Arizona republican., 1914-07-25
CLUB
 HAS BIC PICNIC
Mountain States Telephone Employes Have Really Original Time at Annual Outing Last Night-Blue Ribbon Stunt of Year

Of all the big. picnic parties that have been organized and carried through this season, that of the Cour tesy club of the Mountain States Tele- phone company must be awarded the palm. IL was great affair and a win
 ner from the first tap of the buzzer
 until the receiver Was finally hung up and the good time rung off for the night
 The Courtesy club invited the eX- changes of Buckeye, Chandler, Glen
 dale, Mesa and Tempe to be their guests and they all responded with alacrity. The crowd assembled at tel ephone headquarters, 3rd Ave. and Adams, and promptly at six they start 1 ed RiversideWard in auto loads brim-
 ming over with fun and good nature Arrived at the park they discovered that others had been there before them and transformed the end of the dane ing pavilion into bower of beauty for their especial benefit. It was festooned with pepperboughs and colored lights and' an electric Telephone" sign ! winked it's bright eyes at them from the far corner of the bower. Tables were | set and grooming with the good things provided by caterer Cummins, and af- ter a swim in the big pool that put a sharp edge on their appetites they all 1 sat down to the big feed.
 Whoever was the committee in
 charge thoroughly understood their business. for not a detail that could | add to the comfort and happiness of l each and every individual was over | looked. In fact that committee can l flatter itself that it was about the most popular and satisfactory body that ever | pulled off a blue ribbon stunt in Phoe- | nix.
 Not only were there good things to
 eat in glorious profusion; but in addi- | ton they had supplied a cabaret per | formanoe that was a crackerjack from | start to finish. Ben Massie and Corn 1 flakes" Kellog were shining lights and Dave Martin and George Clifford, | whom Parker Woodman had loaned for | the occasion, were there with the en- | tertainment thing and if their ears did
 not burn it is only because it was all | ways cool at Riverside.
 There were songs and musical stunts | by. the dozen and everybody wore a | special witches cap with the Telephone companys Insignia that helped make l the occasion festive. It was so differ | ent from any other picnic that it will stand out as a record breaker in every | way. One hundred and ten of the best l people to be found in the valley were | in the party and Postmaster T. C. | Gettins, who is also the manager of | the Telephone company here, called on a list of speakers to reply to the toasts l that would have put any crowd of ban queters in good humor.
 | The first on the list was s. E. Ho- mer, the general tax agent from Den yer and he started the ball rolling at a | pace that kept the other speakers run | ming at top speed to keep up. He was | followed by Joe Kelly, division plant | supervisor; H. D. McVey, Vie Hanny,
 Mrs. Lillian Mitchell division traffic chief and MT. Gettins himself For once there was a collection of speeches
 that did not bore but only served to
 fan the flame of good humor that | started with the departure of the first | busload for the park.
 After the speeches the dancing pa vilion was turned over to the picnick- | CTS exclusively for the first two dances. These were the Telephone two step and
 the Blue Bell waltz. composed espec- | tally for the occasion by Ben Massie and played by Masse's Rag Time Kids, | the greatest dance orchestra that has ever been gathered together in the southwest.
 It was a blue ribbon event all the way through and while the treasure hunters at the park on Sunday will find lots of coin and other things of value | they wont find anything that will last as long as the happy memories of the Courtesy clubs first picnic.