The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-01-26
A GRAND SUCCESS
Was the Leap Year Ball Friday Night at
the KIOskI HaII-A Scene of Beauty.
GaIIantry and BrIIlIancy.


given in honor of the young gentle
men of the city, Friday night in the
Kloski building, under the opera
house, was all that had been pre-
dicted by the ARDMoREITE.
The room, admirably adopted to
the purpose, was tastefully decorated
the words, "Leap Year" being ap-
propriately wrought in the bunting
on the wall.
There were about sixty persons
present, all of whom without reserve,
gave themselves up to pleasure to its
fullest extent.
The young ladies fully realizing
the responsibilities resting upon
them as being on the aggressive, ac-
quilted themselves most becomingly.
They showed the young gentlemen
how to disburse gallantry and gave
valuable lessons in the art of enter
tanning. If they felt the arkwardness
of their new role they did not dis
play it to the least discernable ex-
tent. They simply sailed in to have
good time and they had it.
An Italian harpist furnished the
music, and it was grand.
There were present the following
/ gentlemen and escorts in the order
named: Miss Allie Crouch, Claude
Doak and Cad Bennett; Miss Hettie
Wilhelm, Vaughn Dollins: Miss Ruth
Wilhelm, Perk Bruce; Miss Ida Cur
ley, ]. G. Saunders; Miss Nettie Har-
ter, H. Moore and R. Scivally; Miss
Matte Crotzer, j. B. Wall; Miss Bet
tie Douglas, Jack Crouch; Miss Me
dora Seyfer. Bert Foster and Tom
Boyd; Mrs. Buchannon, d. A. Field
er; Miss Emma Clause, @. Hemming
Miss Norma White, George Hen
ley; Miss Minnie Smith, j. S.
O'Mealey and Robert Seyfer; Miss
Lem Nolen, Ashe Douglas; Miss Lii
ian Collins, Sam Laughlin; Miss Eff
fie Stewart, liza Munzesheimer; Miss
Blanch Rowland, P. B. Conlee; Mr.
and Mrs. w. R. Cullen; Mr.. and Mrs.
William Pfeiffer; Mr.. and Mrs. viii
Pyeatt and Twit Cobb; MIR. and Mrs
D. E. Booker; Mr.. and Mrs. C. L.
Anderson; Mr.. and Mrs G. L.
Byrne; Mr.. and Mrs. T. Y. Morgan
and Marcus Smith; Mrs. Bert Foster
Jack Scanlon; Mr.. and Mrs. Lon NJ
Frame; Mr.. and Mrs. William Rob
inson and Mrs. Joe Stewart; Messrs
L. G. Wall, ]. l.. Corbett, Sinner
Boyd and F. E. Wilson.
AT $3.50 to the strains of sweet mu-
festivities of the occasion. 1t was
led by Miss Medora Seyfer and Bert
Foster, and was participated in by
about twenty-five couples. 1t was q
spectacle of grace, beauty and gal
lantry that could not have been ex-
celled in any city.
The remainder of the list of dances
was carried out in strict accordance
with the program, with nothing oc-
curing to mar the pleasure it was
intended all should enjoy.
About midnight a splendid lunch
con was served, which feature wa:
under the direct supervision of Mrs
d. E. Booker.
This over, dancing was resumed
and it was O'Clock in the morning
when the harpist touched the string.
of his instrument to the dearest o.
all music "Home Sweet Home"
The ARDMoREITE, in voting the
young ladies leap year ball a success:
of the highest order does so with ;
full conviction that it but expresse:
the sentiment of all present. L
reflected commercially on the effort.
of the young ladies having it il
charge, who bore the entire expense
even to procuring carriages to escor
their best young men to and from
the ball room.
The treatment the young men re
ceived no doubt constrains them t
wish that leap year would com,
oftener than once in every fouryeari
and, by the way, both girls anC
boys, did you know there will not b,
another leap year until 1904, or eigh
years hence, and can you tell the
ARDMoREITE why? This is a scien
tific fact that is not generally known
Some dealers say that c. c. c
cost them too much.
Fixtures for Sale.