100 years ago
FEBRUARY 9, 1905
The beautiful home of Mr. W.J. Carpenter was the scene of a gay assemblage last night, when Mesdames J.N. Rogers, W.H. Carpenter and Charles Wells, as hostesses, received about thirty-five of their lady friends in fancy dress attire, representing almost every country on the globe, and almost all periods of history and many symbolical characters. As the guests entered the colonial reception hall a quaint and fascinating picture was presented, with the three receiving ladies in regular Holland Dutch costumes, perfectly conceived, from the little dutch caps on their heads to the quaint wooden shoes on their feet. Little Randolph Carpenter attended the door dressed as a Holland boy, and he was certainly a typical dutch boy. One of the pleasing features was father Niederhauser, dressed in his Sunday best, playing quaint dutch music upon an accordion. The house was elaborately decorated with choice cut flowers, one novel feature of decorations being in the dining room — the round mahogany table was laid with a large table mirror around which were planted as if growing in round beds, freshly bloomed tulips, at one side of the mirror as if by a pool of water, was a miniature dutch windmill in motion. This piece of ingenious mechanism was the work of Harry Rogers. A dutch supper was served in the dining room, which consisted of such delicacies as rye bread, switzer cheese, salt pickles, sausages, coffee cake, coffee, etc. Every guest proved herself as artist in her makeup, and the whole function was probably the most artistically planned and executed of any affair ever given in Marion, Mrs. Carpenter's home being particularly adapted to such an affair.
Street Commissioner Adkins is busy cleaning the snow off the crossings all over the city, and he requests us to ask the citizens to have their walks cleaned off before they become sloppy. He is doing his part to make walking easy and you should do yours.
