Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-01-03
REUNION WAS
The BEST EVER
Nebraska Adds Its Forces to
Kansas and Pennsylvania
EXCELLENT DINNER;
SPLENDID PROGRAM
Fine Music. Recitations and Some
"Falry Tales" Make Memorable
This Reunion

The grandest reunion that has
ever been held in this city was
that of New Years day, when the
native sons and daughters of
Kansas, Pennsylvania and Neh-
raska foregathered in X. of p.
Hall.
This being the first year that
Nebraska has had the 50 pe n
sesame" not so many old.time res
idents of the Grasshopper state
were present as there might have
been, but there was goodly
sprinkling just the same, and had
there been many moro intermingl-
ed with the throrg from the Key
stone and Sunfiower states, the
hall would have been inadequate
to contain the crowd.
From every section of the county
with well-flled baskets, they came
and spread such a feast as will live
in the memory of those fortunate
enough to be present for all time
to come.
Not only was there a feast of
good eatables such as is seldom
enjoyed, but there was plenitude
of splendid music furnished by
Bailey's orchestra and fine pro-
gram of recitations by Mrs. Full
mer and Miss Ruth Hall, speech
es from such brilliant local lights
as Attorneys Goblin and Glenn,
Farmer Bailey fromP Pennsylvania,
Mayor Cotfman, George Hutto and
Attorneys Minor and Sloan from
Kansas, Druggist Blakely and
Undertaken Dobbs from Nebraska
and many others, SO that the day
was most pleasantly spent by all,
and it was unanimously decided
that they'd allmeet again-with as
many others as should be granted
the password-next New Years
day, when the following officers
will have charge:
President-G. NJ. Cotfmau
Vice President-W. b. Goblin
Secretary-S. s. Bailey
In the main the Pennsylvania and
Nebraska speakers had for their
theme the exploitation and praise OF
their native states. but some of them
could not avoid sly dig about the
fairy tales" or exaggerated reports
of the Kansas crops, wind, weather,
grasshoppers. etc. few of which
were as follows:
"One said that it is so dry you
have to run a Kansas well through a
wringer in order to get some water.
Another said vou- have to soak a
hog over night so that he will hold
swill.
Still another said that the wind
blows so hard that it moves township
lines and changes the day of the
week.
Still another brags about the Won
derfully sweet alfalfa and asserts that
there is a shortage OF pumpkins be-
cause the vines grew SO fast that they
wore the pumpkins out dragging them
over the ground
To which one of the sons of the
Sunhower state replied:
"The mistake you labor under is
in supposing these are fairy tales
Any old resident of Kansas, that is.
any person who has resided in the
state for more than thirty years,
knows that the statements you re-
gard as fairy tales are mild state
ments of the facts. Really dry sea-
sons are, of course. things OF the
past, but old settlers all remember
when it was dry in Kansas. During
one OF the especially dry years back
in the '7os it was common to have
weepless funerals, not because the
relatives of the deceased were not
filled with sincere grief, but because
their tear ducts had run dry. Occa-
sionalIy where the bereaved family
could afford the expense the mourn
ers were primed and in this way man.