The Republican journal., 1899-08-24
The Clement Family Reunion.

The Clement Family Reunion.
The 9th annual reunion OF the Clement
family was held Aug. 10Th in Richie Grange
Hall, Waldo. 1t was beautiful summers
day, and there was good attendance In the
absence of the president the meeting was
called to order by the vice president, Hosea
P. White, Singing by the choir was follow
ed by prayer, and then the officers were
elected, as follows: President, Frank Glenn
ent, Montville vice president, Hosea P.
White, Swanville; treasurer, Elijah Glenn
ent, Monroe; chaplain, Elijah Clement.
Monroe; entertainment committee, Esther
Ellis, Brooks, Flora White, Swanville, FL
zada Nealley, Brooks, Hosea P, White,
Swanvile, James W. Cilley. Waldo. Re-
| marks were made by Mrs. Martha Nicker-
son and others. Voted TO hold the next re
union at Job Clements in Montvlle.
After dinner and social chat all adjourn.
ed to the hall up stairs and after music by
the choir they listened to the following ad
dress OF welcome by Mary w. Brown:
Relatives and friends, ladies and gentle
men: 1t is with no great eloquence nor any
hlgn authority, but with most kind and
glau feeling that welcome you here on this
most beautiful August day. My friends, we
are here to-day to celebrate the annual re-
union OF the Clement family and TO us this
is a glorious landmark in our lives, one
winch Is cherished by each and every one of
us as something grand, for here to-day come
together the members of two, three, and
perhaps four generations of the name of
element, with their relatives, to participate
IN Inc soclaltleS which go to make I'D the
kindly thoughts toward one another: and
| let each one do all in his or her power to
make 1t an occasion from which benefit will
| be derived by each one and still further let
each guard against any utterances or acts to
| whlch some may take thought that is not
| Iof our good; for as we remember the words
OF Ella Wheeler Wilcox:
You never can tell when you send word
Like an arrow shot from bow
by an archer blind, be it cruel or kind
Just where it will chance to go.
IL may pierce the breast of your dearest friend
nlpped with its poison or balm;
70 a strangers heart in life's great mart
IL may carry its pain or its calm.
| You never can tell when you do an act,
just what the result will be:
l Dnl win every deed you are sowing a seed
| Ihough Its harvest you may not see
| Each KINDLY act is an acorn dropped
~ God S productive soil:
Though you may not know, yet the trees shall
| grow
And shelter the brows that toll.
|
~ ~ ,r neoGr can te what your thoughts will be
For thoughts are things. and their wiry WINGS
:AheT sW sd1itl, t 4n carrier dove
Zach thing must create its kind,
spe e er te track to bring you back
We trust that bera toyda-
unions of hearts which will be Of great ain.
cerlty Tor the memory of our ancestral
Seirrja i is ha ~ course, we know mat our
death, but let not this dishearten us, for We
h know II t1ey are not in our union here they
cherish well the memories Of '- rhose vs. w.
have gone on before. Before we meet again
more more OF our number may depart from our
make evarv effor1 fo H. 'hesI eliIngs' le' Us
cause and when reunion dav comes = ne ~
year, may we feel that same earnestness to
| iiieet anu receive iona greetings OF relatives