Show E ar a F I 1 00 picnic was a bifi big success S 1 I never get got 30 mush much for my a amey lefort lefor fc is the way one visiting odd fellow expressed pressed en himself after lat last saturday saturdays 1 I 0 0 F and rebekah reunion and picnic pleno in this city and while there have been larger gatherings in price on a few occasions it is doubtful if a lodge picnic ever drew so many people from the other towns and camps to the county seat and all who came were taken care of at no expense to themselves save their deals meals and conveyance to this city while merchandise worth sey ser eral hundred dollars was given away as prizes in mental and athletic ath letio con tests including the 1 I 0 00 0 P F base ball game no admission fee wits charged to the grounds or any of the contests that feature left a good taste in the mouths of the visitors and nd many of them were heard to express the wish that they might have as good a time every yea year the three linkers and their guests began coining coming in in wagons buggies and autos shortly after 7 a in and at 9 30 when the epenial train from standardville Stand standard ardville ville storrs castle gate lad helper arrived there was a good sized gathering of visitors to welcome them the train brought in the neighborhood of a hundred most of them odd fellows Rebe kahs abs and their children the train by the price wice band members of the reception C committee ommittee and several drays the latter for the purpose of taking care of the lunch and luggage of the excursion ten ests the storrs band headed the lie visiting tini column in the march from the depot to tho 1 I 0 0 F hall at 10 30 the parade formed in front of the ball hall and marched to city park the formation being as follows price band band price Rebekah Rebe kahs 9 and little girls storrs robe RebeL atis pua and little girls price odd fallows fellows and little boys storrs odd fellows and lettla boys sunn side odd fellows kenilworth odd fallows fellows other odd fellows follows the representatives of each lodge carried banners designating from bich town and lodge they thoy came and I 1 the procession made quite an imps ing appearance ns as it wended its way j to the spot chosen for tho the festivities arriving a at the park the war warm in marchers sought thy the gra gratifying dying ehase ot of the tres tries and cooled off a little after ter which councilman J W loofbourow on behalf of mayor gunder on wade a vc very y cordial address of welcome orile surprising many by his cor aliby and eloquence fib stated that it give him great pleasure to dicomo to tho the city so many odd allows and theft fam families flies and he I 1 loped they all enjoyed a pleasant day ay tho the town and all in it was at the dis disposal of the guests and hl e hoped they would feel toward the outsiders as they felt toward each other rand blar marshal sam H U short of storrs on behalf of tho the visiting members responded by thanking ohio lys representative for his bl s warm warin meetings greetings and expressed the hope that au all who were outsiders might lot always be so ile promised for continued on page pago 11 i 00 oo 0 F picnic SHOO was fas a big success continued from page ono one W aphis his brothers and sisters that the hospitality would be appreciated and not abused Q G E nelms of price lodge then thon explained that through a misunderstanding mi gunders banding tan ding grand II master faster watrous and grand G score tiry simpkin did not arrive on the morning train as was expected but would arrive on no 4 so that the speak akine would be postponed until after lunch he fie explained that there would be a baseball game and other sp aspris ris free to the public after the speaking aUng and invited all the men inen to purchase tickets to the dince dance in the evening this was the only paid at traction and wag expected to go a long way toward paying for the fun of the day 11 then table cloths were spread on abu grass and fraternalism was given full swing to the extent that food bought from cue cne bra was passed to those from another town urd home and some isome poor bachelors wro had A no homes were taken into the charmed circle of some brothers fam ily and fed led as one of the family eily F aly an hour was spent in eating mid und fraternal gree greetings ind another half houi in rt sting when it was announced the dit di distinguished t anguished Ingui shed visitors from the capital had arrived after pitting patting away the demain ing food and linen and cleaning dead um in bar the crowd went to the grand stand to listen to the messages of th grand officers t it grand master watrous was intro docen by past grand G E I 1 nelms ana opened gave ve him particular pleasure attend the reunion as he felt to a certain ex 1 lent ent responsible for its being held ha had on several occasions asked he the various lodges of carbon county boget to get together in this danner in order that he might visit them all at one time he ile was gratified at the excellent turnout and the prepared pre para lions tiona made to entertain them and loped hoped that from this time on there be a reunion ln n carbon county every it was well that the members of the various lodges got to how know each other better botter and that chev rive give the public an opportunity to know now the members parson Si Simpkin state secretary of the order who needs no introduction to carbon county people or to those of the entire state then gave a I short but brilliant address addre bs with paternalism fraternalism as its keynote he ile had looked forward with much pleasure 0 this occasion but was hardly prepared for the big outpouring of brot brothers