The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-12-31
Was the Unique Feature Of Highly Enjoy
able Reception Last Night.
NINE O'CLOCK TEA, LEAP YEAR GERMAN
Tae Suffolk Girls Improve Their
Fast Vanishing Opportunittcs-A
Very Swell Affair ut Armory Hall
-Epworuh Social Tonight Per
sonal Mention,

oaSs NTH relatives ana tflenuS In SUI |
folk- Covers were laid for fourteen. the |
following named young ladies and gen.
tlemen comprising the company: Mr. j. |
Woodley Daushtrey with Miss Jose
phine Cnusey; MIR. John Holiday with |
MISS Helen Murray. Mr.. Bradford
hiioy with Miss Alma Elan. Mr.. Frank
Halliday with Miss Elizabeth Booker,
MT. Hinton Hargrove with Miss Myrtle
Booker. Mr.. Simon Lawrence with Miss |
Lena Parker, Mr.. Charles Daushtrey
with Miss Annie Norfleet Mrs. Conner
was assisted in receiving by her sister. |
Mrs. A. B. Daughtrey. When the guests |
were seated at the supper table they
were furnished with menu cards In |
conundrum style, the list of viands from
which they had to select being as fol-
lows: !, Chinese chin cleaners: g came
from the ark; 3, n bird and herb COM
pound; 4. playful billy-goat; 3, as easily
broken as n girls promise: 6. roots pre-
served; z, small tropical fruit whose
name begins with an exclamation; 8,
was once hot, but Is now cold Q, the
longer you keep 1t the better II gets;
~. tropical cake; IL, nutted sweetness;
~, dried fruit of the ground: Is. q we'll
known fruit Of the Holy Land; IA, juice
OF berry; Is, ponds extract. This
unique array of good things was very
puzziing at first, but soon things were
gotten straight and the Queer!y-ex-
pressed dishes were discovered in a
riment of the young folks. After the
supper Misses Lena Parker and Eliza
beth Booker entertained the company
with select readings. both young ladies
being highly complimented for their
fine renditionS, which added much TO
the enjoyment of the evening which
was great success In every particu-
lar.
NINE O'CLOCK TEA.
Miss Julia Brinkley gave Il 8 O'Clock
Tea tonight In honor of her friend.
MISS Grace Williams. of Portsmouth.
4.whlch was one of the most pleasant
aHairs OF the season. The entertain
ment TOOK place at the residence Of Mrs
!. n. Brinkley, corner of Bank and
Main streets. and was attended by quite
NUMBER OF young ladies ana gentle
men. who were charmed with the re-
ception, and when the time came TO
leaye they We're 10th to depart. feeling,
win George Eliot. TITS grievous part
ing with good company Miss Will
mans made q fine impression on our
young people, who will remember with
her. WV"
LEAP YEAR GERMAN.
The society bellies of Suffolk i'm
proved their fast-wan!ng leap year OPP
portunities by giving german to their
young gentlemen friends at .Armory
Hall tonight, which was quite q swell
affair Mr.. n. r. Withers led in his
nlmitable manner. introducing numc-
rous capriciously involved figures.
Prof, AYERS string band furnished
music, and as its sweet strains greeteS
the ears of the bellies and beaux the
impulse of each was
On with the dance! Let joy be uncon.
fined;
No sleep till morn, when youth and
pleasure meet
To chase the glowing hours with fy-
~ ing feet"
:: BRIEFS AND PERSONALS.
The Epworth League of Main Street
Methodist church will hold sociablc to-
Ip9SS lEot% FIhufsday)nlght at the Music
iiall OIL suffolk College. on Institute
street, Refreshments will be a fea-
ture OF the occasion
Rev: William Chinn, pastor of the
Suffolk Presbyterian church. who has
been spending the holidays with friends
on the Eastern Shore. will fill his pull
Pr next sunday morning at II O'Clock
After the sermon the quarterly com
mnnion VIII be conducted
Mr.. and Mrs. John Boothe, of Oxford
N. C., who are visiting relatives in Suf-
1olk, visited Norfolk yesterday, going
wa the river route, to enjoy the beauties
Hampton Roads, etc
Mr. Jack" G. Marshall. formerly of
SUFFOLK, but now of the Hotel Nicholson
w asnington, n. c., who had been
spending several days with relatives nj
WINDSOR, Va, was In Suffolk TODAY on
route to his North Carolina home.
MT. Donald Brown and his sister. Miss
.Wihelmina, Of Vaughan, Warren coun-
y. ~. o., are guests of their aunt Mrs.
maggie Royster, on North Main street
Mrs: Florine a. Brewer, OF Washing
ton City, is visiting her mother, Mrs.
julia "A. Wells. of Suffolk.
MISS Vesuvia Brown, who had been
pisitins relatives in Warren county, N.
Co, was the guest of relatives in Suf-
fcik to-day, and left this afternoon for
Ahoskie. N. c.
Prof. J. Q. Atkinson, Of Elon College
North Carolina, was the guest of Mir
w. II. Jones. OF Suffolk, TODAY. Prof
atkinson and wife are spending the hol-
days with Mr.. Willis ]. Lee and family
IN Nansemond county
Mrs. Ann e. Parker. Of Suffolk is
Visiting her daughter, Mrs. S. s. Lam
beth, of Bedford City, va.
Mr. John DeBerry went to Norfolk
last night with a view of locating in
that city. 90
Mr.. Herbert Darden has returned 10
Norfolk. after spending several DAYS
Win relatives and friends in Suffolk.
MT. l. J. Mcneil and family, who have
for years been living at Driver, Nanse-
mond county, have moved to Suffolk.
ana occupy the house No. &C Kilby
Mr.. Frank DeBerry, a well known
sunolk young man, who has had his
bnainess HEADQUARTERS at Washington