The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-11-14
SCRANTON SOCIAL
NEWS AND GOSSIP
Abbreviated Mention of What Is Doing
in the Pleasure Way.
BACHELORS BALL PATRONESSES
Some Of the Arrangements Proposed
for the City's Big Annual Social
Event..News Of the Country Club.
Usual Batch Of W cddings, and Some
Personal Paragraphs About People
Well known in This City.


Well known in This City.
The patronesses for this seasons
ball of the Bachelors on Friday night,
Jan !, in the FrOthingham, will be
Mrs. James Archibald, Mrs. Henry
Belin jr.. Mrs. j. Il. Dmmick, Mrs. r..
l.. Fuller. Mrs. II. w. Kingsbury, Mrs.
H. +. Simpson. Mrs. w. T. Smith, Mrs.
L. Il. Sturges Mrs. Everett Warren and
Mrs. +. n. Willard. Music for dancing
will be furnished by Oppenheimer's
Wilkes Barre orchestra of sixteen
pieces. while Bauers band of twenty
five pieces will play the intermission
and extra numbers. The supper will
be under the direction Of John w.
Holland.
Decorators are now putting the fin-
ishing touches to the interior of the
Country club house, which will be ready
for permanent occupancy by ThahkS-
giving Day.
1t is probable that the clubs golf en-
thusiasts will spend THANKSGIVING Day
in n handicap match now being ar
ranged. The men will play eighteen
holes and the women nine.
Miss Archibald, Miss Belin. Miss Hunt
and Miss Welles, the committee Whlch
SO admirably conducted the assemblies
last winter. are filling a like office in
the arrangements for an assembly In
Excelsior hall on Friday night, the 2'th,
the day following Thanksgiving.
Miss Archibald entertained the new
Whist club Thursday evening. There
were present Mrs. II. w. Archibald, Mrs.
James Archibald, Mr.. and Mrs IL. +.
Simpson. Major J. w. Oakford. f.. r..
Chase. Miss Jermyn, Mr.. and Mrs. IL.
w. Kingsbury, A. +. Hunt and Everett
Warren.
The Engineers club will have rooms
in the new Board of Trade building.
The apartments will be handsomely fur
nished.
Tobogganing is one of the proposed
winter amusements of the Country
club.
A large party of Wilkes-Ba Elks
visited their brethren in Scranton
Thursday night and We're royalty enter
tanned in the Elk building on Franklin
avenue. Dan Hart, of the visiting ag-
gregation. presided over the social ses-
sion, which followed "a .sumptuous feast.
Alexanders band, of Barre. and
Bauer's band were present. Among
thoO, present We're: Ben +. Dilley, X.
i. Brundage, j. c. Atkin. Charles Nj.
Nelson, Charles A. Blumenthal, Colonel
S. II. Sturdevant, Ed. 7. Long.
The twenty fifth wedding anniver-
sary of Mr. and Mrs. w. Il. Smith oc-
Cured on Monday, and the event was
celebrated that evening by very in
formal dinner party at their home on
jefferson avenue.
Rev. and Mrs. George f.. Guild have
announced Tuesday afternoons and ev-
enings for their lat homes"
William +. Watt. of Carbondale. and
Miss Caroline Innes. of Wilkes Barre,
will be married this morning at the
brides home in Wilkes Barre. The
marriage will be quiet affair.
Miss Elijah beth Reynolds, daughter Of
MIR. and Mrs. Joseph Reynolds. of 1139
Hampton street, and James Benjamin
Lewis will be married Thursday even
ing, November 80, at the brides home.
Miss Reynolds is a sister of Reynolds
Brothers. the Wyoming avenue sta
TONERS.
A banquet to be given by the Scran-
ton board of trade when it's rooms in
the new board building on Linden
street are opened is being planned by
the manufacturers and banquet COM
mittees of the body. Distinguished
guests from abroad will be present
among those expected being Chauncey
NJ. Depew, Ex-Governor Foraker. of
Ohio: John Wanamaker. President
Warfleld, of Lafayette college. The
event will take place about the mid
die OF January.
b. ~. al,
Excelsior hall on Thanksgiving night.
At party on Monday afternoon at
the home of Mrs. d. w. Swartz, of Tay-
lor avenue. Dunmore, in honor of her
son. Walter, who was eight years old
on that date, the following young folks
We're present: Misses Grace Mitchell.
Helen Evans. Lena Biesecker, Helen
Bray, Nellie Lochran. Marguerite Sny-
der and Artle Drew, Willie SHETLAND,
Willie Loughran, Leslie Williams,
Henry Doster, Harry Burdick, Ray
Roper, Edwin Synder, Logan Whitman,
Alton Swingle. James Brown, Haydn
Swingle and Miss Swetland.
Miss Margaret Matthews entertained
few friends at her home on Butler
street, Dunmore. Wednesday evening.
Those present were: The Misses Il.
Glynn, Anna Lennon, Kittie Haggarty,
Marian Flynn, Mary Walsh. Margaret
Young, Jennie Haggarty, of Scranton;
Millie Renshaw, Katherine Barney. of
Wilkes Barre, and Il. II. Durkin, John
Mallin, J. j. Coyne. j. j. Mcdonnell.
Thomas Jordan, Mat Flynn, NJ. r.
Glynn. X. j. Atkinson, ]. Murphy, DIR.
Atherton.
Miss Anna Green, of Price street, was
given surprise visit Tuesday evening
by the following: Misses Emily Haw-
ley. Katie Rooms, ollie Saylor, Minnie
Webster. Edith Fowler. Bessie Fowler.
Barbara Davis, Cassie Evans, Gwennie
jenkins. Blanch Jenkins. Maggie Bey-
non. Jennie Beynon, Minnie Jacoby,
Bertha Taylor ad George Taylor. and
Otto Avery, Ed. Peters. Earnest Meless.
Thomas Thomas, John Thomas. John
Davis Harry Hartman. Richard Reese.
Will Clark, Charlie Hanley, Charles
Wagstaff, Roy Guest, David Reese.
Thomas r. James. of Eynon street.
and Miss Sarah Hitchings. of Ply
mouth, were married Tuesday even
ing at the home of the grooms moth
er. Mrs Mary James, by Rev. John
Haag, of Plymouth. The bridal connie
We're attended by the groom's brother,
John James. and the latter's wife. The
ceremony was followed by a wedding
supper.
Miss Jennie Madden, of Hampton
street. and Michael Burke We're mar
ried in st. Patrick's Catholic church
Wednesday afternoon by Rev. ID. A.
Dunno. The bridesmaid was Miss
Lizzie Madden, the brides sister, and
the best man was Martin Ratchford.
Miss Annie f. Healey opd Euga,a