Show young matrons matrona honor guests at nice party last sunday several young married women omen of monticello Moti cello were hosts to their mothers or other elderly women at a delightful party in honor of mothers day the occasion had been delayed a week on account of the funeral services of the late go geo A adams which were held on mothers day a week previous the hostesses were mesdames carlos hyde at whose home the affair was held cecil jones kenneth bailee john redd arid and kenneth dailey bailey the fifteen guests in attendance were mis alls S J rogerson mary jane wilson ida blake lucinda redd annie E hyde bessie dalton anne edwards louise ff walton allon laura allred may dailey bailey winne wince duckett emma avd phoebe dailey bailey mar enry jonea james and annie bailey the guests told tod of many of 0 their early eaily pioneer experiences and the hostesses recited and rendered pleasing in music five div of the guests had been acquainted for 56 years two of them had borne twelve children each and another was the mother of 11 mrs annie bailey it if was learned was the mother of twins the grandmother of twins and the great grandmother of twins mrs mary jones was the grandmother of 39 grandchildren and great grandmother of 21 mary jane wilson told of having been among the first pioneers to reach the town of bluff having haing been nearly a year on the way from escalante to the site where the boneer town was built later blie bile made 17 trips to her old home each time going by wagon danni this thia time she bore 12 children all of them borr at home mrs blake was not a utah pioneer but had done don c her share sh she drove an ox team from texas to new mexico when a girl she told of the fast team of black oxen she drove which would line out jut ahead of the party in the mornings while she sh becoming drowsy would go 0 sleep in the seat of the wagon I 1 until at the brink of a steep descent Ic scent the team would suddenly stop the sleeping driver often was thrown from the seat and awakened the ehg girl driver would then limb down and fasten the lough lock to the wheels whereupon the oxen would proceed down the hill it seems also that the lead wn an carried the drinking drinkin sr water so that the following members of the pirty would sometimes so go thirsty unless the fast team ahead stopped and waited for them this state of affairs became irksome and as mrs blake says pa finally put nie me at the back of the train foliga following ing the story tolling telling and general good time the ladies were dived a fine line luncheon beon topping off the party to perfection |