The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-10-04
ELKS RECEPTION LAST NIGHT
WAS A GREAT SOCIAL EVENT

1 Moscow were welcoming the students
of the university and the high school.
Each church had issued an invitation
to the students who are affiliated
with any church, to come to its place
of worship last night and meet the
young people of Moscow. 1t was a
splendid move, equally as worthy and
well planned as the Ellls reception to
4 the teachers and faculty members
! The students responded. Every church
held a reception and greeted the new
students. Each church was asked to
furnish brief account of its recep-
ton. The reports that have been re-
ceived follow.
Methodist Episcopal Church.
Here the reception to students was
voted complete success. About 125
young people were in attendance and
there was not a dry moment from be-
ginning to end. The room was beau
tifully decorated and welcome COM
mittees were right on hand to make
every one feel at home.
The crowd was divided into three
groupes and all kinds of stunts and
contests were put over. A Soap
Bubble Track Meet" was the conclud-
ing contest and things were lively up
to the very time of leaving, the time
of taking refreshments being almost
as animated as the rest of the mo-
ments.
Many young people who had not
known each other before, became ac-
quainted, and the spirit of good fell
lowship was every where felt.
At Presbyterian Church.
ho proc Iyto CT re
university were entertained last night
by the Christian Endeavorers of the
local church. More than two hundred
invitations were sent out and the
crowd of young people which gather
ed quite taxed the capacity of the
social rooms of the church. The out
standing feature of the evenings en-
tertainment was a play presented by
Marion Byrns, Gertrude Christen,
Robert Eldridge, Margaret Byrns,
and Ernestine Brown. Glatha
Hatfield played piano solo, and
Mary Van .Tilborg, president. OF the
young peoples society, extended the
welcome and gave some interesting
suggestions concerning the winters
work. The primary room was trans
formed into a cafe where refresh
ments were served. While the menu
cards were ineligible only to the in
itiated, all were able to appreciate the
doughnuts and the cider and the |
pumpkin pie with whipped cream.
At the Baptist Church.
The young people of the church I
transformed the old building into a |
bower of bloom and beauty. Great !
masses of green banked the recesses I
Of ho
Virginia creeper touched I
with the glory of the early frosts was
arily festooned about the platform
and the front of the church. Ferns
and potted plants were in profusion
and tall vases of cut flowers, astors
in purple and white, stood sentinel
over scene of chaste lovliness. The
young people had planned for many
days and the entire affair was well
in hand. It was jolly crowd, free
from restraint, and they entered
heartily into the occasion. A direct
ing hand was here unseen where joy
and mirth held carnival. The pro-
gram was brief and varied. Mr.. Mac
oherson's reading of Burns in the
Scotch was of especial interest. The
were inviting and
abundant. The old First church's af-
sairs are never marked by the crowds
put by a fine spirit of genuine hos
oitality, good fellowship and abund-
ance of good things to eat. 1t was
veil worth while
At Christian Church
About sixty young people attended
he social given at the Christian
church last night in honor of the uni
1ersity and high school students
They report pleasant evening. Re-
reshments were served.
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