The Charity Ball, Mrs. Robert Hemingray attended

THE CHARITY BALL.

A BRILLIANT SOCIAL EVENT AND

A GRATIFYING

Success – Splendid Music and

Beautiful Costumes – The Club Cleared

About $150.00.

Amidst scenes of gayety and brilliancy charity extended an open hand to the poor of Muncie at Anthony Hall last evening.   Charity donned her richest robes and in fancy wrapped her cloak about the poor and distressed, giving comfort and sustenance to the starving and warmth to the many chilled by the cold of misery and affliction. Wealth and contentment clasped hands with poverty and sorrow and a generous deed was done. The elite of Muncie’s bon-ton society were there, and with hearts attuned to the strains of beautiful music, furnished by Hart’s orchestra of Indianapolis, they danced the hours away.

The occasion was the charity ball given by the Samovar club, which is composed of the following young ladies: The Misses Blanche Shipley, Edna Streeter, Jean Smith, Nellie Wilson, Winifred Brady, Grace Riley, Louise Kirby, Suzette Kirby, Sarah Heinsohn and Bessie Williams.

­ The reception committee consisted of the members of the club and the Mesdames C. M. Rich, T. K. Heinsohn, J. E. Ethell, F. C. Ball, C. O. Prutzman, W. B. Thomas and W. C. Sampson.

Floor managers, Gregory F. McCulloch, Geo. O. Cromwell, O. F. Ray­mond, C. H. Anthony, Homer E. Bowles and Payton R. Janney.

The following ladles were patronesses of the ball: Mesdames J. R. Sprankle, W. R. Maddy, Geo. Kirby, J. M. Kirby, J. A. Heinsohn, Geo. F. McCulloch, C. H. Anthony, W. L. Little, C. E. Shipley, James L. Streeter, M. C. Smith, Kate H. Wilson, Geo. O. Cromwell, and Miss Lizzie Willard.

Without the weather was cold and the atmosphere moist and murky. But within there was a dazzling splendor of costume and a bewildering tangle of colors and shades.

At 9 o'clock a burst of music from the orchestra announced the first number on the program, and the dancers took up the grand march, which was led by Mr. P. B. Janney and Miss Bessie Kirby. The scene when the ball opened, with its glitter of costume and raptors of music, was one beautiful to look upon. The windings and mazes, the graceful gildings and gyrations of the dancers, with the shifting shades, the beaming eyes and faces wreathed in happy smiles, made it a charming opening to an important social event in metropolitan Muncie.

Supper was served in the rooms of the Muncie Business College adjoining the hall room, by caterer Hummel, end every detail was so well arranged and carried out as to make the affair a complete success and reflect great credit upon the young ladies who managed it throughout.

The total receipts of the ball were something near $250 and after pay­ing all expenses the club will have about $150 left for charity.

The ball as a dress affair was one of the most brilliant events ever witnessed in Muncie. Among the ladies who were dancing and the costumes they wore were the following:

Miss Nadine Wilson, pink lansdown, black silk and black velvet trimmings.

Miss Maude Pugh, pink crepe, em­pire gown.

Miss Hattie Johnson, pink with pink silk trimmings.

Miss Alice Hamilton, blue silk.

Miss Anna Bailey, pink silk velvet, pearl trimmings, decollette.

Miss Ohle Gill, blue silk.

Miss Louise Kirby, white corded blue velvet and lace trimmings.

Miss Davis of Fall River, Mass., blue silk, organdy over dress.

Miss Bessie Williams, white swiss, accordian plated.

Mrs. Charles Willard, black satin with yoke of real lace and silver spangle.

Mrs. E. F Tyler, cameo pink silk, pearl and lace trimmings

Mrs. G. C. Beard, china silk, trimmed in white ribbon and lace, decollette.

Mrs. H. M. Winans, old rose.

Miss Sarah Heinsohn, black silk with black lace overdress.

Miss Etta Hill, yellow silk, white net overdress and black trimmings.

