The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-19
VETERANS AT coMPoUNcE.
Forty-nine Whose Ages Average
 Eighty-one Years


 Eighty-one Years.
 There have been gatherings of all kinds at Compounce Lake, of societies, clubs, military organizations, etc, but Thursdays assemblage, says the Hart ford Times, was unique and unlike any ever held in Connecticut.
 Isaac Pierce and Cad Norton, the owners of Compounce Lake and the surrounding land, and who live close by, are both farmers, but have seen much of life. They are in comfortable circumstances and are both eighty-one years of age. A few days ago they sent out an invitation to all men over seventy-fve years of age to become their guests at Compounce Lake on Thursday and enjoy an old-fashioned sheep roast and barbecue.
 Fifty-nine had responded by o'clock, when dinner was announced. All were requested to register and 56 did so. There were 19 from Bristol, or 21 includ- ing the hosts, 16 from Plainville, IF from Southington, and one each from Pennington and New Britain. The combined age of the 56 was 4,52o years, an average of nearly eighty-one years. In this gathering not more than half a dozen were seriously affected by the intirmitles of old age, and of the names on the register there was only one that was not perfectly legible
 The morning was passed in renewing old acquaintances and in talking of the good old days of half a century ago. A game of ten pins was rolled by Rod ney Langdon Of Southington, ninety three years of age, Luman Lewis of the same place, ninety-three, and Adra Hart of New Britain, ninety-three. The scores were in the order named above, n, 93 and II. The men assem- bled were chiefly farmers, with a few merchants, one or two manufacturers, and sprinl1ling of mechanics.
 A blessing was asked by the Hon. H. D. Smith of Plantsville and then the veterans sat down to the tables laden with roast sheep, fried corn and Harri- son cider. Two sheep were roasted.
 Isaac Pierce, one of the hosts, and a half owner of Compounce Lake, is eighty-one years of age, and was born in the house where he now lives In his younger days he lived for some time In the south and later was a Califor- mia Forty-niner. He represented Bris- tol in the legislatures of 1861 and 1873 and will, if he lives until November, have been a voter for sixty years All ways democrat he will not vote for Bryan this time.
 Cad Norton, who, until recently own- ed the other half of Compounce lake. was born and has always lived In the house few rods north of the lake MT. Norton is eighty-one years of age, and Is in good health and thoroughly enjoyed the occasion. He represented Southington in the legislature in 1850 and 1860, and also represented Bristol after the town line was changed, in 1865. Always a democrat, he cannot swallow either the Chicago platform or candidates.
 MT. Pierce is not we'll, and was able to spend only a few minutes with his guests yesterday. Better types of good old New England stock than Uncle Ike" and Uncle Gad'' are not easily found
 J. R. Mitchell moved vote of thanks to Messrs. Pierce and Nortor, which it is unnecessary to say was passed unanimously
 The following Is a list of those pres ent with their ages:
 Bristol-Daniel Lardner 76 Luther Adams, g; Rodney Barnes, 75; Almon Lane, 76; Lester Goodenough, 76: F. B. Wakefield, 75; Julius E. Pierce. 72; Ed win Lewis, 90; Henry A. Seymour, 7S; John H. Adams, S3; A. L. Atwood, 80; Julius R. Mitchell, S5; Asa Bartholo- new S1; William Gayord 77; Joseph Grldley, 80; Harmon Payne, 7S; Heze- Henry A. Pond, S2.
 Plainville--William Jillson, S1; Jared Goodrich, 86; Isaac Alcott, 87; Charles Thompson, 75; Tertillus D. Townsend, 76; Dr. G. Potter, 7S; Henry F, Roden, "A Matthew Dibble, "A; Charles John- son, 76; William F. Clark, S1; Norton c. Peck, IT. Daniel Barnes, 80; J. w. Hemingway, 75; E. N. Pierce, s2; Dex- ter Allen, 75; H. J. Norton, S3.
 Southington,-Ed Steele, S5; Hen ry D. Smith, 76; Martin Frisbie, 76; Martin Barnes, 7S; Almon Bradley, S5; Solomon Finch. S4 Albert Hitchcock, S8; L. Doolittle v; G. Lewis, 77; o. B. Neil, 80; Frederick A. Barnes S6; Mar tin Neil, "A; David Pratt, S3; Dwight Twitchell, 80; Luman Lewis, 93; Jo- seph P. Platt, SS; Ava Hitchcock, S.
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