Do you remember when bid whist was as popular as contract may ever hope to be? Styles have changed in bridge as well as dress, as shown from the gowns worn by these ladies back in the nineties. These women were leaders in the social life in Newport and formed the "Happy Hour Club," the first bridge club in town. They met each week for a supper party and played cards in the evening, the hostess supplying a twelfth member.
Front row: Hubert M. Wardwell, Jr., now with the Middlesex Fire Insurance Company, Concord, Mass., Mrs. Cordelia Wardwell, dead; Miss Carrie Sawyer; Mrs. Bessie Hunt, dead; Alfred S. Adams, son of Mrs. Abbie Adams and a member of the high school faculty in Watertown, Mass.
Second row: Mrs. Vesta Oakes, dead; Mrs. Sarah Winnie, dead; Mrs. Violet Whitney, dead; Mrs. Clara A. Frye, dead; Mrs. Ellen L. Marsh, dead; Mrs. Virginia Smith, dead; Mrs. Lettie Tilson, dead; Mrs. Abbie Adams, now located in Watertown, Mass.
(Portland Sunday Telegram And Sunday Herald, Portland, Maine, February 9. 1936)
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