The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-06-29
SOCIETY
HAS FINE
OUTING
Indiana Organization Makes
Merry at the Lake County
Fair Grounds Last Satur-
day Afternoon and Pulls
Off Big Stunts.
AVOID ILLUSIONS
TO LITERATURE
W. J. Davis Entertains Party at
Banquet at His Home Which In
cludes for Guests Several Well
Known Hammond Manufacturers
and Business Men.

and Business Men.
The Hammond men who attended the
picnic of the Indiana society held at
the Crown Point fair grounds last Sat
urday had a great time. In fact they
enjoyed themselves from start to finish
and when Charles Ai1ing put the mo-
ton: "AIl those who believe that this
was the most pleasant outing In the
history of the Indiana Society, please
respond by saying "nye." Messrs. A.
NJ. Turner. w. B. COnkey and j. E. Fitz-
gerald were there with the loud cage"
There were nbout 800 members of the
society present at the picnic and 1T was
O'Clock at night before adjournment
took place.
The Hoosiers. who, following the ex-
ample of other famous sons of that
state, had moved out of Indiana and
come to Chicago as soon as they could.
| had gone down to Crown Point on the
| Erie and in motor cars with large
baskets of picnic food. Having par
taken OF the fried chicken and fruit
| cake and pickles and lobster salad
and seen some horseracing and ball
games and listened to one or two
speeches, they were preparing regret
fully TO depart.
The town was decorated with flags
and bunting. and all the natives who
had remained at home. came out to see
the Chicago people, who still were
proud to call Indiana their home. but
| wouldn't live there. Among the party
were thirty five or forty who originally
came from Indiana, but who settled in
Chicago and then went back to South
Bend to spend their money. They were
the real aristocrats of the gathering.
What's Thats No Literaturet
There were several speeches. but
nobody said anything literary The
Indiana society from Chicago is tired
Of being blamed for Indiana's literary
geniuses and one of the rules OF this
picnic was that anyone who said any
thing about poets or historic novels or
2 winged Pegasus. was to buy a dinner
at some future time for the crowd
So Judge I1enesaw NJ. Lands. when
he got up, just told what Indiana was
like when he was a boy. He said he
could split more rails and tan more
coon hides than anyone On the banks of
told of deer shooting and cihcuit riders
and white caps and log houses and in
trepid pioneers and statesmen. He
started to say something about authors.
poets playwrights, and cartoonists, but
some one pulled his coat tail and he
finished by saying:
What I was about to say, fellow
Hooslers, is-Indlana has the best
stone roads in the United States"
But the judge went down by train.
leaving the good stone roads for
Homer j. Carr. Mr.. Alling. John NJ.
Glenn, o. C. Carter, NJ j. Sutherland,
and a few others. There were nearly
forty motor cacrs present
They Give Proof Later.
Congressman J. e Watson, now a
speaker He said Indiana was noted
George Ade came up from his Brook
farm, in Newton township. He was
dressed like plain farmer in white
flannel and with light blue polka
dot band around his straw hat.
> After the eating and speaking there
: were horse races and athletic sports.
in which none Of the society, however.
took part except VIII J. Davis, Whose
summer home is in that neighborhood.
Mr Davis drove to victory with his
l three horses. VIII Davis. Sandy Nc
2 Wherter and Willette. pride of the Will
, loSvdaIe farm He won three out of
four Of the races.
, The Illinois theater orchestra played
during the afternoon, and after the
picnic Mr.. Davis invited a number of
intimate friends for a dinner-just an
old fashioned country dinner" he said
: cooked by old Virginia colored
t woman. at the farm. There must have
g been forty or fifty who accepted the
: invitation, among them Judge Joseph
: Fl. Defrees, president OF the society
: Judge lands, ". J. Sutherland, Joe
: thinner. William Cannon. of Salt Lake
: George AIDE. Ort Wells George Jerome
i c. s. Norton, A Murray Turner. w B
[ Conkey. Charles Collins. George t
Buckingh John Fitzgerald. Joseph
O Dimery, Lewis II. FaIley, L w. Land,
4 man and FdVa ri Greer