The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-02-13
LARGE CROWD OF
Fathers AND SONS
WILL attend meet
Plans for Father and Son Banquet at
Presbyterian Church Friday Night
Are Now Complete Commit
tee Fortunate In Securing
Splendid Speaker.

The committee in charge of the
Father and Son Banquet to be given
Friday evening at $3.50 o'clock at the
First Presbyterian Church announces
that all plans are now practically
complete for the big affair which will
probably be one of the best events OF
the kind ever given in Mason county.
The tickets are being sold at one
dollar and this ticket admits father
and his son making the price Of the
plate only fifty cents each. This is a
very reasonable charge and there
should be very large number of
fathers and sons in attendance.
The chief address of the evening
will be made by Mr.. L. l.. Henson, of
Covington, KY, who has just returned
from England and France where he
has been in the Y. M. C. A. work for
several months. He has been in d.
rect contact with the situation in
France and will no doubt bring very
interesting message to those in at
tendance.
When it became known that the
committee had selected Mr.. Henson as
the chief speaker, several local peo-
pie who knew Mr.. Henson were very
much pleased. Chairman r. A. Coch-
ran, of the Y. M. c. A. movement in
this county, was very much pleased to
learn that Mr.. Henson would be the
speaker He had met Mr. Henson In
Covington when a conference was
held with State Secretary Tevebaugh
and he was very much impressed with
him. Mr.. Henson Is also personally
known to DR.. B. B. Bailey, pastor of
the First Baptist Church, who has
been made a member of the reception
committee to meet Mr.. Henson when
he arrives here Friday at noon.
Besides Mr.. Henson, there will be
several local people on the program,
Mr.. A. G. Sulser will be POSTMASTER
and this is enough to say that every
thing will move along smoothly. Mr..
Sulser knows how to preside and how
to get the most out of such meeting,
Mr.. ]. B. Wood will speak on the sub
ject, "The Ideal Son" and Roger Cap
linger, son of Prof and Mrs. W j.
Caplinger, will respond to this toast
with the use of the subject, "The Kind
of Dad | Like"
Rev. Stevenson, the new rector of
the Church of the Nativity, will have
his first public introduction to the
people of Maysville at this banquet
and will offer the invocation. DR.. J
j. Dickey, of the Second Street NJ. E
Church, will pronounce the benedic.
ton.
| A special feast of good things musi
cal has been arranged. Miss Lucy
Smith assisted by the audience will
sing "a Long, Long Trail" Mr.. Dodd'
and the audience will sing Dixie ant
Mrs. Dodds and the audience will sins
the Battle Hymn of the Republic. Prof
J. W. Young, director of Youngs' Or
chestra, which will make music dur
ing the banquet, will sing bass solo
One of the biggest features of tn,
entire program promises to be tn,
relating by each father of the Nick
name by which he was called when ;
boy. In addition to this the boys will
also be called upon to tell their nick
name and the peculiar instances con
nected with their obtaining that nick
name. Several little additional sur
prises are in store for those in attend
ance. during the dinner hour.