Arizona republican., 1914-03-15
ELLiNO|S|AN9
 WERE AT PLAY
Annual Picnic of the So- ciety at Hierogly phic Rocks, a Scene of Gayety.
 Complete Success as to Attendance and Program

AUtCIIIdIlCt dllu l IOS dIlI The liveliest spot in Arizona yes terday was in the vicinity of Hieroglyphic Rocks south of the city where the annual picnic of the Illi- nois Society was held There was a larger attendance of the members of the society than usual and a much larger number of children, about 150 of the latter. The picnic was complete success and proceed ed without hitch. The transpor- tation problem, always a difficult one, was well handled by Dr. H. H. Will son and w. L. Pinney.
 Some idea of the attendance at the picnic may be gathered from the statement that forty-four Illinois counties were represented. That pie turesque spot was alive with former residents of Illinois. The luncheon was an interesting sight with groups spread along the mountain side with well filled baskets. R. H. Greene and Mrs. Emory Rays, as usual, presided over the coffee making and sustained the re- putatiOn they earned in the early days of Illinois picnics and to which they have added at every succeeding picnic The basket dinner was well along at one o'clock and then a pano- ramic photograph of the picnickers was taken by Mccullough & Howard
 On a hieroglyphic rock as ros- trum, President Heard of the society, opened the annual meeting with a short address of welcome after which he read Lincoln's Gettysburg address and he stated that it was always the pride of Illinoisans to keep alive the purposes of the great Lincoln.
 In concluding he said that he had enjoyed the fellowship of the society during the six years of his office. He believed, however, in rotation in of flee as in crops, and urged the cleo tion of a successor There were happy addresses by H. B. Wilkinson and Judge Phillips en- | livened by mirth provoking stories. ! After these addresses came the an
  long ago crowned poet laureate of the l Illinois Society
 At the Hieroglyphie Rocks Like the birds they come in flocks ,, To the Hieroglyphic Rocks, | Meath an Arizona sky | Tribesmen of the Illini- Come from near and far away | For their yearly holiday. 1 In some undiscovered grot
 In this weird, romantic spot | Many a sportive fairy dwels: They have trusty sentinels,
 Green sahuaros, straight and tall Posted by the mountain wall.
 From the dust-gray deserts edge, Past a prickly cactus hedge, Worn by countless, vagrant feet
 Through young groves of small mes
 quite,
 Sinuous. marrow pathways wind
 Each a cloistered goal to find.
 Who are they, with alpenstocks, Climbing high among the rocks?
 At this distance it appears They are SwitZer mountaineers- l Man and woman, girl and boy But they hail from Illinois. Whence the runic writings here? Who can make their meaning clear? What their purpose and what race | Traced them in this lonely place? Naught the secret quite unlocks l Sealed and hidden in the rocks. What these pictured crags unfold Are but hints from centuries old All the gulf 'twixt Now and Then Never bridged by tongue or pen. But the autocars, in view, | Type the Modern and the New i When the music, and the feast And the eloquence have ceased, With the frolic and the fun When the prizes have been won, Each selects some charming way l Wherewithal to crown the day. l Old folks much of youth regain,
 Young folks stroll through Lovers 1 Lane,
 Mirth and jollity abound; Here are rest and riches found Riches not in bonds, nor stocks, At the Hieroglyphic Rocks. Andrew Downing President Heard read a letter of regret from Governor Hunt who was on the program for an address. A statement was pead by Secretary B. E. Marks, from the University of Illinois, giving the information that the native violet was the real Illi- nois flower. The following resolutions on the. death of former Senator Shelby M Cullom were then read and adopted.
 On this day of our annual festivi- ties as our thoughts turn back to the state from whence at sometime in