The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1903-01-15
Skowhegan Mems Club.
Enjoys It's First Banquet at Hotel Hesel-
ton. The Occasion Thorough Success.

ton. The Occasion Thorough Success.
Friday evening of last week, the 9Th
instant, the members of Skowhegan
Mems Club celebrated its arrival at
the age Of one year, by holding ban
quet at Hotel Heselton. of which s5
ladies', club gentlemen and invited guests
partook.
The tables were arranged In the form
cross each arm of which conveniently
accommodated 81 guests. A fine center
piece Of cut flowers adorned The place
where the tables intersected each other
and otherwise the tables were beautlfied
with flowers and the spacious dining
room with potted plants and vines.
Landlord Cahill's supper was not in
tended to be an exceedingly elaborate
affair, but the menu was choice one,
the viands excellent and the service
prompt and efficient. Following is the
menu:
Chicken Bouillon
Soda Crackers Celery Mixed Pickles
Boiled Penobseot Salmon, Nonpsreil Sauce
Roast Rhode Island Turkey, Cranberry Sauce
Dreamed Potatoes Mashed Turnip
Banana Fritters, Glsce Orange Curacao
Lang Punch
Steamed English Plum Pudding, Golden Sauce
Vanilla Ice Cream
Assorted Cake
Hotel Heselton Coffee
After this attractive menu had been
given due attention, the post prandial
exercises were entered upon with keen
interest. r. 7. Patten called for order
and named L. !. Walton, Esq. the newly
elected president of the club, as toast
master. Mr.. WaltoA acquitted himself
in the position with his accustomed
grace, wit and tact.
The toasts and those who responded
were:
Toastmaster, L. L. Walton
"Hence loathed Melancholy,
OF Cerberus and blacklist Midnight born"
"The Club" Ernest G. Butler
"Our names is our credentials,
And our credentials goes"
"Traits Common to the Scot aud the
Yankee Lewis Anderson
THAT man to man the warld Ger
Shall brother be for a. that"
"fhe humorous side of Clergyman $
Life" H. W. Kimball
IA little nonsense now and then
Is relished by the best OF men,"
"Skowhegan Club Women"
E. n. Merrill
Disguise our bondage as we will
lis woman, woman, rules us still"
"Impressions of Guest
John E. Nelson
perhaps it may turn out song,
Perhaps turn out sermon"
"Skowhegan Thirty Years Hence"
Angler l.. Goodwin
Dear yesterday glide not so fast,
o let me cling
To thy white garments floating past"
"Some Phases of the Legal Question"
Leslie G. Cornish
q How small OF all that human hearts endure,
That part which laws or kings can cause or
cure"
The audience was an inspiring one
and the speakers were at their best.
There were no dull, prosaic, long-wind-
ed efforts. Wit, humor, pleasantries,
sound argument, vivid Imagination and
fervid eloquence claimed the attention
of the hearers in pleasing succession and
gave them two hours of solid enjoyment.
without disparagement to home talent
or excellence of speech, we may be al
lowed to allude to the speaking of the
two Kennebec guests of the club. Mr..
John G. Nelson, superintendent of
schools of WatervillP, is one of the
bright, keen, fluent young men of our
sister county, down river, over flowing
with pat stories and apt illustrations
much to the delight of those to whom
he talks in his easy pleasing manner.
He appreciates the "Best town In
Name" its people and particularly the
Skowhegan boys and girls who have
taken their college course at Colby.
Leslie G. Cornish, Esq. of Augusta,
so well known in Somerset, discoursed
learnedly and with sparkling wit of the
law, its practice in the courts, comparing
the methods of former generations with
those Of today to the advantage of the
present time. Lawyers and clergymen
he said were formerly about the only
educated men. They were upon pin.
nacle but now the prevalence of college
education has brought men of these
professions down from their pinnacles
The brightest minds Of to-day are seek.
ing business or scientific careers. The
work of the lawyer of the present tend:
to less business in the courts, to better
work in the offices which is better fol
the public as well as the parties in inter
est than ever before.
The speakers, home and visiting, were
warmly greeted with hearty applause
KendalPs orchestra discoursed swee
music from a room opening into thu
dining room, during the feast, whici
received unmistakable expressions u
appreciation.
The committee having the affair II
charge, Fred F. L .wrence, Roland Z
Patten and Walter Fl. Hight, are entitled
to to the highest praise for the superio
arrangements that contributed to tn
pronounced success of Skowhegan Men
| Clubs celebration of its first anniver
sary.
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