Green home in Dayton
Annual Picnic Of Garden Club At Green Home
Because of the rainy weather yesterday afternoon, the 35 members of the Ottawa Garden club who gathered at the home of Mrs. Ralph Green at Dayton for their annual picnic, were compelled to turn the event into an indoor fete.
The luncheon tables at which the sumptuous repast prepared by the members of the club was served were prettily decorated in garden flowers.
Following the luncheon, at a club business meeting presided over by Mrs. Fred Claus, chairman, arrangements were made for co-operating with the city in the beautification of the grounds around the stand pipe on State street. Members of the club are to donate plants and shrubbery for this work.
Reports of the district and state Federation of Woman’s clubs conventions were made. Mrs. Ralph Green made a report of the district federation meeting, and Mrs. John Johnson and Mrs. Clarence Wilson gave reports of the state convention that took place in Chicago.
Plans for the coming year’s program were also discussed.
- Ottawa Republican-Times, June 18, 1935, p. 2, col. 3.
Dayton and the Greens 
Brings back many happy memories of Dayton Family Picnics that I attended that were rained out. At this point, the food was always served indoors, but us kids would be playing in the family room rather than outside when it rained. I am certain that this early exposure to Grace Clifford’s wonderful pewter collection (displayed on the back wall) led to my hammered aluimium collection. I recently picked up a minature cast iron stove, similar to the one in the family room that we always played with on rain days!
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