Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 152, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1910 — JUNE PICNIC AT HAZELDEN DESCRIBED FOR REPUBLICAN. [ARTICLE]

JUNE PICNIC AT HAZELDEN DESCRIBED FOR REPUBLICAN.

Nothing so Rare as a Day In June, Provided It Is Spent at George Ade*s Hospitable Country Home. A few on foot, more in wagons and motßr-cars, overland from nearby towns, but the greater number in two special trains from Indianapolis and Chicago came the hosts of the Indiana Society and their guests for the annual picnic at Hazeldon Farm, George Ade’s picturesque country home on the banks of the Iroquois river, last Saturday.

Many who drove from distant towns arrived the evening before and went into camp or were housed in the neighboring and neighborly town of Brook, whose citizens hold the owner of Hazelden Farm in highest esteem, and have always co-operated in the entertainments given there, notably the Taft* By 11:30 nearly all'the guests had n '’*\ 4r 1 . passed the Rubicon bf the mdviag, Picture” man, and chose for tVe' •yelay of the day’sv race either tfih'old time fiances (somp, modern c/nesy; in ; the brand new pavilion built by Mr. A-de for this occasion, or the /esAktrapJiouii game of horseshoe pit'rf&ln&s \j} which the 1r hoLpolloi” specta/bprs, and "ho less distinguished mAh' -thap Ex-Senator Fairbanks, -^eaa^or-®eye , - , ridge, Col; StUdebaker-, Shank, of * Indiahap6lis, anfl (yojn. the Chicago'Board of Hepltl/, "Wane ; ihe cohtestahtsl. Col. ’ Durbin d6Vhg th 2 honors as -umpire, hls accepted' as finalities, p.s -were when he the'legislative doings bi the state* as, its {ftlhf exe / cu'tive. I 7 o - rt Col. ' John StAdqbaker' {he' “blue sock and! eaipe neats lqsing" his tempby prize in thh contest'as jv e^ h.Jeature jqf tbfe IgAa/JP I „, ;j " By naqn, t/uD'*doins” Sf«erq, ; ln 'fhtt; swjng and bf./thp dox clt'cuß. . wliere '-ypu ° rifeed binoculars ifttbq” to see -it aft. / -9 ’ l “Fall |h ' iYh’e/ tfre" moving’ pie-tfirte/',-y9lled Ma. AustfiV'&pd hls' Meur feftantjS of tHb entertaffrtnent cohlmittefi. 6f (iis arriving late” were ittd putting op our most Win ßqmja atifintes thg parade as" it' -rpeandeted Aprough .4Re 'feeAntiful 'Aak/ grpve/ looßplpg aft° aild r-epr "f&r, /tpe ' u idleaß/a,.To<4lt''/at the "birdie” . '*//;., ' tiff f)j /r j mpn. the/.procession neat ed the 'wesll JawK?Gt^ o faaiMHa%^ii;aof.. Indinna fried fowl,'*vHtlir,all Ihh Spin’s <tbnJ ( go"‘w»th it, made a decided, and’ rapidly moving picture as the good 'church Stet/e J rB dispensed the bounties -to appeasp 800 or 9,00 ’ well whetted -appetites. ’ , "”

’ ' . I '' Mr. Ada and the Indiana Society are bounteous providers,; covers bpipg laid for 65tk v r W-hen some 200 more caijne, >it gave' opportunity; for the/ (perpise •of rafrltf fire ingenuity. In ajiffij the overll&Av; was '“directed to. the, ball tIM to se&tsen the 1 willing hands, bringing the viands, tlushejs of the crisp, brown ‘,‘yaller-leg” chickens 'and enough,,palad, hot biscuits, bolldd eggs and</.‘who knows what” to feed a regiment disappeared in a, twinkling. Great Sc6tt,it, does take,,a lloheier croWd t,Q. a real Hoosier spread; dispensed/ with a r s%), 1 loonier gentleman’s > f Wdather was.hot, but 'nobpty'knew, jt. WfU-Ade and his bucket ,brigade were in'' oonstaht ./service. Jeiflonf? by, the

'dhse and ice by the ton, and 'the df ; 'a real artist to mix it. was no “circus stuff.” Jy lemon /amine is Reported in this ipornihg’s dispatch 'from Brook, ' w, * * ft • . After'hfiush there*were affinity races, mathematical races, and §poon races'. Fat.merf and wpmen who could not nriy to a flye to neighbor’s yard Were tied together and went yelling, sprawling, sliding, making spedtactes tar be remembered, when, the'stars grow dim.”, Eaoh,i;ace had feattfres alb its own,.and funnier that %ad that precpeded of followed,. J'hd" gentlemen’ who woi\ in the “doubles”/will need,.the suit 9/ clothes he won to replace the ones he bent inftha Contest; lady, will use. the. bdx' at the lUhuds /heatre ljO tell jjef friends How shay pulled .her hubby, to Victory. “'■<(; u y . t The Japanese fireworks Were grotesque and novel. The grounds were festooned with flags and banners, most Interesting of all being the 40 foot

