The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-04-05
SOCIABLE CHURCH FOLK.
Curios and Tea at st. Paul's 1880
Entertainment.

Miss Harrison's Sunday school class. of
st. PauI's P. e. Church, Duncan avenue,
held an 1880" tea aud loan exhibit of an-
tiques in the guild room and vestry room
OF the church last night. All the ladies'
were dressed in costumes of that or a
later date.
Miss Richie Bennett wore a dress that
was worn when Lafayette was in New
York. Miss Virgle Bennett wore a dress
of the empire style that is twenty-i We
years old. Miss Rosaline Tower and
Miss virgie Bennett had charge of the
candy table.
The fancy table was presided over by
Miss Katie Hanon, Miss Isabelle Mark
ham and Miss Ethel Cameron. Miss
| Cameron wore a low neck and short
| sleeves dress of seven %breadths, with fs-
chus trimmed with green crepe lisse.
She were her hair In a puff with feathers
on top and q locket hanging over her
forehead.
Miss Edith Towar wore her grand
mothers wedding dress and assisted her
| sister, Miss Laura Towar, and Miss
Sophie Cole In pouring tea.
The flower table was in charge OF Miss
Hattie Podmore and Miss Bertha Cad
dis.
The antiques were exhibited In the
| vestry room by Mrs. Thomas Towar, Mrs.
Anderson and Mrs. Vidal. and amoRg
the exhibits were:-
A wedding outfit of 1886, which includes
stockings, gloves n veil; an infants
dress OF 1850; a newspaper ann ouncing
the death of George Washington; q large
| case filled with massive gold and silver
plate which Is $50 years old; a set of
| china about $50 years old; a parchment
deed which is dated 1921, and which
| deeds a lake in Hudson county to the
white settlers by the Indians; a chair,
which were used In the original Dutch
| Church in Bergen: several old Holland
Bibles; q dinner plate. which was used at
a dinner given to George Washington,
| and O piece of the original charter of
Rutgers college.
The attendance at the sale was large.
and it proved a big success. The pro-
ceeds are to 60 for the enlargement of the
infant class room.
A nundr supper.
The congregation of the Park Reformed
| Church was refres I'D by a "Conundrum
Supper in the tlurch basement last
night. The menu was neatly printed in
c~onunbrums. Some OF the menu conun-
drums were "The Lay Of the Last
"a Group of Islsnds', il called for
brought sandwiches; The Staff of Life"
was easily guessed; A Ancient Sacri-
nce'' was the name for lamb. and ''Ele-
waited Feline" referred to catsup. PORK
| and beans were on the menu as Yankee
Conglomeration" and pickles were desig-
mated as '"The fruit OF the Vine" There
was a good turnout of the congregation
| and the supper is considered a great
success.
MIR. EIlison's Danube Trip.
At the Bergen Baptist Church asst
night, MI. EllisoS described his trip down
| the Danube to a large audience who en-
| joyed it immensely. The lecture was il
lustrated with stereopticon views. In
the course of the lecture Mr.. Ellison had
| the picture of q mill thrown on the can
vas, and as the water-wheelturned slowly
around Miss Annie Morrison related in
verse the story of its turnings.
Grace Church Entertainment.
An Easter Mart will be held at Grace Church
Hall, Erie and Second streets, commencing
| Monday, April 10, and continuing all week. The
Mart will consist of a sale of useful and fancy
articles and an entertainment each night.
There will be q candy table, a refreshment table,
a broom table, a wheel OF fortune and tables for
articles ranging from twenty-five cents to II dol
lar in value. The entertainments will be given
by the best available talent, and include mag
| graphy, by Howard Starrett; q Punch and Judy
| Show, by Prof. Henderson,; piano recital, by
Milo Deyo, the we'll known pianist: songs and
representations, by VIM. ]. DAILY, humorist; and
on Saturday evening a parish supper, at which
many of our prominent citizens will be present.
| To advertise the mart a newspapers has been
published and widely distributed with the
modest title The Earth.
Simpson Church.
A delightful entertainment will be given to-
morrow night at Simpson NJ. e. Church on Cen.
trail avenue, under the auspices of the Epworth
League.