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Show 600 PEOPLE HEAR Ml M EVENTS TOLB BKJIONEERS Association Elects Officers; Luncheon Is Given; Old Tima Dances Enjoyed. Attended by a representative gathering of more than six hundred people, the sixteenth annual celebration celebra-tion of the .Mt. Pleasant Pioneer Historical Association Sriday w.-.s the most successful yet held. After the pioneer honor guests had been taken in automobiles to the North Ward chapel the day's festivities began be-gan with a public meeting at two o'clock. With President James Larsen Lar-sen as master of ceremonies the following fol-lowing program was presented: Selection, North Sanpete High School orchestra; Invocation, R. N. Bennett: cor.grpg.viona! singing, "Come. Come Ye Saints;" reading, Mrs. J. 12. Oole, of Nephl; tremtone duet, Prcf. Louis , A. Petersen and V. H. Terry; read-' read-' ins, "An Old Sweetheart of Mine," Mrs. V. L. Johnson; historical sketch, "Our Merchants Establishments." Mrs. S. D. Longsdorf; address, Presl. dent Daniel Rasmussen; "A Pioneer Mother," Mrs. Melvina Crane; selection, selec-tion, Lions Club Quartett. Prof. L. Peters-en, George Squ're, W. IT. Terry and Tom Tomlinson; benediction, benedic-tion, Joseph Seely. Officers Eelected The following officers were elected: President, James Larsen; vice-president, Joseph Monsen; secretary, Mrs. S. D. Loniisdorf; assistant' secretary. Orange M. Aldrich; directors, E. C. Johnson, James Borg, Ole Hansen, C. T. Madsen, J.u3ge Ferdinand Ericksen of Salt Lake City. Joseph Seely, R. N. Bennett. L. C. Rasmus-sen, Rasmus-sen, Elmer Jensen, Mrs. Miranda Oman, Mrs. Thomas West, Mrs. W. D. Candland, Mrs. Henry Ericksen, and Mrs. William Olson. Committee Com-mittee to care for monument corner, Mrs. Parley Hansen, Mrs. Hyrum Madsen, Mrs. Erick Ericksen, and Mrs. T. C. Candland. Following the meeting the honor guests attended a luncheon in the library where the pioneer relics and curios were on display. The exhibition ex-hibition is unusually large and at-ractive at-ractive this year and was viewed by hundreds, including the stu-den's of NoTth Sanpete High School and Wasatch Academy. The oldest pio-neers pio-neers in attendance were "Grandpa" John Knudsen, age 95 years, and Mrs. Mary Wilcox, nearly 9 3 years of age. ; The dance in Armory Hall in the evening was also largely attenied. .American Flags and a large mural 'painting, "The Coniintg of the Pioneers," Pio-neers," by John Stansfield, were used in decorating the hall. Real ;old time refreshments were served ,and old and new dances were featured. featur-ed. The grand march at nine o'clock o'-clock was led by pioneers and their descendants. - Much credit for the unqualified success of the celebration is due .the committees who worked long and faithfully. |