The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1928-02-23
FATHER and SON
BANQUET IS WELL
ATTENDED MONDAY
Immense Hall Is Filled and
Banquet and Speeches
Prove Entertaining

the Elks building Monday night was
a Success from every point OF Wow
and the committee in charge OF ar
ranging and conducting same az to
be congratulated. 1t was the unti'ing
'yalk of A. E. Madsen, Roscoe Mari n,
jim Leslie and D. w. Columbus thai
made the event such a success The
banquet was served by the Methodist
ladies aid and it, too, helped in every
way in making a pleasant and profit
table evening for those attending.
Attorney C. c. Rowan acted as
postmaster of the evening and the
first speaker he called upon was Dr.
Koehn, mayor of the city and active
in the proposed Legion community
building program DR.. Aoeha briefly
spoke of the advantages Of such a
building, a community center, and then
showed plans of this structure which
had been made by AL CroonquisI.
These plans are very comprehensive
and calls for a building 100 feet long
and 8S feet wide It is a ona story
SlOUG dllu 10y SIi uCbulC iihi Will oiiS
stage on one end and the cn4cance at
the other, it will be to al lensth Of
100 feet. The building is TO front or
the north and underneath the entrance
and porch will be a larae assembly
room SO feet long and "a feet wide.
This can be used for Legion and OTTER
meetings.
The center part of the bailding will
have a lowered floor of greas size, it
being three feet below the rest IF the
building. This floor has 6 clearance
above it of 80 feel and can be used for
basketball or dancing. Al the rear Of
the building Is a stage VIII. h is AZ
feet wide ana &c feet in depth. A rus
tic fireplace will be placed at he rear
of the stage.
On each side of the center floor
space permanent seats will be buiiS
in tiers, giving a permanent seating
capacity of 1000, outside what can be
Accommodated on the center floor with
folding chairs. Dressing rooms, show
er baths and other conveniences will
he built under the sides in the base
ment and two entrances will give ac-
cess to the main auditorium from
Hauser avenue, in addition to the main
entrance.
The building will be built of cobble-
stone for the first four and half
feet and the balance with logs. APP
prevail for this building has been Civ
en- by officials of the Northern Pacific
railroad, they having this privilege as
it was their land which was purchased
for the site. The grounds will be land
scaped and it will be a beautiful adj
dition to the city.
Dr. Koehn announced in his talk
that the Legion was having wonderful
cooperation in the project. He said
that building would cost in the neigh
borhood of $4,000. The Legion has
$500 to start the building fund, and
the first donation was made by the
Firemen's association, who have slgni-
fled desire to give $500. The Italian
Victory Girls have pledged to help and
will give the first of series of
dances on March g. The Legion will
give a minstrel show in March, the
high school will give an operetta and
several lodges and clubs are also
planning on helping at once The Iris
theatre will turn over the receipts
of a show which will be sponsored by
the Legion Auxiliary and all things
denote a great amount of money for
the start of the building as soon as
spring weather permits.
The next speaker called was Coach
Hartwig, who spoke briefly upon what
athletics were doing in the school and
especially as to what the basketball
boys, who were invited in a group,
were attempting to do for the local
institution of learning,
DR.. Adams spoke at length on clean
living and Athletics" The topic was
we'll chosen and Dr. Adams gave much
advice to the boys present, both the
older ones and the Juveniles He said
in brief that there were three periods
in a persons life-the period of
growth and development, the period
of activity and the period of decline.
1t is the first period that means the
most in the life of person. 1t is at
this time the child is in receptive
mood and between the ages of 8 and 7
years much can be attained that will
go through life with the youngster.
1t is the moral and religious teach
ings at this period that shape for de-
velopment of mind and body in later
years and good thinking and regular
habits formed will make the athlete
and the quick actioned business man
in later years. DR.. Adams stressed
clean living all through his talk, the
avoidance of harmful things being
pointed out. He stressed the use Of
alcohol and tobacco, stating both had
the same reaction on the young man