The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-31
LAKE MIlVVETOWlXA

+ Mrs. G. F. WelleS and Miss Margaret
Welles gave a dinner dance Monday night
for number of the younger people. The
dinner was served at the Welles summer
home at the Beach and the decorations
were beautifully carried out with a wealth
of flowers In the diningroom and in the
parlors. After dinner the party was TAX
en- to the Lafayette club for dancing. Mrs.
Welles and Miss Welles entertained forty
guests.
Mr.. and Mrs. George p. Case Miss Eda
Shull, Miss Alice Smith, Charles Hep
burn, Miss Gilfllan and group of the
younger people made UP a houseparty at
the Lafayette club over Monday, having
come out to be guests Of Miss Welles.
For the next week number of affairs
are planned at the Lafayette club and
there will be n full house before the
final close of the season. The repairs
have been progressing rapidly at the club
and the guests suffered nothing from the
damages done by the storm few weeks
ago. The dances at the clubhouse viii
continue until after Sept. H..
\ The young people around the lake con-
tinue to find pleasant pastime at roller
skating and the Beach pavilion at Tonka
Bay is the center of lake life. Mr.. Beach
has decided to keep the Casino open thru
September and there will be skating
mornings afternoons and evenings. Mr..
Franks, who has been with Mr.. Beach
this summer and whose instructions have
been Of much value to the beginners will
probably be In charge of Mr.. Beach's Ca
sino in the city this winter.
Bowling at the Excelsior Casino fur
nishes amusement for the guests still
lingering around the lake. and the men
and women continue to compete for the
honor Of making the best score. Mrs.
Hugh Loudon won the prize last week, her
score being 1913.
Mrs. Sampson A. Reed entertained the
| Hawthorn club yesterday at an al1-day
outing at her charming Fairview cottage.
| The club is the oldest card club in the
city and has about twenty-three mem
| fall and winter. Yesterday was the first
| meeting Of this season. At noon Mrs.
Reed served a delicious dinner, with
| baked beans and brown bread as the
| most tempting delcacy on the menu. The
| diningroom had been attractively decorat-
ed with pink and white asters, the shaggy
| blossoms standing In lavish profusion on
| the table and on the buffet. In the parlor
red and white dahlias and red and white
pElox were used, and o1d-fashioned garden
flowers were in the library Euchre was
played during the afternoon and the prizes
| were SOllQ SuV0r tableware, DIS IL Is TIE
custom of the club members to distribute
each winter sets of knives. forks and
| spoons favors, and a silver pearl ha n
die knife was the hostess prize. Mrs
Cosman and Mrs. Sprague won the two
knives, Mrs. McNaught captured the fork
as her favor and the two spoons were won
by Mrs. Lauderdale and Mrs. Rollins. Mrs
Stoughton won the consolation prize, a
box Of birch-bark paper stationery witt
a pretty lake scene. Mrs Reed was as.
sisted by group of young women, Misses
Abbie Reed, Kate Cotterell and Lydia
Smith. The next meeting Of the club will
| be at the home of Mrs. E. H. Long, 900
Fourth street Sc
The guests were Mines c. s. Gold, E
v. Cosman, E. H. Long, sprague, Edward
Grievish, John Mcknight j. T. McElroy
Louis Koch, James Secombe, W. II. Lau
derdale, Friedlander. Berry Lockwood
Pauline Poehler, w. w. Wilson, Alonzc
Phillips, Fred Rollins, Leah Fish, ]. M
Stoughton