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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1920
Page
2
The article lists multiple Christmas dinners and parties hosted by local families and clubs including John Collins Leslie Darwin Sander Vradenberg and Irving Poul as well as a Knights of Columbus Mardi Gras Ball. Events span Christmas Eve Christmas Day and December 28 with plans for decorations, large guest lists, ten covers dinners and a formal ball at the Columbus hall.
Mrs. Edgar Ames and Mrs. Margaret Ames return from an Eastern trip with Major Fiarvard Moore U S A and their Fort Lawton quarters guests. Several families including the Flachers and Rammeyers travel from the East and California to visit relatives over Christmas at Fort Lawton and in Coupeville Deer Island and Tacoma.
A series of home dances and social gatherings are noted, including Mr and Mrs Henry Broderich at their home on December, Mr and Mrs Thomase R Bordeage assisting Mrs Heffernan and Mr Lawrence Mowe Arnold, and Edward Lo Garrett hosting a gala at their High home. Other events include Evelyn’s birthday celebration by Mrs Higren Thorpe Carr, Marianne Hyland’s dance at her parents’ home, a charity ball under Seattle Day Nursery, Elea Christensen’s holiday dance, and a breakfast for Miss Priecifia Anderson. Weekly activities feature musicales, best wishes socialities, and masquerade at Yacht Club for Miss Anne Parsons and Miss Anita Rathbun, with notable January dances at Miss Mary Dawsons and Interlaken Gukli’s Yacht Club benefit for the Children’s Orthopedic Hospital.
The Canadian club of Seattle plans a Tuesday evening dance on December 21 at Doug as ball. Attendance by Canadiana residents and friends is encouraged. Special music has been arranged and organizers hope Seattle Canadians will come forward.
The Seattle Pacific college chorus will present The Christ Child by W. H. Petrie on Tuesday at the college auditorium located at Third Ave W. and Nickerson. Soloists include soprano Gwendolyn Imvis, alto Isabel Booth, tenor Robert Levie, and bass Frank Lin Warren, with W. W. Cathey directing and Min Cowen on piano.
Police report a Canadian war veteran A M McLeod is missing from his Clinton home. He was described as in shock from wartime injuries. The note ends with an unrelated nonsensical remark about a pessimist.
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