The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-11
AT STALLS PICNIC
Four Thousand Persons In
Famous Grove Near Topeka.
Thirty.Tifth Annual Gathering
Temperance Workers.
ALIEN AND JACKSON SPEAKERS
Prohibition Lectures by Well
Known Kansas Men.
Family Reunions and Hun.
dreds of Little Riddles.

In all probability the greatest con-
glomeration Of conveyances in the
grove where the thirty-fifth annual
picnic Of the Shawnee and Usage
County Temperance and Sunday
school union was held. Long,
low machines. motorcycles, bicycles,
surries. buggies. saddle horses. sleepy
eyed mules, go-carts and baby car
riaees were lined UP in the shade.
Grandparents with anxious gaze on
the second and third generations told
how they had attended picnics in the
same grove more than quarter Of e
century ago. some 1000 ssperpQfis-@
one-tnird OF them youngsters
"Giad to see you, all here" hospita-
address of welcome, hope you were
here last year, and will come next
Marshals OF the day. .girded with
scarlet sashes. marched about. Pink
lemonade flowed like fountains. A
merry-go-roundx conducive to dizzi-
ness. whlrled merrily. Baskets con-
tanning ''puddin's salads, sandwiches
an pies that make Teller wish he
wuz as hungry as his eyes" were open
the same as 1t was last year and year
before last year-and the year before
that r'.ss
Family Reunions. 49,. &.
Family reunions were held. Friends
who hadn't met for a year clasped
hands and talked Of former picnics.
Various county Sunday school classes
had charge Of the exercises in the
morning dialogues and
'speakin' pieces" Then came luncheon
1.-The climax of hilarity. Most of the
small boys retired YEARLY after vast
consumption Of goodies-too spent to
play .. go. 80, ~ + "a 4
Fred s. jackson, ex-attorney general
of Kansas. and Henry Allen, editor of
the Wichita Beacon, made informal adj
dresses in the, afternoon. No subjects
had been assigned. Miss Ceora Lam
hams Topeka pupils presented clever
little playlet The Tickle Fortunes 6f
Jerushy:" .ritten by Miss L.anham herr
self. Eight children took part. Miss
Lanham gave several readings. -. =
The neighborhood people had prepared
. play for. presentation in the evening.
There was an amphitheater with !. at
tractive stage settings and raised seats.
Boys BAND Of Burlingame
The Boys band OF Burlingame played
fagtime. opera selections and med1eYs
Of old tunes. 80.
All the grandmothers and grandfath-
aors were joyous-it's the event of the
rU1Ar to many of them. The Riddles
oahoed Eugene Fields "Picnic-time:"
ITS June ag- n. and in my soul I feel
the thrilling Joy
What's sure to come this time Of year
to every little boy,
Dor every year the Sunday schools at
picnics may be seen
Where fields beyond the swellin' floods
stand dressed in Twin green,
Where little girls IL scared tnsdeath OF
spiders. bugs and ants
And little boys git grass stains on their
go-to-meetin' pants!''
The picnic, originall. local organ
i8ation. has gained wide interest. Each
year It II given in Stahls grove. four
miles southwest Of Auburn. The first
organization was for the purpose Of
promoting temperance sentiment. The
prohibition amendment was secured
but the picnic was continued. increas-
ing in numbers and popularity year by
year. "a