The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-08-29
About $50 at Lawn Party
by WOman'S Club at
Retreat
CAMP NITAWA GIRLS
DANCE IN COSTUME
Group of Songs by Mrs. A. H. Brason
and Orchestral Selections-Fort
Teller's Tent and Sales Tables Re
ceive Large Patronage.

To the strains of the bridal march from
Lohengrin played by the orchestra the 80
tots who took part in the midget wedding
presented by the ways and means commit
tee Of the Brattleboro Woman's club yes
terday took their places under large
maple tree in front of the gymnasium on
the Retreat grounds, surrounded by ap-
proxlmately $50 guests on the grounds
and many others who enjoyed the pro-
gram from points of vantage on the brow
OF the hill on the north side of the COM
mon.
While this event was the center of at
traction at the annual lawn party of the
club other features drew their full share
OF attention, as was manifested by the
enthusiasm over the fancy dances executed
by young women from Camn Nitawa and
vocal selections by Mrs. A. H. Brasor. and
by the rapid disappearance Of articles
from the various tables The contents of
the candy and cake tables and the grab
cart were disposed of at an early hour.
the useful and fancy articles found ready
sale, d large number of children and
grown-Ups waited for their turns at the
booth of the fortune teller. and several
persons were kept busy in the rear Of
the gymnasium, where ice cream and soft
drinks were sold
The party opened at 8 o'clock and con-
| tinued until after s. The entertainment.
however, did not open until nearly $50.
when three young women from Camp
| Nitawa, in handsome costumes. executed
the Tyrolean dance under the large maple
to the music by the orchestra which was
seated on decorated automobile truck
and which was composed of Mrs. Francis
p. Blake, piano; Frank Snow. violin;
and Arthur H. Brasor, cello Mrs Bra
sor then rendered a group of songs, which
were especially effective in the outdoor
F, air. While placed in an embarrassing po-
| sitlon by donkey, attached to cart in
which the children rode about the grounds,
which began to bray as she began to sing,
| Mrs Brasor rendered her selection in a
way which showed no outward signs of
| disapproval. A butterfly dance, by an
| other Camp Nitawa girl in an orange and
black costume with the green setting
was very pretty and drew hearty ap-
| plause This was followed by the wed.
| ding
Ralph Eldridge and Katherine Ferriter.
|
were ushered to their places under the
large maple by Kimball Barber, who re-
turned for Marion Rice, mother of the
bride. He then joined the other ushers
in the professional As the bride, Mar
| tha George. on the arm of Harold March,
father of the bride, approached the place
where the party was to stand, Charles
] Crosby, as minister, John Tenney, az
bridegroom, and Stewart Barney, as best
man, came across the lawn from the op-
| posite direction The bride was followed
| by her maid of honor, Blanca Newell: the
flower girls, Christine Manley, Elizabeth
! Ferriter, Frances Fenton and Miriam
| Huges; bridesmaids Elizabeth GRAHAM,
Frances Dunlevy, Helene Sparks, Julia
Harvey, Betty March. Gladys Cain, Kath-
crime Jordan, Doris Wood, Helen Thomp.
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