The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1906-12-14
MEMORIES
OF BUCKEYES

The Buckeye Club had q pleasant
evening yesterday at the residence OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter C. Weldon where
many old-time memories were told by
former Ohioans. Mr.. and Mrs. Weldon
had planned an outdoor entertainment
and had erected tent, but owing to
the dampness of the grounds 1t was
decided at the eleventh hour TO trans
fer everything to the house. The porch
was enclosed with the tent sides and
American flags and electric lights
made CHEEKY gathering place. The
presiding officers table was at the cor
ner of the porch, SO that those sitting
around the sides of the l. were In his
vision at all times.
Raymond C. Brown, the president,
who retires i'm February after very
successful year. presided with c. III.
Dickey as secretary. There were some
minor changes in the bylaws concern
ing meetings. The annual meeting Will
be held In February. That meeting
will be held at the residence of Mr..
and Mrs. A. f. Cooke, Palolo Tract.
Mr.. Brown sang the Old Oaken
Senator Dickey 1t was planned orr
ginally for Mr.. Brown to sing this at
the well in the Weldon yard. Mr..
Brown was warmly applauded.
Rev. j. W. Wadman was asked to
tell how he became Buckeye. He
said that while he and his wife and
five daughters were on the island of
Yesso, Japan, they decided to send the
daughters home to be educated. In
true Methodist style they got down up
on their knees and pored over a map
of the United States and after elimn-
ating all other states and territories
decided upon Ohio, and then upon
Delaware town as the place where the
daughters should receive their educa-
ton. Mr.. Wadman said he believed
Delaware to be the center of the uni
verse. He believed himself to be a good
Ohioan, for he spent most of his salary
In the Buckeye state.
Mrs. Dillingham; spoke OF some early
days In Ohio where her grandparents
lived. She remembered journeying
from Honolulu to Ohio to pay them a
visit. First by steamer to San Fran
cisco. then down to Panama, across the
isthmus, then to New England. then
across the states to Ohio. and then
down the Ohio river by a small steam-
err. 1t was a beautiful ride down the
river.
DIR. whitney told of the visit he ana
Mrs. Whitney made to Ohio last sum-
mer. He found everything 30 pros
porous there. The farmers were now
living In fine. modern, citified homes
with steam heat and gas. Fields were
cultivated In far different manner to-
day than In his boyhood. How his
back did ache from hoeing potatoes
and with what small results, but now
everything is done by machinery. And
wages were small then. He worked
for SO a month and thought he was
well paid.
While in Cleveland. DR.. Whitney said,
he remarked It's wonderful growth. He
said to a friend: There must be a
convention in town today, there's so
many people on the street" But then
DR.. Whitney had just arrived from
Honolulu.
Senator Dickey said that fifty years
ago he was a school boy in a famous
old school in South Salem, Ohio. He
told some humorous Incidents OF school
life, especially In learning Latin. Then
he told OF the good old maple season
anu lHe cdhuy pulis uiltl tHe IoulHS
OF the guests fairly watered.
Judge Kingsbury told how he first
became an ohioan. He was speech
less at the time and he knows that
many OF his aunts were present. He
didn't Know much about hoelng pota-
toes except the potato bugs. He knew
they killed potato bugs with plaster
of paris. The laughter which followed
clOSd the Judges address,
Then a Photographic exhibit was dis
played on a wall by Mrs. Weldon, the
likenesses OF some we'll known Buck
eyes. There were pictures OF babies.
hardly recognizable as the grown-ups
present who pleaded guilty to being
those selfsame youngsters. Very dain..
ty refreshments were served. It was
q typical Buckeye meeting. The club
membership 10 growing.