The courier., 1895-12-21

er from our last annual meeting. For
two years there has been no squaring
of accounts because of delayed pay
ments and slow accounts. The accounts
of the year were not balanced and be-
cause of the shrinking in(Oage
cause of the shrinking of assets there
was a considerable deficiency. As we
stand now we are better OFF than last
year by $500. paid on permanent debt,
and $500 carried over from 1898 and 1894
on open accounts gradually accumulat-
ing since the depression began.
Another encouraging fact is the clean
ing off of the amount due for paving
acknowledgements of $400. About
two-thirds of this was met by special
appeal and the balance will be wiped
out by the present effort. AS a mat
ter of fact the last penny was paid
few days ago.
LEWIS GREGORY.
When the collection was counted Sis
in money and pledges were found in
the plates.
The choir of the Congregational
church is preparing some special mu-
sic for the last Sunday in this year.
Among other good things c. Bruce
Smith will sing a recitative and aria
from the Messiah with orchestral ac-
compartment.
The members of the Sigma Alpha Ep
silon fraternity that still remain i'm the
city gave an enjoyable smoker at their
rooms In the Harris book.
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and j. S. Corby will attend the Province
convention of the Sigma Alpha Epsi-
lon fraternity at Columbia, Mo-. during
the holidays.
Elon w. Nelson, private stenograph-
er to Governor Holcomb. will spend the
holidays at his home in Schuyler.
Harry Follmer has gone to Oak to
make holiday visit.
Monday afternoon the woman's club
met in its usual fortnightly session.
The lower portion of the ball of the Ne
braska conservatory of music was COM
fortably filled, but possibly owing to
the nature of the program there was
not quite as many present as usual
After a short buzz of conversation Miss
Elliott called the meeting to order and
the business portion of the meeting was
tackled.
The first question of moment was that
of colors for the club, The committee
reported the selection of apple green
and white with pink as a side issue, but
it was soon ascertained that some 9TH
cI,,h hod oil dxr iof tod
colors and so the matter was laid over
until another meeting. Mrs. Laura b.
Pound. Mrs. Ida NJ. Kelley and Mrs.
Kate b. Leonard presented some long
resolutions in which ii was deplored
that Mrs. John Hewitt was soon to leave
the club, The resolutions were adopted
so quick that il made ones head swim
and this wound up the business portion
of the meeting. Miss Elliott stepped
gracefully down the rickety steps that
lead from the stage and Mrs. A. w.
Field. the leader of the department of
parliamentary practice, to her place on
the stage. On a little table were some
large vases of chrysanthemums that
frightened up the rather gloomy stage,
and the white banner of the club, with
the accompaniment, the flag hung from
a gas jet in the center.
The women on the program went at
the business with earnestness and Sc
riousness as though the fate of the ma
tion hung upon their papers. The His
tory of Parliamentary Law" was the
subject of the paper by Mrs. Ward. She
evidently had spent much time in study
to write il and she had a clear idea of
what she was writing about. Mrs. Kel-
leys paper was about Woman and
Parliamentary Practice" Her paper
was interesting, but she was hardly as
sure of her ground on some points as
she might have been had she taken a
subject in which women are more at
home Mrs. Fields drill in parliamen-
tary practice was a short firing of ques-
tions into the audiences and firing OF
answers back at her from her own de-
partmopf Two musical numbers light