The Forrest City times., 1897-02-19
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 | The annual masquerade ball. given under the auspices of the young mems social club of the city, was most pleas ingly and successfully enacted at the
 Forrest City hotel last Monday night
 For some weeks tie event had beer
 the fluttering topic among society, and
 the best interest and energy disp'ayrd n all the appointments of the nottd
 flair was crowniHg evidence that nc
 pains. were spared in making it came
 strictly up to the mark ot the ion lest Inticipations of all connected with it
 Forrest City society has wide repu-
 tation for it's surpassins effectiveness of entertainments, and Monday nights affair but reflected the tenacity to which the time honored trophy cings to the winners-The young mems so-
 cial club.
 At 8'30 the participants began to ar
 rive, (singly and by pairs) at the hotel
 where they were met by com mmittees and assigned to dressing rooms At
 8:30 all|were ready for the grand march. and thus opened the much cherished and talked of festivities, the procession
 being led by Mir. Edwin Johnson
 in knight costume and Miss Bettie
 Govan, whose costume represented the
 Queen of Hearts," Thus touchinp
 the spring of motion, wide flew the
 gates and admitted to the hall of mer-
 ry making, one of the most credtable
 representations of chiyalry, grace and
 beauty that has ever been the good for.
 tune of the social club to entertain.
 The evening, from weather stand
 point, was simply in love with itself Even the nigh full moon seemed to be in accord and sympathy with the sue
 cess of the occasion which was being enacted at this particular little spot of d high type, and perfectly adapted J itself to the taste of the dancers and they waltzed away the rolling hours. From slight misunderstanding the management was unable to furnish HE TIMES detailed personal of thu
 costumes and in that event we hopt that any inaccuracies, or omission. which might occur in our off hand de scription will be dealt with mercifnly ! Queen of Hearts," (Miss Bettie Go
 van) met with no stumbling blocks il
 the way of convincing the whole assem blv, that she was entitled to that claim
 Red Rose" Miss Laura Govan) wa in every way worthy of impersonatin, b that silent little beauty whose emblem A Is to conquer." Little Countr, \ Maiden" Miss Bessie McNabb) inspir ed all the city beaux with the deter r mination to at once move to the coun \ try. 'P0cahontas' Miss Alice R ll \ wagel succeeded in enlistlng the sym E pathies, which is akin to love, of nor H than one of the gailants. s"Japanese E Mrs, ID. c. Webb) was noticed in H complimentary manner by all Ameri D cans, and dreaded by Chnaman. ">u \ cial Club' Miss Eula Wiliams) prov < ed to be in every way adapted to th \ honor to which she aspired, d represen \ tative or sponsor for the yOuu e mems social club of Forrest City 2 'Grecian Girl" (Aiss Lucy Williams was not under the necessity of meet \ ing Greek to stir up"a tug of WAT H tor-well they didn't exactly 'scral H right there. "IIuntress" Mrs. Y. N h Barrow) made whole lot of the boy sh they had been game in the day when she went gunuing for Ton E Spring of 1897" (Mss Mattie Bottoms sIicited the desire in more hearts tha one, that "97' would not prove q h tickle as some springs dc. "schot A Girl" (Mrs. Maude FDlbfe) took Oh e Gack to Our childhood days; how o k ten back we turn on life's bewildere K tracN. where OCT hill and valley play E the sunlight of our youthful days. = ..Red Ri,ing Hood" Miss Lucille Dy,
 fairly tempted the boys to wish ths in they were carniverous animal
 Gretchen" Mrs. T. c. Merwin) vel
 at least some of the boys aad widoy