The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-02

Scranton should not feel proud of the
liscouragem ii offered to the Uni
rersity of Pennsylvania alumni and
tudents in connection with the glee and
banjo and mandolin clubs concert
Tuesday night in Young Mems Chris
tian Association hall. a few days pre-
Ceding the concert it would have been
abandoned but for expenditures already
made. Scarcely any tickets had been
sold up to Monday, and it was only by
strenuous effort and personal soliCita-
tion that tickets for half the seats We're
sold UP to Tuesday night. The size of
the audience which did not begin to fill
all the seats was due to the generosity
of four genuine spirited Scranton men
who purchased one hundred tickets and
gave them away. one of these gentle
men put his name down for forty
Scranton showed but little appreciation
of the varsity men and yet the city
resents any hint that it is not quite
up to the proper thing!
The wives and lady friends of the
Scranton Bicycle club members gave
q leap year dance to the latter Monday
night at the club house. The commit
tee We're: Miss Helen Stevens, Miss Es-
ther FAIRIES and Miss Matte Parton.
The uatronesses We're Mrs. +. S. God
frey, Mrs. T.. II. Davis, Mrs. Alex. Dunn,
jr, and Mrs. S. II. Stevens. Lunch was
served by Hanley. The music was fur
niShed by LawrenCe's complete orches-
ira. The dance will be followed by a
series of hops, one each month, to be
given by the club until next summer.
A tea was given by Miss Louise Mat
thews, of Olive street. Tuesday, for her
guest, Miss Gilbert, of Troy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Belin, jr., gave
a dancing party Wednesday night at
the Bicycle club house to signalize the
coming out of their son, Charles.
A tea was given Thursday for the
Misses Dickerson, of Brooklyn, n. Y,
by Mrs. N. Y. Leet.
Mrs. K. II. Storrs gave a skating par
ty Monday at Kingston, and served
lunch at her home on jefferson avenue
to the company on their return to
Scranton in the afternoon. In the party
were: Mr.. and Mrs a. II. StOrrs, Mrs.
c. r. Parke, Miss Welles, Miss Ander-
son, L. S. Fuller, John II. Brooks, Z. f.
Archibald and j. w. Decker.
Miss Elizabeth Lewis gave a dancing
social to her pupils and their friends
Monday evening in Excelsior Hall.
Yesterday Rev. and Mrs. John Labar
of Wyoming, celebrated the fiftieth an
niversary of their marriage and it was
q very pretty affair. About 400 invita-
tiOns We're sent out and nearly that
many responded, mostly all being long
time friends and members of the differ
ent congregations over which Mr.. Labal
has presided. The gifts We're many, in
Guiding gold coin and a handsome purse
from his children.
Mr.. and Mrs. Labar We're married ir
1896 at Hanover by Rev. James Cooper
Mrs. Labar was formerly Miss Mary
Ruggles, a daughter of Alonzo Ruggles
of Hanover.
Mr.. Labar entered the ministry II
1852, before which time he farmed ant
acted as a local preacher. He has beer
a member of the Wyoming conference
for thirty-five years, his appointments
being mostly in Wyoming and Lacka
wanna valleys, as follows: Newton
Northmoreland, Factoryville, Carver
ton, Plymouth, Lackawanna Dunmore
Wyoming and Forty Fort In 1880 h,
retired and settled in Wyoming. hi
present home. Mr.. and Mrs Laba
have five children, three sons and tw,
daughters-L. q. Labar, of Scranton
w. S. I.abar, of this city: r. n. Labar
of Scranton; Mrs. Margaret Atherton
of Wyoming, and Mrs. James Lindsay
of Plymouth.
a night lunch was served, the wait
resses being his granddaughters, Misse
Mary and Jean Lindsay, Lille ant
Fredrica Atherton, assisted by Mis-
Sallie Perkins ana Miss Name Spencer
of cranton.-Yesterday's Wilkes Barr
Record.
The home of Mr.. and Mrs. w. I
Lifts, of Clark's Summit, was the seen
of a very pretty wedding Thursda
evening, December 81. The house wa
tastily decorated with eVergreens O
the north and beautiful palms of tn
sunny south. The contracting partie
We're Mr. S. c. Rooms and Miss Clar
NJ. Nosburg, both of Clark's Summit
AT s o'clock Miss Marian smith, q
Scranton, took her place at the plan
and began playing the wedding marcl
"Lohengrin." The wedding party cam
down the stairway. marched into tn
parlor and took their position under
large evergreen bell filed with carna
tions. The bride and groom were at
tended by little Ruth ColVin, who Dor
a basel of flowers, and little Romain
Helmer, who bore a tray containn
the wedding ring. a short impressiV
ceremony was performed by Rev. f. W
Young pastor of the Methodist EpiscC
pal church Of this place. At the clos
of the ceremony as if by magic, tn
bell shed forth a shower of beauty an
sweetness at the feet of the newl
welded couple-literally strewing the
path with flowers. After the usut
congratulations the large assemblag
was treated to a most excellent an
bOuntiful reDast. The presents wei
numerous, of great variety, all usefu
many of them elegant and costly. 4
10 o'clock the happy pair left, intendin
to take an extended tour through son
of the promenent cities of the Unio
AS Mr.. and Mrs. koons went out
their carriage the shower of rice thu
greeted them attested the good wisht
of the eighty guests, that the life jou
ney of the new couple might be a lor
and happy one. Mr.. Rooms is a pro
porous hardware dealer in Clarks Sun
init. Upon their return Mr., and NTr
Rooms win take up their abode
ready elegantly furnished. The follow
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