Arizona republican., 1916-05-31
GEORG|ANS IN
 b|G 0UT DOOR
 PICNIC DINNER
Members of Society Hold Most }Interesting Outing
 of Their History Chicken Dinner and Afternoon
 Sports Program

The Georgian society held their an- | hudl picnic yesterday at Eastlake i park and it was voted the best in i thelf history. There were about two 1 i, hundred present and old time south l ern hospitality was the order of the l day The dinDer that was served was easier eaten than explained George l iarben said that it was the first tune he was filled up in eight years and hoped he would not have to wait eight years for his next full meal To ohviate this he suggested that this Fall the society give possum and tater roast. He also volunteered to furnish the possums.
 After the dinner Guy Acuff, pres ident of the society, called the Geor- glans to order and again welcomed the members and the friends to the gathering. He expressed his love for Georgia, the state of his nativity but tiiit now he was an Arzonian and not hyphenated one. MT Acuff stated that he was born in Dade county, but after he had served one term in the state legislature, Dade county said he was born in Hamilton county Tenn, and they claimed he was born somewhere else He said If he served a second term perhaps the government would say he was born in Germany.
 : Geo. Harben. assistant attorney general was then introduced. Mir. llarben said the Georgians were called crackers and gubergrabbers. They got the name of crackers because in the revolutionary war every time their guns would crack. there would be one English soldier less Georgia was founded for criminals. but not the class Of criminals We have today They were political criminals and those who could not pay their debts Georgia was always ready to respond 10 the call of her country. During the revolutionary war she furnished above her quota according to her population as compared with the oth- CT colonies. She also sent her men to Texas to help the Texans in her war for independence and in the Mexican war she furnished her full share of men. In the civil war Georgia did not want to secede but when the other states did, she went with them and was known throughout the war as the backbone of the rebellion. In the Spanish American war she was not laggard in sending her men to answer the call of the president
 Judge Frank Duffy Of Nogales was then introduced He stated that when he was invited the night befor, to be the guest Of the society, h, begged to be excused from making q talk that he was not an orator. II. stated that he was not q Georgian but was born in q northern state H, enjoyed the hospitality of his host and after the eloquent speech of hi predecessor. Mir. Harben, he did no know what there was left for him L say.
 Mir. Acuff then inquired if some on had found a long lady'S silk glOv that had been lost during the morn ing. Paul Beville of Mesa was the introduced. MT. Bevlle stated tha he only spent few years of his Tiff in Georgia. That he had been i California twenty six years and i Arizona four. Nowhere did he fin the warm heartedness and hospitalit that is found in the south. He tol of q man from Georgia who cam to the gates of heaven and asked ad mission. Peter asked him where I was from. He stated from Georgi Peter welcomed him and said
 guess you are glad to leave such
 poor place as Georgia" Well" sa the man, If you had asked that thi ty years ago I would have said ye Dttt lao. deal in that time"
 The committee on sports then r, ported Miss Ruth Lloyd was s lected as the prettest girl prese and received box of candy. Mir Ge Harben as the ugliest man. receive a prize of a corn cob pipe. MT E,n Gang won the prize as the man wi the longest hair and received as
 rrize, red pair of socks
 4. D. Aiken from WickenburG WI then introduced. Mir. Aiken said tn when he was asked to be prese some time ago, he told the preside that he did not know whether could be present or not. When N Acuff saw him today he told him
 vas to make a talk He prOtestt
 but it did not avail. That all
 impromptu speeches were prepared
 month in advance. He came to Al
 zona to get political job, but fou
 that Acuff and Harben had pr empted them. He was here in Al
 1ona but some time he intended go back to Georgia to live. He h
 had his full share of all the joys tf came from living in Georgia and {
 ter he had wrested a fortune frt the hills of Arizona he intended to
 back Not that he did not love A 3 zona, but that his first love W calling.
 The following sports were indule in. Fat mans race won by James Lavin This was a preliminary to r race he expects to make this fall. , Potato race, eight little girls W r by Minnie Cross.
 Sack race for boys, won by Fl p Elder
 9 Sack race for girls won by
 Hughes.
 :. Nail driving contest for women V
 by Mrs. w. J. Mckee.
 Foot race for boys won by Oak 1, Winters.
 MT. Emil Gang was the oldest Ge n gian present being 7S years of g