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Show Inclement Weather J Fails To Dampen a Old Folks Party 'm Continual ' rain and snow failed to dampen the gala spirits of the 180 guests who gathered at the (7) Second ward chapel Wednesday to 1 enjoy the annual dinner and program pro-gram given in honor of the Old Folks of Pleasant Grove and Manila. Ma-nila. Everyone sixty years old or fc more was invited. I Special guests were Church His- l torian Andrew Jensen and wife of Salt Lake City, President W. W. ft ' Warnick, Stake Patriarch and Clerk D. B. Thorne and Millen D. Radii Rad-ii mall, Bishops H. V. Swenson, Jos-JjJ Jos-JjJ eph Walker, Merrill N. Warnick, Junius West, Elvin Thorne and C. R. Clark; High Councilmen P. C- ( Shoell, F. D. Atwood, H. S. Walker, Tl( Thomas Fenton, and the wives of r tin each. jj. Preceding the dinner a short pro gram was rendered with Chairman atid, Ed Hardman presiding. Jim Nelson Nel-son and his son Howard gave two ftj harmonica and accordian duets. Two humorous readings were given ; by by Mrs- Sarah Clark. President Warnick greeted the old folks. , in During the dinner Ruth Beck nil played an accordian solo and Karl pre- Banks sang an . original comic song. Mrs. Louise Heidenreich accompan-:' accompan-:' f ied the latter number. The after dinner entertainment : continued with more old time ! i music by the Nelsons, Jim and i.. Howard. Humorous readings were " given by Mrs. Orpha Mecham of Manila, and by FJeroy West of the fflle high school speech department-' department-' Songs of long ago were sung by Mrs. Marie Brown of Manila. A ttj saxaphone solo was played by John ! , Hilton, with accompaniment by Mrs. jKaj Phyllis Larson. jjj, Guest speaker, Andrew Jensen, Joui. former Pleasant Grove pioneer, who tie is now 91 years old, told of travel-arttt travel-arttt ing more than a million miles Lo Iding gather the material from which he has written the history of every jam mission in the L. D. S. church. He Ming called attention to the interesting ;W facts that Pleasant" Grove was the fifth city to be settled in Utah, M the others being Salt Lake, Ogden, louds provo, Manti. Four of the orig-mi orig-mi inal pioneers, John Brown, Henson 1 w Walker, John Gleason and John G. Holman settled In this commun-42-41 ity, he said- "I have lived to come back to my bid home town to see the fifth generation grown up," he concluded. J P- S. Humphries of Provo who was an early day chorister, old folks 1 committeeman, presented white car nations to all guests who were 69 v years and over. A count "revealed " 'J that there were 12 who were past 80, and 12 between the ages of 75 to 80. J J Following the dinner and pro-gram pro-gram the guests were entertained at the Alhambra theatre, the host being Harold Wootton. ;el Committees in charge of the en- J tertainment were J- H. Armitstead, " chairman First ward; Ed Hardman, " Second; Owen Christiansen, Third; I Ezra Swenson, Manila, with the following fol-lowing assistants: Clifford Tomlin-son, Tomlin-son, William Hone, J. L. Adams, Earl Loader, Hans Williamson, Har-,fl Har-,fl old Wootton, Heber Day, Owen Halliday, William Stagg, Clarence Rasmusson, Ira Deveraux, Thomas s King, Allen Pederson, Jasper Eves and Willard Holman. Thomas Fenton Fen-ton is stake chairman. The cooking cook-ing committee included the wives of the committeemen mentioned above. |
