Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-01-01

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hope yet for the happy custom Of max
ing New Years calls, as several have
announced that they will keep open
house tomorrow. This news will be
received with delight by the young
society gentlemen. who will be only too
glad TO participate in the formal testiv-
tiles. The following will keep open
house,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Arbenz, Jr., will
entertain their friends at their home in
Pleasant Valley, on Monday evening,
January 2, from to 10.
Extensive preparations have been
made for joyous time at the Young
Mems Christian Association building.
The customary New Years reception
will be held and the association will
keep open house from to 10 o'clock.
Young ladies will assist members OF the
association to receive callers from to
s o'clock. Mayors orchestra will u
liven the afternoon with music, and an
exhibition will be given In the gym
nasium. Choice refreshments will be
served.
Mrs. M. G. Mitchell and Mrs. W. R.
Ratciff, of Martins Ferry, will re-
ceive their gentlemen friends tomorrow
afternoon at the home Of the latter on
Fourth street.
Miss Bessie Jepson will receive In
the evening at her home on Twelfth
street, between the hours OF and IL,
assisted by her visitor, Miss Edith
Higbee, of Cleveland, Miss Bessie At
kinson and visitor, Miss Louise Pulen,
of Baltimore, and Misses Nellie Grad
drack, Kate McLain and Lizzie Lucas.
The Spinters will receive their gen.
tlemen friends at the home Of Miss Jes-
sic Turner, on Twelfth street, in the
afternoon between the hours Of and 6
o'clock.
Miss Martha Clark, OF North Main
street, will keep open house tomorrow
evening, assisted by Miss Lille Vance,
and Miss Jessie Berger.
Misses jamie and Lydia Good, OF
Fourteenth street, will keep open Louise
from to IL p. M, assisted by Mi Lii
ly Raymond. Of Fairmont, their guest,
and Misses Katie Hazlett, Florence
OFT, Jennie McPhail, Ida Updegraff,
Minnie Gllchrist ana number of mar
ried ladies.
Miss Hulda Delaplaine will receive
gentlemen callers tomorrow evening,
and will be assisted by number Of
young ladies.
Miss Gussie Hupp will receive to-
morrow evening, assisted by Mrs. DR..
LIE Moyne Hupp.
Misses Eta and Sue Wright will re-
ceive In the evening at their home on
Fourteenth street, assisted by Miss
Eta Harper.
Miss Sue Caldwell, assisted by num-
Der of lady friends, will receive to-mor-
row afternoon between the hours Of
three and six, at her home on Sixteenth
street,
uThere is one infallible test by which
the social growth Of community may
be gauged-namely, by the beauty and
refinement of its women. Some writers
say that it takes four generations OF
wealth, and therefore idleness and lux
ury to produce perfectly beautiful
woman. OF course this statement is err
roneous and foolish, else where would
be the perfect-faced Phyllis, the dairy
maid, or the faultless fashioned Venus
of the ribbon counter, dear to song and
story. Setting the questions OF ances-
try aside, however, the New Years
ball at the Mcclure House on Friday
night proved one thing very clearly
that there are plenty OF women In
Wheeling, who from standpoint OF
actual physical beauty, could hold their
own anywhere. 1t Is always pleas
ant thing to gaze, with discretion
and respect, of course, upon
q large number of handsome women
and to separate in one minds eye the
beauties from the merely ordinary look
ing. And the ball of Friday night pre-
sented an opportunity that may not be
duplicated for many weeks to come.
Out of mere curiosity the REGISTER re-
porter asked several as to who they con
sidered the belle Of the ball. All, OF
course, had In mind different types, and
the result was eight names were giver
to the reporter, none of which he fell
safe In using. The fact is there were
so many really handsome guests that II
was almost an amending task to select
any particular one as paramount In the
throng. 1t was certainly brilliant as
semblage, and the ball was q pro-
nounced success in its every detail.
Among the visitors in attendance
fran the out-of-town visitors were
Misses Raymond, OF Fairmonti
Fannie jackson, of Philadelphia; Edith
Higbee, OF Cleveland; Gene McLain,
OF Steubenvile, and Miss Boswell, OF
Sandusky; Mrs. Melvin Griffith, OF
Baltimore; Miss Louise Pullen, Of Bal
tlmore; Miss King, of Baltimore; Miss
Vardy Marshall, Of Pittsburg; Miss
Efie Lewis, of Plttsburg; Miss Kath-
crime Baird, of Washington, and DR.. w.
r. Warde, of Pttsburg, and j. l..
Means and ] T. Sherratt, of Steuben-
Vile; B. L. Morgan. Of Huntington.
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Mrs. A. G. Branum, OF Bridgeport, re-
ceived her lady friends Friday afternoon
from two to five o'clock. She was as
sisted in receiving by her daughter,
Miss Carrie Branum.
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Thursday evening Christopher q.
Daily, Of Center Wheeling, and Miss
Sarah r. MCGEE. OF South Chapline
street, were married by Rev. A. j. Trey
of the First Baptist church at his resi-
dence on South Market street.
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The young friends Of Miss Emma
Richards, of Seventeenth street, tend
cred her a surprise Thursday evening
in honor Of the nineteenth anniversary
of her birth. The evening was enjoy
ably spent by all present.
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Miss Clara Zane, Of Wheeling, arrived
In Steubenville Thursday evening to at
tend the party given by the Steuber
Club, which was one OF the most elegant