The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1922-01-05
FITTING CELEBRATION FOR
CLUB MEMBERS
Decorations Deluxe, Plenty of
Pep and Lots of Fun as the
New Year is Rung in.

The evening of Dec. 81, 1921, seems
destined to go down in the history
of the Du Pont Club as ''The Night
of the Big Time" In future times,
there may be party with more
people in attendance; there may be
a party with better decorations
though this is matter of grave
doubt. But there never will be q
party which will combine all of the
various desirable elements which go
to make up what everybody recog-
nizes as a 'sBig Time," to much
greater degree than the New Years
Ball at the Du Pont Club last Satur-
day evening.
The party was announced for 8
2. NJ, and strange to say, there were
Z dancing people on hand at $3.50 50
that the dancing started in then at
full force. This is probably re-
cord in itself, so far as Washburn is
concerned, as the tendency here OF
late years has been to start the
dancing later and later in the even
ing, until it got to be pretty nearly
next day before things were in full
swing.
AS the guests arrived in the build
ing, they were greeted on lett by
Tony Major and most seductive
array of palatable fluids, commonly
known as "pop," but really deserving
OF more fitting appellation; on the
right stood Frank Skuhra and few
able lieutenants, who received and
checked all wraps, and what is more,
got them hack to their owners the
following year without either COM
ing out short, or having any pieces
left over.
The view that burst upon the gaze
of the dancers as they entered the
gymnasium was-well, it was some
view! The decorative ideas were
mostly Charlie RummePs and you
can credit Charlie with perfect
SCORE. Evergreen boughs, bright
colored crepe paper, artificial snow,
colored lights and tinsel were indus
triously applied to the interior OF
the gym by the decoration commit
tee. and the effect was certainly
beautiful.
The central feature of the decora-
tive scheme was kept dark until the
dance was in full swing. This con-
sisted of an inverted cone made of
a network of cord hanging from the
ceiling, with its point hidden among
a mass of evergreens in the middle
of the floor. Inside the point We're
thirty or forty colored balloons, rest
ing quietly in the network. Nothing
at all was done with this peculiar
apparatus for an hour or SO after
the dancing began, and the crowds
curiosity got higher and higher.
Finally. as the orchestra swung into
the strains of peppy trot, the re-
gular lights were switched off, and
q powerful light in the evergreen
oedestal was turned on, Illuminating
the colored balloon, the balloons
themselves began to get uneasy, and
finally, as the fan gatheredd speed,
rose toward the ceiling in a multi
colored mass, and drifted out in the
air current, only to fall back in again,
and form a constantly moving foun-
tain The effect was so unique
that everybody forgot to dance far
a minute, while ripple of applause
ran around the room.
There was some uneasiness in the
minds of the builders Of this feature
Of the decorations on account OF
the inconvenience it. was sure to
cause to one of our prominent young
men-about- town, who recently ac-
hieved some newspaper publicity as
speed demon. from Missouri. The
reason was that the evergreen base
completely covered the four-foot
circle on which he is accustomed to
perform his celebrated "Crawfish
Creep" and would spoil his whole
evening. He was equal to the oc-
cason, however, and could be seen all
during the evening slowly revolving
backward about an imaginary point
situated five feet and six inches due
northeast from the geometrical CEN
ter Of the floor.
The spirit of the occasion inspired
neople who have remained unmoyed
n such circumstances for years; even
Dan Maxcy, who has not been known