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

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receive more instruction regarding the past. Many noble things
have been done in Ingham county. She pleaded for improved
schools and an advanced school system.
Rev. W. B. Hartzog, of Mason, called attention to the value of
accuracy in historical matters, and spoke of the Pioneer History of
Ingham County, being compiled by the county secretary, and
urged that all possess themselves of the volume as soon as it came
from the press.
Mrs. Hattie Carpenter, who is the (laughter of a veteran; the
wife of a veteran, and the morher of a veteran, then gave a history of the Woman's Relief Corps in Leslie. Mrs. Adams, county
secretary, told of attending the National American Legion convention held a short time before in Kansas City, where so many
military nobles of world-wide reputation were present.
Col. Ives told an interesting story connecting the Civil War with
the present. While in camp not far from the enemy he found a
sixteen-year-old boy who was doing picket duty asleep at his
post. He wakened the boy, and impressed upon him the penalty
which followed such a deed, but because of the boy's youth he
did not report him, feeling sure the act would never be repeated.
Gratitude still lives in the hearts of men, and the boy never forgot
the kindness shown, and a few years ago when he saw Col. Ives
name in a published article he wrote to find if it was his colonel,
and in 1921 this boy, now a gray-haired veteran, came to the
Ives home to thank his benefactor for sparing his life.
W. B. Longyear, a well known drummer boy for the Michigan
G. A. R., then gave a history of Dewey Post in Leslie. Mr.
Coon, another G. A. R. man, told some of his army experiences,
followed by Moore Blakely, who related an incident similar to
that told by Mr. Ives, which did not terminate so happily, as in
this case the soldier was shot.
The afternoon session opened with community singing, after
which further welcome was extended to the guests by W. F.
Prescott, the mayor of the village. He spoke of the improvements in Leslie during the last half century, and defined the
troubles the Council were having in the road improvement now
under way. Mrs. Haltz, the chairman, read portions of a letter
written at an early day, then told of the farm owned by her
uncle on the shore of Bateese Lake. That the people of an earlier