Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-12-31
PRESIDENT HOWELL ABSENT AND
GREAT UNEASINEsS FELT.
Tho Vice President Presidos-An Interest
Ing Meeting Held-New Members Ad-
mitted - Committees Appointed
Another Wear Motion Pianoed.

Aoi ineess
~ arrived Satur-
day night, President Howell was non
est inve~tus, as Col. Walter Southall
facetiously and classically remarked. |
After waiting ten minutes longer, |
Vice President Walter Kelly assumed
the chair and called the Baldheaded
Club to order.
There was a full attendance on |
hand. (This expression has reference
to the number and not the condition
of the members. It's ambiguity was
not discovered by the reporter until
it was written down and as his pencil
was not provided with an eraser it |
could not be changed,)
AS the roll call proceeded it became
apparent that the attendance was the
largest for many meetings. Many of
the older members who seldom at
tend the regular meetings were on
hand. CONSPICUOUS among these were
Colonies S. G. Buckner, r. T. Petree,
E. G. Calls, R. R. Donaldson and
others whose presence is always a
source of qualification to the younger
members, like Coils, j. o. Cooper, S.
Ell. Claggett and W. W. Ware.
Vice President Kelly made a few
remarks, expressing his pleasure at
the renewed interest manifested in
the meetings of the noble order of X.
S. P. 1t was especially gratifying,
he said, to have so many present in
the midst of the holidays, a season
that is generally the most trying in
all the year to those who are suscep-
tible to the temptations that beset the
inhabitants Of anti-prohibition towns.
Last year the holiday meeting was
very SHINY attended and it took a
committee until away in the spring
to investigate the cause of absence Of
many members. 1t was finally ascer-
tanned that the trouble was due to
the weather altogether. Christmas
was ushered in by cold wave that
was accompanied by rain and sleet.
The streets became so slick that it
was almost impossible to pass a sa-
loon door without slipping in. Several
of the members were caught in this
way and looked upon things that were
red, and some of them were so struck
with the color that they tried to
paint the town the same hue. These
members, it will be remembered,
were promptly excluded and banished
to GAINESVILLE for two years. This
terrible and summary punishment
proved salutary lesson and but few
of the members have cared to take a
drink since. He then pointed to the
presence of almost the entire mem
bership, in the midst of Christmas
week. s evidence of the fact that their
New Years resolutions had not been
broken like ward politicians prom
Use, but were still being kept.
Two petitions for membership were
reported from the Secretary's desk.
Mr.. Gus Breathitt applied for
membership and his petition was
referred to the Sparse Plumage Com
mittee, which reported favorably
without leaving the room. Mr..
Breathitt was known to be thorough
baldheaded man and at the same
time sheif-worn old bachelor with
no place to go at night. 1t would do
him good to get in, remarked Col.
Tom Williams, and would at the
same time benefit the club to have
him as member He was elected
without a dissenting voice, and es-
corted into the hall and given three
cheers and one chair.
The other petitioner was Mr.. E. B.
Bassett, who is doing a dry goods
and monkey business out on Main
street, this side of Kelly's station.
He was recommended by Col. Will
Cooper, who does business in gro
ceries, coons and cats in the same
neighborhood, little nearer to
the station. Col. Cooper =. stated
that Mr. Bassett was not yet entirely
bald, but was doing the best he could |
to get rid of his hair and expected to
be entitled 10 the third degree by the |
time the Roach fountain was in oper-
alton. Col. Cooper said Mr.. Bassett |
had tried to draw the crowd from his
geological PARK in the show window
OF his grocery, by opening MENACE
RE of performing monkeys in his own
window across the street, but he |
would not blackball him on that ac-
count. The Sparse Plumage Com
mittee retired to examine Mr.. Bas-
sett's head and shortly reported, rec
ommending that he be admitted now
so far as the second degree and given
the third. degree as soon as eligible.
As the work of the Club is done in
the second degree, this practically |
recommended Mr.. Bassett to full