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THE WAUPACA REPUBLICAN POST June 5, 1913 LETTERS FROM FORMER RESIDENTS New York City, April 10, 1913 Mrs. A. R. Lea, Waupaca, Wisconsin. My Dear Friend – The kind invitation you sent me to come to a “Home Gathering” in Waupaca, in August, has reached me. In reply I might state that when your invitation reached me, I was making arrangements for spending July and August in Europe, but the call of the “Home Gathering” is irresistible and has caused me to change my plans. My purpose now is to be in Waupaca, providence permitting, in August, on the occasion you mention, and I need not say I look forward to this meeting with the most delightful anticipation. The privilege of returning to the place of ones childhood, of looking once more on old and familiar scenes – “How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood”; of grasping the hands and looking into the faces and conversing with those who formed an essential part of our young life, of communing with those from whom we have been separated by long distances, different interests and by many, many years; of witnessing the change wrought on the friends of long ago; and on the little rural village with which we were all so familiar. Waupaca is now a city with improvements so marked as to stand out in striking contrast with what it once was. Telling the interesting story of the sacrifice, enterprise, energy and the push of the descendents of the heroic early settlers; to whom roads were unknown, the yelp of the wolf a familiar wound, and the Indian ubiquitous. What changes time has wrought! Let Waupaca see a “Home Coming” of her children from the ends of the earth, and while walking its streets, or riding in cars, or sitting in easy chairs longing for northern breezes to cool their heated brows, let them remember they are in a city that stands out as a gem of beauty on the great Middle West, and that here the sun shines brighter, the stars make night more radiant, the grass grows greener and the winds blow more softly than anywhere else in God’s Green Earth. That here are ties that never can be broken and some of the best people in the World. May the “Home Gathering” be a glorious success. With tender regards to all the friends of yore, I am Sincerely your friend, Thos. W. Anderson. ***** New York, April 22, 1913 Mrs. A. R. Lea, Waupaca, Wis. My dear Mrs. Lea – I was greatly interested in your letter of the 5th about the Home Coming. I am sure that there must be hundreds who will be glad of the opportunity to return and not only see the old home but find in it the comrades of other days who helped to make its charm. I wish it were possible fur me to be one of the number who take part in the Home Coming, but if I see Waupaca this summer – as I hope I may – it will have to be earlier in the year, for I am due back in New York by August 1st. Hoping that the Home Coming will be in every way successful, and that though denied the privilege of a part in it I may at least have a glimpse of old Waupaca friends this summer, I am, with kind regards, ever, Cordially yours, Hugh L. Burleson. ***** Red Lake Falls, Minn., 4-19-‘13 Home Coming Committee, Waupaca, Wis. Dear Friends – Replying to your letter of the 16th inst., would say that if it is possible, I will greatly enjoy coming to Waupaca during the Home Coming week, in August, but can not say at present whether I will be able to leave my business. Thanking you for your kind invitation, I am, Yours truly, Charles E. Boughton. ***** Elysian, Leswenr Co., Minn., April 21, 1913 Waupaca Home Coming Committee. Gentlemen – Yours of April 16th received. In reply will say, I hope to be with you, if I am well, and the Good Lord spares my life. Thanking you for the invitation. Ever yours, James S. Brand, C. B., 38th Reg., Wis. Vol. Inf. of Major Roberts Co. ***** Butternut, Wis., April 16, 1913 Home Coming Committee, Waupaca, Wisconsin. Dear Friends – It gives me great pleasure to acknowledge your invitation. If nothing happens to prevent, will try and be with you. It has been 25 years since I left Waupaca and would appreciate meeting the old time friends. Yours truly, J. L. Bloom ***** Chicago, May 5, 1913. Mrs. A. R. Lea, Waupaca, Wis. Dear Madam – Your most kind certainly most welcome letter of invitation to attend Waupaca’s Home Coming in August next, caused multitudes of memories to take possession of me. The lakes and ponds, the streams, the mills, the hills and valleys, the woods and flowery fields, the churches and schools, the offices and stores, the youths and maidens, the aged and infirm, the loved ones living and those gone on before, all immediately pulled at my heartstrings, demanding me to come to your most thoughtfully arranged Home Coming. Believe me, I am expecting and planning to be there to add my little to the enjoyment from your Dear Old Waupaca’s Home Coming. Very