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»»fectly straight and ©very coiner clean of weeds. The buildings are first-class, the residence a fine brick house, with stone steps and walks, and everything in palatial style fit for a king. Visitors say that the farm .does not present a? fine an appearance this year as usual, on account of the wet weather, which has kept the corn back and prevented necesary work on the farm, but it is certainly a green valley” of plenty and beauty.The officers of the association are: President, TV. D. Tresier; Goneral f?u-nerintendent, Jehu Hadlev ; Secretary,T. S. Marshall.On account of the exceedingly busy season, the attendance was not so large as usual, yet there were, perhaps, two thousand people present. At 11 o clock the meeting was called to order by the president and prayer offered by Rev. W. D. Trester. Several eminent speakers had been invited, among them Gen. Coburn and Hon. Levi Ritter, from lu-dianapolis, but they failed to put in an appearance, and the president, in his desperation, drafted the editor of this paper for the opening speech. We were unable to get out of the scrape and merely to accommodate the good president we opened our mouth and spake for the space of twenty-five minutes.[Kind reader, that speech will not be published in these columns, although a short-hand reporter was present and took it down verbatim. It will be preserved carefully as an heirloom, and, perhaps, fifty years hence it may be read at some old settlers' picnic as a relic.}At the close of this speech the crowd was dismissed for dinner, and a regular spread-upon-the-grass” repast was indulged in. The editor and reporter are indebted to 0. P. Boyd, of Amo. for a good dinner. At 1 o’clock the people agai* assembled at the stand and addresses were delivered by the following old men: Hiram Rhodes was introduced, who said:■Ladies and Gentlemen—In the early days of this county we had system in building cabins, and rolling logs. In raising: houses there was always a corner-man selected to keep up each corner; * very important position, too. When we went to log-rollings it was the same. We wanted men who understood how to get the biggest logs together with the least amount of work. I went through all the hardships, and had many privation * to suffer. W« raised our own bread and had plenty to eat. When we couldn't get meal ground we made hominy, In the year ’29 or '30. the legislature had to eat cornbread, a* flout *s@uld not be obtained, I made the first brick that was made in Wayne owo«hip, lianas county, end had thetake*wedge and axe. Let each one hold and be industrious in what -seem* to bo your calling. lie concluded by singing.“I want to wear a crown of silt;ryWhen I get home to that gooci land.”Mr. Prater,Of Morgan county, was introduced, who rend a poem of his own composi'den, entitled The Devil Advertised.”Father '101101.3,Of Morgan county, was born in Kentucky, in 1S04; came to Indiana in 1815 : settled in Morgan county in 18.10, where he partially cleared four farms. “In 1827, I joined tho Methodist church and love it above all other churches on earth. I belong to it to-day and love it asjdear as I love my life.”Mother Gardner.Front the time I was ten years old I never knew what it was to work in the house. My father raised nine children —the oldest being girls. We had to work in the clearing—rolling logs, picking brush ard chunks, and tending ground like a man : and then When we would get that done we had to break flax and get it ready to spin and put it in the loom. 1 have wove ten yards many a night before I went to sleep.Some nights I have spun and neverclosad my eyes for sleep till the chickens were crowing for day. I never had a calico dress on my back until I was 21 years old, which was a 2-3-cent old blue calico. I will ba o4 years old the 2oth day of June, if I live. 1 thank God that I am what T am, and where I am, and when done with these toils I have a home high up in heaven.”Apraycr book printed ial793,was then shown, and a few passages read. The following officers were then appointed : President—W. D. Trester, of Ftilesville: General Superintendent—Jehu Hadley of Pecksburg; Secretary—T. S. Marshall, of Pecksburg, with whom th holding of the next reunion was left. maBSBSsss!mgermKm j.wwww.B. F. HOWELL,-DEALER IS-Groceries Provisions,Queensware ,GlassAND STONEWARE,Manh 1,'80, fan
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Danville Hendricks County Union
Danville, Indiana, US
Thu, Jun 24, 1880
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