The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-15
Gard Parties Have Had d Mo-
nopoly This Week.
FIVE OR SIX CARD CLUBS
Each Club Has a Membership of From
Twelve to Twenty and Each
Member is Anxious TO Entertain
During the Season.
tspee,a, to The Times. dispatch


PETERSBURG, VA, Feb. 14.-Card
parties have again had a monopoly In
society In Petersburg this week. There
are five or six card clubs In Petersburg.
all of which were organized during jan
unry. Each club has n membership OF
from twelve to twenty and, as each men,
Der IS anxious to entertain during the
season, some clubs meet two and three
times a week. There were about fifteen
card parties in Petersburg during the
past week.
Monday afternoon Mrs r. a. Gamble
entertained one Of the clubs at her
home on Marshall Street. Mrs j. Ed
ward Noteworthy, Mrs. w. c. Kcvan,
Mrs. Robert jones' Mrs. Ben. Jones, Miss
Snllic Wilson and Miss katherine Hob
bic assisted Mrs. Gamble In receiving
the guests, who numbered among them
Mrs. Leroy Roper Mrs. Montgomery
Jackson. Mrs. Samuel Wilson, Mrs. Geo.
Guy, Mrs Lemoinc Mrs. w. L. Drew
~, Mrs. Waverly TONNES. Mrs. p. l..
Roper. Mrs. Paul Williams, Mrs. Estis,
Misses Emily TONNES, lrby Boiling. Mar
garet Brady, Emily Roper. Blanche Cuth-
bert, Catherine Spotswood, Margaret. Col
ler. Mary Gee. Page Nichols, Virgie
Slater. Sadie McCandlish and Elsie Me
Candlish. The score cards were punched
by little Misses Euppes Collier and Mary
Fannie Kevan.
friends Mt cards Monday afternoon at
the home Of Dr. and Mrs. II. Gilbert
Leigh on Sycamore Street. The players
were Misses Mary Paul Roper, Edith
Dlcknan, of Cleveland O.; Martha Col
licr Alice Spicer, Anne Gill, Robert Gill,
Mary Patterson, Bessie Morton, Nan
Davis. Helen Leavenworth, Mary Beas-
ley, Kate Steel, Bessie Morton, Allie
Waite, Margaret thinner. Louise thinner,
Mrs Witherspoon, Mrs. Chisholm, Mrs.
Charles H. Davis, Mrs. Alexander Ham
ilton and others.
ON SYCAMORE.
Mrs. John Moyler entertained ut cards
at the home Of her father. Mr.. W. l..
thinner, on Sycamore Street, Tuesday
morning. Mrs. Moyler was assisted In
receiving her guests by Miss Payne. of
Warrenton, md her sisters. Miss Mar
garet and louise thinner. Her guests
included Miss Dickman. of Cleveland, o.;
Miss Mary Paul Roper. Miss Leaven-
worth, Miss Annie Gill, Miss Roberta
Gill. Miss Annie, Wilson. Miss Martha
Colluer, Miss Mary Beasley. Miss Lands.
Mrs Samuel Wilson, Mrs. VIM. Bragg,
Mrs. P. l.. Roper, Mrs. Geo. Cameron,
Mrs. Alexander Hamilton. Mrs. Alfred
Friend, Jr., Mrs. ]. Gordon Rennie. Mrs.
John Mann, Mrs. William Drewry. Mrs.
r. c. Scott Mrs. Montgomery Jackson.
Mrs. Moyler's prizes we're carried off by
Miss Anne Gill, Miss Roberta Gill and
Mrs. ]. Gordon Rennie.
Miss Mary Paul Roper was the charm
ing hostess of Valentine party Tues
day evening, complimentary to her guest
Miss Edith Dickman. Of Cleveland. o.
The tally cards were appropriately mark
ed and very pretty Four handed euchre
was played. Miss Roper had as her
guests Mr.. and Mrs. r. c. Scott, Mr.
and Mrs. Leroy Roper, Mr.. and Mrs,
Harris Donnan, Mr.. and Mrs. P. L..
Roper, Mr.. ana Mrs. William McGill, Mr..
and Mrs. S. G. Wilson. Mr.. and Mrs
j. Gordon Rennie Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred
Fricnd,..'Jr.: Mrs. Gordon McCabe. Jr.,
Misses Whyte. Misses Gill, Miss Pattie
Moon, Of Richmond; Messrs. Tom Davis,
Bartlett Roper. Paul Roper Mr.. and
Mrs. Reilly. of Richmond; and others.
Mrs. Alfred Friend, Jr., won the ladies
prize, Dr. ]. Gordon Rennie, the gentle
mans prize. while Mr.. Leroy Roper
carried off the alone hand prize.
A CARD PARTY.
Mrs. John LeInoine was the hostess
of q card party Tuesday afternoon hay
ing as her guests Mrs. John Herbert
Claiborne, Mrs. Leroy Roper, Mrs. VIII
liam Malone. Mrs. Nosworthy. Mrs.
Waverly Townes. Mrs. Orr, Mrs. George
Guy. Mrs, NJ. c. Jackson, Mrs. r, w.
Budd, Mrs. John Moyler, Mrs. Alfred