truly yours, Fremont E. Chandler. ***** Seattle, Wash., April 10, 1913. Mrs. Alfred R. Lea, Secretary, Waupaca, Wis. Dear Mrs. Lea – I wish to thank you for your kind invitation of April 5th and to assure you that it will give me great pleasure to be with you August 11th to 15th if it is possible for me to so arrange it. It is too far ahead to say whether I will be able to make the proper arrangements, but I hope to be able to do so as I know that the proposed Reunion will be very pleasant and I am thoroughly in favor of the idea. Just as soon as I know whether it will be possible for me to be with you I will so advise you. With kindest regards, I am, Yours, very truly, C. W. Lea. ***** 3739 Pacific Ave., Tacoma, Wash., April 29, 1913. Home Coming Committee, Waupaca. Dear Friends – Was pleased to receive an invitation to visit Waupaca this summer. It is my intention to be there. Washington climate is pretty good but Wisconsin is my home and am coming back. Sincerely yours, Ruth Flagg McKinne. ***** Antigo, Wis., April 17, 1913. Home Coming Committee, Waupaca, Wis. Dear Sirs – Will surely be at your Home Coming. Yours truly, W. B. McArthur. ***** Stratford, Wis., May 2, 1913. Mr. J. F. Jardine, Waupaca, Wis. Dear John – Your favor of recent date concerning the Home Coming received. If nothing happens to prevent I expect to attend and hope that many of my old friends may be able to be there. Waupaca will not seem so strange to me as to some others as I have been located so that I have been able to visit there several times each year. In the various places that I have lived I have always been interested in watching the success of other Waupaca people. I noticed one thing that seems to be characteristic of all of them – they always have a good word for old Waupaca. I hope that you are successful in getting all that are left of the class of 1890 to return. With best wishes for the success of the Home Coming, I am, Sincerely yours, Mourtis Mortenson. ***** New Brunswick, N.J., Apr. 12, 1913. Mrs. A. R. Lea, Sec’y “Waupaca Home Coming.” I regret very much that my engagements for next August will prevent my being present at your Home coming next August. I am sure that it will be a most enjoyable occasion for every one who can be present. I am sure it would be for me. This year is the 50th anniversary of my arrival at Waupaca and the 35th of my leaving, though I am happy to say I have made frequent visits to my old home since. Respectfully, Julius Nelson. ***** Vancouver, B.C., Canada, 4-27-13. Home Coming Committee, Waupaca, Wis. Dear Friends – We can assure you, we were very much pleased to receive your invitation, and to know that Waupaca is going to have a Home Coming. Although we do not expect to be there to help take part, we never tire of boosting for Waupaca. In all our travels, we have yet to find an inland city, the size of Waupaca, that has as many nice things to boast of as you have, such as your beautiful summer resort and good street car service, and within the last three years you have added a fine new good prospect for a Carnegie library. All these improvements surely show progress. We expect to be back to Waupaca some time, but do not know just when. Vancouver is a very progressive seaport city of about one hundred and twenty-five thousand population and growing fast. Again wishing your Home Coming a great success, we are as ever, Mr. and Mrs. Jno. Yorkson. ***** Doran, Minn., April 30. Home Coming Committee, Waupaca, Wis. Dear Friends – Received the invitation to your Home Coming and will make plans to be with you. Sincerely yours, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Waite. ***** Lansing, Mich., April 28, 1913. Mr. J. F. Jardine, Waupaca, Wis. My Dear Sir – I can think of nothing that promises greater satisfaction and pleasure than to attend the Home Coming at Waupaca next August. I am looking forward to it with great expectations. I left there twenty-six years ago. The chain of lakes was not then famous. I expect to see many changes in the city and country and more changes in the people. The young have grown to middle or old age and the babies of that day have grown up. Many of my friends of that day are dead. The rich have become poor; the poor have become rich. In some cases the lowly have become exalted, and those in high places have been brought down. Going back to a place after twenty-six years of absence must have many pleasures, some shocks, some disappointments. I am prepared for them all. Yours truly, L. L. Wright. ***** Chippewa Falls, Wis., 4-27-1913. Home Coming Committee, Waupaca, Wis. Dear Friends – Your kind invitation received. It will give me great pleasure to attend the Home Coming and will do so if possible. Thanking you for the invitation, I am, Sincerely yours, Mrs. Addie Williams. ***** Big Lake, Wash., April 30, 1913. Mrs. Alfred Lea, Sec’y Waupaca Home Coming. Dear Mrs. Lea – Your