The Grangers

Saturday was a great day for Whitmore Lake. From far and near, not only from this and adjoining oounties did the farmers gather together, but people carne by teams and car loads from all along the line of the Toledo road, from Mt. Pleasant on the north, Toledo 011 the south, and even from Detroit, carne the thieves and pickpockets, who helped to swell the crowd, variously estímated from 8,000 to 10,000. The day was most beautiful, warm though, but all who attended this annual gathering of the sons of toil, feit they were repaid, none more so, perhaps, than those who got away with pocket books. "From day light in the morning," until two o'clock in the afternoon, people continued to arrive in carriages and wagons, until it was quite impossible to find hitching places for their horses. As far as the eye could reach around Whitmore, there was a solid MASS OF VEHICIiES, of all descriptions. The hotels, of course, were crowded with guesta. Here oould be seen the young man with his best girl, the old man with somebody else's girl, and the pioneer with his better-half, who had driven over to attend the picnic, and have a good time. Some passed a portion of their time in boat riding, others danced to the musio of Lombard's band, others enjoyad themselves in hammocks on the banks of this famons lake, and some enjoyed a ride in the little steamer that plies back and forth on this beautiful sheet of water. There is not in the state of Michigan a finer place of resort than the now celebrated, WHITMOBE LAKE, and it is no wonder that the farmers' pionics of Washtenaw, Livingston and Wayne counties are so largely attended each year. But this year the crowd was greater than ever before. Probably it was owing to the fact that the pioneer society, of old Washtenaw, alBo held a meeting at the same time. From the grove to some distance below the Lake house, there was one ewaying mass of humanity. The street at times was impaasable, ' but when the hour arrived for the speaking to begin THE OBOWD began to thin out, and sufficient people remained to keep one f rom getting lonesome. For a long dist anee there were fakirs' stands, and if one didn't draw a handsome present, it was no (aalt of the wax-moustached individual behind the counter. At half past one o'olock, nccording to the program, the exercises commenced. They were opened with prayer by the Eev. 8. W. Bird. Af ter musio, Hon. Wm. Ball, of Hamburg, introduced the speaker of the day, Gov. Luce, who said nothing particularly new. While he attempted to explain certain things. he utterly failed to point out a remedy for the same. The governor was followed by a Mr. Starks, of Webster, A. Campbell, of Pittsfield, Hon. E . P. Allen, of Ypeilanti, and C. H. Kichmond, of Anii Arbor, who bad something to aay about ineorporatiug the association. Notwithstanding the immensity of the crowd, everything paased off pleasantly. At a late hour the last visitor was homeward bound. There was, of course, some hard words said because the Toledo road did not fulflll their part of the agreement to those who expeoted to return to Ann Arbor by 7:30. But at 10 o'olock the train arrived, with its thouBand or more passengere, and the day'u pport was ended .