River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1922-08-31

She said she liked to help "the girls, !"
and I am sure we like to have her.
After our dishes we're packed we
were called to order by our President,
Cora Rosenquist (Stiles). She then
called for the song, Aud Lang Sine"
Alice HOLMAN (Bushnel) was asked
to pitch the tune. She refused with
a retort (for that is one Of the stand
ing jokes). Then one of our singers
started it, and it was sung through.
Elmira Nichols (Powell) was request
ed to sing Sailing Down the Stream
Of Time" but she didn't remember
the words. Three or four others sang
the first verse, which was very sweet
and beautiful.
The minutes of the last meeting
were read and approved. The treas
,rer was requested to pay the bills
that were presented.
Tae question Of show much are the
dues" came up, and it was at once
settled, by those who knew, that they
| were 25c, and, like the laws of the
Modes and the Persians, they could
not be altered.
The next in order was the election
of officers. As soon as member was
nominated she vehemently refueed
to serve, but at last the ticket read:
| President, Matte Foster (Putnam) ;
Vice President, Lucy Powell (Cur-
rier); Secretary and Treasurer, Jen-
ME Wales; Food Commissioner, Ella
Dodge (Henderson); Flower Com
mite, Alice Powell (Weld). In the
not far distant future we will have to
| hold primary election, for official
| timber is getting scarce.
The roll-call was responded to by
Elmira Nichols Powell, Fida Carrie
| ton Armstrong, Lottie Levings
Flint, Julia Morse, Josie Clagget
Reed, Persis Rhodes Nichols, Sarah
Nichols Tozer, Alice Powell Weld,
Eunice Foster Thomson, Jennie
| Wales, Alice Green Knapp, Lucy
Powell Currier, Nellie Oakley Chin
| mock, Louie Burr Fuller, Matte
Foster Putnam, Hortense Rollins
| Newccmb, Cora Rosenquist Stiles,
Minnie Holms Reynolds, Sarah : None
Nelson, Maggie Travis Fenton, Ida
Wescott Bushnell, Nellie Halves
Gardner, Ella Dodge Henderson, Ella
Atwater Taylor and Eva Burnett
Curtis.
We missed our Hudson friends, and
there are sobne that usually met with
| US who, on account of i'll health, are
shut in. To these we send our love
| and sympathy: Nettie Thayer Col
Inns, the Ripple sisters, Jane Flint
| Adams, Sophia Adams Healy and Ida
Powell Gould.
Helen Healy Brown decided she
would have her birthday the 18th, as
ii happened to be the day of our pic
mic, and she was "17," too, Wonderful
coincident), but her stomach would
not let her go were there were good
| things to eat.
The best part of our program are
| the letters from our friends far
away, for the o. A. G,s are scattered
from East to West, and from North
to South. We were glad to receive
some that we have always thought OF
and spoken of butt have never heard
from before, and we found that it was
day of memories as well as reun-
ion.
Letters were received from Ella
Smith Currier, Mary Smith Chaplin,
Clara Nelson Brown, Carrie Ensign
Eckles, Ann Hickock Swanson, Ruth
Tozer Fox, jeanette L-.vis Kelly,
Margaret Hosford, Mercie Roberts
Young, Fannie Taylor Baird, Angie
Mckay Dodge, Matte Cameron
Campbell, Mary Rowley Ridge, Mollie
Aldridge, Fannie Stevens Gulick, the
Pomeroy girls, Mollie Cox Burnett,
Grace Wilcox Rosenquist, Nellie
Cooper Sackett, and Lucy Saunders
Hefferman. They all expressed the
hope of meeting with US some time.
One loyal member wrote that she
wore her badge the day of the picnic,
and imagined that she was with us.
Mrs. Gulick's letter was full of inter-
esting history about old times and
her family's whereabouts. We are al
ways glad to hear from her.
The only sad letter was from Lucy
Wilcox Tho.npson, telling of the
death of her daughter, Mary, and our
hearts go ort to her in love and SYM
pathy. Surely her life will be richer
in the memory of such a daughter.
As the day drew near its close we
heard MANY saw: "This has been one