invitation to the Home Coming in August duly received, and I find I can not well resist the temptation to accept, knowing well, as you say, that I shall immensely enjoy the event. Much as I shall regret the absence and miss the handshakes of those who have in recent years passed to the beyond, I shall be glad of a chat with so many of the old-time friends, and truly wish you the best of luck in your undertaking. Such affairs require much effort and good management, and it is very commendable in you people to make the attempt. Expecting soon to see you and thank you personally, I remain, sincerely yours for the success of the venture. Mrs. J. C. Wixson. ***** Royal, Ill., May 9, 1913. Home Coming Committee, Waupaca, Wis. Dear Friends – Your kind invitation of May 5 at hand and noted. I can say that it is my desire to meet with you and old friends in August if I am well. I do think it will be good to meet with old friends and neighbors. Hoping this will meet with your approval, I beg to remain, Very respectfully yours, F. M. Thomas. ***** Kansas City, Mo., May 4, 1913. Friend Jardine – The Versen family of Missouri will be delighted to attend the Waupaca Home Coming next August to meet old friends and neighbors, after an absence of two years. Until then, Yours truly, J. A. Versen. ***** Minneapolis, Minn., Apr. 17, 1913. Home Coming Committee, Waupaca, Wis. Gentlemen – I beg to acknowledge receipt of your circular letter of the 16th inst., regarding the Home Coming of the “Waupacaites” August 11th to 15th, next. I shall certainly try to arrange my affairs to accept this invitation. I am certainly very much interested in Waupaca and its prosperity and in the people that have gone out from there. As my uncle, E. C. Sessions, was the first settler, my father went there in the early days and my boyhood days were practically spent there. I certainly anticipate a great deal of pleasure in a visit at the time mentioned and if my business affairs are such that I can get away you can be assured that I shall be there. Yours truly, J. H. Sessions. ***** April 19, 1913. Home Coming Committee, Waupaca, Wis. Gentlemen – I am pleased to learn that Waupaca will have a Home Coming this next August. That’s fine. I hope to be with you. Yours very truly, C. H. Skallerup. Address, 192 No. Clark St., Chicago, Ill. ***** Mason City, Ia., April 19, 1913. Home Coming Committee, Waupaca, Wis. Dear Friends – Your kind invitation to participate in the Waupaca Home Coming is most heartily appreciated and it awakens many fond memories indissolubly – connected with the Halcyon days of Long Ago, when Waupaca was the haven of all that a boy holds dear, with its lakes and streams, its hills and dales that were teeming with sports of every season that kindled the fires of youth to climaxes of happiness never found elsewhere. It is with no ordinary anticipation that we shall look forward to once more reveling in the scenes that were the environment of unalloyed pleasure, and meeting and greeting some of the friends and companions of those carefree days. “When al the world was young, lassie, and every goose a swan, lassie, and every girl a queen.” We shall certainly plan to be with you and assist the committee in making the occasion one worthy of the beautiful sentiment that has inspired it. Very truly yours, A. T. Gale. ***** 3925 12 Ave. South, Minneapolis, Minn., May 4, 1913. Home Coming Committee, Waupaca, Wis. We people here like your Home Coming idea, and I for one shall endeavor to be in Waupaca during that time. I am reading the papers weekly and am very interested in your plans. I wish the classes of old “Waupaca High” could have “round tables” during the reunion and recall old times and tell of interesting events since. It might be convenient to have two or three classes join in some such plan. Your committee appear to be a “live one” and I bespeak for you great results for Waupaca and much pleasure for us old timers. Thanking you for the invitation, I am, Very truly, Harriet Oertel Southworth ***** Wausau, Wis., May 8, 1913. J. F. Jardine, Waupaca, Wis. My Dear Jardine – Of course I am coming to the Home Coming. I spent eighteen very happy years in Waupaca, and know of nothing which will give me greater pleasure than meeting some of the old boys – and girls – next summer. You good people who live in Waupaca do no realize how much it means to those of us who have gone to other fields of endeavor, to get as cordial an invitation to come back to the old town. I’ll be there, of course, and I’ll bring the rest of the family too. Hastily, J. L. Sturtevant. ***** Minneapolis, Minn., Penn. Ave. So., April 19, 1913. Home Coming Committee, Waupaca. Dear Friends – Your invitation of the 16th is just at hand. It certainly will be a pleasure to be able to meet many of the former Waupaca friends and I for one shall make an effort to be present. Waupaca has always had