El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-02-24
Parties

Mrs. Frank Powers entertained g
number Of friends delightfully."- or
/ Thursday afternoon, February p. al
her home, 1907 Mesa avenue. with q
George Washington party, in honor OF
! Mrs. Hattie Reed, Of Covngton. KY.
The decorations were suggestive Of
! the day. A picture Of Washington
/ upon a background Of large flags. with
/ red and white carnations in prOfusiOn,
/ made an attractive and pleasing effect
Little Miss Lucille Ayers made an
| ideal George Washington and met the
| guests at the door Then little Mar
| garet O'COnnor, looking as sweet as
/ Martha Washington herself, received
the cards.
Mrs. W. R Brown and Mrs. T r,
Francis welcomed and ushered the
| guests into the parlOr, where Mrs Pow
| ers and Mrs. Reed and Mrs G T. Race
greeted them The hostess was as
sisted in the library by Mrs william
Hogarth, Mrs. William Sachs and Mrs
Mrs. Powers and those assisting her
were becOmingly gowned IN colonial
Zach guest received an artistically
hand-painted cherry design booklet in
which words were to be constructed
garet Hunter received the prize for
the greatest number OF words and Mrs
". } FeWel the consolation The prizes
were symbols of WashingtOn's early
life.
Mrs WIE owen, by request, sang
The Star Spangled Banner" accom-
panied by Mrs. Adine owen.
A very interesting progressive game,
George Travelling to the Cherry Tree,
afforded much amusement Decorated
hatchets were furnished the guests for
score cards, to which were attached
cherry upon each progressive move.
Mrs. Winchester Cooley was winner OF
first prize, a hand-painted plate with
cherry design; Mrs Van Q. Wilson the
second prize, a bottle Of cherries sup
posed to have been picked from the
original. historic cherry tree. To Mrs.
Zack White went the consolation,
stump. The guest prize, presented to
Mrs Reed. was hand-painted plate
designed with clusters Of cherries.
Punch was served throughout the
afternoon. A delicious three-coUrse
lunch was served by Misses Carrie Race
Lucille Daniel, Katherine Warren, Anna
Grace Ellis and Mrs. Jacie /. ESSlinger-
Guests present were Mesdames 7.
J. Woodside, Adine Owen, VIII owen,
Van c. Wilson, Robert L. Daniel c. B.
Patterson, NJ c. Hardin, I J. Ayers, r.
E Bryan, H T. Bowie, Zach White, W.
W. Turney, L. s. Stewart Jesse Payne,
". J. FeWel Walter D. Howe. Winches-
ter Cooley, H, A Bell, W T. HiXsOn, J.
T. OCOnnOr." X. b stevens, w k
Brown, J. c. Nee VIII Sachs. T. r
Francis. George B. Oliver, William HO-
garth. Joseph Sweeney, VIII Groom, c.
E Kelly, Guy Hammett VIII Race.
n A Davidson, c. NJ Clark, J. I.
Esslinger. c. ". Dennis, c. H Finley,
J. c. Schiller, Harry Hall, and c. L.
Steinberger, Of Paris, ky; Misses Mar
garet Hunter, Mary KeefeT Carrie
Race. Lucille Daniel, Margaret O'Con-
nor, Lucille Ayers COrrine Clark. Anna
Grace Ellis and Katherine Warren.
Mrs Fred Kingery entertained on
Thursday in honor Of the birthday an
niversary Of her little daughters. Flor
ence and Evelyn. IL being the eighth
anniversary of Florence and Evelyn's
sixth.
The house was appropriately draped
in red, white and blue bunting flags
and hatchets and in a very conspicuous
place hung large picture Of George
Washington.
The afternoon was spent in playing
games and in singing patriotic songs,
and Mrs. Kingery told them stories Of
George Washington
The dining table was set for the u
little girls and in the center was
placed a large cake with candles and
flags on IT. Refreshments OF red
white and blue ice cream and cake
carried out in every detail.
Those present were Charline Fox.
Florence Rogers. Lillian Chelrus, Katy
Stewart. Anna Stewart, Stanley Bevan,
Adelaide Overstreet. Mary Landen, Vir-
ginia knight, An Rec Knight, Florence
and Evelyn Kingery.