I have other Richmond House Party Photos
The Palladium Item, Richmond Indiana, 28 Jul 1946: The automobile in the early days of the century contibuted immeasurably to the fun of the young people in the community.
The photograph shows a group of young women from the First Presbyterian Church at a house party held in the summer of 1904 at the Judge Piehl residence, formerly the governor Morton home in Centerville. Mrs. Frank Chambers, formerly Miss Susan Kelsey was the teacher and Miss Martha Piehle, the hostess.
Boys from town joined in the fun of the house party making the trip to Centerville in Earl henley's Orient buckboard, a picture of which was used in this column early in the automobile series. Chicken was a delicacy all enjoyed and the buckboard played an important part in helping them obtain them.
Seated on the ground, left to right, are Etta Jones (Mrs. Frank Fagan); Edith Nicholson (Mrs. Edmund Hiatt); Bessie Jones (Mrs. Brock Fagan); Elsa Rothenberg, a guest, Hazel Reid, a guest (Mrs. Fred Gennett); Marie Campbell (Mrs. Fred Bennor); Edith Taylor (Mrs. Wheaton Tallent); Hazel Murphy.
On the bench, Miss Martha Piehl, Florence Corwin (Mrs. Edgar Fisher).
Standing, Susan Kelsey (Mrs. Frank Chambers); Edith Taylor (Mrs. Clem Kehlenbrink)), and Lucy Barnett.
Ethel King, now Mrs. Myron Malsby of California and Constance Bell, now Mrs. Frank Harold also were at the house party but are not in the photograph.
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