The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1916-01-07
SHRINERS BANQUET BY COBB
COUNTY SHRINERS TO OFF.
GERS OF YAARAB TEMPLE.

The banquet given in fraternity
hall Thursday evening for the new
Officers of Yaarab Temple, Atlanta,
their wives and sisters, was a howl
ing and ripping success as well as a
beautiful and com pensating social
event
Credit should be given to the la
dies who decorated the tables. the
girls who served, Mr.. Tsipouras. who
prepared the food and above all the
POSTMASTER, Mr. Len Baldwin, who
fulfilled his role to the delight ii
all the guests.
There were three long tables with
a trail of smlaX down the centers
on which grey camels were standing
at intervals, red candles in crystal
candle-sticks, bowls of bloomin Z
white hyacinths and narcissi and
baskets of cut flowers. The menu
cards had the shrine emblem emboss-
ed in gold on one side and a small
poinsettia blossom attached to the
other side. Grape fruit with cher
ries were en- the table when the
guests were seated
Hon. Walter r Andrews, poten-
tate of Yaarab temple, sat at the
head of the middle table and Mr..
Baldwin at the foot Shriners from
all over the county as well as from
Marietta were present and the At
lanta guests were Mr. and Mrs. w. p.
Andrews, Mr.. and Mrs. E. II. Good
heart, Mr.. and Mrs. p II. Dobbinq,
Mr.. and Mrs. j. S Floyd, Mr.. and
Mrs. j. NJ. Fuller, Mr. and Mrs. By
ron Sauders, Mr.. and Mrs. c. II. Nor
ris DR.. Ed c. Brown and Messrs.
Jimmie Scott, j. c. Symes, Don Mea-
dor, j. {. Tompkins and F. r. Berry.
The girls serving wore white
dresses and white fezzes and We're
Misses Lois Welch, Irene Schilling,
Annie Gilbert Lottie White, Blond
inc Cooper, Julia Anderson, Hooper
and Frances Wikle.
After the feast a bouquet of or-
Chids was presented to Mrs. An
drews and five pound box of candy
to Mrs. J. NJ Fuller, of Atlanta, IS
memento of fayors shown them
long ago. A bronze paper weight
was sent to Mr.. George e. Argard
who is i'll in a hospital
Mr.. j. r. Brumby fell and shatter-
ed the big cut-glass punch bowl in
tended as a souvenir for Hon Walter
p. Andrews, who was introduced by
Mr.. Baldwin as having fallen so low
as to become a member of the GeoT-
gia legislature. Space will not al
low to mention of all the speeches
made nor the sad and sighting re-
marks made by Mr.. Baldwin in in
Producing the speakers. The only
exception was in presenting Miss
Regina RambO, recent queen of Geo.
gia and the only woman ever called
on to speak at a Shriner's banquet.
She made sparkling little talk III
her usual charming way ending sol
as to give the bachelors present a
chance to "own up"
Much merriment resulted from ex-
plOding matches and cigars, alarm
clocks going off as some dignified
shriners seated themselves and as
others arose TO speak a noise of dis
tressed cats coming from their chairs.
Mr.. Baldwin kept the ball of fun
tossing and every body enjoyed them,
selves almost to death.
Miss Glennis Hancock opened the
program with a piano piece
and accompanied Miss Constance
Cole in her rendition of the SeXtette
from Lucia on the violin. She also
played accomplishments for Mrs.
Wyatt who sang in the Garden Of
My Heart and Land of the Sky
Blue Water. Also for Miss Sarah
Patton to sing, Cant You Hear Me
Calling, Caroline"
Miss Regina Rambo's victrola play
ed Morning" very softly while she
interpreted dawn in a dance of beau
tiful posing. She was dressed in
white satin with lightest white drap-
cries and scarf and thrust vines of
lories in pink, blue and
yellow before her as she came upon
the stage.