The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-01-03
ANNUAL BANQUET ENJOYED AT
LACEY LIBRARY.

n
ing and banquet Saturday afternoon
and evening, December 2S, 1917. The
afternoon gathering was for gen.
eral social time and smoker at thel
Lacey Memorial library in the court
house. The boys were most all
there for the occasion.
The banquet was served in the ey-
ening in the G. A. r. hall and the
menu was all that could be imagined
for holiday feed, built about roast
turkey. Meanwhile, special music
was being furnished by the Edison,
compliments Of John H. Blakeslee.
Action was taken looking toward
tie preparation of careful and
complete history of the Mahaska
County Bar. The work will be in
Charge of a special committee ap
pointed in response to motion by the
ae sembly made and unanimously con-
cured in by every member present.
The committee who will undertake,
this work was well chosen and the
membership particularly fitted for
the task delegated, Messrs. w. r.
LGcey, o. C. G. Phillips and Ben Nc
Gcy.
Another committee was authorized
| to prepare some sort of an appropri-
atc dedicatory program for the Lacey
Memorial Library now completed in
de tail. This committee will be an
nounced later.
| At the banquet Frank It. Nash, the
outgoing president, presided in the
lcapacity of toastmaster and he
handled the position with rare taste
land discretion Moreover Mr.. Nash
leaves something of record for his
successor, Leroy Corlett. He has
'fset good pattern,", a mark to work
to during the next year. And in the
| handling of the banquet Mr.. Nash
had job of no mean proportions. He
had a list of forty-one sneakers. The
tboys were limited to three minutes
each, by arrangement, but in actual
practice they talked little longer.
\ But the toasts were pertinent, right
down to the minute.
Regrets were expressed that Su-
preme Judge B. w. Preston and Dis
trict Judges X. E. Willcockson and
John F. Talbot could not join in the
affair, as some timely topics were up
] to them for able handling with no
time limit set against them. Judge
Ben Mccoy, former member of the
district bench, and Hon. Henry Sill
void, one of the presiding members
of today, were guests and responded,
/ Some of the talks were beyond
compare" They went back into rec
ords of yesterday and to sentiments
expressed is due the appointment of
the committee fer' history of the
/ bar. ..-
The list of toasts and the speakers
was as follows:
| c. c. Orvis-"Pure Water"
| Navel O'Brien-"Am l Sue
! cess?"
j. C. Patterson-"sixty Miles an
Hour"
o. c. G. Phillips-"If l Were Twen,
ty-one."
F. D. Reid-"Abstracts."
S. v. Reynolds-"Separate Mainte.
nance"
A. E. Schmidt-"Camp Life"
: L. T. Shangle-"Boundary Lines"
$ H. H. Sheriff-"Put Money in Thy
4 Purse"
S c. Yer Ploeg-"Dry Iowa"
1 X. Yer Ploeg-"The Lawyer and
I Golf"
1 d. c. Waggoner-'1s Iowa Dry?"
el G. H. Woodson-"The Colored Man
4 in War"
5 r. ]. Woodard-"T Younger
! Bar"
1 T. r. Wilkie-"Going 1t Alone"
/ w. c. Burrell-"Cross Examina
n ton"
T. J. Bray-"Cheaper Lights"
r j. A. Deyitt-"Oh He'll"
/ David S. David-"Divorces."
Dan Davis-"The Dead Body oi
d Caesar"
c. E. Hatchitt-"Bars of Four Coun
e ties"
/ ]. c. Heitsman-"Why New Sharon
e Should Be the County Seat"
Irving C. Johnson-"The Lawyers
q Patriotic Duty"
IL w. G. Jones-"L Liberty Bonds"
!. w. H. Keating-"A "Affidavits."
J. w. r. Lacey-"Forty Years Ago"
/. Liston McMillen-"The Future"
John N. McCoy-T Object"
al L. 4. Corlett-"Wills.'
I H. B. McCoy-"The Judge"
e John cCutchen-"When the Ducks
q lily"
! Jno. o. Acknowledgment Days
a Geo. G. True-"10O Per Cent"
Al s. M. Morris-"Long Green"
d J. E. Lake-"The QUESTIONABLE"
Al G. G. Gaas-"The Dutch"
Judge B. McCoy-"The Early Bar
Z Hon. Henry Silwold- -"The Jury"
D Hon. X. E. Willcockson- Fish That
: Bite"
d Hon John F. Talbott-"The Law
i yer"
!. Hon. B. w. Preston-Idle Hours =