Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-07-14
PORTALES

One of the biggest and most en-
ioyable social events that was ever
held in Portales was given on FIJI
day evening when the members Oh
the Womeh's Methodist Missionary
society made a "trip around the
world" An invitation had pre-
yiously been extended to everyone
in Portales to make the trip with
them. with a promise of free trans
porfation to the different coun-
tries. The crowd gathered at the
Methodist church at Z O'Clock ana
was driven to the home or MT
and Mrs C. NJ. Taylor, where they
gathered on the beautiful, grassy
lawn. which was made bright with
many electric lights and the peo-
pie were in the greatest country
in the world the United States.
After several selections by the
portales band, a plate dinner was
served to 200 people on the lawn,
and consisted of fried chicken,
gravy, Dreamed Irish potatoes, let
tuce leaves, cucumber pickles.
bread and butter sandwiches ana
hot coffee, for which the grownups
were charged so cents and the
chit So cents. but everywhere
=. whole trip was furnished
fga 20 charge,
.he United states all were
arrive , the beautiful home of
Wr and Mrs. Ed. Hawkins. where
a t~ad Holland and made
DOW Queen Wilhelmina sitting
.4 j. mama on1 yipwp6 a Dutch
mill, and were served rye
,read sandwiches and hot cocoa,
From Holland all drove to the SUI
burhan home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Claud Jones and were ushered into
japanese tea room,' by the re-
ceiving lady, who sat on the floor
and bowed her head to the floor
as the people entered. Everyone
was given a seat on the floor and
were served banana waters and
tea. The next country visited was
England, at the country home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Mueller, where
all were ushered into the throne
room and bowed to King George
and Queen Mary on their throne.
From the throne room they were
escorted into an English tea gar
den and were given an English
walnut as favor" and enjoyed
a drink Of tea with waters.
The next country visited was at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Earnest
Wheeler, where each one was re-
CURED to present his passport,
and went over the international
bridge into old Mexico, which was
heavily guarded by Mexican SOL
diers and where there were Mex
lean men, women and children ev-
erywhere. The first attraction was
a Mexican fortune teller in a tent
playing her mandolin, and from
there they went into Mexican eat
ing house where a Mexican woman
sitting on the floor dispensed chill
to everyone, and a woman by her
side handed out the crackers. The
last country visited was Ireland,
, at the spacious home of eX-Gov-
ernor and Mrs. w. E. Lindsey,
where an Irish woman sitting a.
a little spinning wheel, on which
was, a bunch of hacked flax and a
spool of thread, spun from the flax
and also home pieces of the linen
which many years ago was woven
from the thread, the finished prod
uct of the flax, This represented
how the Irish people secured the
material for their clothing and
proved interesting to the children,
especially. who asked many ques-
tons, as they knew nothing of the
way the former generations Sc
cured the material for their cloth
ing. After sightseeing and listen
ing to selections with Miss Lillian
Bramlet at the piano, accompanied
by Mr.. Stephenson with his clari.
net. The people passed out onto
the broad veranda where mint
lemonade and waters were served
Then the crowd congregated or
the specious grassy lawn electri,
cally lighted and were entertained
for an hour by the Portales band
At a late hour the people returned
to their homes from a delightful
trip around the world in six hours
Prof. Pryor B. Timmons o.
Clarksburg, Ohio. arrived in Por
tales on Wednesday and is the
house guest of Mrs. Rhoda John
sui anu SlSAtl' SISs hhlS NtS'
also previously from Ohio. Profes
sor Timmons is widely known owe
New Mexico, as he first lived 70
several months in Roswell, afte
which he entered the normal uni
versity at Las Vegas and from thi
school he graduated in 1913. Fo
two years he was principal of tn
Portales High school and at tn
end of that time he entered tn
state university at Albuquerque
from which institution he gradu
ated in 1917. After his giadua
ton from the university he wa
superintendent of schools at Sa
Marcial for one year, from wher
he was called to Ohio on accour
of the illness of his father, nm
has since remained in that stat
with his parents. For the pa!
four years he has been connecte
with the high school at Clarks
burg, Ohio. Professor Timmor
feels as though he belongs to Ne
Mexico.
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