Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-04
TIE BACHELORS Night.
Unmarried Members Of the AriOn En-
tertained Handsomely
Last Evening-A Splendid Supper,
Followed by Dancing-A New
Club Of Ladies Organized-Meet-
ings Of Other Organizations.
Other Entertainments in Social
Circles.

There is one night in eac,4 year
ehen The bachelor members Of the
.Aricp have full sway. One of their
annual entertainments was given last
evening, and the guests numbered
about two hundred. The preparations
for the affair were made on an extern
slve scale. 1t was a Kaffee Visite, but
it was conducted exclusively by the
unmarried young men. A list of the
bachelors is given below, and might
be cut out and preserved for frequent
reference by the young ladies'
The decorations in the dining room
and the ball room were very tasteful
In the dining room there was an ar
tistlc arrangement Of American flags
and drapery Of light red and blue
cloth. The tables were embellished
with ported plants. Each guest re-
celved a souvenir in the form of
handsome boutonniere. Supper was
served from six until nine o'clock.
The menu would have reflected credit
upon French chef, while the service
was equal to that at Delmonico's.
Beginning about $50 o'clock the
guests danced in the ball room to
music furnished by Prof. Killmeyer.
The decorations were lavish and very
artistically arranged. light shades of
red and blue being the predominating
colors
The committee in charge of the af-
fair were as follows:
superintendent Seabright. chair
man, f. B. Klieves, Ben Kraus, Carl
Lang, VIM. Loeffler, Geo. a. Truschel,
}. Front, F. Viewig, Milt Mabis. C. A.
Schaefer, John Walter, Otto Leonard
II. j. Ritter, VIM. C. Welty, NJ Kova-
lan }. a. Hess, 0. t. Schneider, Dave
Morgan. Jr., John Heiner. William
Laue, J. G. Hoffman, H. Kalbitzer Jr.,
Con Hirsch and George Welty.
Entertainments. w. Colmar, Chas.
Schambra, Sam Welty, John Welty,
Bert Welty. Dave Kraus. Ed. B. Franz
helm, Will Heiner, ]. J. Woods, Geo.
Woods, F. A. Rauscher. Walter F.
Rau, Louis Zoeckler, Jr., Peter Zoeck-
Ter, L. Renner, George Stamm. F.
Pfaffenbach. Paul Reymann, Herman
Schambra, Harry Schambra, F. J..
Mueller, Joe Kurtz, James P. Adams.
Henry Bayha, Eugene Beuter, Chas
Ebeling, Louis Feinler. Max Hess.
Prof. John M. Birch, Chas. Driehorst.
VIM. Kuhn, VIM. C. Stifel, DR.. r. M.
Rau and L. Huseman. Jr.
The next affair of the Arion will be
the masque carnival Monday, Febru-
airy 18th.
Alvin Cummins, son of John Cum
Minis, the popular B. & o. engineer.
entertained a party of his friends at
his home on South Main street. last
Monday evening. The affair was in
honor of his twenty-irst birthday an
niversary. He received on this occa-
sion handsome gold watch and chain
from his father and a fine umbrella
from his friends.
The Twentieth Century Girls were
! entertained yesterday afternoon by
Miss Bessie Rice at her home on Four,
teenth street. Miss Rice entertained
complimentary to her visitor, Miss
Terry, of Baltimore, Md. There was a
large attendance. Progressive euchre,
| as usual, occupied the atten-
ton of the guests. After an
interesting contest which lasted for
! nearly three hours, an appetizing
luncheon was served after which the
prizes were presented to the winners.
The first prize, handsome white en-
pire fan, was won by Miss Alice Cald-
we'll. The second prize, a chatelaine
mirror, went to Miss Ethel Bailey
The lone hand prize, cut glass silver
mounted salve jar, went to Miss Ellen
Wright The visitors prize, beauti-
full etching, was captured by Mrs.
Allen Wheat The consolation prize.
small water-color, fell to Miss Helen
Caldwell. The visitors present were
Misses Mckee, of Hagerstown, Nd,
Richards, of Circleville, O., Herbst, Of
Allentown, Pa, Terry, Of Baltimore
Md, Mrs, Harry Whitaker, Mrs Allan
Wheat and Mrs. Will Rice
Mrs. Fred c. H. Schwertfeger hos
pitably entertained a number of her
friends with a card party Wednesday
evening, at her home on the Island.
Progressive euchre occupied the atten-
ton of the guests until 1870 o'clock
when luncheon was served after which
the favors were awarded. The first
prize fell to Mrs. Weisgerber, the sec