ST. BATHANS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 108, 24 March 1871, Page 3

ST. BATHANS.

■st. Patrick's da v. Owing to the heavy rainfall of St. Patrick's eve, and also of the day itself, idea of celebrating the 17th by a picnic had to be-abandoned. But not withstanding that numerous friends outside St Bathans, who had made up their minds to attend both picnic and dance, were deterred by stress of weather from coining to either, the following places were respectably, if not numerously, represented at tlie dance in the evening, viz.: Eden Creek, Hills Creek, Welshmans Chilly, and Tinkers Grully. A procession took place in the evening through town and for a little distance below it, whore several acres of tailings offored a line, and in spite of the rain, even a dry field for football. Mr. Patk. HaiiraHau and Mr. Webb as captains ealled about twenty men aside by whom a very spirited game was played. There were very superior players of this favorite game on both sides ; Webb's party, however, won the goal in about forty minutes'-play, when all hands returned to the schoolroom. Mags were placed in position to ornament the room, which was already tastefully decorated with evergreens, and fbr this the thanks of the committee are due to the skill of Messrs. Kelty and M'Cormick. The thanks of the committee are also due to the following ladies and gentlemen for their kind and active assistance in various ways : Miss Ryan, Miss Hanger, Mrs. E.Wheeler, Mrs. Prescott, and JMrs. Smith, Messrs. Torston, Pyle, Kelty, Smith and Melvin; also to those gentlemen both in and out of St. Bathans for their kindness in offering conveyances for the picnic in case the weather had been fine. Unfortunately the weather was the reverse of favorable, but the great success of the .dan e partly compensated for the loss of tie picnic. Harmony and sobriety prevailed throughout tlie night. The music was very superior, and' I need hardly say that good music adds greatly to the pleasures of siu-h entertainments. Dancing was kept up until broad daylight in the morning, when the happy party separated, cheeriug for the lulies and gentlemen above-mentioned, and also for the various places which had sent representatives there that night. In your issue of last week the num-

ber of \ .ires triven for Armstrong here appears to be but 28, whereas to have been 35. More votes would ' have been polled but for the inclemency of the weather preventing persons coming from a distae -e.