Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-03-02
Was One of the Most Enjoyable A.
fairs of the Kind in the
History Of The
Town.
225 PARTOOK OF REPAST.
Fine Music and Many Good Toasts
Not a Ripple to Mar Good
fellowship.

The banquet given Thursday night
at the Elks club rooms by the Com
mercial League as a courtesy to the
large number of visitors in the city
attending the eleventh annual state
meeting of the Iowa State Drainage
Association was most successful
affair in every particular. The oc-
casion was one Of good cheer and
not a ripple occurred to mar the
goodfellowship of the evening. Fine
usic-instrumental and vocal
added much zest and flavor to the
program. The Webster City orches-
ira composed of Mr.. Mullins, Miss
Lee, Miss Cook and Mr.. Ash, render
ed some fine selections which
brought forth hearty applause, while
the several vocal numbers rendered
by Mrs. McCauliff, Mr.. Mullins, Mr..
Dodge and Miss Chamberlin, with
Mrs. Cook at the piano, drew many
expressions of approval from the
large audience. Mrs. McCauliff rem
dered several solos, responding sew
eral times to encores, as did also Nj.
Mullins, and a duet by Mrs. Nc
Cauliff and Mr.. Dodge was fully ap-
preciated as evidenced by the man
ner of it's reception. Then every
body sang in unison, cts Long
way to Tipperary." The musical pro-
gram was so enjoyable. and so we'll
presented that the large audience
was put in fine mood for the other
good things to follow.
Two hundred and twenty-five by
actual count sat at the banquet board
and this feature of the program was
not the least pleasing Of the even
ing. The ladies of the Universalist
church, in charge of the banquet,
performed we'll their part and many
were the compliments given them
for the appetizing spread. There
was an abundance of good things to
eat and the two hundred twenty
five gentlemen present did credit to
the occasion, demonstrating that the
members of the Iowa State Drainage
Association are adopts at function
of this kind.
H. M. Sparboe acted as toast
master and performed the trying
and delicate tasks of the position
with skill and fine discrimination.
He deserves his full need Of praise
for the success of the occasion ami
is entitled to the many compliment
airy things said privately of his abil-
ity as postmaster.
The POSTMASTER first called upon
E. p. Prince to respond to the toast,
draining Iowa" Mr.. Sparboe said
the only thing he had against Mr..
Prince was that he had remained a
single man so many years, and that,
too, in spite of the fact that he be-
longed to the same church as the
young ladies who had just served the
banquet. He declared that Mr..
Prince in this particular reminded
him of an hour glass-the longer it
ran the less sand it had. Mr.. Prince
appeared undisturbed by this sally
and gave little experience he had
with Mr.. Sparboe. Once upon a
time they were in the northern part
of the state attending banquet, at
which watermelon, soaked in bran
dy, was upon the bill of fare. Dur
ing the course of the repast, Mr..
Sparboe's friends were mortified at
seeing him placing all the seeds
from his melon into his pocket. NJ:
Prince in closing gave the drainag:
men of the state commendable men
ton and declared that they had
done as much as any other agency
to make Iowa the best agricultural
state in the union.
The guartette then sang in hon
or of the POSTMASTER: There i:
Only one Great man and That mar
| is Me-
Prof. X. G. Smith Of Ames re
sponded in place Of J. T. Drug, o
Stratford, who was unable to b.
present. Mr.. Smith said that hi
being called to fill the place o
another, reminded him OF an eXper
fence he had when young man
He called upon young lady frien
whose mother was sick and averes
to his attentions to her daughter
But this time as he left the hous
the young lady remarked: "Mothe
lis so glad you came. She likes to Sc
almost anybody when she's sick.
Mr.. Smith talked entertainingly c
the extention work of Ames colleg,