The eleventh annual Reunion of these well known families took place on last Saturday at the usual place, a handsome grove on the farm of D. M. Collett. The morning was bright and beautiful, and the attendance was larger than ever before. Of the relatives there were two hundred and twenty-five and about seventy-five invited guests. Among those present from a distance we observed Dr. Henry Goode, residing near Cincinnati, who for forty years was a practising physician in the region round about the Collett and McKay neighborhood, and his son-in-law, Smith Stimmel, Esq, an Attorney of Cincinnati; Judge George J. Smith and daughter, of Lebanon; Jonas T. McKay, of Lebanon; Aaron Hackney, of Hartford City, Indiana; E. C. Kelley and J. W. Yeo, with their families, of Richmond, Indiana; Mrs. Mary Jones and family, of Indianapolis; W. B. Melish, Jr., and family, of Cincinnati; Joseph Browning and family, of Fayette county, besides others whose names we did not get. The time till the dinner hour was taken up with hand shaking and hearty greetings from relatives and friends, many of whom had not met since the last reunion and some for a longer time. The usual long dinner table had been erected, and on its ample space was spread good things enough to feed an army, which, after an appropriate blessing had been asked by Rev. W. B. Jackson, was attended to in a way which proved eminently satisfactory to all concerned. We are not strictly a disciple of Epicurus, and do not believe that eating is the chief end and aim of life, but on such occasions we like to see a good dinner spread, as it betokens comfortable living at home, and taking this dinner as a criterion, there is no danger of the Colletts and McKays coming to want soon. It was more than ample in quantity and excellent in quality, to which all present did full justice. Soon after dinner was over the clouds betokened a shower, and before three o'clock the much needed rain was coming down copiously, and the afternoon's enjoyment was brought to an abrupt close, to the regret of all. During the day our attention was called by E. B. Hackney to a sulphur spring near the Pic-Nic grounds, where the road crosses Buck Run, and near thereto was a famous salt lick, where in the early settlement of the neighborhood, the cattle gathered from miles away, and this was a great rendezvous for deer, and from a hollow sycamore near by many a stately stag met his doom from the unerring aim of the frontier hunter. The lick has been filled up so that there is scarce a vestige of it, but the sulphur spring is still a feature by the roadside, and from an old hollow gum flows a copious stream strongly impregnated with sulphur.
     We started home in a brisk shower but the clouds lifted and ere we reached Wilmington all trace of rain had disappeared. To numerous friends we are under obligations for courteous attentions during the day, and we hope they may all live long to enjoy numerous returns of thir annual reunion,

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     We are requested to announce that the annual Collett-McKay Pic-nic will be held on the second Saturday of August, in the usual grove on the farm of D. M. Collett, on the New Burlington and Gurneyville pike. These family gatherings are very pleasant, and we acknowledge an invitation to attend, which we hope to be able to do.

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