The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1900-12-14
MOSS POINT DEPARTMENT,

Friday evening, Dec. Itn, at Acaue-
my Hall, oneof the most enjoyable en-
tertainments ever held in Moss Point,
WAS given by the L. L. c. Club for the
benefit OF the club library. The pro-
gram rendered consisted Of music and
recitatiOns and a farce, 1.-THE Old
Maids Convention. After the play
the crowd enjoyed dancing and re-
freshments to their hearts content.
The cast OF characters In the 'Old
Maids Convention" is as follows:
Miss Desire Adams, president, Miss
Bette Blumcr.
Miss Calamity Jane, secretary, Miss
Sadie Henry.
Pitiful Hope, treasurer, Miss Ger.
trude Fellows.
Information and encouragement com
mittee, Misses Eliza Hookl,im and
Sophronia Araminta Long, Misses
Hula Myers and Virgie Spencer re.
spectively.
Miss Hopeful Doolittle Ca demure
spinster), Miss Susie Vaughan.
Miss Mary Ann Doolittle, very indie.
pendent, Miss Lyll Morris.
Miss Anxiety Fisher, timid, Miss
Matte Cowan.
Miss Anastasia Melissa Higgins, old
and decrepit, Miss Laura Griffin.
Miss Betsy Bobbit, fat and jolly,
Miss Rosalie Llenhard.
Miss Susannah Smith, musical, Miss
Maggie Howe.
Miss Constance Hope, gay, giddy and
%inquisitive, Miss Mamie Mcleod.
Miss Patience Desire Mann, Miss
Isabel Lienhard.
Miss Jerusha Hopeon, Miss Mile
McInnis.
Miss Charity Goodhope, Miss Isabel
McInnis.
Agent for Beauty Powder, Mrs. G.
W. O'Neill.
Prof. Makeover, inventor OF the
wonderful Electric Transform(h)er,
Mr.. Lienhard Blumer.
Pittimus Hobbs, assistant to Prof.
NJ, Mr.. Dick Rogers.
Young and blooming maidens repre-
senting transformed old maids, Misses
Lillian Cowan, Burnie Herrin and
Juanita Welsh.
Misses Laura Griffin, Virgie Spen.
Ger, Bette Blumer, Sadie Henry, Susie
Vaughan and Resale Lienhard de.
serve special mention for their fine
] acting.
The costumes worn by the 'Old
Maids" some of them handsome,
some dainty and bewitching, some
reaching the highest of the absurd
and ridiculous, were more or less *
aggerated copies Of the style our
grandmothers used to wear. Some of
them, indeed, being handed down
from several generations past, to the
present fortunate possessors:
The bachelors and widowers in the
town and vicinity were delighted, one
and all, by special notice taken of
them by the twenty debated sisters"
u On Saturday the DEMoCRAT.STAF
u reporter, with a couple OF charming
y young ladies, went aboard Of the
British iron bark Copsetield, Capt.
Alfred CASTOR, master, loading a
d cargo of 800, 900 feet of lumber at the
wharf Of the Moss Point Lumber Co.,
on Escatawpa river, The bark is OF
e an olden pattern having a commodi.
If Gus cabin comfortably fitted up. The
captain is rcligiously inclined, Judging
l. by biblical inscriptions over the doors
and on the walls, and it was whisper.
, ed in the ear OF the reporter that he
~ was a nautical Baptist minister, and
could, perhaps, perform a marriage
ceremony II the object of the visit to
the vessel was for that purpose he.
tween the DEMoCRAT-STAR man, and
{ either of the young ladies.
h The schooner Lady Shea, Capt Will
liam Alonzo Albury, is loading with
120, 600 feet Of lumber at the L. N,
Dantzler Lumber Co.'S mills for Cal
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