a warm spot in my heart. It was there that I tramped in my boyhood days trying to get an education. At that time I formed many warm friendships and these recollections are ever with me. I trust you may get generous responses to your invitations. Yours truly, J. Rosholt. ***** Independence, Wis., May 13, 1913. Home Coming Committee, Waupaca, Wis. Dear Committee – Your invitation to the Home Coming which will take place in Waupaca August 11th to 15th received some time. I wish to state that at the present time I am planning on being there. Sincerely yours, Mrs. L. W. Runkel. ***** Antigo, Wis., May 7, 1913. To the Home Coming Committee, Waupaca, Wis. Your kind invitation to attend the Home Coming at Waupaca August 11th to 15th, is received and I am glad to say that we will avail ourselves of the opportunity to make another visit to our old home. It is always a pleasure for us to visit Waupaca but we expect to enjoy ourselves more than ever in being able to meet many old friends who have made their homes in other places. There is no question but that the event will be a success as old Waupaca never undertakes anything without doing it right. Your friend, E. H. Palmer. ***** Almond, Wis., 4-19-1913. Home Coming Committee, Waupaca, Wis. Gentlemen – I wish to say that it will afford me great pleasure to be in Waupaca August 11-15, circumstances permitting, and I trust the undertaking will be a grand success. Yours very truly, Frank E. Poll. ***** Waukesha, Wis., Apr. 8, 1913. Mrs. Alfred R. Lea, Waupaca, Wis. Dear Madam – I thank you for your invitations to the Waupaca Home Coming next August. When I first saw Waupaca in 1857 most of the original settlers were alive and actively engaged in business. The surrounding country had been changed very little from its original natural beauty. The lakes and streams were full of fish and the woods and prairies were full of game and the Indian still lingered in his old haunts. The settlers of the village and in the surrounding country were men and women of character, enterprise, and intelligence. I came from one of the cities of the old world and I shall always be glad that a large part of my boyhood days was spent in such healthful and stimulating surroundings. The old original settlers are all gone. Their children of the first generation are going one by one. It is well that those that participated in the old pioneer life and those who have heard their fathers and mothers tell about that life, should get together and renew their old friendships. The date is too far ahead for me to promise that I shall attend the Home Coming, but I shall be with you in spirit, and in bodily presence also, if I can so arrange my work as to be able to leave it for two or three days. Yours very truly, A. J. Hutton. ***** Neenah, Wis., May 3, ’13. Waupaca Home Coming Committee, I accept with your pleasure your kind invitation to be present at he Home Coming in Waupaca, Aug. 11-15. Mrs. Eliza Anderson Harness. ***** Oshkosh, Wis., April 28, ’13. Home Coming Committee, Waupaca, Wisconsin. Gentlemen – I have before me your circular letter of the 16th inst., and as I read it I run over, in my mind, the number of friends that I will be pleased to meet there upon the occasion of this Home-Coming. I will certainly try and be present, and shall be glad to assist you in any way possible in making this a success. I am, Yours very truly, Buchanan Johnson ***** Dear Friends – Received your very kind invitation to be present at the “Home Coming” August 11 to 14, and would thank you now, heartily for the same. And am sorry that circumstances are such that we shall have to decline. Mr. Dorr has grown so frail during the last few years, that he could not attend and enjoy it, and I could not think of leaving him behind, to take part in the festivities. Again expressing our regret, we remain, Yours most sincerely, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Dorr. Antigo, Wis., May 12, 1913. ***** Madison, April 10, 1913 Waupaca Home Coming Committee, Waupaca, Wisconsin. Mrs. Alfred R. Lea, Sec. – Dear Friends – It is good of you to remember us in connection with the proposed home coming and gratifying to know that we may still look upon Waupaca as our home. As a rule one dreads going back to the home where many changes have taken place, where many faces will be missed, but with the assurance that old-time friends will return and that old acquaintance may be renewed – the feeling of hesitation vanishes and we look forward with real pleasure and anticipation to a real home coming. We shall surely be with you if we can possibly arrange it. The years we spent in Waupaca were the happiest of our lives. I hope it may be possible to bring back all the boys and girls who filled the Waupaca schools to over-flowing during the years I was there. Doubtless I shall need to be introduced again to the little boys and girls of the