The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1921-01-06
The 1920 Doings We're the Best
Ever Held i'm Yale.-Over
Two Hundred Present

The Masonic banquet, which has
become an annual affair, and is in
the nature of a brotherly and
social get-to-gether, was held on
Thursday evening last week, the
invitations reading at 7:30, in the
Methodist Episcopal church.
The lower floor of this building
laid out in such commodious space
for dining and such convenient
kitchens for serving, at eight o.
clock, was ready with its long
tables covered with snowy linen
and prettily decorated with poin-
settas for the crowd who were
seated to the number of two hun
dred and twenty-five, the speaker
of the evening, the Reverend gen.
tlmen, officers Of the Masonic
lodge and others being placed at
central table.
The ladies Of this church serv-
ed royal feast, after grace had
been spoken by Rev. Mumby, and
the walters and Mattresses, un-
der the supervision of Mrs. H.
C. Martin and Miss Fredda
Holden did most excel
lent work throughout. The splen-
did dinner was topped off with
brick ice cream and cake and after
dinner mints, and everybody was
then in the happiest of moods for
the after dinner speeches and pro-
gram.
We must not neglect to mention
though, because this also was a
feature which helped along the
good feeling and added much
charm to the whole evening that
an orchestra composed of Mia
Holden, pianist, Thelma Ingram
and Marion Learmont, violnists,
played throughout the dining and
received much praise from the
diners.
The first number of the program
was a trio. "The Old Home Town"
sung by Sam Ludington, Willard
Cough and Donald Mcintyre. The
continued applause brought them
back with an added verse.
A violin Duet followed, Marion
Learmont and Fred Andreae be-
ing the artists, with Aileen Lear
mont at the piano. These young
people are doing excellent work.
We are always glad to listen to
the accomplishments of our
young people coming home from
colleges or their schools, and Leta
Holden is one of the favorites.
She has a fine, natural voice, and
good training showed itself this
evening when she sang the old
song that everyone loves, "'Tis
the Last Rose of Summer" Her
encore was a humorous bit and
we'll received
The speaker Of the evening,
Chas. p. Schermerhorn. of Detroit,
was introduced by n. b. Herbert,
and from the moment he stood up
he held the attention of all. Mr..
Schermerhorn is a large. well built
fleshy man, and it needed only his
opening words to know that he was
a humorist He said that he had
been told many times that he was
funny. 1t was left to one man to
say to him that he was the 'fun-
niest thing he ever saw"
His address was based on the
subject of Brotherhood" All
through, the thought ran that
brotherly feeling was the finest,
truest thing on earth. He compar-
ed two men, one an optimist. the
other a pessimist, how the differ
ent characters, dispositions and
temperaments influenced their
whole lives, broadening the one,
narrowing the other, and not only
their own lives were brought un-
der the effects but all those around
them. Mr.. Schermerhorn kept his
hearers in wild gales of laughter
at his funny sayings and his own
inimitable way of saying them. He