In the early days (before color TV) the Lions had a Fish
Fry and Christmas Party.  This was all paid for out of our
Fine Fund.  The Fines were the same as they are now.  So if
we had kept up with inflation the Fines would now be $1.50.

The Fines were and still are 10 cents for each Offence up to
a maximum of 25 cents.  The new members needed to know this to
keep the big mean tail-twisters from taking advantage of them.

Anyway, it finally got to where there were so many clubs having
Christmas parties that we could not get a place to have our
party.  So we changed it to a Valentine's Day Party.  These
events were especially for the wives.  We even had money to
buy our wives flowers.

 There were always gag-gifts given out.  Lion Bowman has to do
this once or twice at our Installation Banquets.

One of our favorite tricks was to get a set of metal dishes on
a tray and pay a waitress to get behind one of our shyest members
and drop the tray.  The metal dishes would make one hell of a
racket when they hit the floor.  None of the restaurants had
carpet back then. Then the waitress would rub her behind as
though the member had pinched her on the butt.  Of course, the
members eyes would bug out and his face would turn bright red and everyone 
would have a big laugh. Bill Wiseman was the one we liked
to pick on the most.

The Valentine's Day Party stopped when we started to have our own
Installation Banquets.