The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-06-02
ENTERTAINED ST. JOHNS LADIES

SAN AN AANGD 81 JSE1No LhDiEo'
Womans Literary Club and Current Topic
Club, of Owosso, Acquitted Themselves
most Creditably Saturday, Giving the st.
Johns Club Ladies days Entertainment
Long to be Remembered.
Zone of the pleasantest features this
club life has developed is the fraternal
side which makes possible such a
gathering as we have here today" was
the substance of thought expressed by
one of the speakers at the banquet
given by the Woman's Literary Club
and the Current Topic Club, of Owosso,
to the Ladies' Literary Club, of st.
Johns, May 9th.
Last year the Owosso Clubs were
most charmingly entertained by the
st. Johns ladies at the Hotel Steel, in
st. Johns, and last Saturday the Owosso
ladies endeavored, as much as in them
lay, to return the compliment, and gave
the st. Johns ladies royal welcome to
their homes and hearts. Such careful ar
rangements had been made everywhere
everything seemed perfectly planned
but someone must have offended
the man at the head of the weather de-
partment or else he sulked because he
was man and couldn't attend the
banquet. Anyway he retaliated in the
worst possible spirit and the day
opened with a pouring rain. but the st.
Johns ladies remembering the "icy,"
rainy greeting the weather man gave
the Owosso Clubs at st. Johns last year,
resolved that no amount of moisture
could daunt them and to the number of
thirty-one they arrived on the morning
train and were met at the junction by
Mrs. Chas. Allison, formerly resident
of st. Johns, and member at present
of both the St. Johns and the Owosso
Current Topic Clubs. At the Owosso
depot the ladies were greeted by Mrs.
A. M. Bentley and Mrs. Chas. Williams
who escorted them to carriages in
which they were driven to the Congre.
gational church, where the club ladies
awaited them. 1t was quite evident
from glance at the Owosso faces that
the ladies were determined to have
sunshine within the church even il they
couldn't control the weather outside,
and in such "bower of beauty" as the
church had been transformed into, how
could anyone be otherwise than happy
and hospitable.
The ladies of the decorating commit
tee had proved themselves past masters
in the art of harmonious arrangement,
and from the transformation of the
landing at the head of the stairs into a
cosy reception hall with such inviting
hooks and corners, on to the ladies
parlors where the floral arrangement
of the mantle was something to dream
about, through to the lecture room
which was converted into q magnificent
drawing room, everything was in per-
feet taste.
After the ladies had removed their
wraps they were introduced by Mrs.
Allison to Mrs. Josephine Gould, who
presented them to Miss Maytie Morrice,
president of the Woman's Literary Club,
then to Miss Georgia Colt, president of
the Current Topic Club, who in turn
presented them to Mrs. Patterson, cor
responding secretary of the State Fed
Grafton of Woman's Clubs. They
were afterwards greeted by the other
members of the reception committee:
Mrs. Louisa Gould, Mrs. H. Kirk
White, Miss Henrietta Williams, Mrs
G.. L. Taylor, Mrs. E d. Perkins, Mrs. G.
w. Gale, Mrs. w, M. Fitzpatrick, Mrs.
Albert Todd, Miss Blanche Seeley, Miss
Frances Jones.
After leaving the reception commit
tee the ladies were greeted by the other
members of the clubs, each lady con-
sidering herself committee of one to
make as bright as possible the st. Johns
ladies' day.
Numerous groups were quickly
formed (the most prominent one being
possibly around the punch bowl, pre-
sided over by Mrs. John Black, Miss
Peterson, and Miss Woodard) where
acquaintanceships of year ago were
renewed, and the time passed rapidly
until time for the formal program,