Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-04-12
M. C. A. BANQUET
kat Membership Contest in the Local
 Association Brought to a Fitting Close
 Wedne esday Night. A Brilliant Success lin Which Prominent Citizens Participated.

hitting wind-up to one of the most
 lessful events in the history Of
 local Y. M. c. A. was the ban
 rendered by the Longs to their
 huerors. the Shorts, at the as
 ation Wednesday evening. The met was attended by about one dred of the participants in the Hest. and was very enjoyable |bughout. A splendid repast, serv- by a number of Pine Bluffs fair
 daughters, put the company in
 d humor, and enabled them to
 en to a program of speeches from 5 prominent in the association kk. both here and elsewhere, and \e of the invited guests.
 he company was seated at the les. which had been set in the ne of a rectangle in the big gym hum shortly before g o'clock in the hing. After Secretary Moore, of railroad association at Argenta.
 asked the divine blessing on the hsion, the bountiful feast was Set bre the company by eighteen lad
 chosen by the leaders of both ks to take the place of the Longs. were to have served the ban
 but who were more than will to turn this duty over to the
 es in realization of the fact that l were mere used to that sort fhing, and would be able to per b the task with more race than
 Longs.
 Secretary Richardson Speaks. pr nearly half an hour devoted |ntion to the viands was paid by present, and then Secretary hardson, who acted as toast mast >f the occasion, took the floor. He
 ewed the contest from its in
 ion over three months ago, to it's Y happy conclusion. and gave 'e figures regarding it to show it had been successful in every
 and had filled the purpose for |eh it was created by the fertile
 ms of the membership commit
 He then called upon Secretary |gdon of the association at Tex hna.
 Other Addresses.
 IT. Congdon assured the local pbers of the pleasure he felt in fg able to be with them on an aslon of the kind. and spoke very fngly of the good that had been Pmpllshed by the contest. He was owed by Messrs. w. H. Lang.
 Prof. Moore, H. G. Higinbotham r. Becker. Assistant Secretary |moers, of Texarkana, W, M. Sey. | r, A, H. Kirkland and Young the
 two being the representatives of
 local press. All of these gentle made speeches. of greater or
 length, according as the mood upon them. and all were received great enthusiasm by the com s' A majority of the speakers 'e Longs. and despite the fact they had suffered defeat in the test. bore their trouble like men
 carried off the honors In the echmaking line.
 aptaln Dunkum, of the Longs. took the floor and made a very y little address, and he was fol. ea by MT. Fox, who after an en- 'ole little talk, presented to Capt
 "hyte, as leader of the winninc '' a very beautiful gold sfgnet with the seal. of the association Il It. This token and souvenir of contest was the gift of promin-
 'eweler of Jonesboro. who has y railroad men among his pat. ,, and has been intensely inter- U m the contest throughout. MT. ''e was called upon for speech,
 pleaded to be excused on ac. II Of the fact that SO many had 'eoed him. and that the ladies
 mad so kindly acted as wait es were still waiting to be. serv- y the Longs. Two other trophies. TO have been awarded, one to Scott' an engineer on the. Cotton ; who secured the largest mum or members obtained by any one and the other to Brakeman lson, who was the Short securing l most members for his side. Both | nese gentlemen were compelled