Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-06-12
REEL PICNIC.

REEL PICNIC.
About so relatives and friends
gathered at the home of Lydia Reel
Brayton to again renew the friend
ships and celebrate the pioneer
achievements of the Reel ancestors.
Owing to the rain great many rela-
tives and friends were prevented
from attending, as it was some aban-
doned coming in autos and came in
carriages and buggies.
At one o'clock picnic dinner was
served. A long table was spread in
the dining room, which fairly groan-
ed under the burden of good things
ITO eat. There were small tables for
the real older ones. They were serv-
ed cafeteria style, of which everyone
availed themselves and enjoyed.
| Dinner served and remnants stored
away, the following program was
rendered.
Address of welcome by the vice
president, followed by a nice talk by
Mrs. Brayton, president, in which she
sincerely requested the younger gen
Grafton to continue these friendly re-
unions of the Reel ancestors, to car
ry out their ideals of labor, honesty
and industry. This was followed by
"reminiscences by relatives and friends.
Mr.. Elias Owens gave fine talk on
"reminiscences of the early days."
how as little children they came to
this country with their parents in a
prairie schooner or covered wagon;
how they settled in country peo-
pied with the wild and uncivilized In
dian. If the children of the pioneers
could take a look backward On the
vast prairie and the deep dense tim
ber and only now and then little
log cabin or hut, and this Boyer bot
tom covered with sloughs and filled
with water, and the hooting of wild
prairie chickens was the only music
they heard, and the privations the
mothers stood and the hardships thcv
endured to settle this country and
make it bloom like a garden and all
waste land now reclaimed, into rich
and fertile farms and comfortable
homes. Other friends gave nice
talks, then followed the program.
Minutes of last meeting read and
approved. Communication from Miss
Henrietta Brayton, greetings from
Mrs. Cynthia Brayton Mcfarland.
Opening song.
Song by Hazel and Inez Reel, Blue
Bells of Scotland.
Reading, Lois Reel.
| Recitation, Inez Logan.
Reading, Agnes Logan.
Song, We're Reel and Ethel Shelton.
Election of officers.-D. C. Reel,
ce-president; Mrs. Lydia Meats,
secretary; Miss Effie Brayton, cor
responding secretary.
| Closed by singing "God Be With
You Till We Meet Again"
Committees were appointed: Re-
Iception committee, Mr.. and Mrs. P.
A. Peterson; program committee,
Mrs. Kittie Berry, Mrs. Nora Reel
Mrs. Mollie Evans.
Flowers were sent by Henrietta
Brayton,. large boquet of maman
cachet roses from California and a
mammoth boquet of beautiful flowers
from Cynthia Brayton Mcfarland of
New Mexico. Mrs. Brayton also re-
ceived many beautiful flowers from
friends in Logan.
Relatives present were: Mrs. Lydia
Reel Brayton, Miss Effie Brayton,
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. II. Reel and daughter
Inez, Mr.. and Mrs. w. L. Reel and
daughters Hazel and Vera, and son
Jessie L.; Mr.. and Mrs. D. C. Reel
and children Lois and Harry c.; Mrs
Lydia Cox Meats, Mrs. Millie Reel,
Sherman McCoid, Mrs. Emma Reel
McCoid, Mr.. and Mrs. Elias Owens
and grandsons Max and Dorrance
Mr.. and Mrs. John Yout and daugh-
ter Mildred, Mr.. and Mrs. M. w. Will
son, Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Knight, Mrs
Mollie Murphy and son Harold, Mrs
Katherine Reel Berry, Mrs. Matte
Murphy Wilson, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Scoficld, Mrs. Maud Frazier Ford
Mrs. Margaret Murphy Morris ant
daughter Ruth, Mr.. and Mrs. R. H
Wilson and son Woodrow, Agnes ane
Inez Logan.
| Visitors were M. H. Wilson, Chris
tie Stevens, Ida Stevens, Grace Stew.
ems, Ethel Shelton and Matte Hum.
nell.
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