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50th Anniversary Celebration Agenda

Agenda of the 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Settlement of Plain City

The citizens of Plain City met in the LDS Church on March 17, 1909, at 10 am to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the settlement of Plain City.

Masters of the Ceremony

  • Bishop Henry J. Garner
  • Josiah B Carver
  • James L. Robson

Singing by the Choir

  • Let the Mountains Shout for Joy Fred Kenley directing, Bertha Robson, Organist.

Prayer

  • Alonzo Knight

Ladies Quartet

  • Ruby Ipson
  • Pearl Taylor
  • Jessie Kenley
  • Sylvia Richardson

Speech of Welcome

  • Bishop Henry J. Garner

Speech

  • Pioneer, John Carver

Song

  • Evelyn Harding Christensen

Recitation

  • Martha Hansen

Speech

  • Lewis W Shurtliff, First Bishop of Plain City

Song

  • Willard Lund

Reading of a Poem

  • Peter M. Folkman, composed by David Booth

Speech

  • George W Bramwell
  • Past Bishop Josiah B. Carver announced that today work began on the railroad for Plain City.

Song

  • Ruby Ipsen

Humorous Speech

  • Charles H. Greenwell of Ogden

Singing by the Choir

Prayer

  • Charles Weatherston

All of the people went to the Adobe Hall for the banquet, the first day for the old people, and the second day for the children. About 1000 people were fed.

The following is a list of living pioneers:

  • John Carver
  • Christopher O. Folkman
  • Jens P. Folkman
  • Charles Neal
  • Lyman Skeen
  • Caroline Skeen
  • Susanne Booth
  • George P. Folkman
  • William L. Stewart
  • Mrs. Thomas Singleton
  • Mrs. William Sharp
  • Mile R. Sharp
  • George H. Carver
  • Minnie Carver Geddes
  • Victoria Musgrave
  • Alonzo Knight
  • Catherine Knight
  • William Knight
  • Isabell Draney Bramwell
  • John K. Spiers
  • Edwin Dix
  • Winfield A. Spiers
  • Emma (Singleton) Richardson
  • William Van Dyke

Present at this celebration.