Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1908 — George Washington Card Party. [ARTICLE]

George Washington Card Party.

Mrs. Will F. Smith and Mrs. Frank Ham received about 75 of their lady friends at the home of the latter on Thursday afternoon at a card party, the game of cards being flipper. The house decorations were appropriated to Washington’s birthday, and American flags were draped about the rooms, and the flowers were red and white carnations. The refreshments were also served in patrlolc colors. The prizes were won by Mrs. James Fletcher and Mrs. Geo. M. Robtnsbn, the former receiving a beautiful cut glass bonbon dish and Mrs. Robinson receiving a cut glass tooth pick holder. In the evening the husbands of several of the ladies were invited in to play cards. The affair is reported to have been a very pleasant one.