Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-09-27
HARVEST HOME FEAST
At AUDITORIUM HOTEL
Governor, Senators and. Other Notable
lowans to Attend - Affair Under
Auspices Of Hawkeye Fellowship
Club, Now in Its Third Ysar-Pienic
Prizes to ae Awarded.


o. the Hawkeye Fellowship Club OF
Chicago and will mark the opening OF
the clubs third season OF entertain
ment and social reunions for 1owans
living in Chicago, but attendance at the
dinner is by no means limited to men,
bers of the club, according to President
Edward G. Pratt, nor even to those
who happen to receive invitations.
These will be sent to as many former
Iowans as Colonel Pratt and Secretary
Charles D. Boardman have on record,
but all those who were born in Iowa
or who lived there for any extended pc
ROD. have general and cordial inv1-
tation to come and have a part in the
fun. Present residents of Iowa who
may be in the city at the time are ex-
pected to find their way to the great
Iowa harvest home.
Among the well-known Chicagoans
who. as former residents Of Iowa, are
active members of the Hawkeye Fell
lowship Club and who are expected to
be present at the dinner, are Brode b.
Davis, w. T. Fenton, Judge Marcus
KavanaEh. La Verne Noyes, George NJ.
Guernsey, E. p. Corbit and Homer S.
Wetherell.
The harvest home dinner is the sec
ond great gathering Of 1owans ana
former Iowans of Chicago that has
been held by the club this year. IN
June q picnic was arranged which re-
suited In the gathering OF approximate
IL 1000 men and women in and about
h.,il 3too in
son park to renew old acquaintance
and exchange "reminiscences about Ola
Iowa days.
Hundreds Will Be There.
While it is scarcely expected that the
harvest home dinner will gather quite
SO large a crowd as was attracted by
the great "free-for-alr basket picnic OF
last June, nevertheless it is said that
the crowd will be several hundred
strong.
The hawkeye harvest home dinner Is
to be an echo of the hawkeye picnic.
as results of many Of the quaint con-
tests held at the picnic will be an
rounced at that time The prizes are
to be given the following:
The oldest IoWan living in Chicago
who attended the picnic.
The Oldest native born Iowan living
in Chicago who attended the picnic.
The Iowan living in Iowa the great
est number of consecutive years who
attended the picnic.
The county OF Iowa which had the
largest attendance at the picnic IN
proportion to its population.
The prize for the last contest and the
v inner of the contest are already
known. The prize is handsome BAN
ner. and it was won by the Washington
county delegation.
The results Of the age contests are
being kept a secret by Mr.. Boardman,
but with! an air OF great mystery be
assures all anxious competitors who
have the temerity to inquire. that the
revelations will compensate them for
waiting. The secretary also is with
holding the names of the successful
contestants. The only way for those
interested to be satisfied Is to come to
the dinner.
Governor Carroll. Senators Cummfns
and Kenyon, Secretary Of Agriculture
llama jim Wilson, Leslie NJ. Shaw
and other well-knoxn Iowa men In
public life have been invited to be
guests Of honor and speakers at the
dinner, and an interesting program Of
speeches is assured.
There are many good musicians
among Chicagos hawkeyes, and good
music and jolly song will be heard be-
tween speeches. Another feature will
be the defensive maneuvers of vigil
lance corps Of 1--WE members named
by the president to suppress Q. j.
Laylander, the clubs official. toast
master, and his fund Of good stories"
Colonel Pratt has not announced the
members Of this corps lest their victim
might attempt to interview them and
impair their fitness for duty on the
night Of the dinner.
political inaction. committee also
is to be named by the president az A
sort OF auxiliary vigilance corps. The
duties OF this committee will be to pre-
vent any insurgent members OF the
club from seeking gubernatorial In
dorsement for Walter Clyde Jones. the
vice president Of the club: to SIT on
any ambitions Of conservatives IN the
club to boom James NJ. Kettleman for
congress, and to prevent Mr.. Kettlema an
from starting anything in the way OF
a boom for Leslie VI. Shaw. who IS Mt
Kettlemanrs first choice for@every good
position from the presidency down.
The harvest home dinner Is to be
held In the banquet hall on the sixth
floor OF the hotel The hall VIII De
decorated in autumn leaves, corn ana
..pumpkins." The corn and pump
kins" are to be imported from iowa.
The invitations inform each recipient
that he or she is expected to bring
either an apple or aspotato or both OF.
more to the dinner. The vegetable ana
fruit thus brought Will constitute the
autumn harvest Of the Hawkeye CLUB
and will be collected in baskets ana
sent to children's home
Now in Third Ysar.
The Hawkeye Fellowship Club Is en-
tering upon It's third season OF SOCIAL
entertainment. II was organized FEB.
8. 1909. and its first headquarters was
opened in March OF that year at the
exact moment that President Taft was
taking his oath OF office.
Headquarters are maintained ii Gun
room / OF the Auditorium Hotel and
are open every week day. The object
OF the club IS to promote social ac-
tn,,aintance9 among former 1oWans in
Chicago and to give Iowa residents
passing thru the city IN opportunity