The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-01-30
Miss Lucretia HuIskannp Entertained
These Young Men at Dinner
Friday Evening at
Her Homo.
EVENT Is ENJOYABLE
Fourteen Of the Members With Their
Supervisors Were at
This Enjoyable
Dinner.

Miss Lucretia Huiskamp entertain-
ed at dinner on Friday evening at
her home 729 Grand avenue for the
seniors of the Boys Congress of Mis-
sions and for the supervisors of the
congress. Covers were laid for four
teen. The color scheme in decora-
ton Of the table was red. Down the
center of the table was a red satin
ribbon which was tied in bow to the
handle of glass baskets at each end
Of the table. The baskets were filled
with red and white flowers. The
color scheme appeared in the nut
baskets and in the dinner cards which
were painted in water co1ors with
red roses. A dinner in seven courses
was served. On the reverse side of
the dinner cards were written orig
inal conundrums, the answers to
which was some sort of tree. Wood
son Huiskamp conducted this feature
OF the dinner program. There were
a number Of local hits which the
| boys enjoyed.
Clever after dinner stories were
| told by Miss Huiskamp, Mrs. Mont
gomery and Cook Reeves. Leonard
| Matless gave toast to Miss Huis-
kamp, Donald Stricken toasted Miss
Hornish and Cook Reeves gave a
toast to Mrs. Montgomery and Wood
| son Huiskamp gave toast to the
Boys Congress with all the guests
standing. The after dinner program
closed with the congress yell which
is a good strong yell.
Miss Huiskamp is famed for her
Jack Horner pies and when the
guests went into the living room
there stood the Jack Horner pie all
| trimmed out in roses and lighted
around the edge with tiny candles.
Ahe pie contained beautiful souve-
Mrs, cuff buttons and stick pins,
leather purses with coin in them
and pocket krives-each boy thinking
he had gotten the choicest plum from
the pie Victrola music, games and
visiting made the time pass all too
quickly at this last congress party
for the senior boys. The guests were
! Miss Hornish, MRS. Montgomery,
Woodson Huiskamp, Leonard Mat
less, John Bell, Frank Bidwell, Paul
Dysart, Rub Montgomery, Joseph
Kinnaman, Cook Reeves, Donald
Stricken, Sydney COLLISION.
Congress Helps Boys.
It is hard to estimate the value to
a boy of the six years spent in the
Boys Congress under the supervision
of Miss Hornish, Miss Huiskamp and
Mrs. Montgomery. There are now
thirty-eight boys belonging, ranging
in years from ten to sixteen. When
boy joins the congress he is as
signed a country in which mission
book which has been made by
Miss Hornish, containing items Of in
terest relating to that country and
he is asked to bring any additional
| items which he may read or hear.
The congress meets in the Westmin-
ster chapel one Sunday afternoon
each month. The speaker John Bell,
presides and Ralph Kirch is the
clerk, and David COLLISION the treas
| urer. ...,. -. =.
They conduct a business session,
after which every boy speaks on his
! topic They don't read from a paper
or follow notes, they stand up and
speak extemporaneously. In the six
years they get vast amount Of in
formation, knowledge and apprecia-
ton Of christian citizenship. besides
the training in public speaking. ID
The boys who spoke, at the dinner
on Friday evening did~it in the most
correct mode of after-dinner speaking.
The training which the Keokuk boys
have had in this way was noticed by
one of the out Of town men at the
fathers and sons banquet last week
This man said to Mr.. HUDSON. How
unusually we'll these boys speak
Where did they get their training?"
Mr.. HUDSON told him, at the Boys
Congress- This congress was organ
lied in 1908 by Miss Hornish who
thought out the plan and since then
copied from the Keokuk organization,
r.. nj
Arizona, Rock Island, ILL.,, New Or
leans, Byron, ILL.,, and in Allahabad,
India.