Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-10-27
SYLVAN SOCIAL
BIG SUCCESS

Last Saturday was one of the
pleasantest days that could be
asked for, Offering special induce
ments as it did to the members of
Sylvan camp RNA. to accept the
invitation of Neighbor Mrs. Ed.
Eliason to hold their regular
meeting at her home, eight miles
southeast of town-so pleasant, in
fact, that one of the male members
got SO impatient that he hiked out
afoot and got there several min
utes before the ''sisters" appeared
in sight. The two jitney busses"
contained Mrs r. b. Ellis and
daughters Miss Amy and Mrs Am
brose Dunn and Mrs Henry Olson.
in one. and Mesdames HI. e. Gates
and M. Voorhes in the other; to-.
gether with little Francis Gates,
Hazel Olson and Jeanie Dunn.
prospective members of the camp.
A third auto brought from their
down-river ranch Mr. and Mrs
Ripley. Mrs G. Rosa and Miss
Breen. Counting their hostess.
Mrs Eliason. this made eight mem
bers of the camp present, and ten
Royal Neighbors, Ms Olson being
a member of the campi in Ft. Pierre
and Mrs Voorhes of the camp in
Wonewoc, Wis. Miss Breen is
making her home with Mr. and
Mrs Ripley, and is engaged at
teaching ''the young ideas how to
shoot" in their neighbor. while
Will, after partaking of the boun-
teous dinner, stated he was almost
persuaded" now to be 9 Royal
Neighbor, too.
The impatient male member
aforesaid on arrival found some
thing like a dozen persons already
gathered around the festive board
comprising besides the members of
the family, the assistants to the
threshing crew of the Jones broth
ers. who were threshinp out the
|golden grain at the rate of 20 bu
to the acre, oats and other grains
also going at the top figure. A
glance at the viands at close
range showed that at least one
threshing crew were living on the
''fat of the, land;;" and this was
testified to by Earl Mosher, Irving
Werner and Will Barrett. whose
appearance indicated that they
and their boss were on the best of
terms. Will told us confdentially
that Earl and Irving had been ini-
tiated into the Order of tt,
Gt was Spanish name and we
have forgotten how to spell it),
they were now known by the said
Order as Heavy" and 'sBoxcar
Slim respectively.
Then another dozen or more
consisting of Sylvan camp and its
guests-sat down TO feast that
would have done honor to English
royalty or even Americas White
House; it is too much of task fo1
us to attempt to describe the grea,
variety and excellence that the ta-
BILE was loaded with. As to wha,
was done when the camp was call.
ed to order, we don't know much.
because we accepted Will Ripley's
invitation to ride out with him te
the threshing machine, -excep,
that the next meeting place was
designated as Mrs. r. B. Ellis anc
voted to require every member tc
answer to roll-call at next meeting
by repeating a quotation from
J Longfellow.
The writer fortunately did no
) haye to walk home: and memor,
fingers still Of the many prosper
Gus farms noted in the eight-mil,
journey, of the beautiful building.
: and grounds of the hostess, ane
the Ssfeast of reason and flow O,
soul' crowning the good things te
eat and the fraternalism of friends
and neirhhors