The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-05-12
RECEPTION
INTERESTING EVENT
RARE COSTUMES AND MANY AN
TlQUES WERE EXHIBITED
Large Crowd was Present at Reception
and Supper Which Melted Tidy
Sum for the w c. T.U.

Great success attended the Pioneer
Reception givens by Clio w. G. T. u.
last Thursday, as the costumes worn by
the ladies were remarkably interesting
because of their age and style and very
many articles dating back from so to
$50 years were on display. The attend
ance was liberal and very enjoyable
time is reported. Inasmucll as some of
the antiquities are the property of the.
editor, and inasmuch, also, as he has
gained considerable additional light.
upon their history, and the articles
themselves have grown in age and his
toric interest thereby, we print a de-
scription of them as published in re-
cent issue of the Flint Journal, which is
as follows:
''The reception was pronounced
success by every person who visited
the hall and partook of the bountiful
feast served in real colonial style. The
old-fashioned pyramid cakes that his
tory always told about being found on
the Thanksgiving Day table or at some
wedding feast, were among the delica-
cies conspicuous in the center of the
heavily laden tables.
'The hall was lighted by candles and
by antique perforated tin lanterns. A
spinning wheel stood in one corner of
the hall where it was operated by Mrs.
Geo. N. Rathbone, providing one of
the most interesting of the exhibits. A
turnkey that had been used on Thomas
Jefferson's plantation at Monticello,
Va, to pull teeth was among the exhib--
it's, (some turnkey this). A copy of the
Declaration of Independence had been
hung in a cherry wood frame cut from
a tree on the Jefferson plantation.
Nails that had been forged on the same
plantation were also on exhibition.
Among the relics which had been
handed down to the present generation
and placed on exhibition, were Bibles,
literary and song books, flint lock
pistols, pewter tea pots, crimping irons.,
fireplace utensils, OK yoke, hair wreaths,
doheo, bOiiiSecy anu a DCu WtILl IODC
springs. A set of spoons that had BET n
sent from England as gift to James
R. Finley, Jr., on his birthday, May IL,
1894, was also shown.
"Many of the relics had long tradi-
tional histories. This was especially
true of the collection dating back to
the Jefferson plantation. A string of
charming beads. similar to those that
had been sent to Queen Victoria at diff
ferent times, was shown. The queen
in return would send present to the
sender, it is said. Each member of the
union was attired in dress that was
from 100 to $50 years old. Hoop skirts
and many other garments that CORES.
pond well to many of the present spring
styles, were worn by many of the mem
bers. Colonial bonnets exclusively were
worn by the women and their hair had
been dressed in real grandmother
style.
Following the supper, brief pro-
gram was given by the women. keni-.
iniscent papers were read and old fash
ioned songs were pleasingly rendered in
great volume.
In addition to the above, we might
say that pair of spectacles over 200
years old were loaned to the ladies' by
A. S. Parker, from whose collection.
also, came brass candlestick and snuff
fers over 100 years old.