"While thus in solemn worship there
The women gave a scream,
For through a crack in the cabin wall
A red-skin's eyes were seen.
The stately deacons rose and asked,
'Why this disturbance made?'
In Indian language they replied,
'We want some johnny-cake!'
This visit was the last one of the Indians in the vicinity of
Rutland.
PIONEER SOCIETY.
A meeting preliminary to a call for the organizing of a
pioneer society met at the court house in Pomeroy in October,
1876, Mr. H.B. Smith, chairman, Aaron Stivers, secretary.
Those present were Stillman C. Larkin, Aaron Torrence,
Nehemiah Bicknell, Silas Jones, Mrs. H.B. Smith, Mrs. S.C.
Miles, and Mrs. E. L. Bicknell. They met and proceeded to
name a committee to announce the time and place for a regu-
lar organization of the Meigs County Pioneer Society, and to
prepare a constitution, with suitable by-laws, for the future
conduct of the society. They reported at the next meeting,
which was held in the court house at Pomeroy, November 1st,
1876, pursuant to the call of the last meeting.
President Stillman C. Larkin in the chair, and Aaron
Stivers, secretary. The object of the meeting was stated by
the president and then the report and constitution was read
and adopted.
"In view of the fact that all of the first settlers of Meigs
county have passed away, and most of their children are also
gone, and that time is effacing the mementos and monuments
that have marked the only history of our county, we are
admonished that unless immediate steps are taken to preserve
the remembrance of those interesting events they will be for-
gotten and lost. In order therefore to recover and preserve
