The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-02
ARE BACK FROM
BRANCH NORMAL
Legislators Arrive From Junket
TO Cedar City.
PLEASED WITH INSTITUTION
WERE ROYALTY ENTERTAINED
BY CITIZENS.

% L4A4AENS.
Utah legislators ate Utah green on
ions Ia Cedar City while visiting the
branch state normal school last week
and their banquet was spread upon
q table decorated with Utah fruit bios
SONS. Around them the snow was a
foot deep. but the spring vegetables
and tropical blossoms came from st.
George. a few miles away. IN the vail
ley Of the adjoining county. The leg
islative committee returned from the
junket yesterday and its members felt
so pleased over the good time given
them that if the money were avail
able they would have voted seven or
eight big appropriations to the Cedar
City institution.
In the party which made the trip
we're. Senator j. G. NJ Barnes and
daughter. Representative and Mrs.
Willard Done and daughter. Repre-
sentative and Mrs. y. II. Merrill, Rep
resentative w. II. Barrett and son,
Representatives ID. II. Norris, $. i.
Chapman, Morgan Richards, w. H.
Eedd, Dr. and Mrs j. T. kingsDuTy,
Mrs. Little, Miss Murdoch and A. f..
Barnes The party left Salt Lake We'd
nesday evening and arrived in Cedar
City Thursday after a thirty-1ve-
mile stage trip from Lund, the near
est railroad station.
President Uriah II. Jones Of the
Parowan stake and Mayor Lund of Ce-
dar city, together with an escort OF
prominent citizens and a brass band,
met the legislative party in the out
skirts OF the town and conducted il
90 the tabernacle, where there was an
evening Of speechmaldng, the gist of
which was the need of an apprOpri-
alton of $4,000 for a new building for
the normal school.
Hold Glasses in Halls.
The present building. which has only
four rooms, IL was represented, was
too small to accommodate the $50
students. with the result that classes
were held i'm the halls. and even out
doors On fair weather The expense
of board and room for a student I'm
Cedar City has been estimated at 500
a year, with the result that the insti-
tuition is we'll patrOnlZed by the peO-
pie Of the state. Many applications
for enrolment have been turned down.
IL Is said, for lack OF accommoda-
tons.
Principal N. II. Porter Of the. school
presided at chapel meeting the next
morning and introduced Representative
Willard Done as the orator of the leg
isiature. Representative Done started
so easy bat before he progressed very
far one Of the young women students
tainted, Representative Barrett sug-
Eested 10 Mr. Done that he had bet-
Ter quit. and he quat
BY noon the sad incident was for
gotten and the committee sat down
10 a spread prepared by the fifty
eight young women students of the
school of domestic science. Before the
meal was well begun an the legis-
lators became enthusiasts upon the
subject of teaching domestic science ia
the school i'm the afternoon there
were more addresses i'm the taber-
nacle.
Big Event Friday.
Friday evening the big event of the
occasion was given I'm the form of a
banquet. at which nearly 600 persons
were entertained. some of them having
come from great distances TO be pres
eut at the festival Senator Barnes
was POSTMASTER He asked Represen-
tative Morgan Richards why his wife
was so silent and the representative
blushingly admitted that az home when
Sc came TO talking his wife was the
whole team and the little dog under the
table. Senator Barnes also addressed
Representative Morris and cousins, %
as it was believed that Mr.. Morris had
nearly as many cousins present as Sen
Rtor Barnes might have had were the
exercises held i'm his part Of the state.
To was at the Friday evening spread
that the tropical fruit blossoms We're
displayed. The contrast between the
thought Of the warm fiower-decSed val
ley and the actually Of the black des-
ert over which the party We're taken In
carriages in zero weather the next day
TO Lund was Hhe subject of shivering
contemplation When the party got
20 the railroad they found SuperinteLd-
ent HenderSOn's private car there. and
were glad 20 obtain its shelter Repre-
sentative Richards took aionE some
mineral water to keep his colleagues
warm during the trip. He was the COM
missary of the legislative committee.
and came near losing his job when &c
dawned upon the statesmen that min
eral water was all he had provided for
LIQUID refreshments.
Representative Barrett is a Gentle.
but from now on he may be known as
Bishop" Barrett. POSTMASTER Barnes
so referred 90 him, and as no one smiled
the good people OF Cedar City came TO
him afterward and apOlogized for hav-
ing addressed him as mr."
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