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Show SHOWING THE EASTERNER. Lecture on Reclamation Service at Supper Given by Newlands. Washington. Senator Newlands was host at an unique supper given on the lawn of his country house at Woodley in the suburbs of Washington Washing-ton Saturday evening. His guests were members of the Gridiron club, the secretary of agriculture, posb master general, attorney general, Speaker Cannon, and a large number of members of the senate and house. After supper, which was served by moonlight, an illustrated lecture on the work of reclamation service in the west was delivered by F. H. Newell,' director of the service. With a stereopticon large photographic views were shown of irrigation projects pro-jects in Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Montana, Nevada and Arizona, and, the reclamation of the arid lands of the west graphically illustrated. |