The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-12-30
Horace F. Alden Guest OF Honor
At Function
AN ELEGANT AFFAIR
Quartet of Friends Unites to Enter
tain Participant in Approaching
NuptidIs

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quartet of gentlemen who are general
ly referred to as professional bache-
lors, namely: Ed Hansen, Harold f..
Lamb M. D., f. w. Sprague and A.
Al. Welles.
The dinner, the most elaborate ever
served i'm Sauk Centre, was given in
the private parlor of Mr.. and Mrs. A.
w. Austin Of the hotel. That Sauk
Centre has a hostlery managed by
those who can serve such dinner in
such style as this one was served is
a great credit to the city. The fact
is that no better service could have
been secured at any of the high class
restaurants or hotels in ST. Paul or
Minneapolis. The menu, which in
cluded the delicacies of the season,
was not an easy one to handle, but
nevertheless, the cooking was the
best possible, the table arrangement
and decorations in the most exquisite
taste, and the service left nothing to
be desired. 1t was six course din
ner, the menu being as follows:
Blue Points on the Half Shell
Cream of Tomato Soup
Celery Stuffed Olives
Broiled Salmon Steak
Squads on Toast,
Garnished with Parsley
Spinach Potatoes Peas
Roman Punch
Fruit Salad Waters
Fruit Ice Cream
Cake Coffee
The table was beautifully arranged
and decorated. 1t stood under a
bunch Of electric lights in the centre
of the parlor. A center piece consist
ing of a magnificent bunch Of the finest
carnations to be obtained, in a vase
and resting on ferns, was the main
adornment. At each of the four cor
ners of the table stood glass candala-
brum bearing a pink wax candle and
resting upon dainty doilie Of pink
crepe paper The finest of china and
the choicest of silver ware completed
the table equipment. ....
The menu cards were very artistic,
a product of The Herald job printing
Office, and pronounced by more than
one who saw them as the finest thing
of the kind ever turned out from
Stearns county printing establish
ment. The menu card was a four
page affair seven and q half by ten
and half inches in size, printed in
five colors on heavy white cover paper
with deckle edge and crash finish.
The first or title page was adorned
with a bow of white ribbon, with
wedding bells in two colors, the title,
date and place of the banquet. On
the second page were the names of
the hosts, the guest of honor, and the
post-prandial program. The menu
occupied the third page and was pre-
ceded by a two color cartoon Of a
waiter bringing i'm a boar's head on a
platter. On the last page was the
following quotation:
'Oh, happy. they, the happiest of
their kind,
Whom gentler stars unite, and in
one fate
Their hearts, their fortunes and
their beings blend".
The participants in the banquet
gathered in Mr.. Welles' room in the
hotel and at $3.50 were escorted to the
banquet room and seated by, Mr..
Austin, who performed his part of
the ceremony with the grace of an
English butler. The gentlemen all
wore evening dress. The guest of
honor occupied seat at the right of
Mr.. Welles, the POSTMASTER, DIR.
Lamb at the left and Messrs. Sprague
and Hansen faced him. The, serving
of the dinner occupied an hour and a
half and was performed without a.
flaw.
When the menu had been disposed
of the post-pradial, part Of the pro-
gram began. The POSTMASTER, in the
course of his preliminary remarks,
produced long list of eminent men
who had attained prominence in all
lines of human endeayoE, from Plato
down to William Henry Eustis, who
had lived bachelor -lfSes., He intro
duced the first speaker, DR.. H. L.1