The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1895-09-12
HAPPY MEMORIES
A vakened by the Recent Journal
Picnic.

Editors Journal and Correspondents
All:-The tidings of your recent delight
full reunion picnic at Union Chapel, came
to me through the Journals bright col
umns as cherry ''letter from home,'
and be sure that my heart makes glad
and grateful Obeisancs to those of you
who mentioned or even heard with pleas
ure, the name of the boy who, from his
| bed, in the paper and in spirit once min
gled with you in all the glad exuberance
of happy, hopeful youth.
rejoice that you came again together.
| and l trust that you received such in
| SEPARATION as will cause you to make your
organization permanent. Your coming
together thus every year will tend to in
spire every correspondent to give the
Journal better service as the weeks 90
by. Thus the people and the paper will
be benefited, and the reflex BLESSING.
born of individual effort on your part.
will bring its need of satisfying pleasure
and uplifting compensation.
The beautiful story your recent pic
mic seemed to "tOuch spring that un-
locked the past and brought that bright
August day in 90 in speaking panorama
before me. | seem to feel myself borne
again by kind hands, out on my cot and
placed on the stand beneath the beauti-
full trees. | hear the eloquent and ten
der words of brilliant Walter McElreath's
'opening address, while smiles of ap-
proval wreathe many faces, and now as
| touching wartime memories are awaken
ed, see tears gently fall. Lying on my
cot | begin to deliver my address of
Welcome" but physically unable to
! finish Prof. Stewart, the gifted Young
educator of Marietta, steps to my side
| and reads my address with mellow and
charmingly expressive voice. Now dear
old Bro. Jeffries, crippled, grand and
| gray, thrills the audience with his re-
spouse ; now the home young ladies',
Miss Clemmie, Miss Mamie, and my
own sainted sister, Sallie Blanche,
read essays and render Rotations; and
now Col. Power, ''the best county school
commissioner in the State awakens
the people with his incisiye words, i'm
presses them with logical thought and
stirs their hearts with his soulful elo-
quence. IT'S dinner time-the tables
groan, sthe crowds mingle in gayety I'M
, der lthe trees-friends gather tenderly
around my cot-I am happy and every
/ body else seems to be.
Now the correspondents are marching
upon the stand, and our fair girls in ro-
tation are pinning button-hole bouquet
on each happy correspondents coat
The short responses begin, notable among
which are Stewards words of grace
Spaulding's sober sense; dear Farmer
Beachs' tenderness and love; Editor
| Meals impasSioned tribute to woman
that glowed with the splendor of a
Dickens, surprised, startled and electi-
fled us all; and the genial, enterprising
Amor" (Mr. Il. w. Griggs) who sug-
gested the picnic and has since been such
a friend to the young people of that com
munity. Bro. Jeffries convulses the
crowd with "Why l am a Bachelor" ;
Col. Enooh Faw speaks briefly but
strongly of county Sabbath school work
a sweet song is gloriously sung; Bro.
Robert Baber leads in q tender, closing
prayer; countless "God bless yous'' fall
into my happy heart, and the first cor
respondents picnic-the day for whose
success my friends and had worked so
hard, goes down to memory, but leaving
"A glow of inspiration behind that has
lived through all these trying years, and
abides until to day. o golden, sacred
memories that kiss my heart even now
with tender touch, We were born at the
] OAN OWuCl
dear spot that was afterwards glorified
by the inspiring achievements of one of
| the bravest, noblest bands of young peo-
! pie that ever blessed the earth.
| GAS over the hill tops, the valleys and
plains,
Tho the sun hath departed, a glory
| remains
So with us all yet bright relics afe seen
To tell us each day of all that has
beenr'
From the first Journal picnic five years
| ago, it may be said that the literary
work among the young people in Cobb
county received the impetus of its dawn
ing, glowing inspiration. Hence it
seems that every correspondent, editors
and all, should meet at the convention
| to be held with the Middleton club,
at Middleton, next Saturday, Sept. 18th,
! and bring your friends and sweehearts
with you. Besides the speakers already
announced, Prof. w. w. Seals, the pop
ular new President of the Douglasville
college, will be there. With eloquent
Ellis and wide-awake Gam, with their
plucky, generous club gathering around
them, Middleton will be equal to the oc-
casion, you may be sure. Let every
member of every club in the county,
whether active or inactive, go and light
their torch of inspiration anew at Ma
bleton's glowing fire."
Your comrade of the Golden days."
WILL d. UPsHAw.