Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-06-03
FORTN|GHTLY FOLK
HOLD JUNE BANQUET
Speakers Respond to Toasts
on Various Topics Dur
ing the Evening.


ing the members and friends of the
Fortnightly Literary club enjoyed the
annual June banquet. On account of
Unavoidable circumstances a few of the
members could not be present and they,
therefore, missed the pleasures of the
evening The menu was all that could
be desired, June flowers and ferns in
GLIDING the decorations.
Mrs. E. Aug Runge responded to
Ideals. - The speaker thought that
ideals were often the guiding influence
of ones conduct and that the value of
the ideal is not in what we do hut in
what we would do. That slavery be
abolished, that the employer be elevated
to a higher plane, that women be eman-
cipated, are ideals which have existed
or which now exist, their realization
being for the betterment of the world.
Mrs. Runge spoke of the high ideals in
America and believed they were the
n0blest in the world, Notwithstanding
the European countries believed their
ideals were elevating.
Books
In responding to the subject Books"
Rev. B. E. Ray said that if the making
of books was without end, as recorded
in far distant times. the output of the
present is surely marvel. He believed
there were too many books and there
was much need of discrimination in
order to avoid trash Books are the
tools of life and civilization perpetuates
itself by their means. How soon would
we lose the treasures of the past, were
it not for books Books are a means of
an education and youth is given Wis
ion of the worlds progress by means of
the printed page.
The Pulpit and the Press.
r. j. Osborne spoke on THE Pulpit"
and DR.. E. P. Hall on The Press.
"Mr. Osborne said the genius of this
age was business and the means to this
end was advertising. The secret f
success was in touching the hearts Ct
the people in comparing the two, the
press and the pulpit, he believed that
talk was cheaper than paper. He
thought the success of the pulpit was
in joining hands with the press. While
the church is spending so much of its
time in doing social work he believed
in the pulpit that stood for real de-
mocracy.
In responding to this subject, DR..
Hall said the hardest job the editor had
was in manipulating the English lam
guage and to illustrate or read poem
filled with many unusual twists. 1t
was the press that had banished super
stition. While the rulers are sliding off
the thrones in other countries, the
American press is creating public opin-
ion and the most staple government
is the one where the press is free. 1t
ia the ne wspaper that flashes the sum
shine into every rat hole and causes the
rats to run out. The press and pulpit
make this q better world in which to
dwell.
The Mission of Mirth
Mrs. H. E. Cole, in searching for
''The Mission of Mirth", found there is
time to laugh and that every person
should indulge in the enjoyment. Harry
Lauder, Francis Wilson, Nat Wills and
others, she thought, were real M. DIS,
doctors of mirth. The speaker admired
the French people for the sunshine they
throw into the world and believed that
many people owe their length of years
to Mark Twain and other funny men.
Vocal numbers were generously given
by DR.. G. w. Snyder and by Mrs.
Snyder, the latter at the piano for her
husband and Miss Margaret Gattiker
playing for Mrs Snyder.
Superintendent A. c. Kingsf ord was
in happy mood as POSTMASTER, re-
Iating many mirth producing anecdotes.
The speakers, one and all, also added
tabasco sauce as they responded.
During the evening the program for
the next year was read by H. E. Cole
The members and friends at the ban
ouet included Rev. and Mrs. B. E.
Ray, DR.. and Mrs. E. P. Hall, Super
intendent and Mrs. A. c. Kingsford,
Mr.. and Mrs E. j. Battles. DR.. and
Mrs. G. w. Snyder; Mr.. and Mrs. E
Pfannstiehl, Attorney and Mrs. E.
Aug. Runge, Mr.. and Mrs. R. B.
Griggs. MIR. and Mrs. w. D Porter,
Mr.. and Mrs. S. A. Peltou. Mr.. and
Mrs. 81. E. Cole, Mrs. N. M. Bliss,
Mrs. L. N. Burt, Mrs. E. M. Adams,
Mrs. B. A. Clark, Mrs. Elizabeth
Bloom, Miss Margaret Gattiker, S. ].
Hood, r. L. Osborne Mr.. and
Mrs. j. j. Pfannstiehl, Miss
Ethel S. Horton, Miss Christian Wright