The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-04-16
WAS A VERY SWELL AFFAIR.
The Leap Year Party Given by the Old
Maids League wonderful Success.

DdIl Blf0u III h0uOSud Ill years FdO
that at the Central Music hall Thurs
day evening. The best of preparation
had been made for the event and when
the crowd of something like forty
couples got together everything was so
complete in detail that pleasanter
event could not have been cooked up
in human brain. It was to be leap
year party and it was one not only IN
name but every detail. The..name OF the
organization which made the arrange
ments is the Old Maids League, and is
composed of the following young ladies':
Misses Emily Kimball, Lew Balm,
Bessie and Belle Stebbins, Anna Kim
ball, Josie Fisher Alice Lance and Jane
Swift.
These young ladies had the hall
decorated in most pleasing fashion.
1t is safe to say that this popular
pleasure hall was never so brilliant with
light and flowers. The decorations
were palms, Marguerite daisies,
American beauties, carnations and
smilax. The Esoft, but beautiful light
cast over all lent charm to the
scene which was enhancing.
The ladies who had been invited to
take part in the festivities escorted
their company to the hall lin carriages
and most of them reached there before
9 o'clock. They we're met at the door
bv a colored waiter, who looked after
their comfort until they could be turn
ed over to the maids in waiting in the
dressing rooms. Never before in Ke-
nosha did the gentlemen look so coy
and beautiful, nor was their shyness
ever so apparent Their many little
oddities were all we'll smoothed over by
the most gentlemanly ladies. In order
to avoid any misunderstanding and
possible shocks the ladies had posted a
notice in the hall reading "no gentle
man allowed to cross the floor without
the escort of some lady" The rule
was gently but firmly adhered to. The
gentlemen carried their fans, trimmed
with lace, vari-colored ribbons and
punches of roses in very becoming
manner.
The costumes Of the ladies were all
very elegant. and presented a most
brilliant scene.
The music was furnished by Johnny
Hand, of Chicago. The supper, which
had been furnished by the gentlemen,
was served after II o'clock, and was
under the direction of John Kupfer.
Entering the hall the guests were re-
ceived by Mesdames Lewis Balm. James
Cavanagh, Charles Swift and Peter
Fisher, all of whom carried roses fur
nished by the O. NJ. L. The ladies
were stationed in the northwest corner
of the hall, in front of the piano, which
was banked with flowers and PAINS.
The ball opened at . o'clock. The
grand march was led by Miss Jane
Swift and Walter Cavanagh, and closed
by breaking into waltz. The music
was very fine, and many praised it as
being the best heard here in years.
The supper room was handsomely
decorated with lilies, roses and smilax,
many of which were donated for the
occasion by Florist Turner.
Among those present besides the
members of the league mentioned
above we're: Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Balm,
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Hastings. Mr..
and Mrs. James Cavanagh, Mr.. and
Mrs. Peter Fisher, Mr.. and Mrs. Z. q.
Simmons, Jr., Mr.. and Mrs. Nathan
Allen, Dr. and Mrs. W. M. Farr, Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Allen, Mr.. and Mrs.
C. E. Remer, DR.. and Mrs. E. G. Hazel
ton, Mr.. and Mrs. T. L. Moore, Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Sieg, Mr.. and Mrs. r.
E. Mailer, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Bald
win, Mr.. and Mrs. Myron Hale, Mr..
and Mrs. E. C. Theirs, Mr.. and Mrs. +.
W. Engel; the Misses Emma Stebbins,
Ethel Grant, Rosalie Lyman, BERTHE
Palmetier, Belle Head, Florence Clapp,
Blanche Hazelton, Eva Farmer, Mar
tina Erickson, Helen Hastings, Ida
Redeker, Laura Cosgrove, Bessie
Charles, Ruth Hurd, Belle Bond, Bessie
Robinson, Bertha Eichelman and Emily
Bond; Mesdames j. M. Stebbins, Will
Yule, G.. NJ Simmons, G. P. Barnes, t.
G. Littlehales, A. Fl. Lance, Alfred
Weed, and j. Emery; and Messrs.
Walter Cavanagh, Roger Kimball, John
Burton, George Skinkle, Will Van
Nortwick, L. Kershaw, George Yeo-
man, Robert Mari, Griffin Mcclellan,
G.. G.. Lance, Wainwright Lance,
Chester Farr, of Waukegan; Will
Qaarles, of Milwaukee; Lucien Lance,
Louis Yeoman, R. F. Howe, Fred
Head, James Kehlor, Harry Redeker,
Howard Robinson, Roy Hale, Mr..
Singleton, Henry Hastings, Howard
Kehlor, Ralph Glover, Arthur Jebb
and O. II. Woodward.