The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-08-20
THE CATHOLIC PICNIC.
A Great Success. Good Attendance
A Fine Dinner. Cool Shade.
HON. C. NJ. HAY ORATOR OF DAY
Athletic Sports Contribute to Pleasure
of the Day. The Winners

On Wednesday, Aug IS, occurred
the annual picnic of the Catholic
Congregation OF thij city at Rea-
gan's Grove, one mile west of the
city on the Williamsburg road.
The day was an ideal one for the
event, and the large crowd in at
tendance spent a delightful day.
AS usual, the big feature Of the
picnic was the sumptuous dinner
served by the ladies of the church
and it was all that anticipation
had pictured it. Fried chicken,
splendid home cured ham, great
platters of prime beef and nut
ton; vegetables and fruits; APP
petizing home brewed coffee-and
all you wanted of everything was
set before you on tables covered
with snowy linen.
After the dinner had been en-
joyed by all, the people assem-
bled in the shade and listened to
an able Grafton by Hon. c. M. Hay
of Fulton. Judge j. ID. Barnett, in
few appropriate words, intro
duced the speaker. Mr.. Hay spoke
on "The Duties of American Citi-
zenship," and for the purpose o.
discussion said he would divide
the voters into three classes-bad,
Indifferent and good citizens. The
good citizen was the man who,
from pure and patriotic motives,
went into his party caucus, meet
ings and primary to see that on
ly good men were put in office,
and to see that correct principles
were written into the parry plat
forms. The bad citizen he de-
fined as the man who was in pol
itics for revenue only; that is for
graft, and to secure legislation
in the interest of the corruption
lists in high places, for the money
there was in it. The Indifferent
citizens were those who were so
busy with their own affairs, or
were so nice and clean and moral,
that they neglected to take the
part in political matters that they
should. From the indifferent class,
the speaker said, came the great
est menace to our institutions be-
cause they composed the larger
part of the voters of the country,
and upon them he charged the
fault of allowing gangsters and
grafters to nominate candidates
and make platforms. He urged all
good men to take an interest in
the direction of the affairs OF their
political party in the interest of
good government. Mr.. Hay said
many other good things in his elo-
quent address, and the audience
was highly pleased with his ad-
dress, listening with rapt atten-
ton throughout.
After the speaking came the
athletic events, which resulted as
follows:
1OO-yard dash for boys in the
12-year-old class, prize won oy B.
Minter.
1OO-yard dash for boys in 1I-yr.
class, prize won by Foreman Tay-
lor.
1CO-yard dash for men 50 years
and over, prize won by p. c. Tay-
| lor.
Sack race for boys 1. years and
under, prize won by r. Worland.
5c-yard dash for girls, won by
Mary Regan.
| Fat mems race, 10) yards, won
by Geo Earnest.
PICNIC NOTES.
J r. j. Aylward of Ottumwa, Ia,
: came down for the occasion; and
other guests were Misses Grace
and Aiice Calligan of st. Louis.
FIR. Tracey of Wellsville came
/ down with his guest, Master Geo.
Barry OF ST Louis.
The Judges of the raffles were
f. P. Rosenberger, j. r. Scale and
Mr.. Mansfield.
Patrick Hayden drew the lucky
number that won the plow.
i +. Tettemer won the rifle and
John Flood the bracelet.
The majority of the business
men of the city closed their places
CT business from ~ to O'Clock
to attend the picnic.