The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-06-22
GRAND FAIR AND BALL.
GIVEN BY THE
Ladies' Hebrew Benevolent Assn
IN THE TOWN OF
DonaldsonVille, Sunday, June 9. 1872,

= Reproduced from our issue of June Is
10 say that the fair and ball given
III this town last Sunday under the
auspices of the Ladies' Hebrew Benev-
olent Society were successful is to de-
scflb hem tamely; to say that they
were xplendidly successful, exceeding
the FL ectatlons of every one in point
OF amusement afforded participants
and }he amohnt of money realized
is to fio the subject greater justice.
THE FAIR
opened about 10 o'clock A. NJ. with q
spirited tune from the Donaldsonyille
silver eornet band, who stood upon
the gallery fronting their new unfin-
lshed3hali, adjoining the fair grounds.
and thus made themselves heard all
over town. People at once began to
arrive, and when we first visited the
grounds about Ii o'clock lively scene
was presented to view. A spacious
line OF awning had been erected along
one siIte and partly across one end of
the LOT, and under this were numer-
GUS booths and tables, at each of which
Ladies. were in attendance, and among
which, moved a constantly increasing
crowd OF visitors, some arguing with
young ladies who solicited their names
for chances in ratf1es, some discussing
Ice cream and other refreshments at
the tables, some receiving letters at a
dime each from the miniature "post-
office, some diving into the inevitable
grab bags" carried about by preco- /.
elous youngsters and drawing forth
ludicrnus prizes, all talking, all laugh !.
ing ever and anon, all apparently en-
loying themselves to the utmost. And
there was little variation in this scene
llllng the rest of the day, except that ;,
when Che train arrived from New Or
eans and the Henry Tete from down
.he bayou, bringing Il fresh influx Of !.
visitors, there was more talking, more =
more pleasant noise and :,
confusion. y
COMMITTEES. Al
1t MAY be well to state that much q
II the enjoyment afforded visitors and Ia
much of the success attained by the NJ
flair twas due TO the efficient arrange o.
lents made by the Executive Com d
llttee and the Committee on Fair ~
rounds, composed as follows: NJ
Executive Committee Mrs. NJ. Is ~
lel, chairman; Mrs. S. Weinschenk. VI
hrs. i. Lemann, Messrs. NJ. Marks, b. nc
emarn, Noise Levy, W. Klopman, NJ
!. Loeb. NJ
Committee on Fair Grounds-Mes-
s. ii. Loeb, chairman; b. Lenann. ia'
disc Levy. en-
TIE TABLES, BOOTHS, ETC. Nv
On the table nearest the main en- ia
was the handsomest ON I"
e grounds, and attended by Mrs. s. d.
einschenk, Mrs. Jos. Gondran. Mrs. Eli
Blum, Miss Baum, Miss V. Pforz-
inner and Miss Alice Mccormick ie'
ire exposed three splendid German si''
yer instruments to be given to the my
nd receiving the greatest number of 'i''
ties, twenty-five cents being charged ma
each vote. This feature of the en- l'o'
talnment attracted more universal 'toi
entlon than any other and the vot- '''i
all day was spirited. The contest AN
between the Donaldsonville sill INC
coriet band and the Ascension we
ISIS band, and both had many 81
'nds. When the poll was closed at N
clock in the evening a large crowd trca
hered around to watch the count teri
OF the ballots and ascertain the Gus
nit. Messrs. Pierre Klopman, C. que
Smith, Alex. Levy, Chris. Kline, com
!. Claverie and f. w. Mason were port
cted to conductive count. and they
* to the somewhat lengthy task in A
e of heavy shower of rain that of IL
during its progress. At last the the
result was announced: Total the
lber of votes cast, 2450; of which whie
silver cornet band received 1886, tude
the brass band 1914. This an inter
ncement was received with much the ;
usiasm by. the silver cornet boys mum
their friends, and afterra little
enfation speech from Judge Ma FIR
which was responded to on the we /.
of the band by Mr.J J. Claverie, the,d