The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-06-16
THE THIRD MICHIGAN CAVALRY
Pleasant Reunion in the City Wednesday
One Hundred Twenty Members Pres
ent-Banquet and Speeches in the Even
ino

One Hundred Twenty Members Pres
ent-Banquet and Speeches in the Even
ing.
The 3D. Michigan Cavalry held re-
union in Owosso Wednesday which
they will have reason to remember for
a long time on account of the hearty
welcome given by comrades Of Quack-
enbush Post, the citizens in general,
and, not the least important perhaps,
the warm reception accorded them by
the weather.
evening before at the New National
Hotel and that evening and all Wednes-
day morning the former members of
the regiment were gathering together
in little groups meeting old acquaint-
ances, some of whom they had not met
for many years, and all of them seem
ingly enjoying themselves more than
ever before. Besides the members
themselves there are about thirty of
their wives who also took the oppor-
tunity for a holiday and visit to one
of the places where the Sd cavalry
stopped for supper on their way to the
front nearly forty years ago.
At two o'clock the command to 'fall
in" was given and the boys marched to
the Grand Army hall where their busi-
cnccinr ha11 Maf
Wilcox, of Bay City, presided and the
meeting chose for its president for next
year Mr.. X. G. Nyman, of Bangor.
Mr.. o. f. Webster, of this city, was re-
elected secretary and treasurer. The
flag after which they marched to the
hall was the same one which the regi-
ment carried in the sixties, it having
been secured from the capitol at Lans-
ing, and brought up for the occasion.
About four o'clock the business meet
ing adjourned and informal visiting
was in order until the hour for the
banquet.
At half past seven the company
marched from the New National where
they had formed in line, to the Congre-
gational church for the promised ban
quet prepared by the ladies of the Re-
lief Corps, and altho seats had been
prepared for one hundred guests quite
a number were compelled to wait for
the second table. The banquet room
was prettily trimmed with the national
colors which were entwined around the
posts and hung from the chandeliers
and beams, while the arrangement OF
the tables, too, none of which seated
more than ten persons, was such as to
break up any effect of stiffness. After
some time spent in getting the guests
seated Mr.. o. f. Webster announced
that they had one comrade who had
not forgotten them, though he was not
present, and Major j g. Butler, of st.
Louis, Mo-, had sent his check to pay
for the supper before them. an an
nouncement which was greeted with
cheers. The divine blessing. was then
asked by Rev. G. H. Hanks. and the
veterans began to make way with the
bounties placed before them.
After the banquet was ended the com
pany was called TO order by Ex-Labor
Commissioner Morse, of Carson City,
who with fitting remarks called on
Mayor Hume who was to make the ad.
dress of welcome, and who did so to
the satisfaction of every one present.
Mayor Hume began by remarkine
that his call in 1899 was different from
the call of the boys in 81 only in that
they we're called to face the enemy and
he to face his friends, but in this hot
weather it Is almost as difficult to face
ones friends as to face an enemy. The
weather, however, was not of his or
dering, as the committee was to blame
for that, tho he sometimes seemed tc
be held responsible for everything else
that goes wrong about Owosso. Blu,
there were other calls as well; reveille
unwelcome to the sleepy ones; assem-
i
bly,, when no one wished to ASSEMBLIES
officers call, sign for the enlisted mar
to "ante," and many others. In No
vember, 1861, the Sd Michigan calvary
stopped at Owosso for supper, and evi
IDENTIFY If they got any indigestion, the
four years course Of dieting cured them
The Mayor, too-a veteran-or pretty
near 1t, disappointed instead of an ap
pointee-was for years q member OF
another Sd Michigan regiment which,
later christened the 33d, defended
the same old flag at Sibony. But once
for all he wished to extend the hand o.
welcome to the men before him, who
had come again to Owosso, with the
hope that they will stay as long as pos
sible.
, TO this address the toastmaster re
sponded and accepted the welcome thus
given. He remembered the supper o.
nearly forty years ago and another
here some ten years ago as well. anc