Smyrna times., 1932-01-20
|. D. CAULE CO. OBSERVES
SO YEARS Of FINE PROGRESS
ANNIVERSARY BANQUET IS
HELD COMMUNITY BUILDING
Speakers For Evening Included DIR.
Layton Grier, DIR. f. j. Cattell,
and Miss Ann Grier


ner of the L. D. Caulk Company
was held in the Community Build
ing at Milford, last Wednesday
night, January 18th. 1t was
great success, and much larger
than that of last year. The speak
ers of the evening were DR.. Lay
ton Grier, president of the L. d.
Caulk Company, and DR.. E. J.
Cattell, of Philadelphia, Pa. En-
tertainment was furnished by Har-
ry M. Taylor with his AdeIphia
Male Quartette, and three acts of
vaudeville. Another interesting
feature of the program was Miss
Ann Grier's talk on Oriental dress.
Twenty-six tables filled the Varney
Auditorium, and about $50 people
were seated. The firemen served,
and they and their wives seemed
to have just as good time as
thos who were guests. The ban
quet began at o'clock. DR.. Frank
Herson, of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, gave the invocation, and
then the fun began. At every
place was a paper hat and most of
them found the owners heads at
once. The favors consisted Of
bells, horns, and all kinds of noise
making contrivances. These were
soon put into use, and from that
time until the speakers were in
PRODUCED nothing went on that you
might call quiet. The menu con-
sisted of fruit cup, soup, turkey,
filling, sweet ptatoes, gravy, peas
and carrots, cold claw, beets, Gran
berries, celery, olives, rolls and
butter, coffee, ice cream and cake,
peanuts and after dinner minis.
During the meal Mr.. Taylor and
his quartette sang, and led the
guests in singing. Mr.. Taylor
played the piano between numbers
and was often accompanied by his
audience Of their own accord. ''The
Peanut Vender" was a good exam
pie of this. Mr.. Ashe, the COM
pany's advertising manager, act
ing as POSTMASTER, began the pro-
gram by introducing Vaules Grier.
who, in his turn, introduced some
Of the prominent guests who were
present. Among them were Judge
Richards of Georgetown, the two
managers of Caulk's Philadelphia
house, Mr.. Musselman from Can
ada, Ralph Osmond of Newark, n.
j., their managers from Baltimore,
and from the Ritter Company in
Philadelphia; their pharmaceutical
representative from New York
and Philadelphia: their South
American managers, Arthur Lee
and Edward Lee; Colonel Town
send, editor of the Milford Chron-
icle; Herman Grier, editor of the
Wilmington Every Evening; the
presidents of both the Milford
banks, Daniel Hirsch and Louder
Hearn; the two men who made the
highest retail sales in Philadelphia
during the last year, and, last but
not least, the Raspberry Commit
tee, Bill" Tetlow and Bill"
Smucker. The second feature of
the program was Miss Ann Grier's
talk on Oriental dress. Mary Jane
Varney was dressed in a Hawaiian
costume, which Miss Grier explain
ID I've To
dressed in a Chinese robe and Eliz-
abeth Carlisle in a Philadelphia
evening dress. Miss Grier herself
wore a Japanese wedding dress of
black, with a wide brocaded sash,
which she explained was very es-
sential to all Japenese women. Mr..
Ashe then introduced the first
speaker of the evening, DR. Layton
Grier. DR.. Grier told of his trip to
the Orient during the summer. He
Travelled 1900 miles and spent
forty-four days on the ocean. He
left Milford on August the second
and went, first of all, to the Caulk
plant in Toronto, Canada. From
there he went westward to Van
couver, and took passage on the
ship Empress of Japan" to Yok-
ahama, where he met the Japanese
manager, Kengo Moriya. He was
then taken to Toxic to the Imper-
ial Hotel, which he says is a wond-
erfully interesting building. The
designer was crazy when he start
ed to design it and went to the in
sane asylum when he finished. Yet
the hotel is very modern and very
beautiful. While in Toxic DIR.
Layton visited the Toxic Dental
College and met several Japanese
doctors there. He went to the
Caulk office, situated seven miles
from Toxic, in the home of form
err governor Here the company
has lady pharmacist, a graduate
dentist and a number of employ
ees. DR.. Layton says he could not
enter the Office without first re-
moving his shoes. Queer? May
be, but it is a Japanese custom
and cannot be ignored. From
Toxic he sailed through the inland