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MX«vn'-PU5ft.• — by BirdieEven the perverse Panhandle weather. co-operated .last Saturday afternoon and evening for the Kritser ranch party which was as handsome-an entertainment as seen in these parts in many a day.The guests began to arrive about five. To reach the Kritser Ranch house, you. leave the highway just beyond the river and approach it by way of a tree bordered lane. The big, rambling white bouse, sits under enormous and ancient cottonwood trees, which have -been pruned until the gnarled old branches make a canopy high over the house. ’ Like a cathedral/’ someone remarked. On reaching the gate, a white coated Negro man took our car and parked it tor us. Then on the lawn we were greeted by the hosts and hostesses, which were Anna Belle Kritser, her three sons, Shelby. David and Tom. and their •wives, Jeanne, Betty and Barbara, respectively. The only members of the family missing were Mrs. Kritser’s daughter, Mary, and her husband, George Miller, who. alas, have moved to Detroit where we’re quite sure nothing so delightful as this party takes place. Everyone missed them.At one side of the house, a pavillion -for dancing had been built with Rip Ramsey’s Band providing the excellent music. Stretched out under the trees in front of the pavillion were tables set .for about 400 guests.Each table, seating around 20 persons,, was covered with red and white checked oil cloth. The center decorations consisted of pumpkins, fall fruits with sprays of maizetnmnvirt + Ui.r» Un ____.1 lt;«. . . 1 1 * f f. 1 .forming the_ background. At each place was a knife, -fork tied up in -a blue and white bandana kerchief,and spoon tied .... ... ...which was supposed to serve as a nankin, .but most everyone used them as scarfs, hobo style. John. Snider prepared the superbly barbecued beef.After dinner,, when the dancing started; the pavillion was filled with people putting their little foots down, fox trotting or waltzing with great gusto. A surprise of the evening was the graceful and agile dancing of Bishop and Mrs..George Quarterman.Out-of-towners at the party included the Bob Master-sons from the King County Ranch, the Fred Hobarts from meir ranch near Canadian, the Joe Scotts and the .T. T. Manns from Dalhart, the Nathan Reynolds from their ranch near Dalhart, the Tom Moores from Hollywood, and \ V? Thil Patton’s from the same place, Alice Maynard from Albuquerque and Georgia Pringle from Bovina.The only slight flaw, in a perfect evening occurred when someone talking politics to Lewis Nordyke inadvertantlv cat led him Lyndon/’ “Then Georgia Pringle walking to her table with a plate piled high with food, caught her toe in the root of a tree and fell face down in the food. It took a little time to get the barbecue sauce off her.face and the . bearis out of her hair, but when last seen, she had another plate and was enjoying it.• ^rs- {'• Kilgore was there and feeling very' nostalgic * as the old home where she and her sister,'Mrs. John Me-. Knight, and her brother, Jim Lee, lived was situated in -the exact location of the Kritser headquarters. Old timers will recall that their father was the late Garnet Lee', old time Panhandle rancher. lt;Fern Goldstnn had an nr\c*ttYlirTT rf'i vnflx\A-H i- 1 .1
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Amarillo News Globe
Amarillo, Texas, US
Sun, Oct 10, 1948
Page 29
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