Show FLOWER AND ART exhibit EXCEEDS ALL S relief societies of stake observe successful annual day wednesday surpassing any art exhibit ever held at a county fair in richfield the art exhibit sponsored by the sevier stake relief society as a feature of their annual day observed here tuesday far exceeded the expectations of those in charge of arrangements and attracted unstinted praise from visitors the exhibit was open to the public both tuesday and wednesday the stake board and every ward of the stake had an individual room in the basement of the taba tabernacle in which to display their articles and every room was avas fairly lined with the beautiful handwork the exhibit displayed a variety and originality of design in pillows rugs doilies dailies doi lies runners and table coverings of various types a gay array of artistic and cleverly designed patchwork quilts many novelty decorative articles in fact all sorts of art work for every room in the home remodeled clothing was also an interesting feature of the display and no one could overlook the antique articles or the articles displaying surprising talent in painting carving and taxidermy work done by local people it was pleasing to notice the of fine work done by elderly ladies of the stake each ward had a beautiful display of flowers demonstrating the possibilities for home beautification ti on by flowers in this locality tuesday afternoon a pleasing program was presented at the tabernacle er with mrs estella poulson president of the stake relief society presiding and mrs lou peterson in charge of music it consisted of congregational singing prayer mrs sarah miller of the venice ward community singing ginging address of welcome mrs airs wilhelmina gunn of the stake board response mrs martha hunt president of the first ward relief society introduction of the guests of honor by mrs mary S young the group including patriarch H J hansen thomas gledhill whose late wife V fe was for so many ye years ars president of the stake board and former stake board boar d members mrs minnie dastrup mrs pauline dastrup mrs elizabeth thalman ward mrs hannah M ogden mrs eleanore EI eanore W ogden mrs lorena sorensen mrs josephine J christensen mrs ruby peterson mrs lucy bell mrs hazel heppler mrs jennie cowley mrs mae sevy mrs martha warner mrs abher parker and mrs juanita ogden selection fourth ward girls chorus directed by miss mildred hansen talk appreciation of my calling as relief society teacher mrs elizabeth bell of glenwood vocal solo mrs glen meyer of the second ward remarks president jas M peterson and orson F christensen ad history member from the high council presentation of awards words of appreciation by the stake relief soc society ety president dramatization tiza tion 0 of the organization of the first relief society by the third ward community singing benediction mrs bertha colby of sigurd As awards beautiful were presented to the following oldest c gt members of organization present mrs julia avery of glenwood 87 mrs mary blary frail of sigurd 86 an award was sent to a member of the koosharem Koo sharem organization 89 who was unable to attend members who have belonged to the society the longest mrs mary of glenwood 67 years in the organization mrs hannah K pet continued on page 6 flower and art exhibit exceeds all expectations continued from page 1 erson and mrs anna K F peterson of the fourth ward each having belonged 58 years each of the following mothers who have had bad the largest families were presented a large v vase ase filled with flowers mrs josephine of koosharem Koo sharem mother of fifteen children 12 of whom are living one son having been killed in the world w war ar mrs christene jensen of the first ward mother of fifteen children child iren nine of whom are living mrs agatha S anderson of the first ward mother of 15 children 5 of whom are living mrs mary sandall mother of 14 children all of whom are living gifts were sent to eight other mothers not in attendance each of whom had bad had 14 children two beautiful reproductions of paintings one christ in the temple tempie and another of christ as a child were presented to th the wards ewards having the best records for ward teaching one was received by the first ward with a record of per cent for 8 years and 8 months and the other by the fourth ward of richfield with a record of per cent every month since its organization about three years ago the glenwood ward received honorable mention for a very fine record an embroidered linen handkerchief was sent to all members of the organization who are over 80 years of age more afore than persons attended the program 50 visited the exhibit tuesday and a much larger crowd wednesday the attendance at the dance at the rendezvous sponsored by the organization tuesday evening was waa also good |