Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-07-09
COUNTY NEWS
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS,
The 4th at jefferson,

The baskct Temperance picnic held last
Saturday, as was announced in tho pa
pers, I thought ought to be noticed in your
columns. It was got up and conducted
safely through by lhe Ashtabula Co. c. T.
Union, and think is the first meeting Of
the kind on so large a scale. The day
was all that could be asked for. The
grove was convenient to the road from
Eagleyille to Jefferson, and the grove it
self wa Just what it should be 10 accom-
mOdate the people. The jefferson folks
made the. platform, iOT the speakers, 90 or
40 feet square, With an organ to assist in
the singing. 1t was draped with eyer
greens and festooned with flowers, ami
flags hung in every conceivable place.
Seats were for few hundred people, but
did not hold out but little while with the
crowd that was there. The people did not
come very early, but when the Morgan
delegation came led by the New Lyme
Brass Rand, the crowd came in good earn
est. and soon swarmed all over the woods.
| At about II o'clock, n. J. Pinney, Chair
man Of the Committee Of Arrangements,
calledIhe meeting 10 order, and that pa
triotie hymn, America, was sung by the
audience, followed by prayer by Rev. ThOs,
| GUY. From this time till 1870 O'Clock
the Juvenile Templars of jefferson, gave
us a first class entertainmaRt consisting
of recitatious, essaTs and declamations.
| These were all good, all of them having a
direct bearing upon the subject Of tenn
! perance. One of the essays, by young
| lady, on tobacco, was two-cdged sword,
and slashed the tobacco plant into hun
| dred pieces. The catechism, from our
| standpoint was a little monOtonOus. ret
containing many good points, These eX-
| ercises were conducted by MTs. Mary E..
Plnney in a manner aredltable to herself
and to the sQQiaty. From her we learned
| the society was organized year ago, aud
now numbers about 100 members. The
| test Of membership is the triple pledge,
/ which fOrbids the use Of wine, beer or
cider, tobacco in any form, and all pro
| family, A good foundation to build q
prosperous society, and we wish them all
| the success they merit, oyer the front Of
| the platform was the word, temperance,
and an aneh0E meaning, We suppose, that
temperance was the hope OF the nation.
| After the close Of the exercises on the
! platform, there was an adjournment Of
! one hour for dinner. The Templars had a
| table, where refreshments we're furnished
| hungrymen and wOmen for moderate out
lay Of currency. Ice cream and lemonade
were to be had also, and judging from the
crowd we saw around the charmed spot,
they must have made a good thing OF it.
There was swing ia sight, but we did
not go there, so No shall say nothing about
it. 1t WAs a pretty sight to see the fami-
ly aad neighborhood groups, here, there
and We were about to say, everywhere
with the cloth spread upon the grass ol
leaves, enjoying their Independence TEN
peranee picnic dinner. Aftor dinner We
| gathered around the platform once more
the seats were soon filled. for there Were
not enough of them log one-hfth of IN,
people that wanted seats. Some sat o.
the ground aud hundreds stood up al
around anxious 20 hear the orator OF tn,
day, Judge Sherman, who occupied, w
Judge, about one,half the time in sketch
ing the war Of the Revolution, its success
full termination, the establishment Of oU
government upon the broad foundation o