The Lamar register., 1919-01-29
Now All Together!

toasts were omitted owing to the in
ability of the parties to be present.
Their places were taken by outside
guests of the evening, Messrs. w. A.
Colt and Frank Kreybill of Las Ami
mas, Judge Hollenbeck of Trinidad,
and Mr.. Vincent of Garden City.
Several side issues of merit were in
troduced, b. +. Martin Of the d. A.
NJ. & p. Co. took the blue ribbon as
the best artist of the evening. Very
few here had seen him in anything
but uniform and dressed in civilian
clothes he easily imposed on all the
crowd except the four or five who
were on, and attempted to butt in and
promote half million dollar concern
for Lamar right there. half the money
To be raised out of the crowd around
the table. A number of staid business
men commenced to slip their pocket
books into their socks and even the
toastmaster got badly excited. The
situation was relieved by his prompt
arrest by Undersherif Rhodenbaugh
on n telegram accusing him Of pulling
II gigantic fraud. On his return to
the room second to two later he was
received with an ovation, and was in
troduced to 4 crowd that will not soon
forget him. As an addition to the Y.
NJ. b. A. he will be welcomed enthus-
iastically.
Several times during the evening
kilograms of regret were received by
the tosatmastcr and read. The boost
or bunch at Canadian, Texas, consist
ing of Messrs, Jameson, Palmer and
Young sent regrets that a very inn
portant meeting with government Of
ficials to secure funds for the D-C-D
highway prevented them from attend
ing. kilograms were also read from
President Wilson, W. J. Bryan regret
ted that he would be missed no more
in Lamar than he was in the cabinet,
]. ]. Johnston and Denny Mccall sent
greetings from France that they were
on their way to place ads of the 1920
Y. NJ. b. A. national convention in
Lamar on the kaiser's throne, and Pa
van Diest hoped the lights would not
hurt the eyes of the crowd.
The president of the Y. NJ. Il. A..
G. L. Kirkpatrick, acted as toastmast-
err and kept the program moving in
easy and pleasing style. The first
number was by the most enthusiastic
and youngest feeling soldier in Ameri-
ca today, Hon. C. C. Goodale, who
spent nine months in the hell hole at
Andersonville for the flag. besides fol-
lowing il through three years Of hard
fighting. His subject was, "Our Boys
Who Answered the Call" and the tri-
butte of the old veteran to the newer
ones is well worthy Of reading. II fol-
lows:
Mr. Toastmaster and Y. NJ. b. A.
Events have been of such magni-
tude and have occurred so rapidly.
that the present generation. who
have been witnesses OF the World
War. cannot appreciate this period
OF the worlds history. as those Will.
who In ten and twenty years from
now and later on. read the history OF
this time and be able to group to-
gether the causes of the conflict and
the varying fortunes of the forces
on each side, during the more than
four years of warfare. Particularly
is this so for the last twelve months
of this struggle between civilization
and barbarism.
Even now we can hardly realize
condition of matters a few months
ago. "Our boys who answered the
call'' began to take part In the con-
flict. and our forces were being
transported to France at the rate OF
25O.0OO troops per month. and II
SENS but a dream to us. Let me
take you back for a period of only
seven months to the first of July.
1918. when the Hun was making his
drive for Paris and the sea. Do you
remember how anxiously we gather
ed around the daily bulletins that
were posted on the Citizens State
Bank, In this building. and eagerly
scanned the war news in the daily
papers, and the daily chronicle was
that the Allies were being pushed
back. hut the lines were not broken"
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