Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-07-01

Each table was decked with flowers
with bouquet of pansies pinned to
each napkin. In one box was the
Lancaster orchestra while in the
other was a bevy of young ladies,
mattresses for the occasion. After
all were seated the orchestra started
to play and from each side of the
stage the mattresses filed onto the
floor to serve the first course. Each
had charge of a certain section and
the elaborate menu provided by the
Ladies of the G.. A. r. was served
in faultless style and without
hitch. The menu was as follows:
Bouilion aux Crouton
Olives Gherkins
Boiled Beef Tongue Pork Loins
White bread with butter Jellies
Saratoga Chips
Shrimp Salad
Sailed Almonds
Strawberries Vanilla Ice Cream
Devils Food Angel Food
Coffee
After the feast was over Mrs.
Tenant as president and toast
mistress opened the literary part of
the program with short speech ex-
pressing pleasure at seeing so many
in attendance at what she said
seemed to her almost in the nature
of family reunion, she having had
SO many of those present, as pupils.
She concluded by introducing the
first speaker, Mac McCrady of the
class of 1902 who welcomed the
class OF 1905 to the membership of
the association in a well written
and humorous speech. Miss Beth
Lisherness was next introduced and
answered for the class of 1905.
Harry Carthew '95 was next intro
duced by Mrs. Tenant, as an
alumnus who had risen to high
rank among Grant county lawyers
and ONE whom we expected to see
highly honored in his chosen field.
He spoke on ''Alma Mater" in a
very good address closing with
toast to the Lancaster high school
and expressing the hope that her
standard of education might be
raised year after year until we all
might see her at the head of the
state high schools. Principal G. E.
Slothower responded in a speech
telling of the needs of the high
school of today. He showed that
the high school is to some a pre-
paratory school and to others a
final school. He outlined what it
should be in both lines and also
spoke of the need of manual train
ing in the high schools Mrs. Vina
Stone '84 followed with an address
on the alumpi showing how widely
scattered they we've and how the
ajority were prosperous and use
full citizens of the United States
Burne Pollock '99 responded with a
plea for closer union and stronger
bonds of friendship and fellowship
between the members of the Alumni
association. The next number on
the program was the reading by
Orlo Wheeler '98 of poem by
Arthur Sherman III. The poem
was a very good one and very we'll
written. Mrs. R. Meyer, Jr., re
closed the program of regular adj
dresses by comparing her com
mencement, the first with the last.
Mrs. Meyer showed contrast in the
programs first and then compared
the music of the Lancaster orchestra
to that of the brass band which
played in '76. She also showed the
difference in the attire of the two
classes in a short but humorous
address.
After the regular program was
concluded the following visitors
were called upon for speeches: Mrs.
w. E. Brown, asst. principal
in 1876, Walter Pollock, Mrs. E.
G.. Paine of Milwaukee and Mrs.
Hattie Weaver Fritz, of California.
All responded with good addresses,
some of which were humorous and
filled with the spirit of good fellow
ship which pervaded the whole