Does anyone know about the Newell's mentioned below? Were they friends from Chariton? > "The guests were led to the dining room and served with a salad > course, ice > cream and fruit cake. The dining table was bare, except for a handsome > centerpiece of heavy lace. On this was a silver bowl, hand carved in > the > symbols of the natives of India, on a standard of ebony wood, molded > in the > shape of miniature elephants. The unique receptacle was filled with > white > roses and ferns. Mrs. George R. Newell poured coffee, which was passed > by > Mrs. Thomas Brodwater, Mrs. Bolton Mallory and Mr. Sidney Newell. > Roses, of > an exquisite shade of pink, held in brown willow baskets, were used in > the > drawing room. On the screened porch on the south of the house, red > roses > gave a bright touch to the dark green of the veranda furniture.