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Show Lions "Charter Night" Is Crowning Success Local Organization Stages Banquet to Nearly Four Hundred Guests Lions Prove Royal Entertainers. Amid glory, splendor, goodfellow-ship goodfellow-ship the Gunnison Lions club was formally presented with its charter last Saturday evening. Never in the history of Southern Utah has an affair af-fair of this kind been so successfully staged and the local club members have been showered with commendations commenda-tions for the untiring efforts put forth to make "charter night" the success it was. The early part of the festivities i were held at the high school auditorium. audi-torium. The artistic hand of the decorator' had transformed the spacious spa-cious hall into one of beauty by the lavish use of gold and purple crepe paper, the Lions colors, and other appropriate designs. The seven long banquet tables, too, were charmingly bedecked with garden flowers and altogether the banquet room presented present-ed an elaborate and pleasing spectacle. specta-cle. It was just a few minutes after ,the schedule time that the banqueters, banquet-ers, numbering nearly three hundred, ,to a patriotic air reudered by the orchestra, marched to the room where all was in readiness for the feast. Standing "attention" the vast throng sang "America," and following, invocation invo-cation was offered by Lion June Met-calf. Met-calf. Lion Parley Chriastensen, in a few brief remarks bade welcome to the guests and visiting Lions. Attorney C. M. Edwards, who holds the position as "Lion Tamer" in the , local organization, acted as toast-. toast-. master during the banquet. Lion Edwards kept "things" moving and there was not a dull moment during the hour and thirty minutes he presided. pre-sided. His introductions of the several sev-eral speakers were "snappy and witty" wit-ty" and he was materially aided by rapid-fire responses. Dr. G. E. Chris-tensen, Chris-tensen, president of the Payson Lions club, added "pep" when he responded with a song boosting Gunnison. Following Fol-lowing the delivery of the silvery notes Dr. Christensen stressed upon the point that Gunnison had a "real den" of live Lions and he had no hesitancy in saying that the future of this city, in so far as civic development develop-ment and community building and cooperation in all good movements for educational and other lines were concerned, was now assured and'that the Gunnison Lions club would be a factor in putting these things over. Dr. C. Leo Men-ill, president of the Salina Lions club, responded with a cleverly written poem in which the local club was warmly lauded for ils activities and its success in showing show-ing the visitors the royal welcome. Prescient Charles Eatinger of the Mt. Pleasant Lions club and Norval Hansen of Ephraim, were also among the banquet talkers. Both lauded the Lions club and both predicted that through the organization in this section, sec-tion, much good would result to Southern Utah. Several responses were given by local members and throughout the talks were warmly received and applauded. ap-plauded. Solo selections by Mesdames Knightton and Andrews and E. L. SwalbeVg and musical selections by the orchestra kept the spirit of en-thusiam en-thusiam at a high pitch. The banquet committee, facing one of the nost difficult tasks, staged one of the best and most elaborate feasts ever served in the valley. The menu, consisting of Lions roar cocktail,, cub salad, spring chicken a-la-king, mash ed potatoes, green peas, hot rolls, butter, frozen delight cake, Volstead lemonade, iced tea and cream mints, were tastily prepared and artistically arranged and the banqueters thoroughly thor-oughly enjoyed this part of the festivities. fes-tivities. Some thirty young Gunnison Gunni-son ladies aided in serving and when the "gong" sounded there were no waits and the vast horde of merrymakers merry-makers kept up the "joyful tune" which added materially to the success of the occasion. "Lionism throughout the United States is working- wonders,", sani District Governor M. M. Nielson of Salt Lake.when he was introduced by Toastmaster Lion Edwards. Continuing Con-tinuing Mr. Nielson outlined many of the good things the Lions clubs throughout the United States were accomplishing. He spoke of the principles prin-ciples of Lionism, the ethics and the growth of the organization and the many cities in Utah that were becoming be-coming members of the international organization. In presenting the much coveted charter to the Gunnison Lions club, Dr. Nielson praised the spirit of the members and urged them on to further success. President J. W. Jones of the Gun-I Gun-I nison club, in accepting the charter I for his associate members, paid a j glowing tribute to the members for their unselfish efforts in making the local club what it is today. "The first club the caveman's club. It was not the same kind of a club that has met here tonight," said President Jones, "but it answered the same purpose. Back in the days of the caveman the club was the symbol of authority and the man who could wield the biggest club had the smoothest sailing, took what h Wanted Want-ed and was denied nothing. 1 lnsr years it began to dawn on other inhabitants in-habitants that a little combination might beat the man with the big stick, so an organization was perfected per-fected for that purpose and the caveman cave-man passed into oblivion. With the progress of times and when business grew to where the demands of organized or-ganized forces were necessary, the modern business men's club was perfected. per-fected. Clubs throughout the land ' have grown and today the civic machinery of our towns and cities is considered to be incomplete without with-out some organization of business men.- "While there are many clubs today, all doing gpod, the growth and broad-, ening out the Lions club shows a stronger mark of progress than many of the others. The Lions' club teaches good citizenship and stands firmly behind the principles of good govern-meent. govern-meent. It teaches one to take an intimate activity in the civic, commercial com-mercial and social moral welfare of j your community. It teaches you to j lay aside and forget the petty jeal-j jeal-j ousics and promote good fellowship, ; not alone among members, but with all associates and it has the strong tendencies to establish the bond of friendship with neighboring communities. commun-ities. "We are happy and proud to accept this charter. It is indeed an honor, but at the same time a serious responsibility. re-sponsibility. However, I feel certain that every member of the Gunnison Lions club will faithfully discharge the duties which have been conformf1 upon them." I Manti was the leader in attendance ! from outside points. A big bunch j of "real boosters," accompanied by j their wives and sweethearts, occupied j once long table and the bunch enjoyed en-joyed the fun. ML. Pleasant Linns had a fine representation, as did Salina. Sa-lina. Salt Lake City and P : vson were also represented. Immediately following t lie banquet a caravan of automobiles left for the beautiful Palisade purk where the visitors were entertained at a damping damp-ing parly. It was a wee past twelve o'clock when the final festivities marking the closing of one of the most, successful "charter nights" ever held in Utah was brought to a close. |