PIONEER DAY EXERCISES.
| Ladies' |  | Library | | Association. |
SCHOOLCRAFT, MICH.
April 26, 1898.
L. L. A. PIONEER DAY.
At the meeting of the Ladies' Library Association on April 26, thefollowing program was carried out, the papers having been prepared forthe occasion by some of the survivors of the early settlers ofSchoolcraft and Prairie Ronde:
PROGRAM:
| Thanksgiving Hymn | L. L. A. Quartette. |
| Paper, "The Beginning of Schoolcraft" | E. Lakin Brown. |
| Paper, "Personal Recollections of the Early Public Schools of Schoolcraft" | Mrs. P. S. Thomas. |
| Song, "The Young Pioneer" | L. L. A. Quartette. |
| Paper, "The Transplanting of a Boy" | J. H. Bates. |
| Paper, "Reminiscences of the Life of a Young Pioneer" | H. P. Smith. |
| Paper, "Early Days in Prairie Ronde" | O. H. Fellows. |
| Song, "Michigan, My Michigan" | L. L. A. Quartette. |
WRITTEN BY E. LAKIN BROWN,
And sung at a Thanksgiving dinner given by James Smith, at his home inSchoolcraft, November, 1835.
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