Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1901 — Rainmakers Get in Good Work. [ARTICLE]

Rainmakers Get in Good Work.

A crowd of twenty-four young people were carted in all sorts of fashionable equipages Sunday evening, to a grassy plat on the Iroquois banks a short distance below Lamson’s bridge. The young ladies of the crowd had prepared a pionio supper, which was tastefully set and the picnickers had just seated themselves around the lawn tables, when an overhanging oloud, unmindful of the wishes of the merry-makers, separated and poured its liquid contents directly where they sat. There was a hasty grabbing of everything in sight and a rushing for carriages. Cakes and pickles, jellies and deviled eggs were thrown together-in a promisoious manner, pretty hats, dainty ribbons, stylish dresses, stand up collars and patent leather boots came in for an expensive and thorough dousing, and it was a sorry lot of young people that returned at about 8:30 o’clock, compared to the gaily dressed picnickers that went out only a few hours before. But for the sake of the general need of rain, the sacrifice was cheerfully made. This same company, practically, got rained on at the same place, on practically similar circumstances several years ago, thereby breaking a long drouth just els happened this time. They announced before hand that they were going to bring a rain, and they appear to have kept their word.

Attorneys Jesse Wilson and Misses Leathe Wright and Mildred Harris came in for a greater share of hardships than the remainder of the party. On their way homb the oarriage slipped off the grade in the road center and turned over on one side, . throwing the occupants out The buggy wheels were sprung oonsidenally and it was some time before they were able to prooeed on their homeward trip. Miss Harris, was slightly injured, the other parties esoaping even slight bruises.