Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-08-14
ARRANGED
Plans Being Completed For Old
Settlers Picnic August, 20.
HON. H l. WATERMAN WILL SPEAK
ottumwan VIII Be Orator OF the Day
Special Train VIII Be Run From
ottumwa to Asency-Features Of
Program.

ottumwa to Asency-Features Of
Program.
Hon. II. l.. Waterman OF this city
will deliver the address of the day at
the annual picnic and reunion of the
Wapello county Old Settlers associa-
ton, which will be held at Agency,
August 26. The program committee
of the organization, which is composed
OF Jacob Lowenberg, Hon. w. A. Nc
lntire and w. H. H. Asbury, met last
evening and arranged the program for
the occasion and also considered other
matters which have their bearing up
On the success of the affair.
An Enjoyable Event.
The annual picnic Of the old set
tiers of Wapello county, with their
families and friends, will be this year,
as always in the past, an event which
will afford all who attend much pleas
ure. 1t affords an opportunity for the
pioneers of the county to gather to-
gether and amid their old companions
recall the strenuous days, long ago,
when Wapello county was a compare
tive wilderness and when there was
little or no prospect for city within
its confines of the size and import
ance of Ottumwa. Many and varied
were the experiences of those old set
tiers to whom belongs the credit for
the work of building Ottumwa and the
county to their present state of pros
perity and influence.
number Of these old residents be-
comes less and less. Each year a few
are gathered to their fathers and leave
behind the pleasant and prosperous
scenes. Each year the circle of pion-
GERS grows smaller, but the bonds of
union become the more strong for the
losses from the ranks, and thus it is
that each succeeding summer finds the
old settlers Of Wapello county more
than ever ready and anxious to meet
each other again and to talk over old
times.
The Program.
The program committee has arrang-
ed for an entertaining list of events
which will take up the entire day. The
picnic Is to be held in Fullen's grove
at Agency, August 26. Speeches, mu-
sic, and the reading of the roll of the
departed members of the association
will compose the program, and the
time not occupied otherwise will be
given up to social conversation and va
rious amusements which suggest
themselves. The whole of the spa
cious grove will be turned ever to the
picnickers, and there is no more pleas
ant place in the county for such an
event than this. The program as ar
ranged last evening is as follows:
Morning Session.
Music--Schwabkey union band.
Invocation-Rev. John Kendrick, of
Agency.
Address of welcome-John Spring
er, mayor of Agency.
Response-Jacob Lowenberg, presi-
dent of the association.
Music-Old time singing, by class
under direction of S. B. McClung.
Address-Capt. S. B. Evans.
Music-Band
Dinner.
Afternoon Session.
| Music-Band.
Address Of the dayton. H. L. Wa
terman.
| Roll of departed MEMBERS. l..
Harmon, historian of the association
Singing as it was fifty years ago
led by Rev. ]. T. Simmons.
Five minute talks-Capt w. H. Kit.
! jor A. H. Hamilton, Rev. j. T. Sim.
mons.
Music-Band.
Five minute talks-Hon R. B. Ar
mold, Hon. T. M. Epperson, Hon. g. w.
Dickens. L. F. Dudgeon, David Jay
w. A. Work
Old Time Singing-Led by s. B. Nc
Chung.
/ Music-Band
| Singing Of the Doxology.
Benediction.
Arrangements for Comfort.
Every arrangement will be made al
the picnic grounds for the entertain
ment and comfort of those who attend
| The citizens of Agency have entered
into the work of preparation as one
man and nothing which can be done
to make the affair pleasant and sue
cessful one will be left undone. A
special train over the Burlington will
leave Ottumwa about 1920 a. M, anc
returning will leave Agency about
p. m. This will allow picnickers tt
enjoy whole days outing without the
loss of extra time. The fare for thu
round trip will be 80 cents. The com
mittee has guaranteed the sale of 20l
tickets, and asks that these be uset
instead of any other form of transpor
tation.
/ Provisions for postponement in cast
"a roJr, houo hooD mado