St. Paul daily globe., 1886-01-10
sTILLwATER SOCIETY.
Celebration OF N silver Wedding
Various Entertainments.
A CHARMING BANQUET

Various Entertainments.
A CHARMING BANQUET.
The banquet OF the Knights OF Pythias at
the Sawyer house on Friday evening was
/ grand success. About sixty persons at
tended. consisting of the members. their
families and their friends. About o'clock
| the party was ushered into the capacious
dining-hall. where two tables stood. ex-
| tending from one end to the other, and were
laden with good things. The guests were
| seated and nearly two hours were spent in
/ discussing the elegant repaSt- The menu
cards were unique and beautiful. After
| the guests had done ample justice to the
many good things before them. DR.. Alex
/ Donald announced the tOasts, which were
as follows:
The Pythian Order at Large-Grand Chan
cellOr =. S. Mcdonald OF Minneapolis.
Past History of the Order in Saltwater
DR.. B. G. Merry.
Future Of the Order in stilwater-Dr. G.
E. Clark.
Damon and Pythias-Hon. E W Durant.
Fraternal Friendship-A. Frederick
Influence OF the Order on the World at
Large-J. c. Henning.
Relation of the Clergy to the order-Rev.
/ DR.. Dunn.
To the Ladies-E. C. Butts.
| Pythian Triangle-Judge J. c. Nethaway
True Pythiunism-GeOrge F. Sabin.
The only gentlemen able 10 be present Of
these ten were Hon. T.. w. DuranI. DR.. G..
f. Clark. Mr.. j. c. Henning and Judge j.
| c. Nethaway, who all responded To the
tOasts assigned them elOquently and pleas
antly. and were the recipients of much ap-
| plause. Sir Knights DR.. W. II. Caine,
Castle, Rogers and EstabrOOks we're called
on for remarks. and entertained the guests
with brief but pleasing speeches. The
speech-making occupied about one hour,
after which DIR. Donald, the chairman,
thanked those present for their presence,
and stated that dancing would be the next
thing in order. The dining-rOOm was
cleared, and the merry dance was enjoyed
for nearly two hours.
SOCIETY EVENTS.
The society event of the week was the
celebration of the silver wedding Of Mr..
and Mrs. David Bronson at their residence,
No. 4O3 South Sixth street, on Monday
evening. The affair was surprise given
them in honor of the event by about sixty
persons consisting of the best people of
Saltwater. They met at the residence of
| X. +. HeTsey- and appeared at BrOnsOn's
shortly after o'clock, taking these estim-
able people entirely by surprise They
were loaded down with presents, prizes and
edibles. The former they left, but large
portion of the latter they carried away with
them when they left at midnight. Progress
i've euchre was the order Of the evening,
and was highly enjoyed by the partici-
pants. Mrs. TillsOn was the winner of the
ladies' progressive prize and the prize for
the largest number of gains. For the gents
progressive prize the contest resulted in a
tie between Hon. z. ID. Durant and Mr.. j.
j. Robertson. In the saw-Off the former
won and Mr.. Robertson was the winner of
the gents prize for the largest number of
gains. The long hand prize was won by
Mr.. Frank f. Joy. The presents were
numerous elegant and costly. Among
them was case of silsrrware consisting of
one dozen knives and forks. one dozen tea
spoons, and one and one-half dozen table
spoons, silver carved set of six tablespoons,
case of after coffee spoons, jelly spoon,
olive spoon and fork, salts, hard spoons.
silver service, one dozen pearl-handled
knives, silver pickle fork, copy Of Eve and
st. Agnes, etc, etc.
On Wednesday evening st. Johns Lodge,
a. +. & A. NJ, No. gave public installa-
ton, banquet and dance to the members,
their families and sweethearts. The install
latiOn ceremonies were conducted by Judge
K. ii. Lehmiche, grand master of the state
and lasted from till o'clock. This over
followed the banquet. in which something
over an hour was spent discussing, after
which came the dancing, which was kept
mp brisk and furious until 1890, to the
music of a good orchestra and under the
management of MeSsrs. William MAY, Jo-
seph Carl and King Doe. Something like
one hundred and fifty persons were present.
consisting of the members their wives and
daughters and sweethearts, all OF whom
say they never had better time on a simi-
lar occasion. st. Johns lodge has 200
members and is in a very flourishing condi-
ton.
A jolly crowd Of young folks spent Tues
day evening very pleasantly playing pro-
greSSive euchre with II. S. Smith at his
home, No. 314 North Third street. Miss
Fannie Folsom was the successful winner
of the ladies' progressive and Miss Bertha
Sergeant the head. Sam Register won the
gents head and Ralph Darms the gents
progressive.
The Hibernan ball at the Grand opera
house hall on Wednesday night was at
tended by a merry crowd of thirty or forty
couples. They suppered al the Elliott house
} about midnight and danced till the clock
struck 8. They contemplate giving an
other dance in three or four weeks.
The only show at the Grand last week
: | WIS Odl w OD
Friday night. The next attraction will be
Charles HOyts "Rag Baby tomorrow
night, which will draw well. 1t will be
followed by ''Fun on the Bristol on the
2lst, and Inside Out" on the 25th.
A pleasant progressive euchre party was
given Mark Torinus by fifteen or sixteen
couples at his home, North Third street. OF
Wednesday evening. The prizes were wor
by Sam Register. Edward Cover, Geneva
jerks and Fannie Folsom.
; On Tuesday evening Mr.. VIII Reed en-
tertained a party at whist at his residence
on Greeley and Myrtle street. Six or eigh
couples were present and good time is re
: ported.
Miss Jessie Bachelor was surprised by
l party of friends from this city on Tuesday
) evening. Our informant reports a first
class time-as good as he ever had.
On Friday the K. K. X. crowd and ;
J number of their friends spent a most de
lightful evening in the terpsichorean art a
, the Grand opera house hall.
J Miss Synthia Pennington entertained a
merry party of her young friends at tn,
residence of Mr.. Luke Castle last night
2 PERSONALS.
Among the young people who returned
] to school during the week were Misse