Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-29

Nhitehonse by the banquetters 10
carry home and give Mrs. Whitehouse
with the regards and high esteem of
the Bar Association of Maine.
The Dinner Card.
The menus which were for one of the
best coursc banduets ever gotten UP by
the Augusta House management bore
on the cover large portrait Of the
guest of honor above this inscription:
Dinner given by the Maine State
Bar Association 10
el ff 9 ghie Gfil47t t sgn a Mhtssa@ lieial
Court
Augusta House, May the twenty eighth
Nineteen hundred and thirteen
. ON the last page of the cover were the
names of the committees having the
banquet in charge. These were:
Committee of Maine State Bar Asso-
eiation-Norman L. Bassett. secretary.
John A. Morrill,. John b. Madigan, AL
bert s. Woodman. Joseph G. Holman,
Henry NJ. Hall. George W. Heselton.
Arthur :, I4ittlefield, Il. S. Partridge
Alfred s. Kimball, William p. Thomp-
son, John f. Sprague, Frank l.. Staples
David u. Stewart, 4. f. Dunton. James
H. Gray. james o. Bradbury.
Committee of Kennebee Bar Asseeia-
tion--John r. Nelson, chairman
Harold T. Cook. Walter NJ. Sanborn,
Emery O. Beane. Herbert f. Foster
Within. on one Of the pages was an
illustration of the Kennebec County
Court House and beneath a photo
gravure fac-simile of the chief Justices
signature from the old roll at the Court
House when he was sworn in as a new
member of the kennebec Bar and his
attainments since as under:
w. +. Whitchouse I
Sup Jud. Court Aug. T. 1866.
sworn Oete. .. 1865
Judge of Kennebec superior Court 1880
Associate Justice supreme judicial
Court 1S90-f9lf
Chief Justice supreme Judicial -
Also on the card was a quotation
from his remarks as judge in court in
the case of Martin VS., NJ. c. X. r.,
when the circumstances would inn
pei an honest man Ia speak.
This quotation fittinely followed the
name of Hon. Geo G. Wing, president
of the Maine State Bar Association,
presiding at the postprandial exer-
cises Of the. evening.
Guests OF Honor.
At the head table at right and left
of the Governor and Justice White
house sat Chief Justice A. X. Savage
and Justices l.. a. Emery. l.. c. Cron-
ish, A NJ. Spear, Arno w. King, w. c.
Philbrook with former Judge o. G..
Hall of the Kennebec superior court
land Judge Fred L. Beane present
&c " p,nTt
a Lively Assenbiage.
After the finish of the mock turtle
clear the fun began and every course
was intcrluded with one or more songs
from the "Kennebec County Lawyers
Hymn Book" First and very appro-
priately the assembled lawyers ex-
pressed their eheeriness and humor in
Ia merry and musical rendering of
Were Here Because We're Here" "
Another. song and chorus, suggested
possibly BY the mere than Rooseveltian
dryness of the menu which was unre-
lieved by even a bottle of beer, was
spirited rendering of How Dry /
AMI" In this they had the snapper
Resistance of full orchestra,
a bit of ragtime Hes A Bear" liv-
enel some of the younger members to
an impromptu dance between the
tables between two of the courses. This
gayety. however, was speadily subdued
|by somebody's repeating in solo a
fragment of How Dry l AM
Some of the orchestral selections TAX
en- up and sung by the lawyers showed
that the legal lights Of Maine are post
ed on light opera and possess masnl-
ticent voices. improved by their earnest
pleading at the bar. 1t was inspiring
land awakening to a lobby full OF hotel
guests to sit and listen through the
open doors to the glorious choruses
from the banquetters within. Not fol