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cicpod tike i* hpiti: orTHE HEATHER.k tbsStw Orkiinl/.«!Ion Pcrfcflcd ^* Thr Hrrlln| Bound to Hr. •nil In Xlueh Onod for ilir OrpKnlisiiflon.Tin* unfavorable weather almast •pot fad lb#' Old Bet tiers4 picnic. Ht ill a fi ful K *»dly nun.tier won present from nil ialth parte of the southern half of the county, ived | ’fi,® thiet* ilockHtlfd built for protectionagainst Indiana by the settler* of 1870 at lied Cloud. Guide (Cock and Edna were all represented, L D, Thorns# came ail the way from Elm Creek* Incfa lla I Waiker brought hn aeventy eight yearn | from Farmera creek, and waa the oldest fS I maD on Ikegrounde. fcliaha Woodward wa« up from Guide Knck with the netra that he waa Grandpa Woodward, while hiw grandchild's mother was boro lh Webster county. What old wet tier can beat that? There are some who can equal it, but their names do not occur to the writer. Mr. Dickerson and wife wer« present* Mrs, Dickerson's father wen Uncle Hardy, one of the Hret oom* irdseiorern of the county. Aunt Betsy was not there, she waa missed. John ami Gottlieb Ra*«er were there to re mind Joe Garber how, in 1870, an they first approached the stockade, Joseph pointed a gun at them supposing them to la* Indians. Of ruure# Allen Ayers wits there, but a liitle silent avid shame faced* You see Alien went back on us once and thought, he would try Ten f * wh o, and he doesn't walk as proudly amongst the old fellows at§ he would if ho hud n't dona that. Chris Cox rind wif » you may Insure were there, and of course Joe Holcomb and his aisler Mrs. A meson, would come in any kind of weather to a gathering of old settlers. Uncle HoUlrege gave io to the weather, so did scores of othsrs, and we don't blame* thern, but there were at least a hundred present, and each one told of several others that intended to come, but were scared out by the storm. Even Emanuel Peters and Donald McCaMutn, i lie first two in the courtly, failed to put in ait appearance, There is no excuse for Peters. l*ecauao he is only a boy that is lie whs I weotyr-five years ngn just old enough Io vote. But those of us who were there had a royal tim# First of course was dioner and then the women chatted while the men elected officers snd transacted busiriesn.Then tbs Hon. I. B. Hampton mads l ie ltest talk of his life, and demonetnit si th.it the old eeltleis were more pn roua than the friends they had left in
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Red Cloud Chief
Red Cloud, Nebraska, US
Fri, Sep 20, 1895
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