Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1910 — YOUTHS OFFER TOASTS AT BOYS’ BANQUET. [ARTICLE]

YOUTHS OFFER TOASTS AT BOYS’ BANQUET.

Boom Started to Hake Cope Hanley Mayor of Boy’s City at 1910 Summer Camp at Winona. Fifty participated in a banquet given at Fatq!g restaurant Monday night by the Knights of King Arthur, the boys’ club instituted some two years ago by Rev. Parrett and Miss Maud Spitler. The menu was very Excellent hWd was very finely served on a long table attractively decorated. K. O. K. A. banners were hung about the large dining room and prominently suspended from the wall was the baseball championship pennant won by the local club while .encamped at Boys’ City at Winona last summer. Attorney E. P. Honan was toastmaster and in his happy style introduced the speakers, largely the boys themselves, who responded in a way that interested and even surprised the guests who were the parents of the club members. Edward Honan, Jr., known in the club by the sobriquet of Sir Esquire Launfal, was introduced by his father as “the boy orator of the Iroquois,” and made good his title by responding to the toast “The next mayor of Boys’ City.” In faultless language and with accent and tone both convincing and enthusing he proposed the name of Cope Hanley as the next* mayor of Boys’ City. Both the speaker and his candidate were lustily cheered dnd a boom started for the Rensselaer hoy that it is hoped yoN result in his selection as chief executive of the juvenile municipality that will be a feature of the coming summer camp at Lake Winona. The other toasts were ably handled by the boys and the following program and menu occupied the partici-* pants until 10 o’clock:

—Program-Menu— Pendragon—E. P. Honan. Invocation —Merlin. Oyster Soup. The Camp at Winona—Sir Esquire William the Conqueror, Willie Babcock. The Pennant —Sir Page Gareth, Ernest Moore. Troubles of the Alfred the Great, Ray Laßue. The Cook—Sir Knight Hercules, Fred Hamilton. Turkey. Dressing. Cream Potatoes. Rolls. Fruit. ' Cranberry Sauce. Pickles. A Camp Visitor —G. E. Murray. The Second Pennant —Sir Page Thomas Jefferson, Howard Clark. Winona TO—Sir Knight George Dewey, Cope Hanley. Club Unity—Sir Knight Romulus, Tom * Padgett. The Next Mayor of Boys’ City—Sir Esquire Launfal, Ed Honan. Ice Cream. Coffee. Cake. The Fathers’ Viewpoint—L. H. Hamilton, C.. W. Hanley. E. L. Hollingsworth and others. Knighthood—Merlin.

The banquet which had been opened by a short prayer by Rev. Parrett, as Merlin, closed with a pleasing speech by him, in the peroration of which he urged the boys to the adoption of Jesus Christ as a model and in all their work and all their play to be thoughtful and inspired by their Heavenly Father. No more pleasant affair ever occurred in Rensselaer. Considerable excitment was occasioned near Pleasant Ridge Monday afternoon by the tempprary absence of the 2% year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Hooker, on the John Poole farm. The little boy wandered to the home of Will Walters, abqut a quarter of a mile away and was not missed for some little time by his parents, who were greatly worried until he was found.- , The Columbian Concert Co., composed of three blind musicians and their leader, will be at the M. E. church tomorrow night. Don’t let anything kpepxpu away.

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