The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1921-03-05

FIFTH ANNUAL BANQUET BY FAR
THE CLUBS BEST
Mainland Republicans Gather in Force
and Do Justice To Elaborate Spread
at Country Club.

With every seat at the eighteen
large tables occupied, the fifth annual
banquet of the Mainland Republican
Club, held last Friday evening at the
Atlantic City Country Club, was pro-
nounced by all present as the greatest
ever. The massive dining room was
prettily decorated, the tables being at
tractively arranged, SO that everyone
could see and hear all that IA going
on around them. While. the repast
was being served, Daugherty's Orches-
ira rendered beautiful selections, al
ways responding to the numerous en-
cores, to the delight of the huge
throng. This was the first of these
yearly affairs graced by the presence
of the ladies, and to say that they
thoroughly enjoyed it would be putting
it mildly.
Mr.. Bertram E. Whitman acted as
the chairman Of the evening, at the
request of the Club President, Mr.. T.
Clark Adams, who had been i'll for
several days. Mr.. Whitman made a
short speech, telling of the %organiza-
ton from it's inception as a purely
local club to the present day, now
numbering among it's membership res
idents of every municipality from
Somers Point to Port Republic. He
then introduced Judge Enoch A. Hig-
bee as the lone speaker of the eve
ming. Judge Higbee, in his custom
airy style, drifted from a serious vein
to his well-known .witticisms, which
kept his hearers in a highly pleasing
state of mind. He congratulated the
officers and members of the Club in
general and the banquet committee in
particular, for their energy in making
the affair the success it was. The
Judge spoke for about twenty minutes
and resumed his seat amid the hearty
applause of the crowd.
The feed over, it required but ff-
teen minutes to clear the floor for
dancing. The large waxed floor was
we'll filled for each dance, between
the numbers, students from the Viola
School of Dancing giving fancy cos
tune dances. There was a Colonial
number by four of the young students,
a toe dancer, and several others. The
crowd seemed to thoroughly enjoy
these splendid exhibitions, which
brought many encores. They were
under the supervision of Mr.. Ward H.
Kentnor, the popular instructor of the
! Viola School. Mr.. Kentnor also had
charge of the dancing of the. evening,
a Paul Jones adding much to the mer-
riment of the crowd.
Probably no feature of the evening
drew so much praise as the wonderful
music rendered by Daugherty's Or
chestra. There was such a demand
that the dancing continue an hour
LONGER than had been arranged for,
that the Committee felt obliged to
retain the orchestra until the early
morning hours, and when the throng
finally departed the comments of all
were of a very fiattering nature.
In a letter addressed to the Main
land Republican Club, Frank B. HUI
bin, well-known Pleasantville booster,
has the following to say:
ALLOW me to congratulate your en-
tertainment committee for furnishing
one of the most enjoyable evenings l
have ever had the pleasure of spend
ing, at your Club Banquet at the
Country Club, Mortified. The menu,
music, dancing and service was excel
lent; couldn't be better. 1t was one
grand affair"