kindergarten who played marbles and skipped the rope and cracked the whip – possibly even to the older ones, I doubt whether their faces will all be remembered. We must expect to look for changes. I hope they can come with their wives and husbands and children. There would be reunions of the Pickwick club, the debating club, the football teams and of the various classes in the school. If these youngsters are as lively today as they were then you will need more than one husky fellow to sit on the lid. Even the combined energies of Wright and Lowell and Showalter and Banting and all the others will hardly suffice. Don’t fail to get them all – you will need them. If your efforts succeed there will be a goodly company and I do not see how you can fail. Who could be so bloodless as willfully to miss the opportunity to be one of a great family of the kindliest, most unselfish and best men and women to be found anywhere! The personnel of your committee is in itself a guaranty of success. We thank you cordially for this invitation and with reasonable assurance of a real home coming will surely be there. Yours very cordially, F. E. Doty. ***** Stevensville, Mont. Apr. 30. Waupaca Home Coming Committee. Dear Friends – Your cordial invitation received. It is impossible for me to say at this time whether I can be with you or not, but if I cannot be there in the flesh, will be with you in spirit. I have not been in old Waupaca or seen my folks for four years now, but Stevensville, Mont., is a long hike from old Waupaca. Thanking you for your kind invitation, I remain, Yours, Jas. G. Demarest. ***** Antigo, Wis., 5-16-13. Waupaca Home Coming Committee. Dear Friends – I have your letter of April 15th and assure that it will give me great pleasure to accept your invitation to be in Waupaca during Home Coming week, Aug. 11 to 15, if I am well and able to arrange business so I can be absent. Yours Sincerely, Ellen A. Dewey. ***** Antigo, May 18, 1913. To the Home Coming Committee, Waupaca, Wis. In reply to your invitation to be with you at the Home Coming, will say that I shall try to be there. I am very glad to be remembered in that way. Sincerely, Mrs. Talford Jeffers. ***** Home Coming Committee, Waupaca, Wisconsin. Am writing to extend to you and your committee, the official thanks of the Dayton family for the invitations to the Home Coming, received some time ago. We are hoping that we may all be able to go to Waupaca for this event. I believe we, the prospective visitors, are looking forward to this Home Coming, with even more enthusiasm than you who are still living in Waupaca. I do enjoy my visits in Waupaca. My life in Chicago is such a busy, busy one, that I have little time or inclination for anything in a social way, and its good to get away from the hum of the city. To tell the truth, I’m not very partial to city life, but don’t know as I shall ever get away from it permanently. Am looking forward to seeing you all in August. Yours Sincerely, Alice Dayton. Chicago, Ill., May 18, 1913. ***** To Home Coming Committee, Waupaca, Wis. As I am one of the old timers of Waupaca, will send in a few items. 56 years ago I went to school a few weeks to Josephine Mary (now Mrs. Judge Odgen) the school house was just east of the Green Bay depot, and I could stand on the depot steps and throw a stone where we lived, just south and west of depot, near the old Mooney house and Horton’s. Then I went to Mrs. Tucker in the Gothic school house, east of the old Court house, and Mrs. Potter taught there too. The scholars I remember were Lyman and Eva Mooney, Dorothy and Ianthy Horton, Charlie Miller, Ida Lawrence, Ellen, Martha and Elba Hall, Jason, Frank, Mary, Lucinda and Clarinda Gurley, there were some Dreutzer boys and one girl, Irene Vaughn, Rebecca Shearer, Anna Powers, Mary and Joanna Miller, a little Luskum girl, Eddie Holt, some of the Lords, Frankie Parish, Willie and Henry Constance, Mary Bell, Miranda Hopkins, Cynthia and Sabey Thompson, three Hibbard girls and more I have forgotten. Then we were moved to a white school house, I think farther west, but Mrs. Potter was still weilder, not of the birch rod, but of the leather strap she carried in her pocket (and we did have pockets in our dresses then) there used to be two boys, who got their strapping every day. The first school exhibition was held in the old Court House and the last time I saw Dan Nickel he told me he remembered me as I spoke there that night, and by the way, my father married Mr. and Mrs. Dan Nickel, ministers were unknown there at that time so justices of the peace used to tie the knots. Charlie Bartlett kept a dry goods and grocery store, Dave Parish a shoe shop and Mr. Holt a store. The first newspaper I ever read was The Waupaca Spirit, edited by Redfield Bros., the two first stories were in that paper also. “She had out-lived her Usefulness” and “The Blind Mother’s Farewell