Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1876-05-19
the CATHOLIC FAIR.
4 Brilliant Scene and q Large
Gathering.

crowded with all the beauty and
brains that Silver City can scare up.
Old bachelors were there with flow
ers in their button-holes and young
ladies with the rose.tint on their
cheeks. Spinsters, matrons, bache-
Tors, benedicts and the youth of
both sexes made q happy throng,
combining variety of age, station,
sentiments and general enthusiasm
There was the little girl, clad in
picnic garments and winning
smiles. whisking about the room
among her elder companions and
importuning with commendable
zeal. Her mother stood at her post
of duty behind a table upon which
was spread something or other to
lure trsde-dollars. An aroma OF
flowers and toilet perfume filed the
room. and delightful music from
three pieces made the scene still
more enchanting. 1t was altogether
THE BEST OPENING
OF an affair OF the kind, consider
ing the size Of the place, that The
TINES reporter has cast his profess
sional eye upon for many e day. 1t
was encouraging to the originators,
upon whom the church has to be-
stow her thanks. They left nothing
wanting to make everybody happy
who came. A large number came
down from Gold Hill, and some
from as far away as Dayton. If the
hall had been larger there is no
telling how many more would have
been in it. As it was, it was about
as full as it comfortably could be
Every thing that an ordinary normal
appetite ought to call for was to be
had, all the way from punch to pas.
try. Lemonade, too, that potent
cooler of internal economy and
agreeable cerrector of uphill diges-
ton, mantled several liberal punch
bowls. The toothsome straw berry
the most delicate of all fruits, strug.
Cling through a tempest of cream,
and served with frosted cake, was tc
be had at nominal price. Aud
THE soUL-LrFTINa PUNCH;
Punch that would make a Knight OF
the Red Cross break his pledge punch
such as Moore describes in his " An
acreon;" punch that would make a
miner careless of whether he ever
struck it or not; punch thai even
Bacchus himself could scarcely excel
in the making-such punch was on
sale. And, judging from the en-
thusiasm OF certain gentlemen (peI-
fectly decorous and in Keeping with
the occasionD it had many times been
sampled. Around the punch table
gathered sound health and robus,
humanity. while dyspeptics, weak
constitutions and orthodox moral in
tegrity gravitated toward where the
acidulous lime yielded its cooling
juice. The little girls who sold how-
ers, whose place Of business was we'll
down toward the music dais, were
not at Ill small as compared with
their competitors in other lines of
trade. They had something that
every one wanted, and the num Der of
bouquets and button-hole punches
that was to be seen in the hands of
those promenading around the room
was reliable index of their income.
The flowers were brought from
Marysville, California, and retained
their native fragrance and beauty
perfectly.
THE LADIES OFFICIATING.
While all these things were to be
seen and appreciated in the main
hall, in side room were the more
solid refreshments, such as tired ma
ture calls for after fatiguing dance
and surfeit of CONNECTIONS. In this
room was table capable of seating
about twenty, aud loaded down with
"a whole line of good things from
cold ham to candy. This depart
ment was under the personal care of
Mesdames Connors and Watson.
Their time for business came late in
the evening, when people began TO
experience feeling of uncomforn-
BILE vacuity within them. The straw
berries and cream and frosted cake
and paste puts table was command
ed by Mrs. Sperling and Mrs. Lester.
1t had big run. The strictly tenn
perate department, provided for tenn!
perance fanatics and deluded NOR
tails, had Mrs. Connors and Mrs. KEEL
ly at the helm. Many an unfortu-
nate lime, born for nobler end, sue
cumbed to the pressure of the squee-
zers. 1t was by glancing at their
remains that we came to the conclu
sion that Mrs. Corners and Mrs.
Kelly were taking in y good many
quarters. Little Annie Cahill dis
pensed flowers. Mary Bru;er and
Mary Fitzgerald were the goddesses
of the punch bowl, while Messrs. f.
Berliner l. Jacobson and G. r. Dud-
ley furnished excellent music. The
fair will continue till Sunday.
PAINT SHoP.-Those in need of