Show HIGH MEN VISIT SEVIER STAKE crowds croin meet and gicht tile tho Venc venerable head of tile ho mormon church MEETINGS AND ALL ALONG TITE ROUTE prom froin north to south tile people gave enthusiastic greetings to visitors who acro highly pleased with reception the promised visit of high church officials headed by president joaeph F smith to sevier county towns materialized on oil tuesday when stake presidents R D young and john christensen met the distinguished visitors across the pinto line and piloted the party to various southern towns the entire visit and tile the enthusiasm that characterized it was reminiscent ini scent of the days when president brigham young and his followers made annual pilgrimages to bixio in the late fall fail and returned in the early spring in those lays days the travel was slow but every town turned out to greet the church leader and so in ill this day and age the church leaders are still reverenced reveren ced and held in high esteem as was evidenced danced by the enthusiastic greetings tendered in every town along the route from salt lake to st george and return monroe was the first town in sevier to receive the venerable I 1 lead head of the mormon church and his com pan ions monroe upheld its r record ecord for hospitality the children were lined along the principal street and each with an american flag and all d flowers the president and his party descended from their cars and formed a receiving line the children filed past and received a handshake and greeting gie eting from the members of the party the south ward chapel was tile the scene of one of the most enthusiastic meetings that the town has over witnessed the visitors talked to tile the assemblage and pleasing numbers were rendered by the monroe singers after the meeting the visitors were escorted to the banquet room adjoining the chapel an and d a bounteous feast was partaken partaker par taken of the visitors wended bended their way to elsinore where the children and people of joseph and elsinore greeted the president he delivered a short talk to them and bid them hall hail and farewell at central the people of that town and annabella with the sunday school children met the party and gave them greeting at richfield the sunday sunda school 1 children headed by the band greeted gree t c d the party and welcomed them to the stake headquarters the party divided to the several wards and were privately entertained at different homes the evening meetings scheduled for tell teh three wards were abandoned to the disappointment of several hundreds and only one meeting was held at the first ward chapel the choir under the direction of john ward rendered some splendid music president smith spoke on the theme of 0 love thy neighbor as thy self and his words were impressive impressio im v e and beautiful all the visitors spoke and the meeting lasted for three hours the house was packed and several hundreds icilla ined standing throughout the lengthy session on oil wednesday morning venice sigurd and aurora wore were visited in ill turn and the enthusiastic and chil then greeted the visitors all along the route it was a triumphal march from south to north of the county at salina the demo demonstration lestrat oil was probably greater than at any point in tile the county here in the midst of a busy harvest work was suspended and at 10 every inch of space in the chapel was taken and standing tan ding room was at a premium the choir rendered good music and tile the visitors from the president down spoke to tile the people A banquet was waa served at the second ward chapel and salina did itself proud in the array of blands presented to tempt tile the visitors while the banquet was being served tile curg orchestra rendered entrancing music following the banquet the salina soldier boys boy were greeted by pred dent smith and lie he gave them an all impressive talk that will linger long in their me memories at redmond there was a final fina I 1 demonstration and after greeting the children and a talking to th the e grownups the choir led in sl singing nging i one of president smiths favorite hymns god he be with you till we meet again and the party ed it ith journey toward homo home in parting with the stake presidency bishop nibley expressed the sentiment of the visitors when he removed his hat and said bald we will have to take our hats off to sevier stake for enthusiasm hospitality and loyalty the visitors came saw and were conquered |