Pioneer history of Ingham County, compiled and arranged by Mrs. Franc L. Adams, secretary of the Ingham County pioneer and historical society.

CHAPTER VII.
DELHI TOWNSHIP.
Mid-year meeting at Holt, 1919: the Aldrich family by Mrs. Adelaide Jones
and Mrs. W. A. Melton: recollections of Mrs. Joseph Feier: history of
Delhi township by Mrs. Myrtle B. Hilliard: story of Harvey Lamoreaux:
North family: Clan Thorburn: recollections of M. E. Park.
MID-YEAR MEETING AT HOLT, DEC. 4, 1919.
It was voted at the annual meeting of the Ingham County
Pioneer and Historical Society, held in Mason, June 13, 1919, that
the society should introduce the plan of holding a mid-year meeting. Holt entered into the scheme with great enthusiasm, agreed
to hold the first meeting of the kind and give the society a good
time, and right royally they fulfilled their pledge.
The thermometer ran low, and the day proved to be one of the
coldest in a cold winter, but the warm welcome the visitors received more than atoned for this, and the 200 people from Delhi
and the surrounding country showed their interest in the township
history by their presence on that day.
The morning was spent in getting acquainted, and shortly
before the dinner hour President L. H. Ives called the meeting to
order, while Mrs. Frank Hilliard, general chairman for the day,
outlined the program as it had been prepared.
A bountiful dinner was served in the basement of the M. E.
church, where the meeting was held, the Ladies' Aid Society furnishing the meal for twenty-five cents per plate. After dinner,
with both the audience room and the chapel well filled, the president called for Mrs. Hilliard to proceed with the program, which it
had been designed to have purely a Delhi one.
First was a song service led by Rev. Andrews.
Address of welcome-Mrs. Wm. Binkley.
Response by President L. H. Ives.
Mrs. Hilliard read a letter from Mrs. Adelaide Jones, of Jones