The Sioux County Journal

A Birthday Party.

The seventeenth birthday of Miss Emelie Kroening was celebrated at the home of her sister, the Northwestern hotel, on Monday evening, the 19th. Her friends to the number of forty or over were present and spent an unusually pleasant evening. Amusing and instructing games was the order of the evening's entertainment, and many and long were the hearty laughs elicited by the remarkably amusing fines imposed for the redemption of "pawns," by judge Babcock; or from the novelty of the "chicken game;" or "scandal;" or the many others engaged in. A delicious lap supper was served during the evening that was a credit to any compoundant of the viands for human sustenance.

A great many useful and valuable presents were presented to Miss Emelie on this occasion among which were these: dress pattern, with buttons and trimmings: handkerchiefs, both linen and silk. ribbon; perfume; gold breast pin; plush card case: collar; hand painted souvenir with easel and many others. The packages and articles presented by the "Harrison Committee," bore, in the selection, the trace of persons experienced in combining the useful with the ornamental. and the donors are entitled to credit. in that respect, for their selections.