Show II US OENiEO A BATH Big Annual Evant Did Not 1 I Occur L l t WATER FAILED TO SHOW UP 1to to toI I Accident to FeedPipe Cut Off Supply L of the Fluid for External Application is tion Only Water Not Necessary at 1 an Elk Function Anyway and L I Good Substitute Programme Given l I II Baseball Game Moving Pictures I Music Refreshments Etc Mtido a I Good Evening of ItS It-S The Elks did not take their annual tath as arranged last night Everything Every-thing but the water showed up The feed pipe leading to the Sanitarium has been acting up for jt week or more It was thought up to yesterday nttor I i noon that it would be all rlglujpr the big event For that matterIt did run for a while yesterday but let fdpVvn Jin tHc t afternoon and aforce ottuenty five men was unable to get It going The result was that about one foot of water appeared In the front pool while the back pool was dry as a board All kinds of games baseball In the water water polo diving and swimming contests ct con-tests etc had been arranged but they had to be called off A very successful evening was put In nevertheless the Elks taking the calamity philosophically philosophical-ly and permitting their annual bath to be postponed for one year To tell the truth that water was scarcely missed What business has water at an Elk function anyway The place was appropriately decorated deco-rated with emblems purple lights etc end all kinds of refreshments abounded ColcmanVj orchestra was stationed In the balcony and furnished excellent music during the evening The festivities began with a baseball game In the dry back pool Cal Woods got up a team known as the All Beers which defeated Capt Stolls All Sandwiches ly Sand-wiches by a score of 3 to 0 In three innings i in-nings Councilman Davis pitched for the Beers and Frank Shlrer for the Sandwiches Chancy Pike acted as umpire until Officer Roberts came In and removed him for his rotten decisions de-cisions and terminated the game In the front room a musical pro gramme interspersed with moving pictures pic-tures was given Songs by Messrs Allen Al-len and Holtrran and a couple of selections se-lections by l the Hayseed Sousa hand competed of Messrs Charles > Watson Bert Swore John Swore George Settler I Set-tler Bill Scott and Charles McGrevey from the Norris Rowe show were Clfon c S The affair was given under the direction direc-tion of Exalted Ruler Lester Freed of the Elks assisted by E A Burroll C F Brubackor A E Lyon and Joe Enzenspergeiv < I J S |