Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-27
PROGRAM PREPARED
Order rs EXERCISES for wapello
Counpy Old Settlers Reunion.
". a. WORK SPEAKER OF THE DAY
Picnic to Be Held at Agency Septem-
Der 12-Large Attendance Antici-
pated-Interesting and Entertaining
Numbers on the Program.

[From Saturdays Daily.]
The program has been issued for
the sixth annual reunion of the Wapel-
10 County Old Settlers association, to
be held at Agency September -. At
torney w. A. Work. of this city, is to
be the speaker of the day, and there
will be dozen or more other old set
tiers who will deliver short addresses
during the afternoon.
Program to Last All Day.
Early in the morning the old set
| tiers will begin to arrive at Agency,
and about 8 o'clock the exercises will
begin with a selection by the Wapello
Chief band, which will furnish music
during the day. The mayor of Agency
will deliver the address of welcome
and this will be responded to by Capt.
S. H. Harper, president of the associa-
ton. Mr.. Works speech, the address
of the day, will then be delivered. Vo-
cal music will be furnished during the
day by the Agency Ladies' quartette
and by Miss Esther Work of this city.
Old Fashioned Ideas.
An interesting number on the after.
Moons program will be the old-fashion.
ed spelling school, conducted by Miss
Helen Foulke, as teacher. Rev. j. T
Simmons will tell how singing was
conducted fifty years ago, and short
talks will be made by several promi
nent old residents of the county.
Membership Grows Smaller.
The attendance will, in all proba
bility, be very large, as is the custom
lat these picnics, and very pleasant
time is anticipated. The number Of
old settlers eligible to membership il
the association is growing smaller al
the time, and those who are members
feel like improving every opportunity
: to get together and enjoy themselves
while they may, for each year sees
many of the old residents succumb tt
disease and old age For this reason
there is a tinge of sorrow to the joys
of every annual picnic of the associa
. ton, and each year the memory of the
departed ones is paid homage by the
surviving members of the organiza
ton, by the reading of the roll of deat
members by the historian of the asso
citation, whose duty it is to keep list
At the present time there are the
names of ninety-five of the origina
members of the association upon the
roll of the departed.
The Program.
The order of exercises for the pic
mic will be as follows:
Morning Session.
Music-Wapello Chief band.
InvocationiRev. ]. w. Lambert.
Address of Welcome-Mayor H. c
!, Humbert.
Response-Preside S. H. Harper.
Music-Agency Ladies' Quartet.
Address-W. A. Work.
Music-Wapello Chief Band.
Afternoon Session.
Roll of Departed Members. 1
Harmon.
Music-Agency Ladies' Quartet
!, 'As They Sang Fifty Years Ago.
! Rev. j. T. Simmons.
Music-Wapello Chief Band.
Five Minute Talks Major Sam
. Mahon, J. r. Burgess, A. Cain, Jaco
5 Lowenberg, Seneca Cornell
Old Fashioned Singing School-Mis
0 Helen Foulke, teacher.
Music-Wapello Chief Band.
!. Five Minute Talks J. W. Lewis
i Beniah Dimmitt, T. D. Foster, JOSEF
i Parks, Rev. ]. B. Hill, H J. Israel.
n Music-Agency Ladies' Quartet.
+ Solo, Ben Bolt"-Miss Esther Wor
S Five Minute Talks-Calvin Mannin
n DR.. A. o. Williams, Senator J.
d Smith, Dr. Udell, S. B. Evans, J. G
s Meek.
o Music-Wapello Chief Band
Music-Agency Ladies Quartet.
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