Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 7, 1918, Page 3

SATURDAY, SEPT. 7, 1918. INDUSTRIAL CLUB SECRETARY 15 ALGO AN HONOR GUEST Banquet Served Members on Eve of Departure from This City Earnest expression-of sentiment that springs from the breaking of home ties, a display of patriotic fervor born of intense and sym- pathetic interest in a great cause and plenty of jazz and banquet cheer combined to make up an ad- mirable program last night, arranged by Casper Lodge No. 1353, B. P. ©. E., in honor of two departing mem- bers, C. B. Manbeck, superintendent of the Standard Oil Company of In- diana at this point, and Gus F. Bell, secretary of the Casper Industrial Club, who leaves Sunday for Camp Pike, Arkansas, to enter the Cent Officers’ Training School. Mr Mar beck, as the result of a well-earned promotion, leaves for Alton, IIl., where he will assume the manage- ment of the large Wood River plant of the Standard Oil Company. The affair topped off an ey ning spent in the initiation of a new class of candidates into the mysteries of Elkdom and found its setting in the main dining room of the Midwest Ho- tel, where tables were spread for an informal feast served at 11 o'clock upon whose banks at Valley Forge |the Patriotic Army suffered from hunger and cold, and its great cor- Washington, prayed. A stream which inspired the pen of Tom Moore, and in respect of which he (wrote: Across by the derer roved, And bright were banks to his eye, But far, very far, were the friends that he loved, And gazed on its flowery banks with a sigh. The stranger is gone, but he will not forget, When at home he shall talk of the toil he has known To tell with a sigh what endear- ments he met As he strayed by the wave of the Schuylkill alone. “T studied law and was admitted to the bar at Pottsville—not Chambers- burg—the county seat, a town whose loyal sons first reached Washington in April, ’61, in response to President Lincoln’s call for 75,000 volunteers. Among them were some whom our guest will recall; Andy Cochran, Henry and Sam _ Russell, Edward Gaynor and Frank Stitzer, who a few years ago was mayor of Laramie. Ac- companying them was Nick Biddle, a negro, who was wounded as they passed thru the city of Baltimore, mander, Schuylkill a wan- the flowery and whose blood was the first shed! for the emancipation of his race. tives—only. franchoff. “They have knits—not children. | They do not extinguish a lamp, turn joff the gas, or cut the electric cur- redt—they outen the light. _ They |have no hotels; but there is a tavern at every cross road, where almost every evening in the year some of the men play cut-throat euchre for }schnaps and where jmmediately be- |fore Thanksgiving and Christmas ap fer turkeys. “In the Fall of the year the men and boys husk corn by moonlight; while the women and girls boil ap- ple butter in a copper kettle which is |bigger than a bath tub, using for that purpose the best of apples and the purest cider. Such apple butter! It makes my mouth water when I think of it. How I recall when I helped myself to it with a knife,and spread it on bread which I had har- | pooned with a fork. Those were the |days before the doctors had invented germs in Germany; parasites in France, microbes in Ireland, and all | three.in America, to frighten people tofore undreamed of. | “They of the Panther Valley also made scrapple, smearcase and kraut and sold the same in the streets of | the neighboring towns from the tail of a vehicle called a dearborn, The how. es can cook you a meal at the sight of which a Georgia negro will drop a basket containing sweet potatoes, a ’possu m and watermelon. | They seldom they raffle with dice and play seven-| only a colored southern mammy can | accompany hi GB. MANBECK EXTENDED APPRECIATION BY THE ELKS s<s"seeer=. chicken and waffles should have vis- ited Mrs, Riland who lived near where Mr. Manbeck was born,, and when he owned that laprobe, on 4 cold, frosty moonlight night in a sleigh, accompanied by your sister, or some one else’ sister, and have had Mrs. Riland serve a supper of chicken and waffles, you would come away feeling that the stewed: chicken and waffles you had _ theretofore eaten had been Hooverized. “But after all is said and done, the biggest and best product of the Panther Valley, of which I have any knowledge, is C. B. Manbeck. “It is seldom that anyone is.given |the privilege of paying tribute to in- |dividual members of a family, each one of which belongs to a separate generation. “A true epicurean reserves the |best of the