The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1897-02-05
A Pleasant Party.


The reception and dancing party given
at the armory Wednesday evening to their
many friends by MIR. and Mrs. Hugh Nc
Curdy, of Corunna, Mr.. and Mrs. l. H.
Keller, Mr.. and Mrs. p. II. Black, Mr.. and
Mrs. +. j. Mcdaniel. Mr. and Mrs. s. T.
Van Dusen, Miss Edna Marshall, of Corun
ma, and Mr.. Geo. M. Dewey, Jr, was de-
cided social success and one of the most
pleasant parties ever held In the city.
The bare and not artistically tinted walls
of the armory were made by the use of deep
yellow and white bunting strung In long
and neatly shaped forms TO rival In beauty
magnificent parlOr, while the furnishings
were those exquisite settees and divans that
make home the best place to SIT down and
be real comfortable In the stage drapings
were curtains of smilax set off by screens
and In the center large mirror giving the
pleasing effect when looking in 1t of an end
less ball room filed with merry dancers and
interested spectators, a bouquet of carnations
giving the finishing touch to triumphant
arch. The reception and DINING rooms
were also trimmed in white and yellow and
rugs, flowers and smilax and banquet lamps
added to the pleasing effect. At eight
o'clock the lights were turned on and guests
to the number of about FIVE hundred were
received between that hour and ten o'clock.
Geo. r. Black introduced the callers to
Judge McCurdy and a pleasant welcome
and hearty greeting was given each one as
they passed the line, the beautiful music of
the harp and orchestra and general recep-
ton and conversation making the receiving
hours pass quickly. At ten o'clock the
entertainers marched to the auditorium, and
forming as head couples for three sets,
started the dancing with a quadrille. The
program was one adapted to please the
many guests, quadriles being called in turn
with waltz and a two step until 1870.
when the. round dances were used entirely
until $3.50.
A most excellently prepared and an ele-
gantly served luncheon was laid in the DIM
ing room by Charles McNally, assisted by
corps of walters. The tables were maze
most inviting by the use of beautiful china
and silverware and bouquets of daffodils,
four persons being seated at table and
sixty.fou in the room; the guests being in
vited there in companies large enough to
fill the room, about 400 partaking of the re-
freshments. The harpist furnished music
for fha In, thn IT,,
room being a rest from the exercise of the
ball room and and a refreshment for the
hour the guests who did not dance had
spent In the galleries.
The music furnished by Wesener's Or
chestra was unusually we'll adapted, and
despite the fact that they had refused en-
cores, many dancer express his or her
delight by hand clapping.
The guests included many of the best
known people of the city and county, both
old and young, and it made party inter-
ested in each other by old association and
by mutual recognition of the fact that the
young grow old and new generation Is
always ready to take their places, revere
the memories and respect the records of
those grown aged In making for them
| pleasant homes.
Besides the Owosso and Corunna guests,
were the Misses Marley and Montgomery,
and Messrs. o. Achard, Harry Cooper and
j. Eddy,of Saginaw; Misses Anna Bucking.
ham and Edith Haskell, Mrs. Kelly and
Mrs. Euer, Messrs. Frank Buckingham,
w. G. Stuart, G. Church, OF Flint; M. S.
Keller and wife, of Vaudeville; Messrs. s.
c. Scully and Ollie Days, of Howell; Mis-:
Nettie Eveleth, of Ann Arbor; Mrs. Jay
Pearsoll, of Lansing; Robert Allison, of st
Johns.