Show A Pleasant Church Social The congregation of the Methodist Episcopal Church of this city met at the residence of N W Newcomb at 1022 E Second South street last evening in asocial a-social gathering for the benefit of the Church Mr Newcomb and his pleasant and ladylike wife had prepared a surprise sur-prise for the visitors having beautifully decorated the wealth of shrubbery on the lawns with varicolored lanterns and made the interior of their hospitable home a veritable bower of rest and enjoyment en-joyment The members of the church arrived early and in such a company there was no lack of fitting repartee and refined conversational powers It is astonishing as-tonishing how a score or two of happy hearts when engaged in a worthy work in which all alike are mutually interested can blossom out and this occasion proved doubly that such is the case Ladies of the most retiring dispositions grew animated in i conversation and surprised sur-prised their friends by saying something good when they did speak The younger adjunct made the beautiful lawn a study for a figure painter in disposing themselves over its surface in the interesting game of croquet and to cap the evening in fit ting manner an abundance of excellent light dainties were served with a cnn of coffee such as stamps Mrs Newcomb T as an artist in that line A lady who attended at-tended was heard to remark rapturously Well I never enjoyed myself so much at a social before and would you believe it I never before drunk such good coffee The social in a financial sense was help ful to the church work and it is the in tention of the congregation to continue them throughout the fall and winter months The next will occur a week from next Thursday due notice of which will be given in church |