Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 239, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1913 — BANQUET OF CLUB A SPLENDID AFFAIR [ARTICLE]

BANQUET OF CLUB A SPLENDID AFFAIR

Beautiful Dining Rooms at Presby terian Church Scene of Annual Van Rensselaer Banquet. The new and exquisitely arranged dining room in the basement of the Presbyterian church Was the scene of the third annual banquet of the Van Rensselaer Club Monday evening and the affair was one of the most enjoyable ever held by masculine banqueters in this city. Fortyone of the fifty-one members, active and inactive, partook of the splendid spread, so excellently prepared and served by the Presbyterian ladies.

While the banqueting progressed an orchestra, from Chicago, had been concealed from the sight of the diners, discoursed pleasing music andjthe courses of the banquet were interspaced with a number of impromptu toasts that added to the merriment of the occasion. After the banquet the club members, to which the spread had bem limited, took their lady company to the armory, where an exclusive dance furnished pleasant pasttime until after the midnight hour. The armory had been very tastefully decorated with autumn colors. The gold and purple of the forests shed their most pleasing effect from the branches that, had been- tastefully placed about the walls. Shocks of corn and pumpkins upon which the frost had painted the fascinating yellow were placed about the hall, while the rural scene was made more-realistic by a number of taxidermized animals and birds that peeped out from the shocks of corn or perched upon the branches of the limbs that composed the realistic woodland scene. The danee was very much enjoyed and the affair in every respect was declared the best of the many social tuns-, tions undertaken by this popular social organization.