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Show To the women of the First Methodist Metho-dist church li due credit for one of the most unique and thoroughly enjoyable of all the celebrations of Washington's birthday anniversary. ' A large electrical flag shone upon the 300 guests in the Sunday-school room, and .from every corner stretched from points on the ceiling hung the national colors. Above the several tables pennants .denoted the States which those seated claimed as their former places of residence. The women who served the dinner were in colonial eostnmet with hair powdered. Cherries and miniature hatchets the latter about the size of that which the. daddy of his country must have , wielded in the Washington back yard were placed on the tables. The menu cards were adorned with flags, and even the ices were in the national colors. What Speakers Said. P. ' A. Dix. who responded to the toast, "The New England States," declared de-clared it was that section of the country coun-try which gave life to the United States. In the absence of Judge C. C. Goodwin, Maj. M. A. Breeden told of the glories of 'fThe Sunny South." He modestly admitted that the single name "Kentucky," covered his subject. sub-ject. Then Fisber Harris, who presided pre-sided as toastmaster in a way that justifies a revival of the hackneyed expression, ex-pression, "in- his own inimitable style," ventured the suggestion that his native State, Virginia, supplied Kentucky with its first settlers. Dr. Benjamin Young declared that without "The Mother Country" there would have been no America at all. Meanwhile the children of the sev- eral States sang the praises of John Brown and Abraham Lincoln and the pioneers of '49 and other great men and sturdy -characters, according as they bailed from Kansas and Illinois, from California or somewhere else. . A truce was declared and voices were United when Herbert MacMillan spoke on "The Great West" and Matt. Thomas on "Utah." The Rev. P. A. Simpkin, who was to have responded to the toast, "The State of Matrimony,", was unavoidably detained. But all the time everybody's state of health was above normal. . All Sang "America.? , The dinner began with, the singing of "America." Mr. Dix praised the men, the women and the beans of New England, Eng-land, and declared that the Nation owes an undying debt of gratitude to the little group of States nuddled together to-gether along the north Atlantic He named Webster and Blaine and Longfellow Long-fellow and Bryant among the great statesmen and poets who sprang from this section of the country. Corn pone, sweet potatoes and. 'possum 'pos-sum fat were not overlooked by Maj. Breeden in praising "Old Kentucky.'' 'No creative being could make Kentucky, Ken-tucky, and no created being has ever been able to rule it," he said. Humor and eloquence were mingled in the address of Dr. Young. He described de-scribed the character of the peoples populating "The Mother Country," and gave examples of the wit of the different races. He told of our debt of gratitude to Europe in general and, more particularly, to .England, France, Scotland and Holland. One of the contributions con-tributions made by Ireland was evident in nearly every police force in the Nation, Na-tion, he said. Dr. Young called attention atten-tion to what Ireland nas done for America through the patriotic immi- f rants who have come to this country rom the Emerald Isle, many of whom have been numbered among the foremost fore-most soldiers of both of the great wars of this Nation. Utah, "Coming State." Mr. Thomas and Mr. MacMillan made eloquent responses to the toasts proposed to them. Utah was exalted as the coming great State of the Union. |