more came pouring in, and, sldl more. Progress was slow in the crowd which had gathered there before th governor was ready to be- gin greeting his .-.:-n - atxlv head bbbj the receiving line. LONG mm : C1NG When the actual receiving began at ? o'clock, tho line of those waiting to shake hands with the exec utlve al-jeady al-jeady stretched around two sides of the mezzanine. For more than an hour, a few moment past the time for the beginning of the grand march. tovemor and Mrs Mabey and the Oth-er Oth-er members of the reception line greeted one continuous stream of men and women, and an occasional oung-star, oung-star, too When the hour liail Passed the line still waiting had grown rather than d-mlnlshed. d-mlnlshed. and at last, when time was up, the reception line was bnoken with several hundred wlm had not yi t had an opportunity to pay then conipll-ments conipll-ments to the governor. That In no way lessened the cnthusl-..sin cnthusl-..sin of the f im.-i li..-.iiv had !). reception line ended vrheu the grand march, led by Governor and Mrs. .in-bey, .in-bey, sallied into the -ballroom to the strains of "Hall lo the Olvlcf. Then 'he general dancing began, and forj HJ those who did not dance was the pleas-! uro of greeting riOnds, of "watching! J the show." From "Aunt Lm Welle" the nonage -narian veteran of oxcart days, who! watched with sparkling .-y. s the imm-' Ing generations who were there, a Ht- tie lad of 4. who shook hand most . gravely with the governor, they all! HHJ seemed to enoy the occasion to its fill. |