Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-01-02
Society Events of Holiday Week


The opportunities for social enjoy
ment, afforded by the holiday season,
have been improved by the young peo-
pie of Custer. and a number Of very
pleasant affairs have been noted since
the festivities Of Christmas Eye.
THE BACHELORS BANQUET.
Christmas morning the boys planned
to turn the tables on the young ladies,
and general invitation was extended
to the "crowd" to spend the evening at
the rooms of Messrs. Harry +. Moore
and Il. j. Logan. Fifteen or twenty
couples responded, and the BIS. b. is
said by all who attended to have been
the Bon Ton affair Of the season. The
two gentlemen entertainers, assisted by
corps Of able assistants, spared ho
pains to promote the enjoyment Of the
company, and the hours passed swiftly
while the guests devoted themselves to
progressive angling, euchre, high five,
music, etc. At 10 o'clock refreshments
were served, and here again the boys
proved themselves equal TO the occasion.
They had prepared veritable Christ
mas feast, and that it did justice to the
occasion was evinced by the devotion of
the guests to it during half an hour or
more. Before the company broke up
the successful ones in the angling con-
test were rewarded the prizes they had
won. The lady's first prize, an indiyid-
ual table castor, was awarded to Miss
Virginia Johns, the frs: gentleman's
prize, cup and saucer, to Mr.. A. J.
Mills. Harry Moore received the BOBBY
prize and he accepted it with the same
good grace with which he presided as
host.
THE DANCE
The same evening goodly number
Of the lovers Of the dance, passed the
hours at Garlock's hall The company
was recruited by a delegation from Lead
City, and Christmas. 1891. was danced
into the past. The music was very fine,
the participants were in excellent spirits,
and the inpromptu ball was generally
pronounced one of the most pleasant
ever attended by Custer people.
MR.. AND MRS W. q. PORTER ENTERTAIN.
Monday evening between forty and
fifty invited guests assembled at the
home of MIR. and Mrs. w. q. Porter, on
Crook street. Since the issuing OF the
invitations several days previous, Mon-
day evening had been anticipated with
pleasure, and the reception and enter
tainment more than met all expecta-
tions. The guests were given the liberty
of the pleasant home, and the aflable
host and hostess allowed no moments
to pass that were not fraught with en-
joyment for each member of the COM
pany. 1t was one of those successful
social affairs which are appreciated
most because formalities were lost sight
of and good cheer and good feeling pre-
vailed. At the progressive 9nchre
tables Miss Minute Phipps and Frank
Johnesse were most successful, while
Miss Ola Johnesse and Oscar Palmer
proved themselves to be the most expert
anglers. The prizes we're very nice and
appropriate. Mrs. Porter's splendid
piano was an attraction to the musicians,
and instrumental and vocal selections
we're interspersed with the other feat
ures Of the evenings entertainment.
At 1880 an elegant collation. was served.
Another hour was .pleasingly passed
and then the guests departed for their
various homes. No pleasanter social
event was ever enjoyed by Custer peo-
pie, and Mr. and Mrs. Porter will be
remembered as among the most success
ful entertainers Of the city.
WATCHING THE OLD YEAR OUT.
In accordance with the good old
custom, large number Of ladies and
gentlemen assembled at the home of
Mrs. Chas. w. Pitcher, to pass the last
hours of the departing year. The even
ing was spent in the usual way, with
music. games, and refreshments, Mrs.
Pitcher and her sister, Miss Minnie
Phipps, making the OCCASION most en-
joyable one for the company. After
midnight had passed, and the new year
had been ushered in. the gentlemen,
with regard for the sacred perogative of
the ladies, allowed themselves to be es-
corted home.
a.
The Circle held its regular meeting
last evening at the residence of Mr.. and
Mrs. ". q. Porter. As it was New
Years night, special program had been
prepared and was carried out in the fol-
lowing order:
Answers to roll call by Holiday Quota
tions.
Report of secretary.
Unfinished business.
Singing by Circle-Colnmbia the Gem
of the Ocean.
Lessons assigned in the Chautauquan
Solo-Mrs. G. ii. Mckee.
Paper-"Naval Warfare in War Of
l8l2"-H. j. Kinsey.