Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-09-01
Established in 1913.
ANOTHER SUCCESS.
Ninth Annual Harvest Home Picnic
At Stewards Grove.
Looked Like Rain-Three Thousand People
There-Eloquent Addresses Good Din
ner and Everybody Happy.


juice into the hardening corn, drown thu
perniciously active grasshopper, fill VI
failing wells and springs, and refresh tn,
scorched pastures, failed to bring the de
sired downfall, but the big picnic al
Stewards Grove, Thursday, did the bust
ness. at 4 four o'clock in the morning
the farmers heart was gladdened by {
generous shower, while the youths was
made correspondingly sad, because he
had very probably meditated great doing'
for that day, among the red lemonade
stands and the multitude of sweet girls
at the picnic. The farmer himself who
cared more for the rain than the picnic
stopped at home, fearing that bis going
might be. some inducement to Jupiter
Pluyius to shut off his sprinkler. But
in this he was mistaken. Nothing so de.
lights the god of the rainfall as to give a
big crowd thorough soaking But the
youth was not to be detained by anything
less than an actual pour, SO there passed
through the gates of the grove some
three thousand people.
About noon the ST. Clair and Maynard
Councils of American Mechanics, num-
bering some eighty men, headed by two
bands, and carrying the patriotic insignia
of the order, marched from this place to
the grounds, and were addressed by Hon.
g. L. Weems. Mr.. Weems spoke of
the excellent aims of this order, of the
work which it had done, and is doing, in
educating the sentiment of young Amer
leans, and of its rapid growth of late, es-
peciallv in this state and county. He said
that while the prices of all kinds of finish
ed products had come down, the wages
of labor had been uniformity increased,
and he congratulated the farmer on his
present great prosperity. His remarks
were warmly cheered.
Hon. A. J. Pearson, Democratic candi-
date for Congress from this District,
told the farmer of the farmers independ-
ence, content, and general freedom from
the vices and temptations of cehters of
population. He paid high tribute to
the influence of wise mothers on the boys
and girls of the farm.
General S. H. Hurst's portly frame and
swarthy complexion, Drowned by actual
contact with the suns beams, on his
farm at Chillicothe, are familiar to the
people of this locality. The Generals
own appearance, his rounded periods, his
energy and eloquence, fittingly personify
the model farmer, and are strong argu-
ment for the dignity and culture of the
: farmers vocation. He talked briefly of
the American Mechanics, and then went
into his lecture to farmers He contrast
ed the old system of farming and the old
position which the farmers of some years
ago occupied, with the new systems and
with the conditions in which the farmers
of to-day are placed. Every day the op-
probrium attached to the epithets clod-
hopper, hayseed, and so on, grows less,
and the line of demarcation in dress and
in education and in general knowledge
and Enlightenment between the farmer
and his neighbor in the town, grows less
o1ottiiCO. 1ifC ldl iAClS VI OLlo dRO nave
as much refnement,as much intelligence
and more Drawn and force than the deni-
zens of towns and cities. General Hurst
also spoke of the Importance of woman's
influence at the farmers home in refin-
ing and beautifying it.
Judge r. I'll. Cochran was introduced
as Belmont county boy who had gone
out and made name for himself away
from home. The Judge said that his
speech had been made by Judge Pearson
and General Hurst. He therefore had to
make new one. He set his audience in
a roar by number of jolly stories well
told. He said that the best men in all
professions and in all lines of business
are those who have been raised on the
farm-whose muscles have been harden
ed by honest work, whose lungs have
been developed by breathing the pure air
of heaven, and whose spirits have been
educated to restless freedom by the glo-
rious liberty and independence of farm
life. He put in plea for the better edu-
cation of the smallest pupils of the rural
schools, and reviled the idea of par
simonious squeezing of nickels in en-
ploying teacher for the young. His
remarks were thoroughly enjoy ed, and
Literally applauded.
Music was a feature of this years
program. The Crystal Quartette, of Bell
aire, sang number of excellent pieces,
while the Maynard and Uniontown bands
of rain fell, though the clouds were per-
ilously near at times. Those who did not
bring baskets were supplied with eata-
bles, including coffee and ice cream, by
the numerous lunch stands. The hack
line between this place and the grove
was kept busy. The grounds were free
of all gambling games, and altogether
the day was one which records another
successful Harvest Home picnic.
The program this year was carried
out to the letter, so that the reproach
that Governor Campbell put upon the
management by not coming when adver-
tised, the past two seasons, cannot this
year be placed against them. A big ex-
hibition of fireworks, which was late in
the day advertised to take place at the
grove at night, did not materialize, be
use of a too scanty attendance. The
politicians were well represented, though
some were drawn away by the Pennyroy-
al Reunion at Fairview. The best of or
der prevailed, not drunken man being
seen on the grounds. The management
deserves great commendation for present
ing and carrying ont so excellent a pro-
gram.
PIKE bonds to the amount of $4,000
were sold in Jefferson county last week
to Splitter & Co., of Toledo, at 81 ,5l7 pre-,
MUM. Bonds seem to be a good invest