Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1932-03-24
INTER-CITY ROTARY MEET
HELD HERE, BIG SUCCESS


| Connelsville is to be congratulated
on the splendid Inter-City meeting
held at the Malta M. E. church last
| Thursday evening. The Rotary
clubs of Athens, Logan, Lancaster,
GAINESVILLE and Marietta had been
| invited, and were present in full
| force, with large delegation from
| tarians attended the meeting.
! Mr.. Ralph r. Baker was chair
man of the committee on arrange
ments for the meeting, and was ably
assisted by G. B. Smith, D. G.. Raj
ston and G. z. Fisher who were al
SO members of the committee.
The meeting officially opened
with the Logan and MaltaMcCon
nelsville clubs playing four games
of volley ball in the high school gym
nasium, all of which were won by
the boys of the local club. George
e. Carr, former local superintend
ent of schools, and now serving in a
similar capacity at Logan, was cap
tain of the Logan club team. The
games were hard fought through
out, and the local boys won on
sheer merit, superior playing skill,
and the fact that low ceiling
handicapped the visitors somewhat.
The chicken dinner was served
by the ladies of the Malta M. E.
church, and it was very delightfully."-
done in every way. Each of the
mattresses wore colored paper hat,
which with the beautiful decora-
tions of the banquet room, provided
for the meeting an unusual gayety
and charm for the visitors present.
During the dinner hour Rotarian
Harold Eaton led the group in the
singing of popular songs, and much
merriment was had by all. J. A.
Hambleton, president of the local
club, presided at the meeting during
the dinner hour and then intro
duced Chairman Ralph Baker of
the committee on arrangements,
who in turn introduced Rotarian C.
B. Smith of Malta who presided AS
POSTMASTER for the rest of the pro-
gram. The words of welcome as
expressed to the visiting group by
Rotarian Charles were both pleas
ing and appreciated by all.
The entertainment program of
the evening opened with Mrs. Har-
ry Harris and Mrs. D. HI. Markle of
Malta singing a duet. This was
very beautifully done. The Ma
rietta club next put on a skit for
the entertainment of the group, in
regular wild west fashion. They
had everything Of a thrilling nature
packed into their pantomime effect,
from the wooing of an Indian prin-
cess to the shooting of Dan Nc
Grew. Many of the guests almos.
dropped dead from commissions of
laughter caused by the antics of
this Marietta crowd.
The Logan club had advertised q
"Short Talk, 'Americanizing the
Americans, by Bill Rellim," as their
part on the program, and every
body expected "ripsnortin' -
speech, but instead, Bill could not
be present, and the president of the
Logan club was required to read a
letter of regret from Bill, which, to
the laughter and entertainment of
all the guests turned out to be a
red hot scorcher in pointing out the
faults and shortcomings of the var
ious Rotary clubs represented
at the meeting. Bill Rellim turned
out to be Bill Miller of the Logan
| lo1ry hxv h; o1r
wards, and was very much present
when the meeting was over.
The Athens club presented two
comedians from Ohio University as
their part on the program, and
these boys turned out to be first
played ukelele and sang, and the
other did real genuine buck and
wing tap dance, right in Rotarian
DR.. Lee Humphreys church. Rev.
Markle and DR.. Lee were wonder
! ing after the meeting why they
couldn't get $50 men to stay in
! church for four hours, on other oc-
casions, when somebody spoke up
and said "Give 'em what they want
and they'll stay all right" One of
the visiting entertainers was an ar
tist in mimicing the playing of diff
ferent band instruments, and the
blowing of automobile horns, all of
which was done by the use of his
mouth alone.
The GAINESVILLE group started to
apologize for not having anybody
present who could entertain for
them, when an old fellow with
proper makeup on, came stalking
into the room as if he was lost or
had just escaped from feeble
minded institution some place. The
repartee which he carried on with
one of the GAINESVILLE club members,
was perhaps the hit of the evening.
His Hoover" story was probably
the best in the skit
The Lancaster club provided the
"high-brow" entertainment of the
evening. One of their Rotary AIMS
sang four beautiful selections,
and young man played four selec-
tions on an accordian, that just
about brought down the house.
The meeting closed with former
District Governor James Maddox Of
Columbus giving short address on
principles Of Rotarianism" that
was certainly fitting and proper for
the closing of such glorious even
ing of good fellowship and enter
tainment. Maddox said "Our ma
| farial life may he affected by the