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Lenawee County By John J. Adam, February 7th, 1878.
The audience room of the large Methodist church building, which will seat seven or eight hundred people, was filled to overflowing, and many chairs had to be furnished along the side aisles and in other parts of the room. The dinner tables in the basement, seating some two hundred or more at a time, were reset several times; and when all wishing dinner were waited upon, enough for hundreds more was left. A very able and interesting paper on the first settlement of Ridgeway and vicinity was read by Justus Lowe, and many incidents of the period were afterwards related by some of the older settlers. Of those present, about eighty joined the county society, including one old lady of 98.
At all the previous special meetings visitors from a distance were either welcomed to a free public dinner, as at East Raisin, or .invited to individual homes, as at Clinton and Hudson. And in every instance
the residents of the places where the meetings were held seemed pleased to extend their hospitalities to all the old settlers who came to attend the proceedings. But I must forbear further detail, in hopes that the Presi-dent or secretary of the county society may now or on some future occa sion furnish some data on that subject.
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