Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-12-29
BOAT CLUB ANNUAL
HOLIDAY PARTY A
FESTIVE OCCASION
GAY CROWD ATTENDS FORMAL
FUNCTION LAST NiGHT-BEAU-
TIFUL GOWNS LEND RICH TONE
TO SOCIAL FUNCTION.

One of the gayest and most elabor-
ate affairs OF the Yuletide season was
the annual formal dance given last
evening at the Boat Club. with about
ono hundred and eighty guests in at
Tendance. This annual affair is the
largest social attraction of the year
In both attendance and gaiety.
The lounge room and ball room were
beautifully decorated in green and red,
in keeping with the holiday season,
and poinsettias were used in pro-
fusion. A large Christmas tree. pretti-
ly decorated, added much to the effect.
and together with the many and beau
tiful gowns worn by the ladies', created
beautiful picture.
Each lady was gowned in the pretti-
est Of dresses fashioned of the latest
STYLES and colors, and each was so
pretty that it would have been hard
task to choose the loveliest. An or
chestra furnished the music for dane
ing, from $3.50 to l. and all who attend
ed spent an evening Of much enjoy
mept.
During the course of the evening
light refreshments were served in the
dining room A large number Of out
of.town guests We're also present. Fol
lowing is the list OF guests who at
tended:
Messrs, and Mesdames Sidney Stei
fel, Sumner Cullen, DR.. A. Roberts.
l.. NJ Bayne, James Catlin, Harley
Petit, +. C. BEEN, Horace Hull
Charles Woodward, Lorenzo Leland,
j.. A. Sapp, Charles Breen, George
Wiley, DIR. p G. Stordock, c. II. King
man, Sidney Weiss, George Fisher,
Walter Hahn, T. u. Mercer, DR.. c. B.
Sharp, J. Hanifen, Frank Sinnott, NJ. ].
Flanagan, p G. Schoch, j. NJ. Megaf-
fin, Roy Shackelton. William Osman,
Clarence Griggs, Charles Irion, w +,
Stanton, DR. S. r. Parr, Charles Irion,
Sr., DR. G. c. Karr Jason f. Richard
son. Gus May, Harry G. Cook, w. G..
Johnson, Nevoy Strawn. LothrOp
Berard, o. c. Johnson, Charles Brad
ford. Frederick Knowles, Charles Hor.
nung, b. Baughman, Fred Schercr, Jr.,
Earl Haeberle, A. ]. O'Conor, Riley
Trumbo, Ernest Pool. |. l. Hanna, G..
p Taylor, G. f. Bissell, Bruce David
son. Melvin French, c. B. Chapman,
Gus May of Ottawa, Sam Cobb, Colum-
bus O.. Harry Smedley. of Chicago,
Stuart Duncan. Walter Duncan, and V.
j. Diamond, of La Sale.
F., Mesdames w. X. kavalHugh, of st.
Louis +. a. Sherwood, G. NJ. Trimbla,
Nettie NJ Duncan, of DeKalb, Ill.,, c.
II Ryon and Trumbo.
Messers Harold Buffers, 4. II. Van
Schock Harry Zimmerman, of Peru,
Harold G.. Woodward, Harold Wiley.
Rev. Hugh McWhorter, Olen May, of
Urbana, Harold Sanders, Theodore
Damgard, Porter Taylor, Strawn La
Clair. Louis Woodward, Frank Suttle,
Walter Scherer. Fred Sanders, Phil.
Godfrey, Dale Morahn, Walter Schm.
idt. Clifford Noonan, Ben Settler,
Strawn Trumbo, Jack Edwards, of LA
Sale, James Merrill, Ben Settler and
Luther Bangs, of Chicago, Frank Nc.
Closky. OF Morris.
Misses Ann Hathaway, Marjorie
Refior. Helen Milligan, Mary Cation
Rachel Bradish Vera Morley, Rather
inc Lucey. Leila Lincoln Louise Bed
ford of La Sale, Florence Hanna
Katherine Davis, Helen Bull, Wanda
Dillon, of Chicago, Marcella Comis
key, of Streator, Alvena Scherer, JOS
ephine Snow, Ina Snow, Helen Ryan
of La Sale, Margaret Magner. of Nor
ris, Katherine Lincoln, Helen and Mar
garet Scherer.