Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-09-14
PAAIRIE LEA FISH FRY.
(Bv Miss Julia Sulliyan.)


The day was ideal - Saturday, Sep
TENDER 9th, when the wheels Of indus
try in this little community of ours
stopped for one brief day and all
wended our way to the old camping
ground - that consecrated spot Of
youth - Barnes Ford, to play ami
feast once more together. Me thinks
there is a difference between the
friendships of early youth and those
made later in life and probably it Is
because we have played with them.
This beautiful old custom was started
in Prairie Lea twenty-seven years
years ago, and while Old Time with
his scythe and hour glass goes by as
if shod with felt, we scarcely take
notice of his passing until years are
numbered by the score. Young and
old look forward with pleasure to the
day when Labor throws aside his
rustic garb and arrayed in the gar
ments Of mirth and sociability, when
Care smooths his wrinkled front and
wears a placid brow, when Sorrow
casts of her trappings of woe and APP
J pears bedecked with smiles.
Few Of the charter members still
! reside here. Some who have moved
, away find it possible to mingle again
: with old friends that day. Many have
, fallen by the wayside, but at the old
! camping ground they are not forgot
! ten, for the day and place always re-
calls sweet memories of them. This
: annual getting = together of the whole
; neighborhood - this calling back old
: friends and neighbors who are within
calling distance, affords an occasion ia
, strengthen the social qualities, Ia
4 make US forget and forgive the pref
. ty teasings which arise by the way
and lengthens the lever of u power
over the real obstacles of life. Then
4 too, it is the dictate of wisdom to rest
I awhile at the stopping places which
intercept our path, and as we tarry
there with our friends it is sweet &
gather up the "bits and ruds" of gon,
b by days and thus invigorate ourselves
d for the rest of the journey for til
there
= Old friendships chain is frightened,
= And cords of love are frightened.
u The fish were there in abundanc
q and were fried on the grounds. TIL
dinner was one grand rural feasI
spread in the shade of giant oak
I and elms. And never did Californi
millionaire or European count hav
such heavenly music at a feast as W,
g. for the sweet voices of more than 5
lg little mes in their childish glee ms
or neuvered in concert with the tunefl
X. tribes that make the woods gloriou
I'd with glad song.
20 Those who enjoyed the days plea!
- ure were. Mr. and Mrs James Rus
Mr. and Mrs C H Shoup and son, San
es uel; Mr. and Mrs Edgar Stuart ar
81 children; Mr. and Mrs Williams al
6 son, Bennett; Mr. and Mrs Gala
Wy Bush, Mr. and Mrs Ote MCGEE, n
is. and Mrs Louis Berger, Mr. and M
do Harry Erdle and children; Mr. al
if. Mrs Weiss and children; Mr. and. M
of Charles Owens and grand = childre
,St Evelyn, Lois and Polly Shoup; M
=. William Armstrong, Jr, and childre
Mrs R A Hays, Mrs D L Rodgel
VI Mrs Wheeler and children Mr. al
re- Mrs Ken Hulen and son; Mr. and M
'ge J II Fairchild, Mr. and Mrs Mike Shi
lin Mrs Walter Berry and children, M
,es Campbell, Mrs Weaver, Mrs TIL
lis. Campbell, Misses Annie and Eth
eat Ruse, Marie Fairchild, Irene and Fe
M, Rogers, Anna Hays, Julia, Abbie a
we Grace Sullivan, Sallie Owens, Elai
otn and Leona Miller, Zelpha William
an Julia Pierce, Edna and Elizabe
eus Shire, Ethel Campbell, Adele Boeg
eed Messrs. Lyman, Keath, e. B. Nori
ust William Frazier, Sr; Frank, FRI
oed Glenn and Ralph Ruse, Jack Stua
hat Leo Sullivan, Leo Shire, Phillip Shi
les Sr: Harold Rogers, Harold Reinhar
a Will, Walter and Edwin Boeger, B
Pierce, John and Guy Fairchild, Ly
dell Stuart, Earl Hays and Snyd'
Armstrong.