Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1909-10-28
Old SETTLERS REUNION
WAS WELL ATTENDED
The Big Crowd Enjoyed Itself
All The Time
{. h. MADISON TALKS OF OLD TIMES
StOoies by Old Settlers, Music
And Visiting fill the Time

The Old Settlers reunion last Sat-
urday was a success from every point
of view. The day was ideal. the at
tendance good, the entertainment
features happy, and well executed.
BY early morning teams and autos
began to arrive in town, and by 10
O'Clock the streets were we'll filled
with crowd of people, old and
young. From tn oldest inhabitant,
George DeCow, who came to the
county in 1876, down to the recent
arrival of this fall, they were all here.
No not quite all either. We missed
the smiling face of Andor Eliason,
and if he was IN town we failed to
find him. F. M. Davis was the pre-
siding officer and master OF -eremo
MES. George DeCow bossed the
carving of the barbecued beef and
pork, and it goes without saying that
the program was successfully worked
out and that everybody had all that
they could eat.
The program opened with music
by the Won Prosky band, which re
ceived only words of praise for their
work, after which the opening exer-
cises in the Phelps opera house were
attended. Rev. Baker Of the Meth
odist Church made the opening pray
er. This was followed with stories
by the pioneers, Capt. J.. E. Rob-
erts setting the example. fhe cap
tain's talk was good, awakening
slumbering memories of the early
DAYS, when the antelope and other
game yet fingered on the landscape.
1t also. called up thoughts of the
sod house and dugout hospitality,
which, like the log house entertain
ing of the stranger by our fathers
east of the Missouri river, was open
handed, spontaneous and hearty.
He also paid deserved tribute to
the pioneer women, in fitting words
and true sentiment.
Mrs. Fuhr then spoke of the trials
of the ladies of that day, saying that
they did not think of their lives as
one Of hardship or denial, though
the loneliness of some of them, miles
from any other woman, was at times
hard to bear. Grand, courageous,
heroic, have been and are the wom-
en- of the frontier. We must call at
ter ton of the young ladies of this
day to one experience of Mrs. FuAr.
After some time had elapsed from
their settlement on their claim north
of town, she heard a rattling noise,
new to her, and looking around saw
a very large rattle snake, which
crawled into a hole few feet from
the house. Thus she learned that
her nearest neighbor was rattler,
living in dugout. Her talk was
entertaining, and she left the floor
with the audience pleading for her to
90 on. The stories, part of the pro-
z. am were entertaining from first to
last.
The song in foreign language by
Flick and Amstutz was good, and
when encored president Davis in
formed the audiance that they would
sing a song in another language as
soon as they learned it. We suppose
that they are taking lessons in the
language selected every day, to be
ready for next years reunion.
Hon. E. H. Madison was then in
troduced by F. M. Davis; and al
though suffering from hay fevr talked
entertainingly for an hour of early
times, beng himself a pioneer OF
Ford county. Perhaps thee one
thought of his speech which received
the closest attention and was the
most enthusiastically received by