The daily times., 1921-07-23
THE oErrINGER PICNIC

time yesterday afternoon at Farm
ers Mill where they repaired to
have their annual picnic. The
store was closed at three o'clock,
and some sixty people, including the
heads of the establishment entered
grounds, an ideal spot for the event.
Everybody enjoyed the outing,
and pronounced it the best ever.
Mr.. Elmer Oettinger had arranged
a number of stunts which all enter
ed into heartily and prizes of dol
lar each were presented to the first
and second winners. After these
bathing suits were donned and the
water was soon alive with swimmers,
near swimmers and those who Sebuld
not swim at all. But the divers
were immense. Few hesitated to ne
gotiate the water, and they went
into the water fr I'm the end of the
canoes which lined the bank head
foremost, side foremost and in every
conceivable way. But they were
game liked the sport and tried it
again. They made progress. since
that is the way to learn to swim.
After this the dinner horn was
sounded from the Oettinger car, and
the party made towards the well Ia
den tables which carried sufficient to
feed twice the number of people.
Barbecue, chicken, bread, cake,
pickles slaw and good things too nu-
merous to mention were there in
abundance. Mr.. Oettinger furnish
ed the barbecue while the employees
brought baskets and thus all partici-
pated in the picnic.
At the close of the meal, Mr.. G.
T. Fulghum was called on and gave
his "A. B. c." sermon. Mr.. A. C|
Davis auctioned of some tar soap
which was good for most everything,
while Mr.. J. d. Gold had something
to say of the pleasant occasion and
made reference to the fact that the
Oettingers never do things by halves.
Mr.. Elmer Oettinger expressed his
appreciation of the cooperation of
his employees, and had some mighty
nice things to say regarding their
zeal and interest in the establish
ment. These remarks were respond
ed to very graciously by Mrs. w. P.
Doan who said among other things
that the Dependable Store" had the
best employers u the world.
The judges for the events which
were pulled or early in the after
noon were Messrs. A. o. Davis, G. J.
Starr and John D. Gold. AS stated
above those first and second were
presented with prize of a dollar
each. The first event was a potato
race, and the winners were Misses
Daisy Pittman and Myrtle Hales.
The participants were Misses Myrtle |
Hales, Julia Walker, Ida Toney,
Ferrell and Daisy Pittman.
The contest consisted in each con-
testant picking up potato at the
time carrying them to a box onN at /
a time, the first to do so being
the winner.
The first in the next event, the
sand fiiddlers race were Miss Mil
1red Bats and Master Elmer Oct
finger. The others participating
we're Misses Elizabeth Lichenstein,
Mary Herring and Messrs. Robert
Ellis and ]. D. Bats, Jr.
The sharpshooters race consisted
n dropping peas into a small necked
bottle. This was quite difficult and
some of the contestants demonstrat-
I'd quite degree of accuracy. The
winners were Mrs Frank D. Farmer
md Miss Etna Saunders. The other
were Miss Lillian Dew.
Miss Minnie Glover, Mrs. j. l.. Pitt
nan and Mrs. E. d. Farmer.
The third yard race consisted in
Sitting with scissors a ball of tape.
Miss Daisy Herring was first and
Mrs. R. H. Jennings was second IN
his contest. The others partic.pa.-
ng were Messrs. c. E. Blount, Mr..
T. t. Ellis and Miss Rachel Tuns-
all.
The rainy day race was a mosf in
eresting event. 1t consisted in1
opening a valise which contained a
rubber coat, pair of rubbers put
ing these on and raising an umbrel-
a, carrying the grip certain dis
,ance, bringing it back to the start
ng point, taking off the articles and
putting them back into the valises
md closing the griBs. The winners
we're Messrs. Jesse Webb and K. f.
Herring and the other paticipantI