American flag made in Japan for the Fleet when it made the world-around cruise. Not being ready at the arrival of the fleet, it was sold and Mr. Ade presented it to Purdu’fe University, where it will adorn the walls of the new gym. “More fun than a basket of monk--'O A, ’ Kros h the epithet applied to the f J^ase ,/ s The first vjas l ihfi.’TJt'fy -Gpys” hnd thy “Plain Peepul,” by Wilbqr/ D. Nes-' bit{ Of,.the “Post,” and Joseph H. Derfnfes, f t{ie Chicago Bar lespectivel/. lfacthg r umpire’s box was Honl Franpfeale. and on .the blehchers were four jtifigea of t’Rhf Indiana Supreme court', o'rfr/.senior’ seaator, an ex-vice-presi-'fre'nfc,,.t,he of Indianapolis, other ftobabjes and near-notables in great “ Judge Baker’s decisions called in ’ the , vernacular “rotten,” were the features 'M the game, resulting finally 'tn-aiV, hot air row. The umpire was .carried out bodily by the aforesaid supreme judges. High rich and poor, fine, supecfiqe, J were distinctions but not differences in the" hours of frolic. " *« ' 1 • Artificial- rank and class were obliter,-, afcd. Every/man was as good as the next ora. lit/tie better. The cares arul -responsibilities of the workaday world , counted for nothing. “The play’s the thing" and dignity to the winds. The climax of the day’s festivities * , r- f - r/ was the drawing and presentation of prizes Won In the contents! and iq. a free d/awlng conducted by 'CoV. Geo!' *» / r. Buckingham, master-of .cereiiionles^ Thd prizes ranged, from- 1 sowing machines and watchys to' 'roifi a gorgeous" hat, the o r Mr. Austin, to th& grqpd a 6tudebaker Jr. wagon, In which Mr. Chas. Ailing, thfe winder, hauled hi-, ladylove to the basset lun&h served at close of the day. „ lff The literary 'and musical program was brilliant. A book songs written by AdC; McCutbhhou, Ailing other members of the were/ "the text' fov the singing fed bv a qudrtette of “good btlhsi’cfrom Chi-' eago.” " // ’ ’ •- lillsa Cooke’s • monologue was (fre crowning triumph; she’eulogized, lambasted, satarlzed all the tfi'at Ho'bsiers are' proud of, W-ith stress bn the favorite literary"'lights. said “Indiana l (k a mind” and provecl It by ! ’enumef-£lting staples til at are ihfiigenious to the spil, tics, farm products and literclioor,” “its. principal produces is wheat, corn, fruit, standard oil, politicians' ajid writers." v ' '

• 1 i< Sh 9. attributed to George Ade this touching 'ballad: "O i/eSutlous nature Without blot Si* taint, t *' f o|i lovely solitudes Wherd woman ain’t. , Oh Paradise! Ild' lirfe-to win it, , It i' Was sure ■< . Eve’wasn’t In' 1 . f 'a/r pi all the eiicofaHums, felicitations and compliments by the gen’M4t • * * ial host, none more fitting and appropriate than that expressed by '4f£ John C. Shfeifer in presenting Mr. I With a rarrf“jewel caSket, the pitt ; of the Indiana-Society, if . '* “ft is a great thing to write Doolb’,’* 5 , '■ *• *’ * Mr. Shaffer, “it is a to wflte ptays. 'ter, have sone both, and it is the pride ani, - ndflana that fs'-Vbthg* line, in yuuC books nor \ speech in your-plya'that is not clekn and wholesome iooar' Simptd? modest came Mr. s Ade’s tfiply. “If*you T&titlf eifJHyed being here half as much as I have enjoyed having you, come again.” , Among those present were the fol-

■ r lowing Mr. and Mrs. Pelos Thompson, C. C. Warner, A. R. A. H. Hopkins, Dr. I. M. Wasfclranj, Judge Hanley, O. K. HolJingsworjh. Also Mrs. F. A. Ross and her sons Bradley and Livingston, Miss Ida Mityiken, E. P. Honan. Miss Cecelia Hollingsworth and Gerald Hollingsworth. ' A “Classified Adv.” will rent it 1