The leader., 1905-05-27
THE MONTICELLO PICNIC EXCURSION.
Bro. Joe Dale Writes it up for His
Paper.

UsVs SV1 UuiN HilbSS u uP lVi nIS
Paper.
Tuesday was a great day for
Monticello, as well as for the
Brookhaven visitors that throng-
ed our gates and stormed our
city, capturing, captivating, over
powering, bewitching, subduing
every heart and all the other SUI
perlatiyes and adiectives we can't
think of just at this moment.
lThe occasion was an excursion
given to Monticello by the Brook
haven Baptist Sunday School, in
which a special train was employ
ed, consisting of three coaches and
a baggage car, the latter contain
Ing ice, lemons, and baskets in
Vulnerable. There were 300 in
the party, and of this number
there we're fully 100 adults. They
came for a picnic and they had it
they were out for a good time
and they we're not disappointed.
Everybody seemed to enter fully
into the spirit of the occasion,
and we are quite sure the people
of Monticello enjoyed the festiyi.
ties quite as much as did our
visitors. They we're our guests,
and yet we we're theirs, for they
very generously insisted on our
breaking bread" with them.
Our people had been warned some
weeks in advance of their inten-
[tion to come at some date to be
fixed later, but owing to a regret
table misunderstanding as to plans
and date as finally decided upon
by our neighbors, our people on
their part were caught mapping,
as it were. Not that the visitors
were not able to take care of
themselves, but then we would
have felt much better had we been
able to have played the part of
hosts as beftted the occasion.
The special train rolled into
Monticello promptly at $3.50
O'Clock amid the cheers of those
awaiting its coming and of those
on the train, mingled with which
we're the patriotic strains of
Brookhayen's Cornet Band, spec
Tally engaged and brought along
| for the occasion. 1t was indeed
an inspiring scene. Headed by
the reception committee and by
lSupt. Parsons and the band, the
procession moved towards the
court house. Arriving there,
ISupt. d. M. Lee, of the Monticel-
10 Baptist Sunday School, spoke a
few words of welcome and then
introduced Hon. /. P. Touchstone,
who more formally welcomed the
visitors. The response to the ad-
dress of welcome was delivered by
Supt. W. F. Parsons, of the
Brookhayen Baptist Sunday
School. Right here we wish to
say that Mr.. Parsons always said
the proper thing whenever be had
occasion during the day to speak.
His people are foolish about him
as a Sunday School superintend-
ent, and we know of our own per-
sonal knowledge that as manager
of Sunday School picnics he is a
Iglittering success. Following
Mr.. Parsons address. State Sena-
| tor g. Wood Magee was called on
and made a few we'll chosen re-
marks. The Brookhaven pupils
then delighted US with some songs
and recitations, after which the
assemblage was dismissed till din
Iner.
During the interim, the visitors
wandered at will about over the
town, most Of them. finding their
way across the river into the
pretty woods and green pastures,
where the dewberries, and the
wild ferns and the dogwood grew
in abundance. It was intended to
have the picnic in these woods,
but on account of the heavy rains
of the prece ding day and night
and the consequent dampness of
the ground, this plan had to be
abandoned. Dinner was, there
fore, served on the Baptist church
grounds, and such a dinner it wasl
The Brookhaven people must have
come here with the expectation of
getting hungry, for they were
certainly well fortified against
such d contingency. Fully 500
people were fed sumtpuously and
then there were baskets that were
not opened. OF it was a yerita-
ble feast:
Passing over the brief after
noon exercises in the church,
which were very interesting,
among the speakers being Messrs.
Hobbs and Tull, Of BrookhaYen,
and Rardwell, Of Union Hall, we
shall now devote few concluding
words to the younger people of
the party. There seemed to be-
some apprehension on the mind Of
|Supt. Parsons at the start that the
boys and girls might not behave
themselves properly but we neV
Fer saw better behavior in our life.
In fact, it was remarked BIZ our
people how excellent was their
manners, and what good mammas
and pappas there must be back ID
Those homes, and what superior
teachers they are bound Is have
/ ID those schools, 10 order to rear
such well-behaYed boys and girls.
/ ii is needless to say that our