Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-06-25
AN IMAGINARY JUNIOR PICNIC.

It was fully decided that the Courier
Juniors would hold their first annual
picnic at Agency, Ia, on the 23rd OF
June, 1910. for all Juniors OF home
and abroad. so we have all been look
ing forth to the time where we could
all meet and get acquainted with eacn
! other, so now the time has arrived ana
our manl.nas are busy getting a lot
| of good things ready for our picnic
and here we are all ready and anxious
on the 23d day. Thursday morning ana
such a fine dav. There were two
trains to carry us to Agency and
box car to put our lunches In the nrst
train leaves at I a. m. and the other at
is. Such happy crowd Of girls ana
bows as we had We had the Fifty
fourth Regiment band to play for us
and here we are about $50 in all start
ing. Such hurrah when the train pulled
out. It had large signs painted "COur-
Ter Junior Picnic" on the cars. We ar
rived at Agency at 1880 and $3.50. The
train went to the picnic grounds ana
we all alighted, got our baskets ana
and the first thing on the program
was a ball game in the forenoon COM
mencing at 10 o'clock by the Juniors
and the Agency boys. OF course the
/ Juniors won the game.
AS it was getting near dinner time
| we spread our lunch cloths and put
our dinner all together and sat about
! for two hours eating our dinner. When
through eating dinner we put our
Times in our baskets and went and
! ali had a ride on the Merry go-round
and there were races. There was a
J sack race, In this race were John
Stri3ling from Sorth Dakota, Irwin
Eonar, of Drakeville, Iowa, Johnny
Skirvin of Floris. Iowa, Darrell Con-
ger, of Fairfield, Iowa. Johnny SkilVln
won with prize of box of candy
! Next was a two-block race by the
! girls. There were Juliette Eisenbeis
| of Ottumwa, Mabel Skirvin of Floris
| Ia. Josephine Norton of Melrose, Ia.
and Lois Griffin of Abba, Ia. The race
was won by Lois Griffin with gold
| breach for a prize and there were
good many nores races and prizes
won by the Juniors. We all played
games, had swings, played ball. Some
| OF us thought we would go and see
what the city of Agency looked like
SO crowd of us went. We got some
! ice cream. pop corn and candy and
took a look at the city and went back
! to the grounds as it was time when
we were to have a speech by the ed
| itor, so when the editor, Matilda Dew
ereaux took the stand the Juniors
gave three cheers. She gave a nice talk
! on the junior CluD anu ol lis 81 wv -
| in the last two years and of the i'm
fprovement the Juniors were making ir
| their work and that she hoped the
! club would continue to grow.
| 1t was drawing to the time when we
were to start home so we all com
! menced to get our things together ano
started for the train, happy but tired
bunch Of boys and girls. We all de-
c,ared we never had such lovely time
and hope we all will be here to attend
torr second annual picnic. We arrived
, in Ottumwa about o'clock and some
of the Juniors. held at Agency, June ::
! trains to go to their homes. Some
STAYED and visited in Ottumwa fo1
! a few DAYS. All the Juniors had q
badee which said First Annual Picnic
! of the Juniors. held at Agency, June 2:
+, 1910" l think I will always keep my
badge to remember the occasion.
Forest Weber, age 10,
| 1905 E. Main ST, Ottumwa.