to her babe.” A certain man that used to live there took his wife and children to Amherst for a visit and used too much “bug juice” and forgot about it so inserted the following in the Waupaca Spirit: My wife has left my bed and board For a few days, for a few days, She left it of her own accord, When I was drunk up town. I caution all to this amount Now days, now days, Don’t trust her on my account For she’s never a coming home. Aim. B. Next day he found out what he had done and had the following printed the next week: My friends, you think my wife has fled, For a few days, for a few days, From my board and from my bed When I was drunk up town. But I caution all to this amount, Now days, now days, Don’t worry at all on our account For we are safe at home. Aim. B. Waupaca was first called Waupaca Falls, after an Indian Chief and the falls there. Gen. Scott was one of the old timers, the first planing mill built there was the Eagle Planing Mill, which was first used as a sash and door factory. The first teachers institute for this county was held at Waupaca in the old Brick School house, where I finished my school days. I remember being work up one night to see my father marry a couple and next morning father asked me what I was called up for and I told him to see some one married, then he told me I was a witness to the marriage of the Wares, but I don’t know which one and at that time there were no certificates given. Waupaca is a dear old place to me. Dr. Thayer and Dr. Calkins were our first Doctors, and when Dr. Manchester first practiced, I remember of his riding horseback out near Manawa to see a patient one very cold day in winter, not much the way they go now. How many old hearts will be happy as they know they are remembered at old Waupaca by the younger ones. Yours for success Mrs. Minor Cannaray, Nee Frances West. ***** Dear Friends – Yours in regard to Waupaca Home Coming in August received. You may count me one of the many who will make a strong effort to be there at that time as I hope to see many old friends and school mates, who I have not seen for years. Sincerely, Winifred Huddleston. May 24, 1913. Burkesville, Ky. (Minnie Chamberlain) ***** Boulder, Mont., May 25, 1913. Home Coming Committee, Waupaca, Wis. Dear Home Friends – Mother and I are both planning on being in Waupaca for the Home Coming. We could not be hired to miss it. Yours sincerely, Mary S. Bemis. ***** Rhinelander, Wis., Apr. 18, 1913. Home Coming Committee. My absence from the city has prevented my replying to your circular letter of the fifth, and now I want to say that I shall do my best to get down to Waupaca for the Home Coming in August. August and September are two months when it is the hardest for me to get away as I usually spend several weeks at that time on my fruit ranch in Washington. We expect large crops of apples this year, and if it is not necessary for me to be out there at the time, I shall certainly be at Waupaca for the Home Coming. However, I do not want to be put down for any speeches or talking, as that is not my long suit. I will leave that to Ed., no public stunts for me. Always Sincerely, Paul Browne. ***** City of West Allis. Home Coming Committee, Waupaca, Wisconsin. I wonder if you will have a baseball game and if the “Waupaca Co. Baseball Club” will play? My, but what a club that is! “Dirimple and Scruten,” why it makes me go almost crazy now to recall to mind the greatest battery that ever appeared on any diamond. Not even the great Chandler, who, by the way, was the first curve pitcher, idol of the fans that he was, and still is, could dim the luster of Dirimple. Dirimple. Oh, Ye gods, how he could pitch! Talk about cannon balls belching forth from the mouths of the enormous death destroyers. Why, look at Scruten’s hands after the game, and you will know that catching cannon balls would have been child’s play beside of Dirimple’s terrific pitching. And, say, Chandler is some pitcher, too. How would a game with these two great pitchers opposing each other go? Will Tom Anderson be there? He wrung my neck once and it is hardly over it yet. May be I can lick him now. I wish you would invite Frank Selleck. You know he’s kind of freckled face and red headed, and we can have a lot of fun with him. Well, I’ll close, wishing you success, and that every body will come and have a good time. Good time! Why, with all those people who are going to help, a “good time” is so well assured that it will be the best time ever. Yours sincerely, Frank Baldwin. Mayor of West Allis. ***** Sandstone, Minn., May 9, 1913. Home Coming Committee, Waupaca, Wis. Dear Friends – I beg to acknowledge receipt of your kind invitation to be present at the Home Coming in August. I hope to be counted among those present. Thanking you Very sincerely yours, Bert Bailey. ***** Stanley, Wis., May 24, 1913. Home Coming Committee, Waupaca, Wisconsin. Dear