South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-01-27

k|WANIS CL UB
STAGES BANQUET
fake" Building Fund Pro-
videS $4,000 for New
Clubhouse.

The Kiwanis club. the newest but
not the least of south Bends many
clubs, held its first big entertain
charter as a member of the national
organization and nearly proved it
self the Invest club in the city by
raising the greater part OF the $1O,-
600 necessary for erecting a new
clubhouse at the Oliver last night.
The climax of the evenings en-
tertainment and a varied program
of music, vaudeville numbers, talks
and stunts of all kinds was reached
when Z. A. Bennett tended his
check for $500 and started the ball
rolling to raise $4,000 for the new
clubhouse. The proposition came as
a complete surprise TO the members
of the club and caused much ner-
vousness until some OF the members
in on the joke gave It away by over
subscri bling the amount TO be raised.
George f. Hixson of Rochester,
n. Y, president OF the Kiwanis
clubs of the world, A. S. Browne OF
Buffalo, father OF the Kiwanis club
movement, and Oscar +. Alexander
of Cleveland, grand trustee of the
honor for the occasion and the
principal speakers. President
George f. Hixson presented the
charter, which was accepted by Z.
]. Diver, president OF the local club.
The first surprise of the evenings
entertainment, which began with a
dinner at $50 o'clock and contin-
ued until after u o'clock. came
when the braves Of Totem council,
Kiwanis, accompanied by their
squaws. entered the dining room
and found the tables arranged in a
rectangular shape and every part of
the room connected with the others
by automatic telephones. The tele-
phones, which were installed by K.
T.. Daicey. were the source of much
amusem ent during the evening.
During the dinner Harry Scott
and Charles McCauley. the later dis
a musical number.
Immediately after the dinner,
POSTMASTER f. L. Sims introduced
Pres't Hixson, who. with a few re-
marks, presented the local club
with its charter, which was accept
ed by Pres't Diver in the name of
the local club. A. S. Browne related
briefly how he had founded the or
ganization and traced its growth
from an organization of only a few
hundred memb ers and four branch
es in January, 1915, TO one of more
than so branches and more than
10000 member at the present
time. Oscar +. Alexander gave a
talk on some of the ideals of the
club. which he said was organized
to promote higher ideals of moral
ity among business men.
Following the dinner the hoax of
raising funds of the new clubhouse
created much merriment After
this Scott and McCauley entertained
with several songs. Ernest Staples
gave an enjoyable dialogue with
Mrs. Grace Fink-Davis and followed
with some of his own parodies. in
Guiding one on Billy Sunday. The
Misses Lillian and Rae Cohen sang
! several songs. The voice of "Old
Chief Kiwanis'' carried from the
Turkish room by a megaphone re-
lated some personal experiences of
the members present and the even
| ing's entertainment concluded with
the distribution of freak gifts TO the
| ladies of the party.
Joseph +. Donahue was chairman
| of the committee which had charge
/ Of the entertainment. The other
members were: +. A. Bennett, L. J.
Hammerschmidt, w. r. Armstrong,
George NJ. Platner. Schuyler Rose.
| III. Z. Ries, Max Adler, c. NJ.
Schuell, f. ]. Diver and L. Z.
\ Greenan.
A telegram was received from
Henry F. Kerr. organizer of the To-
, cal club, who recently married Miss
Ada b. Kreiger of Mishawaka, and
who is now residing in Washington.
| d. c. a communication from the
| Chicago kiwanis club, which was
! chartered Thursday night. was read
by the secretary OF the club, II. T..