Putnam patriot., 1910-10-07
Msnsiields and Eagles Banquet.

Good cheer, good fellowship and jollity
 prevailed throughout the evening.
 The banquet hall was decorated in
 red, white and blue and festooned with
 the same colors. The following sign
 was conspicuous and occasioned much
 comment
 Is Feathers
 We took away from the Eagles September %, TO.
 Surmounting the sign were l6 tail
 feathers stuck in . long sweet spud.
 Whether the feathers ever adorned the
 great American bird or not we did not
 inquire. Other signs about the room were:
 l Come right In l Sit right down And make yourself at home. Welcome Brother Members 1 Eagle Hose Company No. :. Fifty-five members, associate mem-
 bers and invited guests gathered at
 the two long tables and partook of the
 following menu which was excellently prepared and served: MENU. Oyster Stew Celery Pickles Escalloped Oysters
 Salmon Salad with Mayonaise Sliced Tomatoes Ice Cream Cake Grapes Bananas Coffee Apollinaris Ginger Ale Cigars When cigars had been lighted Fore man Gagne said. "At the recent Put nam fair one of our members lost a long bill book and thought he was numbered among those touched. But as il happens one of our own members slipped it out of his pocket and tonight 1t gives me great pleasure to present Brother Boucier with his book more heavily ladened than when he was sepa rated from it." Upon opening his lost possession Boucier found that 1t con tained over hundred dollars lin stage money.
 Frank Dumas was upon his feet and spoke as follows:
 "Gentlemen, I am pleased to be here this evening, not as base ball player, though I am good one, but as fife- man. 1 would like to see many more such games and while you plucked the feathers from our tail you failed to get the pin feathers from our wings" He spoke of the excellent supper and then said: "I have been delegated by my brother members to make a presenta- ton as a token of the good times we have had together. It came from one of your own members, though l did not know it at the time, and he placed hoodo on 1t. wanted & bat turned out so we could hit ball hard enough to split it, and so hard you would never find 1t again. When I went for 1t the aforesaid member wouldn't take
 anything for 1t. I thought 1t was strange that he so willingly opened his
 heart, but now I see that he knew his
 business. l warn you not to use 1t in your next game for there sure Is . hoodo on it or in it.u A bat some eight or ten inches in di- ameter decorated in red, white and blue and inscribed as follows: Mans.
 fields Is Eagles s, was then presented
 ."You only got Is feathers, less than
 two to player, So we have plenty more left and next time we are going
 to have ball so small you can't hii
 it.p
 ssSome one remarked, "If he uses that bat and balloon perhaps Billy
 Fuller can hit it."
 Foreman Gagne accepted the present
 on behalf of Mansfield company and said shat he hoped the recent meeting
 would only be the first of many to fol
 low. a1he Eagles,' he said "have
 acted like genuine ls-Karat sports. The Eagles then cheered the Mans fields and vice versa and there were
 several tigers.
 Chief Wilson was then called upon and said 6 few words and then dele. gated Fuller to tell about their fishing trip.
 Before starting in Fuller told the re. porter that If the people wanted to
 know why the chief didn't say more
 he could just say that the chair he waa
 standing on broke and he cracked hia I-yoice.
 Billy then demonstrated that he was some speech-maker by viyidiy outlin- l ing the trip to Quadic. "The first fish, :" said Billy .was caught by the chief. It was an esl. 1 saw it first and cent it winding about the chiefs
 neck. He gave . yell, Here's my watch. Tell my wife soodby r and would have been overheard If hsdn | held him. That night we were to have beans for supper. Tho chief ordered me to % with five-qaart pail after vinegar but, says be, eet elder fl you can. When I came beck with an empty pail it was all ofI; the chief he'd had enough, and said he he'd rot to eet back home to tend to budnans.D Ons of the hits of the svenang va . mouologue without words, or, c Frank Dumas expfsssed is, . deef and dumb speech, by Pete fsIoquia.