Farmers' Basket Picnic

Tbe ninth aanual picnic of the farmers of Waghtenaw, Wayne, Oakland and Livingston counties will be held at Whitmore Lake, Saturday, August 20, 1887. As these picnics have been growing larger from year to year, and the programme arranged a most excellent one, we predict a very l&rge attendance. One of the especial features of the programme ia n address by Got. Luce. At 10:30 o'clock a business meeting will be held on the grounds lor the election of officers, etc; at 11:30 dinner will be served in the grove, and at 1 p. m. the following programme will be carried out: Music; prayer by S. W. Burd, of Whitmore Lake ; music ; address of welcome by the president, Wm. Ball, of Hamburg ; address by Governor Luce ; music; paper by Mrg. Benjamin Kelley ; mugic : paper by C. G. Starks, of Webster; music; recitation by Miss Mary Lord. The music will be furnished by the Webster glee club. The T. & A. wifi run a special train on that day, carrying passengen at greatly reduced rates. A nation's character ia the sum of ita splendid deeds ; they censtitute one cornmon patrimony, the nation's inheritanoe. They are foreign ; they arouse and mate our own