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PAGE FOURTEEN THE ECHO June, Large Crowd Attended Service Club Picnic MANY DEPARTMENT PICNICS PLANNED FOR THIS SEASON These Picnics Will Feature Barbecue Suppers And Entertaining Programs The two Five-Year Club picnics that were held at Camp Sapphire on June 14th. and 21st, were at tended by several hundred em ployee members and their hus bands or wives. A barbecue chick en supper was put on for each of these picnics and an evening of special entertainment featuring bingo and square dancing was en joyed. Last summer one of the biggest attractions at Camp Sapphire was the series of departmental barbe cue parties held there, while all the departments were unable to participate last season, it is hoped that more will be able to do so this summer. Alreaay several departments have had picnics at Camp Sap phire and the Recreation depart ment is making plans for other de partments who are planning to have picnics. At each of these parties, one of the main attractions is the special barbecue supper cooked by “Un cle” Sam Allison. During the course of the party, all facilities of the camp such as the lake, ten nis courts, shuffleboards, horse shoe pits, ball field, etc., are, of course, available, and in the eve ning after the supper, a program of entertainment is planned which is usually bingo, square dancing or movies. There Was Plenty To Eat, Too, At The Picnics * Above is a picture, taken at one of the Five Year Service Club picnics at Camp Sapphire see by the picture that thej-e was plenty of food. It must have been good, and plenty of it. ^ from the length of the line. There were several hundred meinbers of the club and their hus^"" wives entertained at these two parties. ANECDOTES I From my point of view, the first I of the two Five-Year Club picnics In sneaking of a leeal advprsarv P^® x Sapphire J" tag boom^ a S voice, Abraham Lincoln once made ^ne the following comparison: I ’ “Back in the days when I per- those who were In charge of formed my part as a keel-boatman, | ^^I’^^^Sements, which consisted of a I made the acquaintance of a tri- barbecue chicken supper, bin- fling little steamboat which used|S°> square dancing, I wish to to busUe and puff and wheeze WELL DONE. The eats were about the Sangamon River. It had delicious, the bingo party really a five-foot boiler and seven-foot ^°Ps> the square dancing whistle, and every time it whis-p^s enjoyed by participants and tied, it stopped." | spectators alike. It really does one good to see Will Rogers, who was proud of I and be with such a congenial and having American Indians for an-1 jolly group of people. In this short cestors, cracked one of his best I span of life that we’re living, such jokes at the expense of the I an exhibition of good fellowship as Daughters of the American Rev-1 was shown by all in attendance, is olution. I really worth while. “I can’t claim my folks was May-1 There were over three hundred flower descendants,” he told the I people served during the supper ladies, “but I recollect they were | hour, and in this group were the there to meet the boat.” News Comments believe it. Sitting here. shady wooded dell, loo« over this beautiful rippling water, and ® j tli® time enjoying a meal o ej barbecued chicken I °, A2 eaten.” That is just many people who hay®.,. their thoughts of our 1“ j j They played games or Jj fl to work up good app®^ jad . from all I saw —- speeches. Both times mann picked a spot of P and stood there li^^® Jackson, seeing that plenty of chicken. These were happy> ^ entertained groups ® ^ There were so many ments from fellow would be impossible all, but this sums it ’ were one hundred , cessful. .uei At both parties ano plete sell-out feature . crowded house at the ^ K which is always P0P“j® r stans. If you got tired Sj could step right ^(ii! and hotfoot it for 3"^^ iJ the square dance swing. gttelV Those who did not first party and had to^^ th®y janitors and maids from all three companies. Their bingo party was very successful from every stand point, and I feel sure that our able and efficient janitor foreman, Vess Owens, will agree with me A politician said to Horace Gree ley one day; “I am a self-made man.” “That, sir,” replied Greeley, “re lieves the Almighty of a terrible I when I say that his group really responsibility.” | had a good time. All in all, it was a wonderful An artist, now that he had be-1 party, and here’s looking forward come rich and famous, was asked I to the next one. why he continued to live in the) —By “Hank” Newbury, dirty, dusty, top floor rooms of his poverty-stricken youth. I It was my good fortune to at- “Why,” replied the artist, “I tend the second barbecue party at shall always continue to live on Camp Sapphire on the 21st. of that everyone wished to do, be sides eat. The barbecue chicken was prepared by Mr. Sam Allison and was up to its usual high stand ard of perfection. Judging by the looks of contentment from every one eating it, the club members had but one regret, that being, not enough picnics. The shuffleboard courts were the most popular places with the horseshoes run ning a close second. At night, the bingo games were very well at tended, and by some very, very lucky people. Speedy Jones sure had 'to do some tall yelling to get the bunch away from the bingo ta bles. After the bingo games end ed, everyone drifted over to the square dance where Speedy Jones and the Ecusta String Band really had things going in fine order. In fact once the square dance got to rolling along, the crowd was re luctant to stop. The boys in the band did not seem to mind either. Their music certainly was appre ciated. To all of you who helped in putting this picnic over, we say, “Thanks, thanks a million.” You are the sort of people who make Ecusta what it is. Let’s start plan ning another one for next year. —By Dick Landeck. the top floor. It is the only place in this town where God is above me.” Then, after a pause—“He’s t>jwy ... but He’s quiet’* June. The party was very well at tended. Shuffleboard, bingo, horse shoe pitching, square dancing and swimming seemed tp be the things Hank rambled through the first party, Dick Landeck gave us the low-down on the second; I would like to say a word about both of them, so here ’tis, folks: At both parties barbecue chick en was the topic of conversation and was king for the day. “Oh, this is simply wonderful,” ex claimed one lady, “I can hardly it ing the second, have;;; They feasted while and from all report- ; eats and appreciated *' ,jfj remembered. . I will end with !"|j; mind—We create our m , magnet. We get back run what we put into ^ is up to every one oi J j- this the best club \i' Remember this, “It (F As president of the to take this opportunityjp, my sincere thanks who made our two P ^ sible and to those -(j ly gave of their tin^®,j,g * to help made them j they were. W By ^ She: “Am I really you’ve ever kissed?” He: “Certainly- prettiest” tb® A by
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