The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1902-01-07
MOMENTS CLUB ENTERTAINS.
Gives Grand New Years Banquet to Husbands
Of Members.

ihe NoiheH CluD, composed Oh the
royal good wives of some of the most
prominent and substantial men of North
Yakima, entertained their worthy hus-
bands at the Yakima hotel on Tuesday
evening, December3l. While the old year
was dying and the new year was coming
into life they toasted and feasted and
made merry in the good old way that
was joy and inspiration to all. The
husbands merited the reception they
got. 1t was beyond anything they had
heretofore been used to. and the way
their wives conducted the affair showed
that they could discount the men in
planning for an entertainment.
Elaborate arrangements had been
made for the event. Mr.. and Mrs.
johnson turned the hotel parlors and
dining room over to the club for the
evening. The committee of arrange
ments, composed of Mrs. Snyder, Mrs.
Cannon, Mrs. Rankin, Mrs. Thomas and
Miss Wright, decorated the dining
room in most dainty way with pink
and white. Mrs. j. w. Thomas made
the menu cards in a strikingly unique
and original way. She is an artist and
an excellent pen-woman. Each card
was designed differently and handsomely
executed, and were retained as souvenirs
by the hostesses. The spread was not
elaborate, but it consisted of Olympia
oysters, salad, chicken patties, prepared
in chatting dishes at the table, pineap-
pie sherbet, cake and coffee.
At an early hour the guests began to
arrive. The reception committee, Mrs.
Whitson and Mrs. Hall, met them in
the hallway and introduced the hus-
bands to their respective helpmeets.
Mrs. Snively was on this committee but
she was absent from the city at the
time. Fully an hour was spent in con-
versation and listening to songs by
Messrs. Vance and Poole and instrument
tai solos by Misses Poole and Hall. The
company then repaired to the dining
room. There were 10 tables with the
following hostesses: Mrs. Weed, Mrs.
Scudder, Miss Scudder, Mrs. Englehart,
Mrs. Thomas, Mrs. Wright Mrs. Poole,
Mrs. Prosser, Mrs. Fechter and Mrs.
Graham. The daughters OF the club
women served the courses, and the gen.
tlemen lunched progressively, exchang-
ing places between courses. The young
lady mattresses were Misses Bessie Hall,
Verna Cox, Laura and Lucille James,
Flossie Richards, jamie Snively, Helen
Wright, Clara and Marion Whitson,
leila Frasher, Caddie Lesh, Vivian
Englehart and Miss Poole.
Toasts were called for at the conclusion
of the supper. Mrs. Vestal Snyder,
president of the club, presided, and
scored success as toastmistress. The
responses were as follows: sour Club"
Mrs. Hall sour Girls" Col. Prosser
1.-THE Club Woman" Mr.. Cannon 1.-the
Club Man." Miss Wright; "The Coming
Year" Mr.. Lesh; "The Closing Year."
Rev. Mr.. Bartlett "Looking Backward"
Mr.. Whitson; Looking Forward" Mrs.
Robertson "The Years Work." Mrs.
Sharkey 1.-THE Gentlemen, Mrs. Vance.
These toasts were timed so that when
Mr.. Bartlett responded the New Year
came in with the footing of whistles,
the ringing of bells and firing of guns.
And Mrs. Vance closed the event by
proposing that the toast be drunk with
pure cold water, hoping that this would
prevail as the beverage of the men
throughout the year.
Those present we're: Mr.. and Mrs. F.
c. Hall, Mr.. and Mrs. J, G. Boyle, Mr.
and Mrs. G.. w. Cary, Mr.. Mrs. A. S.
Congdon, Mr.. and Mrs. j. D. Cornett,
Mr.. and Mrs. L. F. Diteman, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ira Englehart, Mr.. and Mrs. q. A.
Graham, Mr.. and Mrs. James Greene,
Mr.. and Mrs. w. p. Guthrie, Mr.. and
Mrs. d. f. Lesh, Mr.. and Mrs. Marshall
Scudder, Mr.. and Mrs. A. f. Poole, Col
and Mrs. W. F. Prosser, Mr.. and Mrs.
w. w. Robertson, Mr.. and Mrs. Vestal
Snyder, Mr.. and Mrs. J. W. Thomas,
Mr.. and Mrs. George S. Vance, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. w. Watt, Mr.. and Mrs. A. B.
Weed, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Whitson,
Mr.. and Mrs. w. l.. Wright, Mrs. o. A.
Fechter, Mrs. Virginia G. Bartholet,
Mrs. John Cleman, Miss Lucy Nichols,
Mrs. George Rankin, Miss Alice V.
Scudder, Mr.. A. B. Cline, Mrs. +. C.