The daily times., 1921-04-07
THE CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE BANQUET
BRILLIANT AFFAIR
SPEECH OF MIR. DANIELS
Most Pleasing. Drew Picture
of His Boyhood Days When
He Lived in Wilson and the
Town as 1t Was Then and
Held His Audience in Rapt
Attention.

The banquet of the chamber of
commerce last evening was one of
the most successful and most bril-
liant affairs of the kind ever held
in Wilson. OF course the draw
ing card was Hon. Josephus Daniels,
sx.secretary of the navy, who has
returned to Raleigh to take person
al charge of the News and Obsery-
e..
But that was not all. Every fea-
ture of the occasion was most de-
lightful. The ladies had done their
part eminently satisfactorily.
Three long tables had been pro-
vided the length of the spacious hall
of the Y. M. G. A. rooms and dec
grated with beautiful flowers
around which were seated nearly
200 guests, which made a scene not
soon to be forgotten. The menu of
delicious barbecue and fixings, with
salads, pickles, olives, and cake and
cream for desert served with we'll
timed despatch by a number of the
ladies of the city was all that could
be desired.
Mr.. Calvin Woodard again dem
onstrated his superb ability as toast
master, and gave program for the
evening that was hard to beat. Prior
to the address of Mr.. Daniels there
were a number of five minute speech
es by leaders in their respective lines
of calling and these gentlemen in
terestingly presented facts about
mating to Mr.. Daniels but to our
| own people as we'll. That Mr.. Dan
| iels appreciated this information
| was apparent in his address, for he
used much of this to refresh his
| memory as he covered the past as
/ he remembered Wilson as a boy,
! and went to the Wilson Collegiate
| Institute where he was educated
! and helped his mother keep post
| office, or was captain of the Swift
| football team, which he declared was
| the greatest honor of his youth and
| one that he appreciated the most
/ Prior to the banquet, Mr.. Daniels
was presented to the guests of the
evening by Mess Calvin Woodard and
/ Graham Woodard, and to the Other
mem bers of the receiving line com
{ posed of Mr.. Louis Tomlinson, pres
| ident of the chamber of commerce
!
| vice president of the chamber, anG
| Mrs. King, and Mr.. and Mrs. Ora
| ham Woodard who entertained Mr.
| Daniels while in the city. Mr.
entertainment committee. He was
assisted in this work by Messrs. Craw
ford, Scott and Gold.
/ The speakers of the evening anc
seated at a cross. table at the heat
of the room and this placed then
in plain view of all the other guests
The occasion was enlivened will
excellent music from the Wilson
(, theatre orchestra.
/ Mr.. Woodard introduced tn
speakers with fitting and appropri
ate remarks, and confined thu
speeches to a maximum of five min
utes. They stayed very we'll withi1
bounds and covered their subject
with short, snappy speeches, full o
interesting matter.
The invocation was delivered b,
Rev. F. S. Love, pastor of the Meth
; odist church, and the first speake
of the evening was Mr.. S. G. New
born, president of the Branch Bank
ing and Trust company, who talk
ed of Wilson and her banks. On1
a few years ago Wilson had onl
z two banks with a capital and sui
plus of $25O,000, and nowhere ar
l eleven in this county, with capita
| and surplus of more than a millio
) dollars. He paid tribute to tn
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