A Cape for Frances for Christmas

 According to his 1898-1900 Journal, on Dec 5, 1899, Mr. J. L. Tiner sent a $3.95 money order to Sears and Roebuck "for cape for our daughter Frances [I] want [to] try and get it in for Christmas holidays." I hope Frances got it in time for the "Christmas Frolics." Susan Frances Tiner would have been 14 years old that year. Model 17T406 cost $3.95. Perhaps this was the cape he ordered.

 

 

On December 27th, Mr. Tiner recorded that his children Nora, Frances, Lane, and Vinton attended a sociable at Mr. A. F. Gillespie's house. Maybe Frances wore her cape. He also recorded that no serious accident from the Christmas frolics had occurred yet, although it was not all over yet.

According to the Journal, Christmas festivities included a Christmas dinner on Christmas Day and a Christmas Tree at the School House for the children of the Union Sabbath School on Christmas night. The Christmas tree was a little live oak tree, cut from the Tiner's pasture.

 On January 1, 1900, he reported that the the young people of Sutherland Springs were making preparations for a dance & big supper that night at his home "as a finish up of Christmas frolic."