Friends – I wish to express my gratitude to you for the invitation to attend the Home Coming in August, and assure you I shall plan to attend. Very truly yours, Mary M. Burnham. ***** New Haven, Conn., 5-25-13. Waupaca Home Coming Committee, Waupaca, Wisconsin. Dear Friends – Your invitation to attend Home Coming Week duly received. While I have been a regular summer visitor to Waupaca for several years I feel this will bring a great many old friends back who have not been so fortunate and shall try to arrange it so as to be in Waupaca that week. Thanking you for the kind invitation, I am, Yours respectfully, C. H. Benlick. ***** Wichita Falls, Texas, May 25, 1913. Home Coming Committee, Waupaca, Wis. Dear Friends – The invitation to the Waupaca Home Coming was received some time ago and we have delayed replying, hoping that our plans for the summer would shape themselves so that we could give a more definite answer. We are expecting to go North during the summer and will make every effort to take advantage of this opportunity to meet old friends and certainly appreciate the efforts being put forth to make the “Home Coming” a success. Very sincerely, Mr. and Mrs. Ben. S. Merrill. (Teal Dayton) ***** Minneapolis, May 26, 1913 Home Coming Committee, Waupaca, Wis. Gentlemen – I am in receipt of your cordial invitation to attend the get-together celebration to be held at Waupaca August 11th to 15th. I will try to arrange to be present. Yours very truly, Alfred H. Bright. ***** Jonesville, Mich., May 10, 1913 To The Home Coming Committee, Waupaca, Wis. Dear Friends – I beg to acknowledge with thanks, receipt of your kind invitation to attend your home coming celebration Aug. 11 to 15, 1913. I assure you it will afford me great pleasure to meet with you at that time, which I intend to do if possible. Again thanking you, and trusting the event will be a success in every particular, I remain, Yours very truly, Geo. S. Caldwell. ***** Home Coming Committee, Waupaca, Wis. Received the invitation to be present at the “Homecoming.” I will surely be there. Would not miss it for anything. Yours truly, Mrs. Alice Loomis, 2927 Tyler St., N.E. Minneapolis, Minn. ***** Minneapolis, May, 5, 1913 To the Home Coming Committee. Dear Friends – I was delighted to receive the “Home Coming” invitation from you and shall be most happy to be one of the many who will again visit the dear old home. Very cordially yours, Edan LeGro Lockerly. ***** Biloxi, Miss., May 2, 1913 Home Coming Committee, Waupaca, Wis. Dear Friends – Your invitation for Aug 11-15, is received and I am glad to say we shall be in your city at that time if all goes well. Wishing you success in your work. I am sincerely yours, Julia H. Hutchinson. ***** Bertha, Minn., April 29, 1913 Home Coming Committee, Waupaca, Wisconsin. Your very cordial invitation to the anticipated Home Coming at Waupaca, Aug. 11 to 15, is at hand. I accept your invitation in the friendly spirit it is given and shall endeavor to make plans in the future in reference to that event. While I cannot unconditionally promise to be present, it will be my aim to be there. Very cordially yours, Hale, O. LeGro. ***** To the Home Coming Committee of Waupaca. Dear Sir – Noticing in your issue of the Record-Leader, asking for names of former residents of Waupaca, I would say that I lived with my parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Hughes several years in Waupaca, somewhere about forty-five years ago. Of course I was but a small child, but have heard my mother speak of many of the old residents there. Among them the late Mrs. Bowman and Mrs. Gurley. Later I attended school there, and boarded in town. Witnessed the very first graduation exercises, and remember well that it was held in the old Stetson Hall. Yours cordially, Mrs. Chas. A. Smart, Wild Rose, Wis., April 28, 1913 ***** 1429 Grand Ave., Milwaukee, May 9. Dear Friends – I received your invitation for the Home Coming at Waupaca. I will be pleased, very pleased to accept this and on that date if it is possible. Thanking you for the remembrance. Sincerely yours, Mrs. C. Tompkins. ***** Frost, Minn., 4-25-13. To The Home Coming Committee, Waupaca, Wis. I am sending you these few words in answer to your call for names of former citizens of Waupaca and vicinity, in the Waupaca papers. I was born 4 miles from Waupaca in town of Farmington, on April 13, 1855, and continued to live there until I was 21 years of age, or until the spring of 1876. Was back there in July 1911 with my wife and daughter, after an absence of 35 years. Was also back to Waupaca summer, the first week in August, alone. I would indeed feel happy if I could attend the Home Coming this summer in Waupaca and if I can in any way make arrangements to do so I will let you know later. Yours truly, J. R. Lee. ***** Hancock, Mich., 5-1-13 Home Coming Committee, Waupaca, Wis. Rest assured it will