Show KEITHOBRIENS AT LAG09N Great Watermelon Barbecue Indulged in by the Employees of tho Big Store Perhaps ns many as 1500 people joined with the KeithOBrien company in making the Lagoon pltnic a success The special train at 230 oclock carried car-ried a big proportion of the attendance while the later trains were comfortably fled The occasion afforded many of the excursionists an opportunity to visit the resort for the first time this season Lagoon this year is like 1 park Flowers Flow-ers of all kinds are In bloom and the lake Is more attractive than at any other time The feature of the event was a watermelon water-melon treat on a scale calculated to make mouths water Two hundred of the biggest melons that could be obtained ob-tained by the company were given away Tempting slices were sent In all directions and whole melons given to parties Effort was made that every person In attendance should have a taste of melon There were many interesting in-teresting incidents Two colored men contested for supremacy and the way the luscious substance disappeared was a marvel The faster they ate the livelier live-lier grcW the interest of the spectators The man who had formerly lived in Alabama was decided the victor The directive force of tho company was all there James X Ferguson smiling smil-ing and sweating as he carved the melons mel-ons while William r OBrien and Charley Keith mingled among the employees em-ployees and the clod Intent on seeing that everybody had n good time During the evening dancing was Indulged In-dulged In Altogether it was a delightful delight-ful affair The generous consideration of their employees hns aroused the admiration of the public and won the loyal support of the help as well as the kindlieat feeling ingThe The last Friday In August closed the weekly halfholidays So pleasant were they and so closely did they unite employer em-ployer and employees that a final half holiday was decided upon |