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OLD TIME SOCIAL EVENT RECALLEDVlay Day Party Invitation is FoundIN LOCAL ATTICSolicits Presence at Function to Be Held in Grey-lock House in May of 1873.Memories of the days of long ago. yhen social affairs were conducted on a different scale that prevails nowadays, are revived by an invitation to a “May Day Party and Ball to be held at the Greyiock house on Thursday evening, May 1st, 1873, that prs recently found In an attic at the home of Frank Potter on East streetThe Invitation, on which the printing is still in excellent condition, although the paper Itself is yellowed by nge, reads a* follows: May day party and ball to take place at the Greylock house, South Adams, Thursday evening. May 1, 1813. To which your company with ladies is most respectfully solicited. Committee of arrangements, E. M. Wood, J. Campbell, J. Osborne; floor managers, A. S. Mynard, «7. Campbell, lt;John Don, James Osborne, L. Haworth; music, Briggs’ Quadrille bRnd, R- B. Briggs, prompter. Tickets for dancing |2. Supptr furnished by Landlord Farnsworth.The Landlord Farnsworth mentioned in the invitation was William Farnsworth, who was at one time a deputv sheriff. He was the grand- ; lather of Mrs. Albert W. Jones of Crandall street. Tho John Don mentioned b» one of the floor managers was a relative of the late.Mre. Marshall Potter, while the R. B. Briggs who was prompter was the father of Richard Briggs of North Adams.
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North Adams Transcript
North Adams, Massachusetts, US
Tue, Oct 27, 1931
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