The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-08-16
A Reunion.

A reunion of former teachers, former
and present pupils, former and present
residents, of school district No. took
place on the old school grounds in said
district Tuesday evening, Ang. s, with
some seventy or more In attendance. They
seemed a jolly, happy crowd, come to-
gether for the purpose of having good
time, and they had 1t.
DR.. Hattie Warren, one of the old-tjme
teachers, with ruler in hand, called the
house to order and, seated in the chair of
honor, proceeded to call off the following
prearranged program Of exercises: "Wel.
come" b. B, Herrick; Response" Mar
Gus Buell.; "Roll Call" Walter d. Warren.
There were two roll calls. One contained
the names of pupils attending school
taught by Lucy Stone, and the other the
school taught by Miss Beckley. This was
away back in the iorties. A number OF
Of those old pupils wtre present and an
swered 10 their names, as they were read,
with the once familiar "here p "Singing
School," Fred Phelps; district No, 4 as
an Educational Center" Charles Clifford ;
Boarding Around, " Miss Santley; "Sleigh
rides" Macia Jones; Indians" Homer
Mason; "Picnic at the Lake." Angela
Randolph; THE Dinner PAIL" Adde
Peirce; "Schoolmaims," V. G. Randolph !;
"Soldiering," Albert Houghton; "The
Swing" Angie Ledyard; valentine Box"
Ellen Mason; spelling School," Alice
Clifford; "Going for Water" Harlow
Peirce; early Architecture" L. w.
Houghton; blue Checked Aprons" Frank
Warren; "The Literary Society,"" Pamela
Sheppard; "Games," Edward Webster
"Uncle Johus Orchard" Roswell Adams
"District No 4 Abroad" Edith Buell.
"rhe Old Saw-mill," l.. +. Clifford
Tricks of Naughty Boys" Horace Wads
worth; Whispering in School," Arthur
G. Smith; The Woods" Alvira Jones
"The Nooning and Recess, "0rlando Smith
sour Capers in School" Charles Furze
"Puuishments in School" Edward Clifford
"The Last Day of School," Hattie Phelps
"Early Days" Lucius Herrick.
Nearly all the subjects above named
were responded to by the persons named
three minutes being the limit assigned
each speaker A solo was sung by Mrs
: Alice Clifford and Mortimer Wadswortf
, with organ accompaniment. Several old
time songs were sung in concert. All titles
and honorary prefxes were dropped irou
numes and given names used, as In schoo
. days. at the close Of the literary exerci'
, rs Il proposition was made 10 organize 1
J sUciety aud make these reunions u pcrnE
nent feature In the history Of disIrect No
, A. DIR. Hattie Warren was universally
proclaimed .Our teacher" and II wa
agreed to assemble NJ her call for future
reunions without other organization than
the "tie that binds" that has had exist
ence since the "early days. of long ago.
Before separating a delicious lunch o
: ice cream and cake was served TO all b!
/ the relreshmenl committee. As il was
, hot evening the Ice cream WAS a most re
{ freshing luxury. The 9Th Of August ha
been, in years pas, a notable day, com
memoatej for It's past history by lhes'
old.iime pupils OF school district No. 4
; and the reunion just past will make an
other red letter day for memory's store
house. May others follow ad infnitum
, By ONE WHO CLIMBED THE FENCE