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Hearts as targets
The Bend Bulletin · February 14, 1919
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Valentine's Day 1919, and the best detail in the archive about what a party in the clubhouse was like.
The war had ended three months earlier and Bend was getting its officers back. What makes the item worth filing is the last sentence: this archive has almost nothing about the inside of the clubhouse — two stone fireplaces, noted when it was pulled down thirty-seven years later, and a buck's head bought from the Civic League in 1921. Add a shooting gallery rigged with paper hearts.
A retrospective of February 1944 recalls this party and adds that Stover had “recently returned from the war”. The original says only “in honor of Lieutenant B. A. Stover”, under a headline calling him a soldier. The detail may well be right and it is not on the page.
From the source
DANCING PARTY IS GIVEN FOR SOLDIER. Mrs. W. G. Manning and Mrs. M. H. Horton were the hostesses last night at an enjoyable dancing party given at the Emblem club in honor of Lieutenant B. A. Stover. Valentine decorations were effectively used. A shooting gallery with hearts as targets was a novel feature of the affair.