Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1909 — MR. AND MRS. HONAN ENTERTAIN. [ARTICLE]

MR. AND MRS. HONAN ENTERTAIN.

Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Honan entertained nearly two hundred of their friends in their handsome new home on Front street St. Patrick's day, Mrs. Honan having the ladies there in the afternoon at progressive euchre, and Mr. Honan an excldreive stag party in the evening. Mrs. Honan is not of the “auld sod,” but Ed has enough Irish blood for both of them, and both the afternoon and evening’s entertaining was in honor of Ireland’s patron saint. The decorations were green and white, and very tasty and appropriate, the shamrock being much.in evidence both in the decorations and in the afternoon’s refreshments. Ed had his stags busy at “Black Maria,” hnd Howard Mills carried off the honors and a handsome deck of cards, while Frank Hill captured the booby prize, a head of cabbage. Ed’s refreshments consisted of a “Dutch lunch” with the cool, ambercolored liquid omitted, hot coffee taking its place, which was an excellent substitute and more generally appreciated than would have been the former. Mrs. W. F. Smith carried off the honors at the afternoon entertainment, a handsome green silk flag bearing a picture, of a harp and the emblem, “Erin-go-bragh,” which translated means ‘ Ireland Forever,” and Mrs. Dr. Corcoran the guest’s prize, a hand-painted china plate. There were about 60 ladies present in the afternoon, and some 80 gentlemen in the evening, and those who know the Honan’s reputation for entertaining need not be told that every one had an excellent time.