afford me much pleasure to join in an old time Home Coming at Waupaca and I trust you have not overlooked the name of Luther L. Wright, State Superintendent of Schools of Michigan, who was very much interested in the movement some years ago. I am, Cordially yours, Myron W. Lytle. ***** Rosendale, Wis., April 26, ’13. Home Coming Committee, Waupaca, Wisconsin. Gentlemen and Friends – It is with great pleasure that I acknowledge receipt of your invitation to be with you on this Home Coming event, August 11th to 15th. I am sure it will be a pleasure to other Waupacaites as well as myself to join in this occasion. I shall certainly plan to be there and to shake the hand of many of my old friends again. Yours with kind wishes, James R. Hatch. ***** Rhinelander, Wis., May 3, ’13. Mrs. A. R. Lee, Waupaca, Wis. Dear Madam – I regret my long delay in answering your cordial invitation to attend the Waupaca Home Coming. I lead a very busy life and, consequently, things get laid aside occasionally, which are not absolutely essential. Nothing would give me more pleasure than to spend a few days at Waupaca at that time. Since I came from New York, I have always felt that Waupaca is a tender spot in my memory. The young people who went to school to me twenty-five years ago have probably changed a little. It would be most interesting to see them and hear of the experiences for one quarter century. At this time they probably do not feel that they were abused by the principal as they did twenty-five years ago. I assure you, if possible, the Lowell family will be present at the Waupaca Home Coming. Yours truly, F. A. Lowell. ***** Amherst, Wis., April 29, 1913. Home Coming Committee, Waupaca, Wis. Your invitation to attend the Home Coming in Waupaca August 11-15, received. My family and I expect to be present and I will extend this invitation to old friends and relatives who formerly lived in Waupaca. Very sincerely, Mrs. A. A. Jeffers. ***** Home Coming Committee, Waupaca, Wisconsin. Kind Friends – Your letter to hand and noted. It gave me much pleasure to hear from you, and shall try and come home to “Old Waupaca” in August if nothing comes up to prevent, but of course you know that a doctor’s time is not his own. To spend a few days at the old town and the “Chain o’ Lakes” will surely be a fine vacation. Yours truly, Dr. L. A. Hoffmier. April 19, 1913. Superior, Wisconsin. ***** Jonesville, Mich., May 12, ’13. To the Home Coming Committee of Waupaca, Wis. Dear Friends – I am in receipt of your kind invitation to attend your Home Coming celebration August 11 to 15, 1913, for which accept my thanks. It is needless for me to say it will afford me much pleasure to be with you on those dates and meet old friends once more. Again thanking you and assuring you I mean to be there if possible, I remain, Yours very truly, Otis L. Caldwell. ***** Allenville, Wis., May 2, 1913 Home Coming Committee, Waupaca, Wis. Dear Friends – Your kind invitation to attend the Home Coming to be held in Waupaca, Aug. 11 to 15, is at hand and will say I certainly shall be pleased to be with you and will co-operate with you to induce others to come also. Clara E. Cross, Mrs. Frank G. Cross. ***** Antigo, Wis., April 22, 1913 Home Coming Committee, Waupaca, Wis. I have just received your letter of April 16, and shall be pleased to be with the old friends of former days. Should nothing prevent, I shall plan to attend and hope to see many of the Waupaca County Pioneers. Sincerely, W. S. Carr (1851) ***** Colby, Wis., April 16, 1913. Home Coming Committee. Dear Friends – I will try to spend a part of my vacation at Waupaca in August. Surely it will be a pleasure for me to meet once more some of my old school mates that I have not seen for 15 years. I think it will afford a very pleasant time for the people at Waupaca and more so for many who will come back to the old town once more. I am yours, H. H. Christofferson. ***** Foxboro, Mass., April 29. Home Coming Committee, Waupaca, Wis. Gentlemen – Your favor of the 16 noted. If it is possible for me to attend will do so. However the distance to travel is so great that I fear it will prevent my doing, what I would like. Wish you success and with my best regards to everyone, I am, Yours truly, W. B. Baker. ***** King City., Mo., 5-26-1913 To The Home Coming Committee. I received your kind invitation to dear old Waupaca’s Home Coming, my birthplace, and will say, I will be more than glad to come. Thanking you for remembering me, I am, Sincerely yours, Mrs. W. E. Agee. (Annie Andrews) ***** Antigo, Wis., May 28, 1913 Home Coming Committee, Waupaca, Wis. Gentlemen – In reply to yours of the 16th inst., extending an invitation to the Home Coming the middle of August will say that I thank you very much for the same and will endeavor to be in Waupaca. Yours very truly, R. N. Lehman.
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