The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-09-05
UNWILLING
AND PICNIC
At LONG RUN
Well Attended and a Program
Interesting and Helpful is
Carried Out.


The unwilling and picnic at Long
Run by Camp No. 81, Woudmen Of
the World. Sunday. was attended by
a large number Of Woodmen camps.
|Clarksburg. Salem, Pennsboro. Smith
burg, West Union and surrounding
towns. The unwilling was held at
Sugar Camp cemetery with about two
| thousand Woodmen and friends in at
tendance.
Great credit was given the officers
and members OF Long Run Camp. No.
81, for the able manner in which
they conducted the program Of the
day.
The monument Of John A. Ford
was dedicated by Council Command
er Carder and Adviser Lieutenant
Ringer and Banker H. C.. Haley of
loo.
The we'll remembered poem. "Oh.
why Should the Spirit Of Mortal be
Froud was rendered by s. f. Quinn,
camp No. ., Clarksburg. W. Va.
Music was furnished by the Smith
burg band. which was greatly en-
loyed by all In attendance. After tho
unwilling ceremony all gathered al
sugar Camp grove and listened TO
q very able address on woodcrat BY
5. +. Quinn, OF this city.
Mr.. Quinn said In part:
Woodmen and friends, II say
friends because believe you are
friends or you would not be here to-
day. l am not an orator. not even a
speech maker. / am simply n Wood
man, and all Woodmen are taught
that mans greatest good IL found In
MS service to his fellow man. / am
not the man you first sought on this
occasion but his substitute, and / am
glad TO serve all Woodmen. Mark
Twain once said: a friend OF mine
once bought pig for a dollar and n
half and after he had fed II forty
dollars worth OF corn he sold II for
nine dollars. He then claimed that
he had made seven dollars and a half
on the hog. Well, he did. but he
lost forty dollars on the corn And
l feel today that | might make a bet
ter success OF raising hogs than I
can OF making speeches But, friends.
In standing before you today / real
ize how important It is that / make
no misstatements or utter one I'M
truth regarding the Woodmen of the
World, one Of the greatest and
noblest fraternal orders under the
canopy of heaven, and an organiza-
ton composed Of nearly one million
members, backed by beneficiary
and reserve fund of over one hun
drcd and twelve million dollars. So
{ you may be sure ! win make no mis-
statements, when ! remember the
words similar to SolomOn's. The
path of the truthful is shining light,
shining more and more unto eternal
life. Lifei What is life? Life is
the flower that blows. Death. What
is death? Death is the withered leaf.
Life is the grain as It grows, death
is the Garnercd sheath; life is the
blazing fire, death is the ash grown
cold; life is the glittering splre. death
is the ruins old; life is the whlstling
gale. death the calm repose; life is
the continued tale. death Is the story
closed; life is the flowing stream,
death Is the mysterious deep: life is
the walking dream, death the long.
last sleep
Il have no doubt that many of us
here today have loved ones that are
sleeping the long last sleep. Still
they live in memory. In woodcraft
we are taught that roses will bloom
and blush again. Where roses fade
and die. still the sweet fragrance
i fingers in memory. Let us recall to
memory the words OF the matchless
orator, Robert Ingersoll. when he
u said The puGt t.ieag knfnra 80. 1Jt.,,