The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-04-12

The Reds paid their debt to the
commercial club Blues last night,
and with $50 members of the club
to enjoy it the banquet was sue
cess from the celery to the final
toast.
1t opened with Orchards orchectra
and proceeded with happy speeches
until II o'clock.
When Secretary Monroe of the
Spokane Chamber of Commerce was
here at the dedication of the new
building he stated that he represent
ed the 900 members of the Spokane
commercial club. Wenatchee, with
5 per cent of Spokane's population,
gathered together $50 of it's $50
members at the banquet board last
night.
DR.. King was in his place as mas
ter of the toasts and called upon
Professor Lemon to answer to the
toast of the ''Old, old story" 1t
happened, however, that L. G. Odds,
his opponent in the recent race for
members, was unable to be present,
so Mr.. Lemon could not handle the
toast to the best advantage. His
speech was good and met with more
success than did his recent efforts
at securing members for the club, in
which he crossed the wire second
best.
H. L. WEBSTER took the place Of
Captain Odds and responded to the
toast of "How l squeezed the Lem
on
His definition of the Wenatchee
spirit made a decided hit With the
best eliminated from Seattle AMI
Spokane, the Wenatchee spirit is the
essence of the best.
The speeches were interspersed
with instrumental selections by L.
c.. Allen, a recent acquisition of the
club from Vancouver. Mr.. Allen is
with the Sherman, Clay Music Co.
store of this city and the audience
showed it's appreciation of his eff
forts by repeated encores.
J. E. Ferguson had his first en-
core before his appearance on the
program. He came in late and If
the audience was representative of
the city's voters Mr.. Ferguson can
get anything he wants at the next
election.
W. T. Clark on Greater Wenatchee"
w. T. Clark spoke on Greater
Wenatchee," and made Que of his
usual happy speeches. Among other
things he stated that he had had little
time in the last two years to think
of the future of Wenatchee for the
reason that it had been coming so
fast He dwelt at length on the re-
sources of the country and showed
them up in clear and simple lights.
He predicted the time when the
country would have a solid apple
belt extending as high as four hum
dred feet at least above the river
levels. Like the timber line higher
up on the mountains, there will be
an apple line limited only to what
proves to be a practical height for
lifting water by power methods.
He showed that the trend of the
,city's growth was sufficient to threat
en- Spokane's supremacy in the In
land Empire, and went on to tell of
the wealth of Fresno, Cal, where
acreage returns amounted to only
500 per annum, and yet the banks
of that city of 10000 population
have 100000 on deposit.
DIR. Stevenson's Two Toots.
That reminded DR.. King that the
next speaker, DR.. Stevenson, might
as we'll respond to a toast of foot,
loot
DR.. Stevenson began by wanting
resti-toot-ion for the yellow legged
chicken that he always expected at
a banquet and had failed to find. He
bowled along, footing at a great rate
for Wenatchee and the audience
profited much from his toot-elage.
He made some as-toot remarks and
closed by substi-toot-ing for the old
familiar prayer, Now I set me out
to work, l pray the Lord I may not
shirk, and if I die throughout the
night, I pray the Lord my works
all right"
DR.. King in particular was carried
away by the speech and said some
thing in Latin as there were ladies
in the room All the audience pre-
tended to understand and laughed
merrily.
Ed. S. Russell rose to the occa-
sion and responded in pure Chinook,