Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-03-29
Fixing For The Reunion.

mittee, of the soldiers and sailors
association, set for Tuesday last. was
held on that day at the office of Mr.. II.
Buchner. But three members of the
executive committee, Messrs Baxter,
Buchner and Keene were present, al
though quite a number of prominent
citizens. who had worn the blue in old
army days. were in attendance.
The meeting was called TO order by
the President of the association, Mr.. C.
IL. Baxter, who stated the object of the
meeting to be the fixing of date for
the reunion and to determine upon a
programme of exercises, and said he
would like to hear from those present
on the subject. Mr.. Ii. Buchner was in
favor of uniting decoration day and
reunion, as, if the latter was put off I'M
til June, then there would be one or
two weeks of turmoil. He could see
nothing wrong in combining the two.
Mr.. HIS. Keene agreed with Mr. Buch-
ner He thought it was eminently fit
ting that soldiers should join in the
exercises commemorative of their
dead comrades. In addition to this
there was an immense amount of work
to do and as the same parties generally
had to do the greater part on both oc-
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be too much.
Rev. Mr.. Eaton was rather in favor
of the autumn as at that season of the
yearit was easier getting a variety and
abundance of food TO feed the multi
tudes that would come.
Mr.. Keene said the object in fixing
the time of holding the meeting of the
association in June was to get out the
greatest number of farmers, and at that
time planting was over and they had a
little time to spare.
Mr., J. j. Oswald thought the thii-
tieth of May rather early.
Mr.. John Miles said many people had
been expecting decoration day and the
reunion to come together and if so held
would draw large crowd and be a
great success.
Mr.. p. Henkel said we always had
very great crowd on decoration day
and when they came to add to them
those coming for reunion, and who
would stay over night, he thought it
would be hard to accommodate them and
so favored separating the two.
Mr.. Baxter thought calculations must
be made for at least 10000 people.
Mr.. A. C. Morse said the understand
ing at Boscobel was that reunion was
to be held together with decoration day
He thought if held on Fourth of July,
as some suggested, there might be
some feeling in the matter, as smaller
towns did not have any celebrations ex-
cept on that day.
Mr.. Oswald thought one day was
enough for reunion.
III. ID. Farquharson said it generally
took soldiers two days TO get through
spinning yarns.
Mr.. Buchner suggested adjourning
the meeting for one week.
Mr.. Alex. Ivey thought if left to out
siders the latter would say combine
with decoration .1av
Mr.. Rob't Z. Murphey thought both
days were separate, one was for solem-
nifty and the other for rejoicing. He
had heard great many speak about
the growing feeling of leyity in connec-
ton with decoration day exercises, and
thought it would be we'll to restore the
old feeling as much as possible
Mr.. Oswald said everybody through
out the county expected it would be
held on decoration day
Rev. Eaton thought it would not be
stretching matters much to go to the
Fourth of July.
/ After some further discussion, i'm
which as wide a variance was shown as
in the beginning, Mr.. Buchner moved an
adjournment until Monday evening,
when meeting would be held at the
Court House, at 7:30 p. m, to which
citizens should be invited, and in the
meantime the other members of the ex-
ecutiye commitfpa could ha cor,.a
sponded with and their views received.
After some further interchange of views
the motion was carried.
The meeting and subject of reunion
has aroused a considerable interest in
the community, but among those met
by tho reporter the opinion appeared to
be pretty general that decoration day, on
account of its solemnities, should not be
incorporated with the rolllcking times
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