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Show GOOD CHEER REIGNS AT Y.M.C. A. BANQUET Decidedly successful and enjoyable as a social function was the first annual banquet of the Y. M. C. A. In the big gymnasium last night. It was a stag affair, and fully 150 members were present. pres-ent. Flags and greenery were the decorations. dec-orations. Speeches were made by a number In response to toasts served by Frank B. Stephens, who sat at a small table at the north end of the spacious room. He was surrounded by the orators of the evening. The tables were decorated with ferns and carnations. The pleasure' of the occasion was enhanced by the discoursing discours-ing of sweet music by an orchestra. Although a stag affair a number of bright and Interested young women took possession of the visitors' gallery qttrt played at "Looking on in Vienna." President V. V. Kite Introduced the toastmaster in a number of well-chosen and laudatory remarks, but the latter got back at him by calling for three cheers for the president. Mr. Stephens said a part of the prerogatives of the president should be to teach the women's wo-men's clss and to help the girls learn to swim. The membership he said was now 1439 men and ninety-three women. The association as-sociation was free from bias of church or creed, the members were free to derive de-rive all the benefits offered; they were impressed with the1 necessity for doing service, to p themselves, their fellows, and the State. Toasts were responded to by P. C. Evans, F. A. Timby. Dr. t G. Plum-mer, Plum-mer, Oscar L. Cox. John Koe, Roscoe M. Breeden. A. T. French. F. C Schramm. H. K. Smoot, George Snow, Harold Stephens, Rev. Charles E. Perkins, Per-kins, Jacob A. Greenewald, K. It. Burt-ner Burt-ner and R. O. Hanson. |