, 1907-12-28
SOCIETY EVENTS
! OF The WEEK

/; OF The WEEK :
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WITH two naadred children in attend
ance At the first library story hour, the
movement Is marked from the begin
ming as q success and its possibilities
are certainly limitless. The choice of
initial speakers was both fortunate and
wise. Mrs. Brown having earned long
ago a reputation for fascinating her
audience whether young Or old. while
Mrs. Ivinson's account Of the first
Christmas entertainment ever given in
Laramie and probably in Wyoming was
|m~aryelously graphic and interesting.
Those who heard her Jaw plainly the
great tree itself, twelve feet high. the
spacious hotel dining room wreathed
and festooned with e%vergreens and
decorated with all the pictures in the
frontier town, and all who listened
mingled with that remarkable Assem-.
bsase of young and old which flocked
from every city and hamlet, from lone
|ly mine and tie camp to witness the
marvel of a Christmas tree on the bar
rem crest of the Rockies. Men and
women of strong character penetrated
the wilderness of those days, and 1t is
meet that those who now reap where
they so st%renuously have sown should
is indeed fitting and good that Lara
mic children of today should thus be
brought to realize how stately cathe-
+dral, beautiful churches and all the priv.
.leges which they now enjoy have fol.
lowed as direct results of that union
Sunday school Of thirty-nine years ago
and of the indomnitable energy OF the
organizers who planned and 30 success,
fully carried out a Christmas tree and
entertainment for a "shanty town" less
than q year old.
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Christmas. was merrily and happily
celebrated in Laramie. But the festivi.
ties were very largely Of a private ma
ture, parlor trees and family dinners
occupying the attention in almost ev-
cry residence. A brief chronicle of a
few Of these. therefore, will give An
Of all:
Mr.. and Mrs. W. H. Holiday kept
open house for children and grand.
children all Christmas morning, a
beautiful and heavily ladened tree de-
lighting one and all.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Ivinson enter.
MI. and Mrs. Jesse Converse
at dinner.
The Lee and Fox families made
merry together, as 10 their custom, din
ing at Prof. Lees and enjoying the tree
at Grandma Blake's in the evening. This
notable party includes two sets Of four
generations in entirely separate lines.
the first group consisting of Great
grandma Blake, Mrs. Fox. Mrs. Dixon
and little Wesley Dixon, and the other
Great-grandma Gray, Mrs. Lee, Mrs.
Carlisle and Alice Laurel Carlisle. Mr..
Carlisle secured photographs of the re-
markable PARTY.
Prof. and Mrs. Ridgaway entertained
DR.. and Mrs. J. F. Brown.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Reed had GOV
ers laid for Rev. and Mrs. Trout and
the children, Mrs. Patterson, Miss Lulu
Mead of Basin, and Messrs. John.
Thompson and Will Reed.
Prof. and Mrs. Nelson had as their
guests Prof. and Mrs. Bramhall and
sons. and Miss Leichhardt, Miss Neva
Nelson. who is teaching at Rock
Springs. being also at home for the
holidays.
Rev. A. c. Hogbin dined at the Lati.
residence.
Mrs. WEIGH. Mr.. Gibson and Miss Ad-
oA WGo CA0 8ucoIo VI MIO. 0AAA8 h.
Knight.
Mrs. Downey gathered her children
at home for the family reunion and
tree.
Mrs. J. T. Peckeupaugh and Neaie
Thaddeus we're entertained At the Dur.
|lacher residenc.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Davis entertainer
their children and grandchildren, the
party also including MI. and Mrs. H.
D. Beemer and C. W. Berry.
DR.. Wergeland had a tree Christmas
eve. her guests being Miss Alice He.
bad OF Cheyenne. D.. and Mrs. Brown,
Miss Grace Hebard. Miss Adsit, Miss
Kate Wright and Miss Leichhardt. The
yard at the Doctors Inn is now a pretty
scene from Norway. the tree being
!erected there for the birds and sheaves
of grain having been out I'm for their