54 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



BANQUET— MASONIC TEMPLE 



Wednesday Evening, January 12, 1927 



N. W. Hepburn, Peoria, Illinois, Toastmaster 



INVOCATION, Rev. Ransom, Pastor of the Methodist 

 Church. 



COMMUNITY SINGING. 



THE TOASTMASTER: Ladies and Gentlemen, Friends 

 of the Illinois State Dairymen's Association: It is now the 

 privilege of the Toastmaster to open the Fifty-Third An- 

 nual Banquet of the Illinois State Dairymen's Association. 

 Nov^ this is not going to be an address of welcome. It is not 

 going to be much of any thing. As I was riding along to- 

 day, and I rode three hundred miles to get here, my mind 

 ran back over the history of the Association, but I am not go- 

 ing to tell you that though perhaps yu would like to know. 

 As I came in town I saw a great deal of work has been 

 done and a great deal of preparation had been made for 

 this meeting and I realized that some one here sensed the 

 significance of a meeting of this kind. I realized a great 

 deal of work had been done and that somebody had put 

 their shoulders to the wheel, and I realized that there is 

 still going to be some wark to do, some of this decoration 

 is to be undone, which reminds me of a story of a couple 

 living in an apartment and the gentleman of the house 

 called up the bird store and said, I wish you would send 

 me two hundred thousand cock roaches and the receiver 

 at the other end said ''You must mean something else". He 

 said *'No: I want two hundred thousand cock roaches. I 

 am leaving the house today and my lease says I must leave 

 it in the same condition I found it. Now physically I hope 

 these ladies and gentlemen, who are your guests, will leave 



