Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-05-18
MEMS CLUB FIRST
ANNUAL BANQUET
INITIAL EVENT OF KIND AT
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH,
A Decided Success From Every
Point of VieW-ChurCh PdrlOrS
Beautifully DeCOrdted-MusiCdl
and Literary Feast Follows
Address BY DR.. Bedle.

The tlrts annual banquet given las
evening by the Mems Club of tn.
Congregational church was a decided
success from every point of view
The members of the club with theil
guests to the number of more than one
hundred gathered in the church al
seven O'Clock and at seven thirty sal
down to a banquet which was served
by Mr.. Strauss, the well-known cater.
er of Milwaukee. The church parlors
were prettily decorated with fragrant
apple blossoms. The tables were also
decorated with the same, and were
made invitingIy beautiful by the
many lighted candelabras. The din
ner was served in five courses, and the
preparation and service of it certainly
reflected great credit upon the commit
tee who had it in charge, and Mr..
Strauss who prepared it. The Misses
Alma Achtenhagen, Alma Feldschnei-
der, Elsa Sproesser, Stella Murphy,
Alma Lange, Stella Faulkner, Maude
Spear and Masters Walter and Adolph
Stiemke acted as walters.
After the banquet Rev. Thompson,
the pastor of the church presided as
toatsmaster, and the following pro-
gram was rendered:
Music by the quartet consisting of
Messrs. Edward Schempf, William
Sproesser. Oscar Meyer, and Max
Rohr. The quartet was so generous
Iy and insistently applauded chat they
responded to number of encores. The
singing by the quartet was certainly
one of the most enjoyable features of
the evening, and as DR.. Beale said
Watertown might we'll be proud OF
having such musical talent. -
Professor Roseman responded to a
toast on THE Church as a factor in
Education. ''Three great forces are
brought to bear upon the education
and training of the young: the home,
the chruch, and the public school. "
Continuing, Mr.. Roseman insisted that
each of these forces has a fair share
of responsibility in the development of
q true manhood and womanhood, and
urged that all those should cooperate
in this work. He suggested that the
church might be fairly criticized for
spending too much of its energy upon
those who were already saved, and too
little upon the unsaved, and those who
really, because of their moral and
spiritual needs, ought to have larger
attention from the church.
Miss Ella Wilder spoke for the la
dies of the Clover Club, in responding
to toast on "The Clover Club-what
it has been, is now, and hopes to be. -
Miss Wilder certainly reflected cred
it upon herself and the Clover Club by
her neat speech.
Mr.. Gordon E. Bacon, inimitable
and always witty, in dealing with the
subject of "Our Pastor-by one who
knows said that people ought to know
better than to ask him to speak, for his
very name suggested that he belonged
TO the side of the menu, and not OF
oratory. His speech, Interesting,
humorous, and yet with it's serious
s de was punctuated constantly by
laughter from his audience.
DIR. Chas. H. Beale, pastor of the
Grand Avenue Congregational church
of Milwaukee, delivered the main ad-
dress of the evening, taking for his
topic Flashlights from Modern Hist
ory." DR.. Beale handled the subject
in a mastery way. often rising with
the force of his thought to climaxes
of real eloquence. He said that it
is often true that peoples and nations
learn some great truth or lay hold
upon great principles not through a
process of augmentation but by fash
es of intuition. He pointed out that
this has been especially true of our
own country. Tracing rapidly the
history of the United States from the
time of the early colonies down
through the Revolution, the Civil war,
and the Spanish war. DR.. Beale
showed how in each one of these crises
the people had laid hold upon some
great thought, and in their very strug-
giles given utterance to some great
principle. Choosing as illustrations
incident from these differentwars the
speaker pointed out that our people
aad grasped the truths of liberty, In
dependence, union, and destiny. The
various points of the subject were am
plified and illustrated in a graphic
| manner by DIR. Beale. In his intro
| ductory remarks to the audience DR..
Beale complimented the club upon its
fine banquet, its prosperity, its quar-,
tet, and its effective speakers, saying
that we need not send out of our OWL
| city for entertainment. DR.. Beale's
address was carefully followed by ar
interested audience, and MIR. Thomp.
son on behalf of the club, thanked DR.