From the Cortland Standard of Cortland, NY
Tuesday, August 24, 1875

   The Norwich people turned out, on Thursday last, in surprising numbers, to the Odd Fellows' picnic to Ithaca. They went through this village a little before eleven. The whole resources of the U.I.&E. R.R. were required to move them. There were nine cars and there must have been nearly or quite 500 people.

   The five hundred ladies and gentlemen who went with the Odd Fellows picnic from Norwich to Ithaca, on Thursday last, got a terrible wetting, as they were out in the heaviest shower of the season. Had they been a month in a lake of water, they could not have been more thoroughly soaked.

   They went home in a sorry plight. At the station here they could not even raise a joke over it. But when they got home and into dry clothes they probably felt better - only there must have been a considerable amount of ladies wear in Norwich which will never get over its limp condition, and will hardly be taken into favor again by the owners.