The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1905-08-09
T1E OLD Oh TIEN = FIONIO
To Be the Biggest and Best That has Ever Been
Given in Crawford County.
WILL COMMEMORATE cRAWFoRp'S FIF-
TEETH ANNIVERSARY.
Fine Program Being Arranged. Free Coffee.
Music During Dinner Hour. Grand Fire
Works in the Evening.

Plans are being rapidly pushed TO
make the Old Settlers Picnic, to be
held in Denison on August oath, the
greatest of these annual merry max
ings. There is cause for it. Crawford
is celebrating its fiftieth birthday this
year-celebrating with bumper crops
and splendid harvest weather. The old
settlers and the young settlers have
cause to rejoice and make glad and it
is confidently expected that the city
park will be crowded to its fullest ca
pacity.
Arrangements in Progress
The committee appointed by the Old
Settlers appeared before the CONNER
cial club last Wednesday and at their
request the club resolved that Denison
business houses be requested to close
from 1890 to 3p M. on the day OF the
picnic and that all business men be
urged to take their dinner at the park.
The club appointed j. E. Bale and A.
Wright to act with the Old Settlers
committee in arranging for the picnic.
Further, the club voted that its doors
should be thrown open during the day
to old settlers and their families.
Fireworks are Donated.
The fireworks display purchased for
use on July 4th, was ordered by the
club to be donated to the old settlers
for use on the evening of their picnic.
The display is said to be the finest Den
ison has ever had and it will be worth
coming miles to see.
The arrangements committee met on
Monday evening and while the program
is not completed, good general idea
can be given. In the forenoon 1t ls
proposed to have the first session, at
which time there will be the usual adj
dresses of welcome and a speech by a
noted crater, whose name will be an
nounced next week. Free coffee will
be served during the noon hour and
ample arrangements will be made for
all picnicers. AS an innovation an or
chestra has been engaged to give con-
cert all during the dinner hour.
The program for the afternoon will
consist of series of short addresses.
The speakers will be assigned topics
and will be requested to coLfne their
remarks to ten minutes. It's proposed
to have each decade of the county's
history represented and also to com
memorlte other events of impol lance
to the county. 1t is expected that the
regular program will be completed by
4 p. m, after which all are requested
to enjoy themselves and to wait for the
fireworks which will be displayed as
early as practicable, from the college
hill Any person having resided in
Crawford county twenty-one years or
longer is eligible to membership
The society now has more than three
hundred and fifty members and it is
hoped at this meeting that the rcll will
be doubled.
Aside from the program it is expect
ed that there will be many of the other
attractions of a gala day thus provid-
ing amusements for the young as well
as the old.
Mr.. A. Wright is chairman of the
committee on privileges and anyone
wishing to have stands or other priv
ileges should apply to him. Denison
is preparing to give the old settlers the
best picnic t.ey have ever had and it
hopes that every man in the county
will be present with his family.