Good Speeches After Dinner

GOOD SPEECHES AFTER DINNER

Promises of Free Rural Mail Delivery if Possible.

CONGRESSMAN SMITH.

But Editor Helber Forgets That Part of His Great Speech.

Saline, Aug. 17. - (Special to Daily Argus).- The Arbeiter park has been specially prepared for the occasion. Merry-go-rounds, a large dance floor and numerous refreshment stands, offered young and old an opportunity to spend their time agreeably. The most pleasant feature, however, was the social reunions of old friends. That one day in the year, old friends meet is of more value than everything else. At 3 o'clock the crowd gathered around the speakers stand. The respected, venerable John Frank, president of the Saline Arbeiter society, made the welcoming speech. Everyone felt that his greeting came from his heart, and were not mere formal words. He meant everything he said. He bid everyone welcome and wished that they might fully enjoy the beautiful day. After the cheers died out he introduced Congressman Henry C. Smith, of Adrian. Everybody knows or is learning to know the genial hearted "Hank" Smith. Mr. Smith was in his happiest vein. He expressed his pleasure at being present at the gathering. He recalled the German settlement in Washtenaw county and what they had done for the county with their thrift, uprightness of character, and progressiveness. He spoke of the German virtues, that above all things they were descendants from German forefathers. He presented the expansion problem in a general way, calling attention to the great increase to American trade thereby. He spoke of rural mail delivery and promised his best efforts in securing this for the farmers. Mr. Smith's speech was interspersed with his usual inexhaustable fund of good stories. He was most heartily cheered.

Eugene Helber the versatile, but humble editor of the Neue Washtenaw Post, of Ann Arbor, with his most captivating smile, proceeded to give a carefully prepared speech replete with evidences of wise and statesmanlike thought. It was a most able effort delivered with immense oratorical effect. At this late hour a full report cannot he given in today's paper. After the speaking a meeting of the delegates of all the German societies will be held and the next place of meeting will be decided upon.--FRUEAUFF.