The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1911-02-10
LOCUST GROVE

demiC OF La grippe IN Locust drove
this week.
Mrs. Bolton of Kennewick spent
last week at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
]. NJ. Wroe.
]. F. Larkin is preparing to do
some building on Section 5. His
family will move out March l.
MIR. Svatonsky entertained num-
Der of friends Tuesday, Jan. 81, at
his home near Gopher Well. The
evening was spent in singing and
dancing and all report very enjoy
able affair. He will give another
similar entertainment Feb. II, and
everybody is cordially invited. An
unusual amount of musical ability for
a small community has been brought
to light since ting beginning of the So
cial events this winter. A good part
of every evening is spent in singing.
1t was especially fine during the sup
per hour at the Dodson home last
Saturday evening.
The next social will be held at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. Anon,
Feb. 18. Everyone is invited and a
lively time is anticipated.
The seventh community social OF
the Locust Grove Club was held at
the Dodson ranch Saturday evening.
This was the second invasion upon
Jim's hospitality and the way the
crowd turned out showed how well
they appreciated the freedom of the
place and the good times which are
sure coming. There are no Keep
of-the-grass' signs, nor other danger
signals to run up against, and one does
not fear of running his bundle of fun
beyond the speed limit.
There is something doing all the
time, for when people such as these
who attend the social events, drive for
miles thru the winters chilly air, they
bring with them an enthusiasm of a
nature that will not sit perched upon
a window sill as a wall flower
They make the most of the times thus
earned.
Saturday evenings entertainment
consisted of general good fellowship
and literary program to which the
greater number of those present con-
tributed some part. A duet, he
Harvest Moon by Carl Sickles and
Mrs. Kniffen, was especially appre-
ciated, also solo by Mr.. Trimble
was equally entertaining.
But the main feature of the eve
ming was the Reproduction of the
drama, The Courtship of Miles
Standish, the principal characters in
the play, Miles Standish and John AL
den, were creditably represented by
Messrs. Ralph Lodge and Henry
Campbell, while Miss Mabel Pratt,
as Priscilla did excellent justice to
the princess of Plymouth. Messrs.
Lodge and Campbell, dressed in the
old Colonial costumes and court OF
arms looked well their parts while
Miss Pratt as Priscilla gave very
natural twirl to the old spinning wheel
as she laughingly scorned the Cap
tain's proposal by proxy.
Miles Standish never gave vent re
greater wrath toward John Alden
than did this understudy vent upon
poor Campbell in the third act when
he thot his friend had played him
false and, but for the sudden appear
anca of the excited messenger, cred
itably represented by Clarence Roberts
his anger might have led to violence.
The stage setting was very realistic,
the Indian, Big Chief Jim, being at
tired like Pau-Puk-Kee-Wis. He
was dressed in shirt of doe skin, white
and soft and fringed with Ermine, All
lnwrought with beads of wampum.
He was dressed in deer-skin leggins. :"
Oh, he looked like Mohican, did
this big Chief Broncho Buster.
So very realistic did all this appear
in this colonial scene that it would
have seemed perfectly natural if Sir
Richard Warren or some of the rest
of those old charter members had
stepped out upon the stage, but they
didn' t and it just as well for it might
have caused a hitch in the play and
we have already said it was carried
thru in very creditable manner, and
much of that credit is due to Mrs.
Fred Peed who designed the cos
tunes and stage settings and drilled
the understudies.
Immediately following the play an
oyster supper was served at the ex-
pense of the losing side in the rabbit
hunt, of several days ago. This sup
per was prepared under the personal
supervision of Mrs. Albert Luth and
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