The attendance at the annual re-union and pic-nic of the Collett and McKay families, last Saturday, was very large, and the event was a very pleasing one in all its features. There were present splendid types of American man and womanhood embraced in the various branches of the above named families from several different states.

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(Provided courtesy of Kim Becker Price.)

     The Collett-McKay picnic on last Saturday was a grand success, as it nearly always is. Over five hundred persons were present and registered and all enjoyed themselves.

     Mr. Will Shambaugh, formerly a clerk in the dry goods store of Merrick & McClure, this city, but who for the past few monthis has been in Marion, Ind., arrived in Xenia this morning looking as fat and happy as in former years. He came home to attend the big Collett-McKay picnic, which will be held on Daniel M. Collett's farm, near New Burlington, to-morrow, This family is one of the largest in this part of the State, there being between three and four hundred of the relatives who annually hold a picnic.

     The annnal re-union and pic-nic of the Collett and McKay families will be held in a grove on the farm D. M. Collett, on Saturday, August 11.

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     WE are indebted to Commissioner D. M. Collett for a cordial invitation to be present at the annual Collett-McKay reunion, which will be held at the usual place, a grove on Mr. Collett's farm, on Saturday, August 11. These reunions are always the greatest picnic of the season, and a big crowd will be present at the approaching one should the weather be favorable.