The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-05-20
ELABORATE SPREAD AT HOTEL
HATTIEsBURe SAT-. NIGHT
CONCLUDED COUNCIL.
LOCAL COUNCIL PRESENTED
|. E. VALLOFT WITH CANE
Eloquent Talks Made In Response to
g.3. Several Toasts-Miss korndorfer
Was Remembered by the Onion
Club With Beautiful Bracelet.

The two days meeting of the Grand
Council of Mississippi Louisiana Uni
ted Commercial Travellers, concluded
Saturday night with a very largely at
tended banquet rendered by the Hat
tiesburg Council in honor of their
guests, and served in the large dining
room of Hotel Hattiesburg.
By nine o'clock, the palm garden at
the hotel was filled with a merry
throng, who spent the time from nine
till eleven in animated social CONVEX
sation. Braun's Naval Brigade Band
furnished music during the entire eve
ming, and while awaiting the an
nouncement of the banquet large
number engaged in the waltz.
At II o'clock M. P. L. Love request
= ed the guests to march to the dining
room where plates had been spread
for every one having a ticket of ad-
mission.
E. d. Self of Meridian, with r. A.
Cameron on his right and A. J. Grove
on his left, presided as toast master
He explained his relation to the oc-
casion as that of umpire or ring mas
ter.
president of Onion Club" Speaks.
The first speaker called on by the
umpire" was Mr.. Sterling j. Castle,
of Shreveport, President of the Onion
Club, whose mama said to him the
time he went to Greenville, Miss,
take care of yourself son and come
back in two days as you promise I"
When he returned after a ten days
absence his mother wanted to know
what he had been doing and he told
her he had been taking care of SELF"
In Greenville.
Mr.. Castle then said he had a very
pleasant duty to perform, assigned
him by the Onion Club, and thereupon
he presented to Miss Irene Korndofer
of Natchez a pretty gold bracelet ap-
n propriately engraved, as tribute to
her as sponsor for the Onion club, at
the 1912 Grand Council meeting. Miss
Korndorfer rose and In a perfectly
composed manner expressed in well
chosen words her appreciation Of the
gift and of the honor of her selection
as sponsor for the club; she express
ed the wish that every member of the
Onion club will be at the Natchez
meeting Of the Grand Council in 1913
Mr.. WaddeII Speaks of "order In the
Past"
Past Grand Councillor W. H. Wad
dell, of Jackson, as announced on the
published program, spoke to the sub
ject, "Our Order In the Past" In
1887 L. Pease and G. G. Flagg con
ceived the plan for the order, and the
first council of the U. c. T. was or
ganized in the counting room of Bel
KNAPP, Carpenter & Company Jan. 1
1888 with 8 members and $50 in the
treasury.
In two years the membership had
grown to 1926, and now has reached
65,0OO with 500 subordinate councils
In the United States and Canada
Over $500,000 per annum is being dis
bursed to the families of deceased
members. and for expenses of the or
der. Fraternal love holds all men
and its power in this order is great
Observation-Disclosures members, are
fortunate in being represented by tha
prince of men, Louis e. Volloft, nov
Sovereign Grand Page, In line fol
Sovereign Grand Councillor in thre'
years. In phrasing his love for the or
der Mr. waddell read a poem from
the Sample Case" which showed bl
degrees a love supreme. Each vers'
ending with the line, That's how
love this U. c. T. of mine"
Mr.J.J. Lobry,on the card tospeak U
the toast, "Our Order-In the Future
was unable to be present and tn'
Toastmaster then said he wished M
had eloquence suitable to a pape
presentation of the next speaker-tn'
ara who on Friday had "tickled TIN
feet Of the Angels at the oper'