Show tah A I 1 T wa 51 H A it 0 D I 1 N sl 6 JI or 1 11 i 7 VISIT iff y 1 r T 10 1 0 burrl STA E UTAH ANO PEOPLE EOPLE OF STATE after a da in S salt tit lake city dennial pat anity t v I 1 is no nou on way fi aiom on ceglar catl ir city to zion xion palk by special wire to the richfield reaper high lionor honor is being bestowed upon the stats state anil and the lie loyal people 0 of utah by a visit president warren G harding accompanied by mrs hard ing and a large party of federal officers newspaper folks and escorts Is paying to the state the people aro are rejoicing greatly over it and high respect and keen interest goes out to the chief magistrate and his good wife every move they make every word them the say is watched with fth affectionate attention by the people of our great state many richfield people went to salt lake city to cheer the highest executive and the first lady of the land many others in made ade a trip to cedar city to see the president and his bis party when bell they leave the train in the iron county metropolis to go by auto to the zion national park the reaper has made arrangements to be informed about the trip by special wires and to give out to its readers the information so received on board president Hardi hardings Har dingi tr train a in june 26 96 by associated press leaving the plains section behind president harding today 3 journeyed ourn eyed into the state of utah to spend two days one in ogden and salt lake and the other in zion national park tue tile presidential train crossed the wyoming state line into utah early today and reached ogden at where the train was temporarily pora rily abandoned after a 55 minute visit in favor of automobiles for the journey from ogden to salt lake special correspondent president hording harding and his party coming in automobiles to from ogden arrived here shortly before noon through a three mile lane lined by tens of thousands of cheering citizens the party wound its way from the pioneer monument to liberty park where other thousands composed chiefly of school children crowded to hear the presidents first words in re response to tile the oration of welcome this is one of the happiest moments lie he told them 1 I have always held a great affection tor utah and her people and that appreciation aaion is only in increased creased by this display of citizenship and good will I 1 wish secretary hoover was here so that I 1 might point out to him a statistical error made by his department the census credits salt lake with having only one hundred and twenty thousand population but I 1 know there must be more than one million the president was escorted from ogden by state officials and U S senators smoot and king general mcalexander and others after reviewing the long line of children the president vas nas v as taken to the country club for a short relaxation and a game of golf the first lie he played since he left washington on his trip to alaska front from the links the president went to the hotel utah for a public recep continued on page four j M in PRAISES UTAH AND PEOPLE OF STATE continued from page one tion and introductions and handshaking finished the members of the party took a 1 walk across the street to the temple grounds and listened to an organ concert in the tabernacle professor mcclellan at the organ later president and mrs harding and the high officials in their pa panty ay were guests of governor and mrs chas R mabey at a dinner on the roof garden of the utah hotel and after the meal the president again was taken to tile the tabernacle where an immense crowd of people listened to his address the subject of the speech was taxation a tine fine compliment to senator reed smoot who is chairman of the senates finance committee A short rest in the hotel followed and at midnight the entire party took the train ito 40 cedar city from there to proceed to zion park cedar city utah june jund 27 by 0 C thurber special correspond the presidential train arrived here at in the morning and was greeted with cheers by a crowd of people the number of whom at is not overestimated over estimated many familiar richfield faces were seen by your correspondent in the crowd among them mr and mrs S G alark dark bishop bean miss mable lewis mrs wallace and several county officials indians from nearby reservations had come to see the white father accompanied by senator smoot the president walked to tile the group of indians and shook lands hands with every one of them telling the senator he would like to shake hands with everybody present if the time permitted twenty five big automobiles were standing irl in line to convey the party consisting of people to zion park twenty of the newspapermen in the party remained in cedar city to write up the city and give her a most desirable publicity president harding and party will take lunch in the park camp and then view its beauties at six the caravan will return to cedar city and the president consented to make a ten minute address to the people before leaving for salt lake city and ogden from there to proceed to idaho the weather is wonderful and cedar city experiences an ux of visitors A conservative estimate gives as the number of out of town people who came for the memorable event |