Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-12-17

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( desire 10 express TO each member OF
the club my sincere thanks for the hearty
support which have received as president
I and trust We shall continue to uphold
with dignity our organization and 10 merit
continuance of the success, which has
been with us in the past. We meet tonight
to celebrate our fifth anniversary
and as we look backward let us cougratu-
late ourselves that We have escaped the
many dangers whicA have threatened us with
loss of reason, developing into insanity
caused by the peculiar excentrieities OF some
! of our members and ofthose whom We once
/ thought our friends. AMI bcseech that here
after
| From GrecIy, noi4r and from Eaton's snore,
Frun food u, fire forcvermoir,
/ Good Lord deliver us.
( From loh-t.r- rae at dcnd " night,
Z From uIdn. GIT roar and sudden fTieht,
/ From aching h. ads and hats too tizht,
Good Lord deliver u.
! From base bali crunks and common scolds,
From iilseinlu shutters on our rolls,
/ FROM PLAYING cards When Key "dolcs,"
: Good Lord deliVef rs
/ From every, notice, greed Of gain.
! From childish effort % steal name
! or claiming 10 osn the state of Maine,
Good Lord deliver Ms
/ From tickle. false pretending friends.
Who .toops to tricks 10 gain their ends,
/ ON evry thing relnorse attends,
Good Lord deliver Us,
Mr.. Hill sat down amid roars OF laughter
and din of applause well calculated to
gladden. the heart of any after dinner
/ speaker be he ever so hardened to It.
! The POSTMASTER then proposed the toast
The State of Maine as the first star in
| the constellation of IS. She points with
pride TO her sons and daughters in every
land and every cline.
The Pine Tree State rejoicts in her men
/ Who bravely fought when swords outwetghed the
pen.
Far be the day, when needless of her braves,
She III ghfs them living. or forgets their graves
I but vet tonight the ancient rule We prove,
And celebrate this peaceful scene with love.
regret exceedingly we are not honorcd
with Hi, Excellency Governor Burleigh
but as bis best representative on this oc-
casion take pleasure in introducing the
commissary general of Maine, George A.
Philbrook.
The colonel is popular member of the
commercial travellers fraternity and was
cordially welcomed. The colonel expressed
his pleasure at being present in brief but
well timed remarks and said lie regretted
that he was not one of the original Shutters.
The colonel sat down amid applause.
Secretary Eaton was then introduced.
Secretary Eaton's response was;
Mr. Toastmaster and brother Shutters
should be neglecting duty | owe you Ill
and myself did not acknow ledge the great
honor that YOU have conferred upon me by
requesting me for the third time to publicly
respond to the toast The Shutter Club
Al organizations of every description,
social or otherwise, are dear to each aud
every member and this feeling of endear-
ment and LOYALTY is intensified as each new
experience binds the members more closely
together. am sincere, gentlemen, in my
declaration. that no club in this broad land
of ours is more interested in its own well
fare. possesses more mutual confidence or
is more thoroughly united than the Shutter
Club and the reason for all this is, that from
the first meeting, when the few who
gathered at historic Lake City for the pur-
pose of taking off the Shutters up to the
present moment. Every public action of
the club has not only met with the approval
of every member. but has also received the
appreciation of the world at large. The
burning of the club house, the escape of
the members from the doomed editce and
the immediate rebuilding of new. more
commodious and better in every respect
headquarters is familiar to You all. And
vivid in your minds and ever will be is the
remembrances Of achievements of this or
ganizatiou at Lake City, Sept. %. 1891 for
when the last Loon died at the end of the
fifth inning in that memorable game it was
then and there demonstrated that the Shut
ter Club still lived but its existence was to
be perpetual, ave, eternal. And this was
all accomplished without our being incor-
porated Laughter. No Shutter parti-
cpant in that game can ever forget the help
and encouragement we receive from our
members and friends aud while INDUCING
in the enjoyment which this memory of that
occasion always htings. the fimIliar
cry that rings joyfnlly in my cars was the
one that could be heard above all others
and was CONSTANTLY in the aIc, ''lo to ) on
the Shutters and in hooking over this as
semblage tonight no Que can doubt but that
the odds are still the same. The success
of this meeting allq another bright star 10
be piacef among those tnat already pr'gh'eh
ana a'iofh nef soeie'S a'ieiu.
we are prosperous an" growing anu nave
for our president ana Faner one
whose ftn, SIS for the position, whose ability,
honor sna integrity is of so high an order,
ana our commence III p'a 80 'nPli ,, 'i i
tines i have eonferre, mon him an honor no
executive or monarch in this or any other
country ever had bestowed. we nave male
nun pfesf'eh' ioI al, coiu.ns ei'h. AZ. y,
&c., II J,ilI viii exer bc nresilIen, If the
Shutter Club. PROLONGED applause
TIE emblem of society las been for ages,
Is nov sn1 wiIl over b., for ayes to come.
ronstantly in SIGHT of all. for look where
Won NAV whether Mt the howell or the
ie,,t,lg. an you will discern the shutter.
Th. shutter tnb. how can I struggle
viii, tn, emotions that almost stiiie the
utsr,nce of that Great name, Monuments
ami memorial structures. erected to perpet-
nate HE memory of men of valiant deeds
,,,t Of orrsnizaiious, rnsy .ionIaer away.