The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-01-21
Commercial Club Banquet Last Night
Attended By More Than One
Hundred Business Men.
DISCUSS FUTURE OF COUNTRY
Dinner Prepared by High School
Cooking Glass, Under Miss Crest,
Worthy of Praise.

About a month ago the members
of the Bemidji Commercial club de-
cided that some movement should be
worked up whereby something could
be done to promote the agricultural
advantages of northern Minnesota,
and they decided that to do this they
would have to obtain larger and
hard working club.
In order to obtain new members
for the club they decided that some
public entertainment should be pro-
vided for whereby all the business
men of Bemidji could get together
and be made to fully understand the
situation. To give a banquet was
the only plan which was given con-
sideration. Where to give it and
how to give it was to be considered
and w. P. Dyer, superintendent of
the Bemidji public schools invited
the commercial club to hold the ban
quet in the high school building and
to have the girls of the high school
cooking class do the cooking. 1t
was this way that the plan which
was so wonderfully carried out last
evening was originated
1t is needless for the Pioneer to say
that the banquet has it's effect and
that that effect was in the right di-
rection, for no business man present
at the banquet interested in the fu-
ture welfare of Bemidji could leave
the banquet hall last evening without
a feeling of I'll do my part.
One hundred and twenty of Be-
midji's business men were seated at
the banquet tables, which had been
arranged in the seventh and eighth
grade room, the seats having been re-
moved by the boys of the grade after
school had been dismissed in the
afternoon.
A pink and white scheme was car
ried out throughout the entire din
ner and evening. Pink and white
carnations were on the banquet table
and pink and white streamers were
strung around the hall. Green oino
was used in the decorating. Miss
Anne MCCLELLAN, was in charge of the
decorating for the banquet.
The entire dinner was cooked by
the cooking class of the high school
and served by the cooking class of tie
eighth grade. The whole dinner be-
ing directed by Miss Katherine Crest.
supervisor of cooking and sewing in
the Bemidji schools To say that
Miss Crest did WELL would be putting
it mildly, the manner in which the
girls served the dinner was wonder
full, as was the cooking. Too much
credit for the success of the banquet
can not be given Miss Crest and the
members of her cooking classes.
Dainty place cards were placed at
each seat with the lettering on them
BE Booster Get in Line. This
idea being carried out through the
evening. These cards were gotten
up by Miss Wager and Miss Murray
of the high school faculty.
A five course dinner was served
consisting Of:
Grape Fruit
Mock Bisque Soup Crackers
Roast Beef, brown gravy
Mashed Potatoes Cream Peas
Bread Butter
Orange Ice
Waldorf Salad
Brick Ice Cream Cake
Coffee
After the dinner A. G. Wedge, Jr.
president of the commercial club
who was the evenings POSTMASTER
thanked the girls of the cooking class
for the elaborate dinner, and they
were given a standing vote of aprecia
ton from the men present Mr.
Wedge then introduced F. B. Nj
Leran, of Wrenshall, who is con.