Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1914-01-14
BAR ASSOCIATION BAN
DUETS AND PLANS WORK
(From Sundays Daily)

Good fellowship. fraternl spirit
and appetizing ediblcS were the fea-
lures OF the Northern Arizona Bar
Association banquet in the Hotel
St. Michael last night. The event
will unqucstionably serve as the
means Of launching the revived or
ganization upon = greater. more
useful and more noteworthy plane
OF usefulness than ever before.
There were plenty OF speeches.
both prepared and impromptl
There was the songster who sang
without the aid Of piano accom-
paniment and the finished actor.
The future, OF course, came in for
major portion OF the comment in
the speeches. The standing of the
legal profession was ably described.
President II. H. Linncy ordered
the two dozen diners to be seated
shortly before s o'clock. Manager
Thomas Nolan and his efficient
dining room staff immediately com
menced the service of a splendid
banquet and all its liquid adjuncts.
Mcfarland and Sachs, a vaudeville
team. furnished the entertainment
during the courses.
Attorney J. Ralph Tascher of the
firm OF Clark & Tascher, and one
oil the newcomers to the local bar,
struck popular chord when he adj
voca:cd the organization OF a legal
clab Mr. Tascher declared that
such 4 club would not only prove
beneficial to the members them
selves. but the community at large
Assistant County Attorney Joseph
II. Morgan read a carefully pre-
pared, highly interesting and in
structive paper upon the Inherit
arcc Tax." Attorney Richard Lam
son delivered 4 brief address, in
which he landed the fraternal spirit !
OF thc organization and pleaded for
its continuance. Attorney Daniel
f. Parks, who is seventy-four years
OF age, and the dean of the local
bar in point of age, first sang
"YeeHcC-ha-ha" and then delivered
an address. He concluded his
speech with poetry OF which he was
the author.
County Treasurer Rogers, an old
timer in newspaper ranks, scored
the hit OF the evening from hui
morous viewpoint with 4 typewriter
speech just oozing with good hui
NOR appropos of the occasion
NO where is therf greater op-
portunity for the development of
wit, satire and irony than i'll the
courtroom" declared Judge T. w
Wells. The barrister explained that
most people only viewed the seri-
cus side OF the profession but rarely
found occasion TO gather in the real
i'm.
County Attorney ?. w. O'Sul-
ivan. with several stories at the ex-
pense of one OF the oldest notables
n the history of the local bar,
Judge Wright, brought home the
candy" He was followed by At
torneys T. G. Norris and Leroy
Anderson in brief remarks.
President Linney acted as toast
master. Before concluding the ses-
sion, he gave notice Of meeting
Of the association to be called for
practical purposes within the near
future.
The members OF the association
present, together with their guests,
were as follows:
II. II. Linney, E w. Wells, J.
H. Morgan. Neil Clark. Fred II.
Eckert, p. w. O'Sullivan, James
10y. Morris Miller. Richard
P. Talbot, Charles Raible, T. G.
Norris, P. w. Farley. Leroy An
derson, Charles II. McLane, John
H. Robinson. 4. w. Rogers, Daniel
E. Parks. Richard Lamson, Joseph
Gales, Gary Vyne, J. Ralph Tasch-
er, J. f. Russell and f. J. Mitchell.