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Grand March: 1. Oldest Couple, em-
ploye and wife, Mr. and Mrs. C. C.
Jfllla, Oklahoma City; 2. Oldest
Couple, man in active service, Mr. and
Sfrs. J. H. Livingston; 3. Best Looking
Couple, 3Ir. and Mrs. G. A. bladden,
Ft. Worth; 4. Fattest Couple, Mr. and
.\Irs. Jack Sheridan, Williamsville, 3x0.
Charleston: 1. Vada Holland, Spring-
field; 2. Harold Johnson, Springfield.
Waltz: Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Howard,
Ft. Worth, Tex.
Square Dance, for veterans only: 1.
Slrs. J. C. Dubuque, Springfield and
nr. L. Laue, Eldorado, Okla.; 2, Mrs.
C. D. Pollard, Springfield and T. F.
Jones, Enid.
Children's Jig: 1. Nancy Gilbert,
Springfield; 2. Francis Ray, Spring-
field; 3. Ernest Dean, Springfield.
Men's Jig Dance, pensioned em-
ployes: 1. J. H. Livingston, St. Louis;
. C. B. Howard, Ft. Worth.
One-Step, any veteran or member of
his family: 1. Miss R. McKenna,
Springfield; 2. L. Lyons, Springfield;
7. Nrs. C. S. Parsons, Springfield; 4.
.Mr. 6. S. Parsons, Springfield.
There was just time to freshen up
a hit, have a bit of dinner and the
relerans were off again--this time to
the minstrel show given at the Pip-
kin Junior High School. The audi-
torirrni WiIS crowded and the perform-
ance which was presented to them
through the courtesy of the Springfield
Girls' and hlen's Clubs, was well worth
the lrip. As the veteralls remarked
later, it was the best entertainment
ever presented to them on the first
day's program.
Khile the participants were not all
Frisco employes, many of the more
prominent parts were taken by mem-
bers of the two clnbs, and the presen-
tation was a most finished one. The
Harold Wilks orchestra furnished a
group of old time songs before the
cwtain rose.
The setting was an old-time Georgia
camp meeting and the entire ensemble
were black-faced comedians, dressed
in gaudy greens, yellow and red cos-
tumes.
There were a number of high lights
in the program, among them the ser-
mon preached by "Brother Crawford,"
impersonated by George C. Roop,
presidelit of the men's club.
Robert Haseltine, soloist. sang
"Big Bass Viol" in a delightful man-
ner and was called back for two ell-
cores. The solos of Le Roy Prater
and Mrs. IV. N. Doss were also very
well received and the Ted Trapp
quartet were repeatedly encored.
Toward the end of the program a
group of old time Southern melodies
was presented by the cast and one
melody was woven musically into the
next. The group iucluded "My Old
Kentucky Home," "Carry Me Back to
Old Virginia," "Way Down Upon the
Suwanee River" and others, and the
old timers were not backward in join-
ing in on the old familiar tunes with
the cast.
Jess W. Moore, who was inter-
locutor, presented a delightful solo,
"When Your Hair Has Turned to
Silver" which was followed by the
closing chorus, a parody entitled,
"Smile, Vets, Smile."
Interspersed between the songs,
tap dances and specialty numbers, the
end men picked out important person-
These 24 wwu16ers of tlir "Old Tiiilers'
Club", which requirrs forty years of
1;risco service for nreritDership, wr7r,e
pholograplred on the steps of Springfield .c
Slirim Mosque drrritry the
Vctermrs' Reuniott.
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ages in the audience about whom they
told appropriate and ludicrous stories,
which were received with hearty
laughter.
The program was over at 10:OO and
the veterans and their families rcturned
to the various hotels.
They were refreshed the next morning
and ready to start the business
sessions of the reunion. The Ladies'
Auxiliary met on the roof garden of
the Kentwood Arms Hotel; the Old
Timers' Club met at the Colonial
Hotel and the Board of Directors met
at the Sl~ri~ie Mosque. An informal
nleeti~ig was to be held in the i\Iosque
for those not attending the other meetings,
but there were only a handful
there.
There was a good attendance at the
meeting of the Ladies' Auxiliary, in
charge of their president, Mrs. David
R. Beeler, wife of a veteran engineer
of Sapulpa.
Prior to the business meeting, Mrs.
Beeler introduced Mrs. Walter R.
Boyd, past president of the club, and
Nrs. Robert Wl~elan, wife of a Frisco
copductor and Graud President of the
Ladies' Auxiliary of the Order of Railway
Conductors.
Miss Annett McCurdy, granddaughter
of Harry Swingler, pensioned engineer,
presented a piano solo and
31iss Elizabeth Forbes of Springfield
gave a reading.
The auxiliary had lost a number of
its members by death during the past
year and a basket of flowers, a silent
tribute to those who had passed on,
was presented to the assembled.
Following a report from the various
units of the organization the annual
election of officers was held, and the
following were elected: Mrs. Chas.
Ring, widow of Frisco engineer, Monett,
Mo., president; AIrs. J. W. deck-