The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1896-08-07
SEDALIA PICNI ).
A Fine Day, A Large. Crowd and
Some Excellent Speeches.
A Game of Ball.

dalia Sunday school was held
Wednesday in the beautiful grove near
the old home of John r. Minter ut
! Sedalia.
A picnic is held at this favorite
spot once every year, under the aus
piccs of the Sedalia Sunday school,
but the whole section of adjacent
country assist in it both by their
presence and by material assistance
towards the entertainment of the
great crowds that assemble there
every year. Scdalia. is situated in
beautiful section of country, with
good farms surrounding it on every
hand. The lands lie well and are
very productive. The crops on them
arc forward and splendid. The APP
pearancc of the people present, the
crops, and the bountiful supply of
victuals ut the dinner, all tend to
show happy, progressive and con-
tcntod people, and why shouldn't they
be? They are about as well situated
and doing about as well as any pco-
pie we know of. They arc an indie
pendent people. They live by the
sweat of their brow, and do their own
thinking. No man or set of men
pull the people of Cross Keys town
ship about by the nose. No man
carries Cross Keys township in his
pocket, in any sense of the word.
They arc Il free, independent liberty
loving and God fearing people. They
live under their own vine and fig tree.
and arc contcntcd.
There was Il very large crowd at the
picnic, We suppose about fifteen hun
drcd people present. We had
splendid dinner, and every one pres
cnt had plenty to eat
Sometime before dinner there was
singing and speaking at the stand,
under the shade of some beautiful
water oaks. Mr.. Mintcr Bobo, who
so worthilv acted as Chairman of the
meeting, introduced Rev. Blackburn,
of Whitmircs, who opened the cxcr-
ciscs of the day with prayer.
Mr.. Thomas j. Bctcnbaugh was
introduced as the first speaker, then
Mr.. William Coleman, then Mr.. w.
W. Gist Duncan. After Mr.. Dun
can speech the chairman, Mr.. Bobo,
appointed Il number of ladies and
gentlemen to look after and arrangc
the dinner, and in short time din
her was announced and e}xsS one
was was Invited ny. p,tasaAs+ thing 81 the
day occurred, shower Of rain pass
cd over us and made it slightly I'M
pleasant to all, but it soon quit rain
ing and everything moved along as
smoothly as possible.
\ short time after dinner the
crowd was recalled to the speakers
stand. and Mr.. c. p. Sanders made
an address to- the Young. lie was
followed by Rev. Blackburn, which
concluded the speaking for the day.
The speeches were all on a very
good plane, and very crcdltablc, cs-
pccially the speech Of MIR. Coleman,
which we regarded as very appropri-
ate indeed.
After the speeches the crowd pro-
cccdcd to The base ball ground where
an exciting game was played be-
tween the Whitmirc nine aud the
Cross KEYS nine. DR.. john NJ.
Lawson was selected as umpire. We
are satisfied that the Cross Keys
nine made Il mistake in agreeing to
DIR. Lawson. as we found ont from
him as we droTc home with him that
he was quite fond of one Of those
Young ladies in that wagon from
Whilmirc'S and had been Tilted By n
Cross Keys girl. We never would
have suggested Doctor Lawson :
name for umpire had We EaTc known
that hc loved that Girl from Whit
mirc$. ior no man, Eowcvcr EoLc.t,
can umpire Il game Of ball properly
when there is Young LADY around
that is attracting his atgcNti". nil tn"
white.
The first part Of the game was Is
nice Il zane Of ball as We ever saw.
1t wa% very exciting. Cross KEYS
Was victorious by Il score of | to u.
They also defeated Gross Ancho" on
Julv 10Th hy score Of 30 |. We
wish the best players Of the Cross
KEYS nine and the best PLAYERS o.