Show SERVE POSSUM Southern Dinner Is Dis Dispensed by the Calvary Bap fist Church You may talk about your luscious Minco meat and But possum am tIer fruit Ebber pulled loose front d vine With this strain of poesy as its inept ration printed on its tickets in fact the Baptist church colored yester yesterday day served a possum dinner to all corn cornera era The dinner was served at See ond South street and time savory odors calculated to remind a mail from thu southland of his native heath radiated for it radius of a block Eighteen large and juicy possums con constituted the main course of the dinner but there wore roast pig roaSt turkey sweet mince pie and coffee to add to the menu and nfl those who took their Christmas there were as well repaid almost as those who enjoyed roast turkey and under more auspices The patrons of the dinner were largely white people Tine possums for the occasion were born bornand and brett in old Missouri They were killed in that commonwealth famed for baking powder scandals and mules and were to Salt Lake from Kansas City in cold storage without being dressed Here in accordance with timo darkey custom they were dressed and then frozen stiff The next step was to them which they were roasted In exactly the came fashion as are roasted The freezing and the parboiling took tine wild gurney taste from th possums and left theta sweet and delicious The possum dinner Is an Institution with the Calvary Baptist church It has served such a dinner every Christmas for several L A Brown Pastor of the church was the presiding genius yesterday The dining room hail an old time air tine cookery had hadan an odor so appetizing as to tantalize thu most jaded palate and from a titian standpoint too the dinner was a success |