The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-07-22
GRAND WORTHY PRESIDENT OF
FRAreRNAL ORDER OF
EAGLES AT hARNoiS.
EXPOSITION Of IDEALS
Chief Of National Organization Gives
intere sting Talk. After Being Intro
duced BY Senator Dison--County
Attorney Mulroney Heard-Plans for
Visitors Visit.

Last night small but Interested
audience at the Harnois theater heard
Frank T.. Herring of South Bend. Ind.
grand worthy president Of the frater-
nal order Of Eagles. give an eXposi-
tion of the ideals for wnich that
order stands.
The rain. which meant so much To
the city and to as much of the sur
rounding country as IT fen upon, re-
srlted In some delay In the proceed
Ings of the evening, and probably also
accounted IN part for the slender at
tendance. II was nearly $3.50 when
the Missoula band began It's concert In
front of the theater. and some rain was
st,ll falling The following selections
were played:
March-"Eaglcs' Conventin'' .... Schultz
March-"Wedding Feast
Fantasie-"Dear Ones Far Away"
Medley-"Sweet Old Songs Dalbey
dncluGng Rocked In the Cradle OF
the Deep" as n vocal solo. by j. Hart
Wilis).
Waltz Sounds From the North"
In the Thes,er.
At the close Of the concert. which
was much enjoyed by those present,
the exercises In the theater began.
Upon the stage were Edward c. Null
roney. Joseph NJ. Dixon, James Fro
man and Frank Il. Herring. Mr.. Null
roney was the first to speak, and In n
few well chosen words ha presented
senator Dixon, who, he said. would
extend words Of welcome to the guest
and speaker of the evening. This Mr..
Dixon did In his own happy way
He said. as he looked over the au-
dence, '"rhis rain Is worth n million
dollars To western Montana. but II IL
a little unfortunate that II came just
at the time for this meeing." Mr.. Dix
on then spoke of the phenomenal
growth Of fraternal organizations dur
ing the past 25 years. The senator
also referred facetiously to some OF
Mr., Herings political experiences and
then presented him to the audience.
Mr. Herring, who IL young man
with the appearance of being even
Younger than he is, enjoyed the clos
.st attention of the audience though
out his address He began by relating
his experiences In Butte He'"ha an'i
one or two other Montana cl;les. on
". stern trip several months age
when | was In Butte" he said. II
inauIred Of some OF the good Eagles
there what was the best town In the
state. considering business. educational
and social interests: and they all re-
piled that Butte, of course. was really
the only city In the state.
Later I was In Helena, and ! re-
..fs rot haarl
that had been told Butte was the first
city of Montana. They assured me II
was all n dreadful mistake. and thai
Helena was by far the best city OF the
Treasure state. Then ] met Billings
man. and he told me his town was th'
only city In the state which really
amounted To anything. So then ] tol.
Mrs. Herring that my only recourse
was To come out here again ana SCI
all the Montana cities for myself.
Then the speaker related story Il
emphasize the fact that he thought
well of Missoula.
Plain TAX.
"But" continued Mr. Herring. Il an
here to talk with you In plain sor
of way about the Fraternal Order %
Eagles. Mr.. Dixon said something u
you about the great changes whicl
have taken place during the past 2
years. Now there Is no effectN with
out some cause. and ! want to sugges
few reasons for some of thes'
changes.
There have been great changes u
beliefs and customs. ! was born II
PENNSYLVANIA. My mother was Ver'
strict. and well remember that one
the worst whIppings ] ever got wa
one she gave me for going nutting OF
Sunday She was one of those person
who believed II wrong To go walkin