Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-03-01
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SHt1ai % r- SIw,
SPANISH FomS, Utah, March l..
Sit Davids Day Sc being cole
tutsI here amid great cutnuaI.
aam by ,hr largest delegation OF
WUlrhmen over assembled lu this
Territory. representatives ore in
attendance from nearly every county
On Utah, salt Lake in particular, macy
coming great distance 90 participate
lu thU day'a frtt.vitirs. buaiuuHs d. en-
tirvly susponIui gui tho principal
buildings ATE beautifully decorated.
Tue spanish FORK bras Uand met the
visitors anu treated ihJm 10 come uX.
Cullent music. Promptly Of eleven
O'Clock the exercises OF the dny CONE
mruCul.
The Young Mons Orcra House was
crowded when John j. DAVE, pTcal-
dent o. the Cambrau association nt
spanish Fork called tho ussembiuEu 90
order Alter "a characteristic Welsh
speech which was applaudol, hu stated
that the hrt thing in order would boz
the purmhaUut organization OF a.
Cambrinu association for Utah and
adjoining slatOl aud TgrTil1T.gs.
Tue election u. officers resulted; For
q
Lake; yigu-lIus ID. j.. Davis, Salt
LAKE, John A. Dayis, Utah; Alex.
L3WlH, Cache; Edward Parry, sun-
pete, william Is. Jones, u4h.
tgcTpllTy, John james, salt Lake,
tluasuTsL Elias Morrs, Salt LAKE.
An executive committee uf Uuu flf
every county in Utah was also up.
pointed.
cIocktheEistcIiflI was held
aud prlzus were given for gh0fuses,
solos, csanye, poetry anu lusiIu-
meutal'Hf, The music was grand,
and especially whom tho vast
sssnmhlagU sang il unison the Welsh
anthem. Tho afternoons exercises
concluded with addresses from ID. l..
Davis and w. n. W.lllRma and the
carrying out NJ Welsh customs.
Tonight concert will be- given with
short addres'gB by prominent Wglll-
men.
st. Davld'5 Day Il celebrated by tic
Welsh people, IN honor Of thuir palrou
saint, David.
This reAt aud good mar, it ~ said,
was born In pembfoko'hiro, South
walos, In tho latter part OF tho ann
century. HlslOrinnH claim ilr him o.
royal lineage on b.th siics, aud trace
II on his moihUf'a side through Heyuu
generations tla sister % the Virgin
Mary, He was extraordinarily ON.
doWci by nature, aud received very
literal education, bpsidua being Tor ten
yoaIB pupil a the eminent scholar
Paulinus.
et. David WINS a religious and duv0ut
mau, and consented hiB life aud |
energy 10 tho work OF the ministry.
Being a very magnetic man, and hu |
Influential ana gifted public speaker,
also tho psHHee8ur oil large means which |
ho literally iivltai win the needy,
maize hiu Tho most respected !
aud popular man OF his time.
At was tho organizer OF religious |
movements, established mOunsteflps,
etc, uud gls0 WAS In Vufl as WAYS H |
pIuilu huuu.uC,UE wish an these /
worthy qualities IN man, 70 is uu
wonder tnat tho warmhuigJod and up.
pgociAtiyo Welsh people hon him |
and lJyu hIa memory.
81. Davi4'a DAy, the hst OF March, |
has often boon celebrated Ina rauru, |
years by holding tho long established !
Eiatolui0us ON that day.
Tho meaning OF tho word "llstgdI. |
'1u" lH"l sittiur,n 90 slB4I0n,W or 60 |
setting 10 be-" and was .nuciou.ly up.
piled 10 a sitting VI CDngfo-s lf luu |
Barls; it ia THEODORE ana iu.t tuition Ot !
the Bard6. In other Wlr.a 10 iB thU
pivot on which tho whole By-lem q |
Bardism ,uTus ana the national HE o |
the CymrL the Bard f. professional |
poet of u musician uud "a m1rf OF Che |
Bard'h order, ono whose works have !
been passed. uYon ard accepted 90 thc |
uuesluua Of ihu LHluaIiulf,
There ls no authentic record Of whom !
or where tho ntt Wyl.h Esteddi0J /
was hell. Tradition dates II back goml [
two tnuuBand yoarB Is. q, IL 10 Huu'
orally agreed, however BY historians
that there was one held In 81. Mollousi !