wine for the last of the feast. That custom suggests to me to conclude my remarks with a refer- ence to Mr. Manbeck’s son. He is a part of that army in whose presence ery lover of liberty should rise. He sential upon the citadel of civil- He has gone forth to assist Ve s zation. in destroying that dragon of brutal-, ity and cruelty in whose devasted path are the smoldering ashes of the | desolated home; the blackened orch- into unpronouncable diseases there-|ard; the ruined vineyard; the demol- ished cathedral; the murdered priest; the outraged nuns; the ravished maids; the mutilated mother and strangled infant. , H e has gone forth to avenge a crime unparelleled in fiction and unrivaled in history, a crime which only the brain of a fiend can conceive and the hand of a sav- age execute. The sinking of the Lus- itania whereby mothers and babes h) h) h) A) & i ) A) ) KY) 5 \) \) ® \ ) . y ; os Mountain,” in were choked and strangled by the} waters of waves which they weakly| “Our guest was born “below the|They avoid lawyers. Panther Valley, so-| call a doctor, even tho he would arise to some 150 Elks, the great majority ¢.)1eq of whom are members of the newly organized Casper lodge. because scarcely a panther |at 3 a. m and drive five miles in a! ever went there—even in vacation| blinding storm for a_horse-feed, a e ,time—and where such felines were/breakfast and a Bland silver dollar. The banquet served to disclose two so few,that the oldest inhabitant|In the Fall the wife and mother gath- things—the respect and esteem™in| could not distinguish one from an) ers herbs in the woods and meadows which the honor guests are held,by giredale. His forbears, no doubt,|/such as catnip and’ Lobelia, and e social and business associates, and/came from the adjoining county of|tracts therefrom a decoction which the admiration which their friends) Berks—where it is said that some of|she regards as a panacea for all ills. feel in the promotion of one and the | jts residents still vote for Andy Jac! f any of the family gets dawnsy and enlistment of the other, and the/son—the county seat of which has no more sense than to complain speakers who responded to toasts pro- Reading, spelled with an (a) and one|she insists in | administering a hot posed by J. G. Stanley, who presided,| (d) which Fred Lauer, the brewer,|mustard foot bath and a dose of the made eloquent reference time and fifty years ago placed upon the map/|decoction. In self defense, the pa- again to their sterling qualities. | when he declared, where goes beer| tient recovers after the first dose, for Goy. B. B. Brooks, as one who has there goes civilization. {as Mark Twain says, it is strong and! witnessed the industrial transforma-| “The remote ancestors of our| bitter enough to turn the stomach of tion in which oil has played so im-| guest fled from persecution and be-|an iron dog. I speak from experi- portant a role, characterized it as the}fore the army of Louis XIV, from| ence, and so can Mr. Manbeck. leading industry of Wyoming, and/ Switzerland, Alsace, Bavaria, Sax- “In the Panther Valley, when I one in which Mr. Manbeck has been|ony, Wurtemberg, and other lower|knew it, the farmer boys and girls) instrumental in developing. He! Rhine provinces and landed in Amer-| when they reached sixteen went. to} pointed out that the Standard refin-| ica the last quarter of the 17th cen-|the Normal school at either Kuntz-| ery, during the time that Mr. Man-|tury. The descendants of those who! town or Millersville during the win-| beck has been at its head, has be-| settled in Pennsylvania are known as|ter time. In summer some of them} come a great factor in the prosperity | Pennsylvania Dutch. Those who were} taught in the district schools. visited upon Central. Wyoming. jin Berks and Schuylkill Counties, ‘At eighteen, a farmer’s son be- As evidence of the respect which| Were patriotic during the Revolution.