Mrs. W. L. Little, gray net over gray satin, black velvet trimmings.

Miss Nannie Starkweather, Ashtabula, O., white dotted swiss.

Mrs. George O. Cromwell, heliotrope silk, white silk gauze trimmings.

Mrs. Edward Haffner, yellow silk tissue, trimmed in black chiffon and jet.

Miss Emma Lou Love, gray crepe, ermine cape.

Miss Anna Hostetter, pink satin.

Mrs. A. J. Williams, black silk, red and jet trimmings.

Mrs. George F. McCulloch, corn colored silk, organdy overdress.

Miss Suzette Kirby, white corded silk, blue velvet trimmings.

Miss Ella Jeffries of Bellaire, O., blue silk, pearl trimmings.

Miss Edna Kinsey, New Castle, blue silk, white lace trimmings, decollette.

Miss Maude Kilgore, Anderson; white silk mull over white satin.

Miss Edna Streeter, red brocade.

Mrs. W. H. Hickman, white silk, entraine.

Miss Jean Smith, white swiss with silver girdle.

Miss Grace Keiser, navy blue, black velvet trimmings.

Mrs. C. H. Anthony, light blue silk, pearl trimmings, diamonds.

Miss Bessie Ellis, yellow silk, black lace overdress.

Miss Winifred Smith, blue silk gauze.

Mrs. Lewis Over, white crepe and blue satin.

Mrs. R. T. Winters, pink chiffon and white silk lace trimming.

Mrs. W. B. Thomas, Anderson; Paris gown, blue satin, ecru lace trimming.

Miss Blanche Shipley, light blue bengaline.

Miss Fannie Turner, dark blue cloth trimmed in tan colored cloth.

Miss Linda Merriman, tan colored silk trimmed in brown.

Miss May Heath, brown broadcloth gown, with red hat.

Miss Pearl Bailey, white silk, light green velvet trimmings.

Miss Nellie Wright, white albatross, trimmed in surrah.

Mrs. Thomas Tincher of Danville, Ill., light green and pink, trimmed in stripped silk iridescent; diamonds.

Mrs. J. V. Gilbert, embroidered mousline desoire and jet; diamonds.

Those present in addition to the above were: Mr. and Mrs. Co. Prutzman, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Wright, Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Kirby, Mr. and Mrs. Earnest M. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Thrall, Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Beemer, Mr. and Mrs. James Sprankle, Mr. and Mrs. George W. Spilker, Mr. and Mrs. Jon Kirby, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hemingray, Judge and Mrs. George H. Koons, Mr. and Mrs. Will Patterson, Mr. and Mrs. George Kirby, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Moreland, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Wick, Mr. and Mrs. W.N. Kendall, Mrs. M. C. Smith, Mrs. Kate Wilson, Mrs. J. A. Heinsohn, Mrs. William Maddy, Mrs. L. L. Turner, Misses Alice Foukle, Edit Kirby, Mar Willard Lizzie Willard.

Messrs. George F. McCulloch, Hal Kimbrough, Vol Gilbert, C. H. Anthony, Lewis Over, W. H. Hickman, R E. Mansfield, G, O. Cromwell, G. C. Bard, A. J. Williams, Edward Haffner, H. M. Winans, Bert Medsker of Cambridge City, William Norton of Anderson, Harry Jennings of New Castle, Rush Evans of Chicago, Harry Streeter, R. T. Win­ters, O. H. Raymond, Edgar John­son, Homer Bowles, George Bailey, Bert Bradbury, W. B. Thomas of Anderson, Walter Bowman of Laurel, Dick Shick, Charles Bell, Stewart Sampson, W. H. Bailey, D. P. Campbell, J. D. Williams, E. F. Tyler, Arthur Helm, P. R. Janney, Walter Andrews, Robert Williams, Robert Sheffield, Edward Williams, Wm. Myers, Thomas Tincher, Danville, Ill.