The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-06-16

Two baseball mines composed en-
tirely of prominent young ladies, with
Official umpire, mascots, captains and
all the paraphenelia that goes to make
up such affairs, have been organized,
at Cooperstown, N. D. We have no
doubt some interesting games will be
played. We do not know what the
requirements are for membership in
the league, but we hope the gentle
men will be gallant and arrange mat
ters 80 these brave young ladies can
at once be made members. We also
Z hope they will be properly challenged
for game with our own home team
About forty Of IL the friends Of Mr..
D. Fordney on North Fifth street on
learning that Friday was his fifty
second birthday anniversary decided
to gather and give that popular gem
tleman a happy surprise. A splendid
mahogany chair was carried along as
token Of their esteem and good will
and was happily presented by Rev. H.
Witham. The Messrs. Carpenters de-
lighted the company with their sing
ing as did Mrs. Witham with her solos.
Dainty refreshments were served.
Games were played at which Miss
Desecker. Miss Roberts. Mr.. George
Carpenter and Mr.. Witham carried on
the souvenirs.
A Paris newspaper criticises our
own Princess Alice" in the follow
ing manner-says an eastern ex-
change.
The, "Petit Parisien." commenting
on the visit Of Mr.. and Mrs. Long
worth to England, remarks upon what
1t calls the exaggerated importance
that is being attached to the travels
of President Roosevelt's daughter. 1t
says: Zone might think queen, was
making an oflcial tour away from her
realm
The Petit Parisien" adds: 1.-THE
lady accommodates herself remark
ably to the mise en- scene and does not
appear to be imbued with the republi-
can ideas of her country. But Mr..
and Mrs. Longworth are forgetting
that in three years time President
Roosevelt will again become an ord
mary citizen and be returned to the
obscurity in which his predecessors
ended their days. A less ostentations
honeymoon would therefore have been
in better taste" Does that not sound
envious?-Ed.
Mrs. H. NJ Wheeler has returned
from pleasant trip to Minneapolis
and her old home at Sank Rapids,
Mimi. While away she spent one day
the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. John Birk-
holz at their cottage at Lake Mime
tonka. The Birkholz cottage is de-
scribed as one Of the prettiest at Min
netonka with beautiful grounds and
sunken garden. Mrs. Wheeler was
also a guest at the Gould-Benham
wedding in Minneapolis. This was a
very quiet affair on account of illness
in the brides family, but still one OF
note on account of the prominence of
the contracting parties. Mr. James A.
Gould, the groom, is the son of Mrs.
Alice M. Gould, formerly proprietor of
the big Gould estates at Buxton and
we'll known here. The bride was Miss
Benham Of Minneapolis, daughter of
a prominent retired business man and
of the exclusive set of that city. The
marriage was solemnized at st. Marks
by the Right Rev. Bishop Edsall and
Immediately afterward a wedding
luncheon was served at the Concord
apartments. Mrs. Gould, the mother
of the groom, arrived home the Thurs
day before from a years travel in
Europe to be in attendance at the we'd
ding.
Invitations are out announcing the
approaching marriage of Miss Ethel
Mae Walker to Mr.. Earl B. Mattison
on Wednesday, June 20. at the home
Of the brides parents at Inkster, N.
D. Both young people are popular in
that part of the county and the we'd
ding will be one of prominence.
Miss Mary Corbett arrived here Sat-
urday evening from San Francisco,
Cal, to be the guest; Of Miss Bessie
Bull for few weeks. Miss Corbett is
the daughter of Attorney and Mrs.
Burke Corbett, formerly prominent
residents of this city, now of San
Francisco. She has many friends who
will welcome her among them again
and there will be some entertaining
in her honor.
Mrs. ]. G. Hamilton arrived home
from Washington. D. c.. Wednesday
after a delightful winter there. Major
Hamilton will return as soon as con-
gress adjourns. Mrs. Hamilton Wis
tied In Chicago and st. Paul enroute
home. She expresses herself as de-
lighted to return to her old friends,
and especially notes the advancement
of vegetation here. saying it is even
more advanced than in some of the
places farther south.
Miss Lottie Tibbals of Larimore
will be one of the new teachers in
the Grand Forks city schools next
year. She has been teaching the past
year at Devils Lake, but at the last
meeting of the school board there she
sent in her resignation to accept a
position here. Miss Tibbals will be
remembered as the most popular
young lady in the state who enjoyed,
after an exciting vote. the Plaindeal-
er's trip to the Paris exposition and
European trip. as a result, some
years ago. Miss Tibbals is charm
ing young lady and very popular. She