The Dickinson press., 1909-01-30
MANY IN COSTUME
Maskers at Annual Ball of Aux.
iliary to B. of L. f. Have Merry
Time-Fully IS Couples Com
pete For Prizes. ASuccess.

Aue annual masquerade Oall OF the
Auxiliary to the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers in the armory Friday
evening of last week was one of the
largest attended dances of its kind held
for q long time. There were fully 100
couples masked and in costume while
every inch of available room in the
gallery and on the floor was occupied
with spectators. Financially the dance
was very successful and the ladies
realized a good sum.
The hall was effectively decorated in
the national colors and with streamers
of bunting from the center of the hall
to the corners. crossed flags. etc. looked
especially we'll. The balcony was
draped with bunting and in the center
was a search light which was used for
moonlight effects. Over, the stage was a
banner with Welcome and the name
of the Auxiliary upon it.
With so many couples in costume,
there was a wide opportunity for a
great variety of characters and many
effective designs were to be seen on the
floor. 1t was impossible to secure any
where near q complete list of maskers,
so no attempt is made at mentioning the
names of those who were in costume.
The management awarded prizes for
the handsomest and most comical ladies
and gentlemen. Miss Myrtle Cramer,
as the Queen of France. was declared to
have the handsomest costume worn by
the ladies. The first prize for the
gentleman wa q tie between Lee Nichols
and Michael Drury, who were dressed
almost alike as colored dudes. They
drew lots for the honor and Mr.. Nichols
was the successful one. The first prize
l $on thu voNot' oovnS0o0 lolxy 1.yne ~v.vo,lnl
to Miss Mabel Cummings who repre-
scented Looking Backward. Frank
Hubbell as a German with big wooden
shoes, carried off the honors as the most
comical gentleman.
There were a large number of others
who deserved prizes. Among the char
acters represented were an Indian maid
and Indian chief. COW boys and COW
girls, Dutch girls, liberty girls. flower
girls. good luck costumes. Dickinson
police. turk. devil. Uncle Sam, Spanish
girls. princes. tambourine girls. inumer-
able clowns. a night shirt brigade with
candles, red sheat.. gowns, girls in
gowns of every imaginable color, South
ern nanny, darkies, rubes. tramps,
Red Cross nurses, Mexicans, show girls,
Irish characters. Jews, pedlers, sailors,
soldiers, Tommy Atkins, butterfly, etc.,
etc.
The grand march was led by the two
darby dudes with colored ladies as
partners and was an interesting sight
with all the different costumes. Until
eleven O'Clock. none were allowed to
participate in the dancing who were
not Masked and the fun was fast and
furious. Between the dances. the antics
of the comic characters convulsed the
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ment. The awarding of the prizes was
followed by a circle two-step during
which the unmasking took place. After
the masks had been removed, Photo
grapher A. j. Osborn took a flash light
group of those in costume. Dancing
was then participated in by a crowd OF
fully $50 couples until after 3 O'Clock.
The music furnished by the Dickinson
Military orchestra was unusually good and
the dance program included several
barn dances which have become all the
rage here.
There were quite q number of out OF
town quests at the dance. A delegation
from Glendive was expected but a train
mems dance there the same evening
interfered with the plans. Among those
from Mandan were Mr.. and Mrs. D. S.
ILittlehales, Joseph Crosthwaite, Ed.
Nichols. Mrs. Bradford and Miss
fBlanchett.
The Dickinson branch of the Auxili-
airy is n of the smallest in the order
i nipoint of members. The fact that the
branch has 10 members on its rolls does
not e to be a hoodoo, for everything
the ladies have taken up has been
successful.
All of the Is members made up the
different committees and all had an
active part in the success of the dance.
The ladies include Mrs. w. H. Flanagan,
Mrs. ALI White, Mrs. w. w. Holbrook,
Mrs. Charles Brislin, Mrs. j. ]. Sweeney,
Mrs. Archie Dingman, Mrs. P. A. Berg,
Mrs. r. D. Jennings. Mrs. Michael Drury
and Mrs. L. D. Sundquist of Dickinson.
Mrs. James Mcdonald and Mrs. Nelson
Luthe of Mandan and Mrs. r. E. Grund
of Forsyth, Mont.