The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1903-02-27
THE BANQUET.
Bar and County Officers Entertain super
visors and Visiting Attorneys.

visors and Visiting Attorneys.
After the public feast of oratory at the
court house in the afternoon, came the
literal feast of the attorneys, supervisors
and county officers at the Dyckman
house in the evening. Landlord Long
well had outdone himself in the prepare
ton of an elegant repast which it is un-
necessary to say was fully appreciated
by the crowd of hungry attorneys and
hungrier officials to say nothing of the
few lank newspaper men who succeeded
in passing the doorkeeper and entering
the dining room. Editor Cole was there,
and went in with all the assurance of his
hundred and quarter weight, leaving
the room at length best described in
Falstaffian language, "A goodly, portly
man, i faith, and corpulent of cheer
full look, pleasing eye and most noble
carrage"-but that's another story. The
Philharmonic orchestra furnished music
during the banquet and the program
that followed.
Nearly all the members of the Van
Buren, county bar were present, as well
as representatives from Allegan, Kalama-
ZOO and Berrien counties, and our own
county officials. Only a few of the sup
eryisors were present, and the absence of
so many members of the board detract-
ed from the pleasure of the occasion.
After the supper was disposed of and
cigars were lighted, Prosecuting \ ttorney
! David Anderson as toastmaster called
the gentlemen to order and proposed
the toast michigan" asking .. w. Row
land to respond He said it might have
been better had the selection fallen on a
native born resident Of the state instead
of a Buckeye, coming, as Brother Heck
ert says, from Ohio, the where all good
men come from. However, he thought
his 30 years residence in the state might
partially qualify him to respond.
AT this point l.. A. Tabor asked to be
excused, as he had Just received word
from his home in Lawton that his daugh-
ter had sustained an injury.
Mr.. Rowland proceeded, giving some
statistics of the marvellous growth of the
state, and the wonderful resources that
have made Michigan what it is
Let another man praise thee, and not
thine own mouth" was the way the
toastmaster fell to quoting scripture in
calling on F.. A. Crane of Kalamazoo to
respond to the second toast, ivan Buren,
county"
Mr.. Crane said it was Bro. Rowland's
misfortune not to have been born in
/ M;obiuan Ha thOuoht II an avi6apca
of Van Buren, county's greatness that
several of us came here to be born"
and an evidence that here are the fairest
ladies to be found that he and others
sought their life companions here. The
speaker mentioned the fine record of the
county in the civil war, the first troops
leaving the state having been recruited
ia Van Buren,, and the countys sons
having spilled their blood on every bat
tlefield from Bull Run to Appomattox,
and finally participating in the last act,
the capture of jefferson Davis. After
reviewing some of the progress of the
county, he concluded: This village
has come to be Paradise, and it is not
to be wondered at, when it is remember
ed that the county is the Eden of the
state"
"The Courts" was responded to by j.
f.. Chandler of Kalamazoo, in a happy
after dinner speech. replete with stories
that passed the merry laugh around the
board. But in the midst of it there was
the idea that, though courts have been
frequently belittled by certain people,
those who know them best have found
them to be among the most beneficent
institutions. He spoke of another court
at which most of us have burned mid
night oil mot our OWN, and where most
of his hearers had won their suits He
admitted the glories of Ohio, and pre-
dicted that the three Buckeyes present
would soon have their heads together in
mutual admiration society, but voiced
the popular sentiment that Ohio must
doff her hat to Michigan.
The POSTMASTER then went to talking
about unscaled heights, mountain tops
and the desire to scale them, and il the
banquet hadn't been strictly local OPP
ton affair it might have been suspected
of having gone to the prosecutors head.
However, when he proposed The Su-
preme Court" and asked Hon. Dallas
Boudeman of Kalamazoo to respond it
could be seen what he was driving at.
Mr.. Boudeman declared he had had no
time to prepare an extemporaneous
speech, and knew little about the SUI
preme court anyway except as he had
seen it from in front although he adj
mitted a willingness to learn more OF Its
workings-fro the inside. lie told a
funny story on the prosecutor, praised
our land as compared with foreign coun-