Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-12-19
PETERSBURG SOCIETY.
Card Party-A beautiful Entertain
meuf-persouaI.

PETERSBURG, VA, Decenper Ao'
(special.)-The usual card parties took
place, and with a concert and dance,
form our social record Tor this week.
The Veteran Corps Band, of Baltimore,
gave q concert on Monday night, under
the auspices Of the Daughters OF the CON-
federacy, the object being to raise funds
for monuments to the Confederate SOL
dIers who died In northern prisons.
The concert was very well attended
With such patronesses as Mrs. X. W.
Collier, Mrs. Robert Il. Meade, MIS- n
V. L. Bird, Mrs. James McClevy. MIS-. w.
l.. yenable, Mrs. A. c. Pryor. and Mrs.
r. l.. Watson, 4 Is needless 10 say tna1
It was a success.
Miss Mary thinner entertained the
Night Club on Tuesday. Those present
were Mrs. Montgomery jackson, MIS-.
Samuel Burrell, Mrs. George Cameron
Jr.. Misses Mary Bensley, Lucy watson
Mary Friend, Bessie Venable, Leiper
Venable. Mary Roper, Sallie Bernard
Julia Budd, Frances Ream, Elise Harrl-
son. Mamie Scott, Margaret Zimmer'
Nav Rogers, and Otelia johnston;
Messrs. Brooks Rogers, George Cameron,
Jr.. w. II. Habliston, Harry Manu.
Hamilton Rogers, Spooner Epes, Anne
Friend Charles Hall Davis, w. L. Zim-
mer. Frank Kenney, Montgomery jack
son. Samuel Burrell, John Moyler, Johh
Watson. Paul Roper. Herbert Mann, ana
Bartlett Roper, Jr. Miss May Rogers ana
Mrs. Jackson tied for the lazy 5 PRIZE
n hand-painted empire fan, Miss Rogers
cutting successfully. The gentlemen also
had TO resort to cutting-Mr. Bartlett
Roper, Jr., one OF our prominent young
LAWYERS. and Captain Jackson having won
the same number OF games. Captain JACK
son won, the prize being silver COMB
By long odds the most beautiful card
marty of the season was the one on
Thursday afternoon at the handsome ola
home of Miss Caroline Banister Pryor'
Centre Hill, famous for its hospitality
even in the South, the land or hospltaple
homes The elegant parlors presented d
most beautiful appearance, being laVlsh-
ly decorated with lowering almond ana
holly. and everywhere prettily tinted
lights cleaned among the shining leaves
and graceful sprays. The spacious rooms
were filed with youth and beauty ana
the sound of musical voices, reminding
one Of the entertainments for when Cen
ire Hill was famous In ante-bellum days;
until It seemed as II the powdered peau-
ties had forsaken their long accustomed
places and stepped down from their por-
traits to Join again in the gayeues OF
which they were bellies In bygone days.
Miss Pryor received the guests with
the same easy cordially and grace1ul
tact which has gained for her mother
such an env!able reputation as a hostess.
Those who were present were MISSES
Mary Friend, Bessie Venaole, Lelper
Venable, Nan Davis, Lucie watson Mar
tina Russell Collier, Mamie Caskie Scott,
Katherine Mann, Ella Ashby Bernard
Nellie Cooke. Bessie Cooke, Anne BANS
ter Gill, Margaret thinner. Mary thinner
Grace Leavenworth McGil, Mary ArInis-
tead. Marie Steele. Helen McGiu Lea
venworth, Mary Roper, Katheryn Perez
val, Lillian Nichols. Roberta BOILING Gll'
Mary Zeleme Johnston, Mrs. r. Clarence
Kent: Mrs. Hill, Of Washington. ID. =;
Light Leavenworth; Annie Coleman VIII
son, OF Richmond; Sallie Bernard, ana
Elise Harrison. The young ladies' WIN
ming prizes were Miss Light Leaven-
worth. first, a silver nail-poiisher' ana
Miss Lima Noitenius, second. a tewelled
N.
games. but the hostess decided that In
Stead OF cutting. the usual manner Of
deciding a tie, they must play 1t out; So
amid the eager attenr'1 of the whole
club the most intere-.ed ones calmly
played the game, with the result mem
toned above.
Mrs. Nelson t. Patteson and her daugh-
ter Miss Mary Trlplett Patteson, have
returned from New York.
Mrs. David Dunlop, Jr., who has peen
visiting her brothers, In Roanoke, Is al
home again.
Mr.. cambridge Spotswoods many
friends will be glad to know that ne IL
able to be out.
Professor Walter p. Richards, formerly
president of the School of Mines at Rolla
Mo. Is visiting at the hospitable home
of his slster-in-law, Mrs. George Mason
Mr.. C. L. Baker, of Abbeville, 5. C.,
private secretary TO Senator Canery, OF
Louisiana, was in Petersburg last week
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Scott spent last
| Sunday in Petersburg.
Miss Anna Dunlop Is at, nome agar
after two years study in Paris. Peters
burg is very proud OF the reputation a.
| an artist which Miss Dunlop has MADE
1 lOT ftISctA.
The german on Friday night was de-
liRhtful affair. Those participating were
| Misses Mary Zeleme Johnston, oteiia
Johnston, Leiper Venable, Martha Col
ner, Mary Ellen Whyte, Mamie Scott
Elise Harrison, Mary Armistead, Lucie
Watson, and Annie Coleman Wilson, o
| Richmond; Messrs. Tucker Whyte, Bart
lett Roper, J. Monro, b. gill, Leroy Ko
per, John Watson, Spooner Epes, Pau
Roper, Harry Mann, Robert Bland, VII
liam A. Bond. James Weddeil, Herper
| Mann Andrew Allen, George Plummer
Harvey Plummer, John Arthur Johnston
and Nat. Roper Mr.. and Mrs. Harr!
Stratton chaperoned. The german wa
led by Mr.. Wallace Duncan JEFFERSON.
Make a Present to Yourself.
CSam Walter Foss In Christian Endeayoi
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