Emery County Progress | 1907-01-12 | Page 3 | Senator Had Dates Mixed

SENATOR HAD DATES MIXED why missouri Mis statesman was late at cabinet D ex senator cockrell probably Is the only man in washington who ever kept president roosevelt waiting at a dinner it was one of the cabinet dinners that were given by the sec detary of the interior and mrs hitch cock three years ago the president and mrs loosevelt Koo sevelt arrived in due time as did all the other guests ex capt senator cockrell after a delay of almost an hour mrs hitchcock limited her guests to the dining room and dispatched a messenger to the residence of sena tor cockrell to make inquiries great fear was felt that the missourian Missour lan had started and had fallen by the way as the day as a cold and wintry one the fact yas however that the sen ator was sitting quietly a home when the messenger got there clad in his dressing gown and slippers and con granulating himself that he could be indoors he had put the date of the dinner in his calendar in fayge and attractive handwriting but had for gotten to turn a leaf and was ac cordingly a day behind time one appreciated the joke more than did the president and the dinner that be gan in anxiety and apprehension end ed in a big laugh at the dear oil sen ator denver tims t 1