|ceme the proud possessor of a filly; the departing superintendent enjoys|They were loyal during the Civil!or gelding, a laprobe with more col- in the eyes of his men, Mr. Brooks| War. They are 100 per cent Amer-jors than Joseph’s coat, a one-seated called attention to an elegant pres-|icans today. They are frugal indus-| carriage for summer use, a sleigh for ent of 2 watch whilh _was given | trious, honest and law abiding. All| winter, and,.a..sweetheart for every | to Mr. Manbeck yesterday, His man-| these sterling qualities were blended | month in the year.. In the summer he agement of the local plant, the speak- | in the father of our guest. took her to _Pienies and Sunday er said, has reflected an unwavering| “Before the advent of the tele-| school celebrations. In the Fall, to interest in the laboring men in the phone, the bicycle, the auto, the split;the County Fair at Orwigsburg and e see skirt and the mail order stores, they| to protracted meeting. In the winter jmatter of wages, conditions and other lived .the .attable! lit Th hay . ae: i problems which the head of a great | live the simple life. hey have a/to spelling and pronouncing bees, and industrial plant is called upan_ to language or dialect of their own, a frequently to a frolic, where they Solve. tithe secret ofsthis wuceess han mixture of Franconian, German and! danced the plain _quadrille and the heen dueito tha fact that ate Man. | Dutch. It was no grammar. When lancers to the music of a fiddler who beck has stood ready to lend such | the wife and mother desires to build|could shame Kubelick in rendering erattera hfs clnaekttattantion |a pie of dried applies, she sends her| “My Old Kentucky Home.” He meGovkeion Hihbice ‘s Oke Gf the little daughter to the village store reached home in time to fodder the lal vafatigne tethh P Sale be for 2 pounds of snits. If she runs/cattle, milk the cows and kindle the ROCtR fons that have gained for) short of bacon she borrows speck! breakfast fire. Mr, Manbeck many close friends, and |from a neighbor and repays in kind) “Mark Twain has gone on’ record ot his interest in problems of local | at the next hog killing. They never|to the effect that no one who has welfare and betterment, and in these pave a moving, but frequently have|ever been south of Mason and Dick- sentiments he was seconded by L. A. fittings on the anniversary of my json line has ever eaten fried chicken Reed, superintendent of the Midwest! birth, April 1st. They have no rela-'and corn bread, for the reason that Refinery, who dwelt more extensively | — = a oe on his business relations, and bore! witness to the absence of any and all friction in complicated dealings ex-| tending over a period of several} years, H Gus Bell came in for a substantial} share of complimentary remarks passed by the speakers in an infor- mal manner, but it was in the re- sponses of District Attorney M. W. Purcell and Robert K. Staley that the spirit which prompted him to en- list was eulogized. “It is men like Gus Bell that are going to make the world a decent place for you and I to live in. I don’t/feel sorry te see Gus Bell lea I am proud of the fact that he is go- ing,” declared the speaker, who in- jected into his speech a scathing ar- raignment of the German generals, the government and the people, and) the demand for retributive justice in| dealing with those responsible for the war after peace has been declared. Ex-Governor Brooks had previously declared that peace could not come until the men who are fighting in France are satisfied, until the last chance of disappointment has passed, | and Attorney Purcell followed this up| with the declaration that, crucifixion of the Prussian dynasty on the streets of Berlin constituted his idea of pun- iskment deserved by the war lords. Jeremiah Mahoney added astesti monial to the sentiment felt in the departure of both the honored guests, declaring that Wyoming was. giving back to the Standard Oi] Company bigger man than it had sent here, but it was the address of Judge Campbell, the first speaker of the evening, which reviewed the early associations of | the Tocal industrial head. Judge | Campbell referred to him as the “big. ley, Pennsylvania,” and the environ. ley, Pennsylvania, and the environ- ments which contribute to the ster- ling character of Mr. Manbeck he re- viewed in an unique and humorous way in the following: “I feel a kinship with our honored guest. I knew of his father.. His son, our guest, was born in Pennsyl- vania, the state in which I discovered America. He was born in Schuylkill County, where the mother of my chil- dren first saw the light of day; a county traversed by the picturesque hills of the Blue Ridge. The county in which the scenic Schuylkill rises, Ci nnn for that MONDAY WASHING by getting an Electric Washing and Wringing Machine Saves your clothes the wear and tear of the old wash tub; saves your en- ergy; saves your time; and saves you many dollars as the Electric Washing Machine only costs a few cents each week to operate. Phone 69 Be Prepared *TIS OUR PLEASURE TO SHOW YOU THE MANY MERITS OF THESE MACHINES Natrona Power Co. 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