Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1919 — FELLOWSHIP IS ENJOYED [ARTICLE]

FELLOWSHIP IS ENJOYED

VAN RENSSELAER CLUB MEMBERS ENJOY A PLEAS- - ANT EVENING. Van Rensselaer Club were present Wednesday night and all had a most enjoyable time. Ed. Lane, who was in charge of the affair, waa as busy as Harry Parker m the holiday season when everybody wanted to send their pictures to everybody else as a Christinas gift, snd all of which strenuous activity was due to Harry’s placing some real pointed readers in the Republican. But we started out to say that Ed. Lane was busy.- His activity rivaled that of the European “upper crust to show “Our Woody” a good time. If Woody had a better time over there eating off of those golden .plates and drinking out of cups as valuable as the Holy Grail, than the fellows had at the club Wednesday evening, he was sure going some. Everybody enjoyed the card games and all thought they were the best players, and an interview with the members-separately brought out the fact that each was the winner of the prize and easily the best player present. . . T.. Cigars were plentiful, and a stranger had entered the rooms he would have thought that a smoke barrage preceding the whole English navy was at hand. The lunch served by Robertson ®. Viant of the Princess was a real princess feast. A supply of food sufficient to sustain a regiment of soldiers iff Russia was completely exhausted. Not even a crust of pie was left. * _ Everybody had a good time. The writer did not stay for the entire performance, but we were sure when we departed for home that the Worland ambulance would be called for Ed Lane, and we were uncertain whether he would be taken to his home or the hospital. Ed is as strenuous as Roosevelt, and if he held out to the ninth inning he sure has a Jess Willard constitution. He could beat Battling Nelson in taking punishment.