Semi=weekly graphic., 1898-12-31
RENDERED THE MEMBERS OF THE ORATORlCAL
 ASSOCIATION
AT THE HOTEL TRULOCK
By Hon, T, Il, Havis Nixon, the Representative of Grant
 County in State Legislature.

An invitation was extended to the members and friends of MT. Nixon of the Pine Bluff Oratorieal Associ- ation to meet him at l a. m. at the Trulock hotel to spend Christmas, and there to dine with our friend, the gentleman from Grant.
 At the invitation of! Mr. Nixon we were invited to Room 54, and there conyersed until the swell-known cat erer, Sol Wermser, had placed before us a dish fit for the gods. Games were induleed in and then at the solicitation of MT. Nixon we were in- vited to the table to feast with him as stated.
 After lunch, Mr Kerwin toasted 10 the health of the gentleman from Grant, and said:
 Mr. Nixon, friends and members: I duly appreciate the kindness of our friend, MT Nixon, and 1 will say that l expect to see MT. Nixon one of the brightest men of the day, and turn ling to Mir. Nixon, said: We like you. We have Q friendship for you strong and lasting, and although myself have only known you for three months, my friendship is that of years, and be assured that if ever E. J. Kerw in can be friend to you, Iyou may well feel safe that it will be most in the time of need. ,"
 Beno Altheimer said in toasting to the health of Mr. Nixot: You are smart, you are cultured and refined. You are what I term a gentleman of l whom Grant can be proud, and I Icorroborate the statement of Mr. KerWin that I am your friend at all times, and that 1 knew and hoped to hear Of our friend s success. in the State as well as in the national af- fairs, and then thanked Mr Nixon for the Fememberance of his friends
 Mir. Levine, in tOasting. said: Friend and brother, we have felt your education in the oratorical rooms, and have felt the warm grasp of you hand, and we are your friends for now and eEermore. Rou are ths metal to achieve success and inde- peadenee is within reach.
 Smiling Ike then said: "Mr. Nixon you are a friend and scholar, and we one and all like you. The Pine Bluff Oratorical is proud of T. Havis Nixon, and we thank you for the kind manner in which you have seen fit to reciprocate the feelings of friendship, and may success be your guiding star, and prosperity your goal is the wish of your friends.
 Mir. Heath, as a friend, began thus, ''I am no speech-maker, but I feel as if had known this gentleman, Mr. l Nixon for years. He is educated, but simple; determined, but kind; and I am his friend because he is mine"
 Mir. Nixon, in replying with emo tioD, made the finest speech listened to at a banquet in PineBluff. He was witty, eloquent and majestic in thoughts, and assured us that his friendship was as great for US as man could bear to his brother, and we have won his friendship through our hospitality and kindness. He spoke in glowing terms of hiscounty and said that Grant had seen fit to elect hiln, us he loved every man W man and child in that county, he would do !nothing contrary to the wishes of Grant, and would try to keep the friendship he admired so warmly of his friends in Pine Bluff, \ and the Association.
 Owing to the "wee sma' hours we all took to our respective homes eXtolling the kindness and singing praises of T. Havis Nixon. B.A.
 A GOOD SUPERSTITION.