The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-06-24
Social Events
Family Reunion

Family Reunion
Mr.. and Mrs. George Grundman
and daughter, Dola, were host and
hostess to more than fifty guests
at q pleasant reunion Of the
Grundman family held at their
farm home Sunday, June 10th.
The Grundman farm, where the
reunion took place, was the origin
al family residence, to which on
April n, 1873, Mrs. e. H. Grund-
man and eleven children came to
make their home. They travelled
from Minneapolis by train, over
the Great Northern to Melrose,
which was the end Of the railroad
at that time.
The father, who was a mill
wright at the WAshburn Crosby
Flour Mill, In Minneapolis, did not
come with the family. Eleven days
after the family left Minneapolis,
on May 2, 1878, a fire broke out in
the Washburn mill, causing an ex-
plosion in which seventeen employ
ees were killed, Mr.. Grundman be-
ing among them.
The farm has been conducted
continuously by some member Of
the family. For the last twenty-five
years 1t has been owned by George
Grundman, the youngest son.
A picnic dinner and supper were
served cafeteria style to fifty-five
people, and a most pleasant day
was spent in Renaissance and
cvoffipo rr1, a iv,foA
Words Of greeting were read
from the following: Mrs. Lillian
Sutton, Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd Martin,
Henry Grundman, Bertha Fair
child, Mrs AL Mansell, nee Rather
inc Grundman.
The day marked the thirty-sixth
wedding anniversary Of Mrs. AL
Mansell and the first wedding an
niversary Of her daughter.
Mrs. Newton Glover, Of Pillager,
MIMI, had not been back to the
old home since she was seventeen
years old. almost fifty years ago,
and the event marked a most
pleasant reunion for her. The day
was spent in a social way, the old
er people lived over the old times
and the younger set got acquainted
with each other. The following
poem, by Edgar Guest, was read at
the close Of the day:
The Family Party
Lets have q family party-the
custom ought to live
A good old-fashioned gathering
like those we used to give;
Let's get them all together, the
pack Of all our kin,
The youngsters and the oldsters;
once more let's call them in.
Lets get the aunts and uncles and
all the nephews, too,
The nieces and the cousins, the
way we used to do.
Let's form the family circle! SO
swift the years have flown,
No doubt it will surprise us to see
how great it's grown.
Make this an old-time party, the
kind that's out Of date.
Not seven o'clock and dinner, but
start the fun at eight.
And then in middle evening mer-
ry circle make
AnQ serve Cne OH TeITcSlIIlcuIS VI
brick ice cream and cake.
Let's have the kids speak pieces or
dance a buck and wing
And ask the family tenor his fav-
orite song to sing.
Let's once more live 1t over - the
fun we used to know
And spend the time recalling the
days Of long ago.
Several old friends of the family
called during the course of the
day.
Those present were: Mr.. and
Mrs. N. Glover, Pillager, Mimi;
Mr.. and Mrs. L. P. Grundman, of
Grand Forks, N D; Miss Caroline
Grundman, Grand Forks, N D.;
Mrs Albert Wig and daughter, Mar
dele, Grand Forks, N. D.; Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Grundman and children,
Bagley, Mimi; Mr.. and Mrs. F.
Mohs, and son, Webster, N. d.;
Hugo Grundman, st. Cloud; Mr..
and Mrs. AL Seifert and children,
Wahpeton, N. D.; Mr.. and Mrs. w.
Il. Harold, Minneapolis; Mr.. and
Mrs. Clarence Rognas and family,
Minneapolis; Mrs. George Var
Steeg. and children, of Pella, Iowa;