The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-31
In Livingston.

Livingston, Dec 29-The Degree of
Honor masquerade ball took place in
the opera house Monday night and was
largely attended. When the grand
march was called fully Is couples fol-
lowed the leaders in the promenade
and the fantastic costumes wandering
in and out in the intricacies Of the
march was pleasing spectacle One
OF the features of the affair was a
cakewalk by three couples of pickan-
MES, and they gave very pretty ex-
hibition of the popular fad. The cake
walkers were all girls. Laura Connell
and Bessie Miller formed one couple,
Heta and Alma Grannis the second and
Ada Bartlett and Alma Laurens the
third. One of the girls in each couple
was dressed as a boy. and varied and
graceful were the movements they eX
ecuted. The cake was awarded to
Misses Cornell and Miller. For the
most elegant ladies' costume Miss
Edna Turner was awarded the prize,
while George NJ. Wilson carried off the
trophy offered for the finest gentle
mans costume. IS an old lady, Mrs.
Cornell was deemed by the judges en-
titled to the prize for the most conf
cal costume, and Lou Firestone. who
represented Brownie, was given first
honors for the most ludicrous-appear-
ing gentleman present. A prize waltz
was another feature of the programme
and the trophy was captured by George
Walford and Miss Baldwin. Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas Lamartine were awarded
second honors. Music was furnished
by Middaugh's orchestra. At II o'clock
masks We're removed and the guests
RECALLED themselves at supper. The
dance was resumed after lunch and
continued until an early morning hour.
Socially, financially and every other
way. the ball was great success and
the ladies of the Degree of Honor are
jubilant because of that fact.
Thomas G. Frazier and Daisy G.
Black were married Friday afternoon.
The wedding took place at the residence
Of Mrs. Mary Lay, mother of the
groom, near Fridley. Judge NJ NJ
Black performed the ceremony. The
young people are two of the most pop
ular of the Upper Yellowstone resi-
dents.
Ben Sheffield entertained party of
friends at bachelors dinner at his
island home on Christmas day. The
menu was one to make the stomach
glad and a round of jolly stories and
enlivening jokes served to make the
hearts of those present feel a corr
spending joy. Buffalo. elk and other
game were on the bill of fare, while
turkey, duck and chicken We're the
fowl that served to tempt the appe-
tites of the guests. Only gentlemen
were present. and as one of the guests
expressed it, there were no women to
modest or make them afraid" Those
who shared the hospitality of the host
were: Frank Wright. William Wright.
f. NJ. Sybert, Will Richardson, George
Harris of Lewiston, Idaho and DR.. S.
F. Way.
Opossom was served up in elegant
style to dozen prominent citizens at
the Park restaurant Wednesday even
ing. The marsupal quadrupeds We're
furnished by Colonel John r. Lilly,
who brought them from Missouri the
other day and the gentleman con-
ceived the idea of giving a 'possom sup
sourian natives and these who are Mis-
sourians by instinct, present, were:
Mayor John 7. Smith, Under Sheriff
Frank Bellar, Deputy Sheriff George
Woodlands, Captain John Hogan, AL
derman Hefferlin, Hector Mcdonald,
Jack Cornwall, J. w Nelson. John Nc
Laughlin. Charles Schustrum and
George Anderson. Mayor Smith pre-
sided at the banquet. and the way the
'possum and sweet potatoes vanished
before the onslaught was far from
slow.
At the Congregational church Sun
day evening a concert was given by
the Sunday school and choir. A trained
chorus of children, dressed in red,
white and blue and wearing upon their
brows wreaths OF green occupied a
platform and greeted the congrega ton
with a cherry Christmas chorus. They
sang several other choruses which were