Company G. Third Michigan

The ninth annual reunion of Co. G, Third Michigan Cavalry, was held at the Clifton House at Whitmore Lake, October 11th.

The follovving members answered to roll call: Capt. T. V. Quackenbush, of Plymouth; S. H. Alliton, Owosso; W. Churchill and wife, Mt. Pleasant; P. P. Lenox and A. J. Brown and wife, Ithaca; D. A. Smith, T. Featherby, wife and granddaughter, O. Douglass, A. J. Sawyer, E. M. Holl, L. Bennett, H. M. Olsaver, Hamburg; J. Todd and wife, Whitmore Lake; D. E. Hand, Ann Arbor; H. J. Hopkins, Chesaning; J. Staeey and N. Phy, Chesaning; H. Cunningham, Vicksburg; W. II. Hall, Whitmore; M. Borden, wife and daughter, Howell; O. Bentley and wife, S Avis and wife, aud S. A. Smith, Rushton; E. H. Smith, Ilubbardston; Geo. Clinton, Gregory; H. Olsaver, wife and daughter, Kushton; W. Cole and wife, Kalkaska; Geo. Smitherman and wife, Northville; H. J. Pinckney and wife, Ypsilanti. Some of them had not met before since they were mustered out in 1866.

At the business meeting held in the afternoon it was learned that J. E. Placeway, one of the members, had died during the past year.

In the election of offlcers, Capt. T. V. Quackenbush, of Plymouth, was reelected president; A. J. Sawyer, of Hamburg, first vice-president; S. II. AllitoD, of Owosso, secretary and treasurer; M. Borden, toastmaster; D. E. Hand, of Ann Arbor, chairman of executive committee.

The banquet at the Clifton House was a grand affair. The tables were loaded with good things too numerous to mention, to whioh about sixty sat down. After the banquet the comp'any adjourned to the ball room for the camp flre, where the old comrades of other regiments and citizens of Whitmore Lake fllled the hall.

The orchestra, composed of G. and E. Quackenbush, F. Smith and Mrs. F. Butterfield, opened the exercises with a fine piece of music, which all seemed to appreciate, after which toastmaster P. P. Lenox called the following comrades to speak, subject not given: A. ,T. Brown, of Ithaca; D. E. Hand. Ann Arbor; W. Cole, Kalkaska; J. Todd, Whitmore Lake; T. V. Quackenbush, Plymouth; H. J. Pinckney, Ypsilanti; Hon. George S. Wheeler, of Salem, and others; and a recitation by a little girl whose name we did not learn.

Comrad E. Smith, of Hubbardstown, sang several pieces, which were enjoyed by all.

Music by the orchestra was interspersed between toasts.

The next reunion will be held at Owosso in October, 1900.