Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-05-20
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Eleventh Annual Picnic at Walnut
springs-A Good Time.

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walnut Springs, Bosque County,
l Tex. May 1g.-The eleventh annual
picnic Of Walnut Springs took place
| Wednesday. The day was very gloomy,
| still clouds overhead, with brisk cold
| wind blowing from the northeast. One
would have thought the picnic bound
| TO be failure had not the early pour
| ing I'm Of wagons. buggies, horses and
| every sort OF conveyance from the
| country, loaded with the daring pleas
ure-seeker, convinced him otherwise!
/ BY 1880 o'clock there We're acres OF
| hitched horses and teams. and not
l wlthstandng the Intermittent drizzle
/ and mist, and continual threat of
pourdawn the people stil came-old,
| young; In fact the smiling maiden and
! dudish beauX were not more conspiou-
Gus in their gaudishness and giddiness
| than the elder danes and daddles. At
| II the excursion from the west over
the Texas Central, running from AL
| bany to this point, eleven coaches,
loaded to their utmost; at 1890 the ex-
cursion from Waco arrived, eleven
coaches loaded down. There were now
! on the ground between 5000 and 1000
| people, all eager for the storm to stop
| and the show to begin. After two
| selections of music by the Waco State
| band, Dr. Y. C. Pool, In his distinctive
and Impressive manner delivered an
address Of welcome, and soon after In
troduced Dr. John Collier, one Of the
Oldest preachers OF Texas. Prof. Col
| lier spoke for near an hour. HIS adj
dress was highly entertaining. elo-
quent and intcllectual-no ting of the
average picnic address to H. but every
line deserving notice and thought-not
! boresome. but lively. hlghly-colored
and interesting and worthy Of the Mt
! tentlon given it, shortly after u din
ner was announced aud the DANES,
! damsels dudes and daddics and the
various multiferous product of hui
manity known as young uns' all re-
paired dinnerwlse. Al ., under the
benign influence Of a selection by the
Texas State band OF Waco the wor-
shippers OF spring again assembled
around the grand stnnd-somewhat
more faithful and n heap fuller. Where
upon DR.. Pool again did the honors of
the day and introduced to the eager
audience Mr.. w. G. Brann. editor Of
! the Iconoclast OF Waco. Mr.. Brann's
discourse was simply an intellectual
and linguistic feast His audience was
/ charmed. and though 1t ralned hard
| during the greater part of his dis
course his audience stood with the ut
most attention, broken by frequent out
! bursts of enthusiasm. He took no
| special subject, but spoke on sham and
| humbuggery in general. The liar and
! the lover came In for few ticks, while
| the ghoulshness Of the average poll
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