bers and sisters which greeted him m he ile knew know of nothing better to PrOn promote lote fraternalism than getting better acquainted and there was no better way of accomplishing this than to eat and play together nobody was more entitled to a good time me than the members of this great groat order and he lie hope hoped all would enjoy the beautiful park the sports and the efforts aride by the committees to entertain entert tin them he ile had known friendships ships to grow out of picnics and d very often these friendships led to 10 courtships and marriage odd fellowship was working for frater alft bays aya in the year and was continually 1 1 striving to get the world to accept its motto friendship love ve and truth the true odd fellow elma whether man nian or woman beant care where you were born or W language you speak manhood d womanhood Is the tha test for mem w p barship odd fellows are a big bunch of gods children who care naught about your political or religious beliefs it if you are good men and women you yoa can be odd fellows and R rc rl l the order is like the american flag it stands up for the rights of its poorest member just as much as for the richest it bridges the chasm cb sm of religious prejudice and brings catholic protesting Prote stint jew mormon mornion ar ard d gentile together into a I 1 closer understanding of the meaning of the golden rule and the never ending love to the grand blaster of heaven and earth it was one of the shortest but best addresses the writer has ever heard this grand man deliver and when we say best we make a sweeping statement for his addresses are all good and helpful then came cht the sports the first was a foot raca race between two dozen gills between the ages of band 6 and 10 years won by helen frandsen with mary blary boni second frankie pace won the race for boys between 0 6 and 10 3 ears with willie wakely a close second for girls between 10 and 12 years queenie cowley pro proved ed the fleetest and eva roland and elizabeth crockett Crocket fc tied fur second secund after two trials to break the tie they split the basket vt of grapes among the boys between 10 and 12 years carlos pace mado best time but roderick mcmillan waa was a close 1 while not so fat fate ns as some of her sisters mrs W 0 benfer took first in the race for fat ladies and mrs jack davia davis was a relentless second mrs cartmell showed her proficiency in f tha he nail driving contest by winning first place and mrs wakely easily won second bill lyons easily won the fres for all yard zard dahib with 13 au ni fauset t second in the lie I 1 a DD 3 ard dash for odd fellows irvin ward finished first parson simpkin second and cliff rus bell third there was talk of disqualifying the parson because bee etise of his good looks but his tits fiends instated sited in that ho he tako take the prize in the half mile walk J R gold ing was an easy winner with durell gunderson Giinder son second out of eight starters only these two finished the race for fat odd follows was won by john redd closely contested by cliff russell six men from storrs defeat defeated d a like number from kenilworth in a tug of war after which the kenilworth team defea defeated tild a team made mado up of Sunny sunnyside side and price men then jim roberts of wellington got up a team that won a third contest in the dussing gus gu issing sing contest to find the number of PA I 1 beans in a quart jar mrs george bench guessed and got tho the ladys prize W C L benfer with got the prize foe for men florence guymon with won the girls prize and bud lauber guessing won the prize for boys there were beans bearis in tho the jar mr mra IV 0 benfer benter wo woh h the barrel rolling contest for women with airs mckune second esther esthor powell easily won tho the egg raco race with mrs anna fitt close at hor her heels beels I 1 P branch was first in tho the mon mons e back sack raco race and J K R golding second a malatchi disposed of a pie just a trine trifle quicker than dennie F lati and they took farst and sec sea ond prizes othel sharp won tha rl crucq for or carried ried ladies and mrs doia benfer came in second in the yard walking race for Rebe Rebel kahs mrs hall took first alce ind and mrs W 0 benfer second calvin rich won the farmers foot race and poster foster Shi Sil immons nimons was right behind him for second then came the 1 0 01 R baseball game and while it was not in the class with the carbon emery league games it was more fun one team was composed almost wholly of storrs odd fellows under the leadership of nels olson and cliff russell took a few miller creek rubes a few price has beens and one or two play eia ets from other carbon county lodges and won by a score of 8 to 14 captain russell won the prizes for the first home run the first base bise hit and the first stolen base after the ball game the picnickers came down town and got supper bome out of their baskets at the restroom and others at the various hotels and restaurants quite a number attended the movie show in the evening and later joined those who had already gathered at city hall for the dance and it was some dance I 1 more than a hundred tickets were taken up at the door and the floor was at times demost too crowded for enjoyable dancing but nobody to mind that for every member of every lodge in the county bad had been hoping for a good big crowd aud they were having their wishes granted dancing continued until midnight and the special for the western camps pulled out shortly y before one sunday arn o 0 ing with a cargo of tired but happy humanity and so coded ended the firt annual reunion and picnic of the carlion carbon county odd fellows and abs |