The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-27
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the week, for the storm had left Its
marks on many homes, and parties
which had been planned had to be
given UP while visitors at the various
summer homes We're notified to post
pone their calls until after things had |
been. Strengthened out a little. Work
of fixing up has been progressing with |
will, and before another week is out |
there will be new roofs, new chimneys,
new windows, new screens and new
yerandas to I'LL out the gaps left by |
the tornado. Mr.. Bartlett Of the Bart |
lett House at Mound CITY has been
continuing in business in spite of his
handicapped position, and several of |
the adjoining houses are being used |
for the guests and the rooms in the
hotel which have been damaged are
being repaired with all possible haste,
as the guests OF the hotel are unWill-
ing to leave the lake so soon. At
Hotel del otero, Spring Park, the
workmen are also at work on the
damaged portions of the verandas
and the pavilion. A constant demand
for rooms late in the season has
caused Manager Hopkins to decide to
keep the hotel open until Sept. II.
shows no signs Of the advancing sea-
son. The damage which has been
done to the friendly hotel is being re-
paired with all speed, and while the
rooms on the second floor cannot be
used just at present, the guests of the
hotel found comfortable quarters in
the adjoining cottages owned by Mrs.
Woolnough. Motel Tonka Bay has
also postponed the date Of closing its
doors, and altho Sept. had been orig
inally planned, the house will now re-
main open till the second week of the
month. Mr.. Godfree received a num-
Der Of applications last week from
southern guests trava1inp thr11 the
country in search of pleasant home
for the early fall weeks. The Beach
Casino at Tonka Bay will remain open
the greater part of the fall, as long,
anyhow, as the Minneapolis & st.
Louis road will run its regular trains
to the terminus of the lake-Tonka
Bay. The Haywood Casino at Excel
sior will follow its course Of last win
ter and will remain open right along,
altho the dances will be discontinued
and the music will stop.
Mrs. E. F. Elliott of Briar Hill,
Ferndale, gave a dinner last night for
| Mr. Elliott, entertaining a group of
twenty guests from the city, who came
| out on the o'clock train and re-
| turned to the city on the late evening
train. The dinner table was beauti-
fully decorated with two large Japan
csc baskets, each holding wealth of
.
| the same flowers stood on the man
| tells and buffet In the parlor the
| decorations were stately red gladiolus
| blossoms and tiger lilies arranged in
| quaint urns and copper holders A
large basket was filled with Japanese
! lilies of delicate pink-and-white tints.
| After dinner, the guests played six
| hand eucher.
Miss G1ee Jamison Of Wildhurst
gave a college luncheon yesterday at
her summer home for group of eight
young women, several of whom are
! here for the summer vacation and
will leave next month for school. Miss
Jamison and Miss Grace Gillette will
leave Sept. IL to continue their
studies at Wells college.
Miss Beatrice Wilcox entertained at
luncheon yesterday for Miss Clara
Hudson, Miss Priscilla Rand and MISS
Blachford of Toronto, who are visiting
at the lake. After luncheon the young
. women went to the skating rink at
the Beach Casino. N IS a.. Mn
| The house committee Of the Mime
/, tonka Boat club is planning to close
| it's social seasonswith a dancing party
next month at, the Beach pavilion, and
1 will also arrange for one or two musi-
cal affairs in the early fall.
Yesterday evening the younger set
i enjoyed delightful supper on board
the Acte, and later dancing party
Lyman was the hostess and Mr. and
Mrs. Lyman chaperoned the. twenty
young people at the pleasant enter
tainment.
IF the pleasant weather continues,
. Mr.. and Mrs. Schomberg will keep
! Hotel Keewaydin, at Cottagewood,
open till the middle of September. Mr..
and Mrs. J. A. Johnson and the Misses
!. Maude and Edna Johnson, who have
, been spending a week at the motel,
will return home Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. c.. c.. Matteson and
. Mrs. j. Matteson Of Chicago were
!, guests at the hotel for a few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. G. Evers of Min
neapolis and her sister, Mrs c.. B
Sears of Chicago, were over-Sunday
r guests at Hotel KeeWaydin.
Other guests during the week We're
e Miss Sophia Blitz, Chicago Mrs. 9
Gibbons, Mr.. and Mrs. F. ]. Cox o.
e Minneapolis; Miss Birdie Steele, Mis-:
e Ruth Meyer, Mr.. and Mrs. Peter
Schaub, st. Paul; Miss Anne 1saacs
: New York; j. F. Chaplin, Indianapo'
lis, and J. r. Stanton of washington
/, D. c.
A pretty affair of yesterday wa
s the luncheon given by Miss Abbi'
! Reed at her summerhome on Long
view Hill. Her guests were the Misses
: Echo McKusick, Grace Cotterell, Alta
: Mapes, Florence Wardell, Hope Brut
ton, Esther Stoft, Louise Abbott ane
: lydia Smith. The decorations wer
all in white and pink and the center
= piece was a large bouquet of pink ant
y white asters, and at each cover wa
a corsage bouquet of pink and white
n sweet peas, with a pretty gauze al
g grette as a favor. After the luncheon
s. Miss Reed entertained her guests o.
;, q boating party on the steamer Acte.
IS Mrs. w. T. Joslin gave q prett,
lake luncheon Thursday afternoon a
ID Old Orchard, Wildhurst. Cover
( were laid for eight and the table dec
:. orations were carried out with guam
r. titles of pink asters and pink sWee
peas.
The Charles Laird quartet fur
/ nished musical treat yesterday eve
J ming for the guests Of Hotel Tonk
Bay and their friends. Thursda
+ night the young people at the hote
! were entertained at indoor golf 10
Miss Foster, and the prize was cap
y tured by Irene RamsdelL This eve
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