Description
"Aunt Kitty" Gives a Dining - - Last week we forgot to make notice of an event that took place in Platte City. Aunt Kitty Grant, a good old colored woman, is a great favorite of all the little white children.
Learning that her little friend Dorothy Jack would soon leave for her new home in Kansas City, Aunt Kitty decided to give Miss Dorothy a reception.
So on the evening of the 2d, a crowd of Aunt Kitty’s favorites among the smaller white children gathered at the Baker restaurant where Aunt Kitty had several handsome tables ready for the little ones. Miss Dorothy, as the honored guest, sat at the head of one of the tables and on both sides of her were a lot of little men and women.
Soon Aunt Kitty was rustling around filling each plate with all kinds of good things to eat, which she knows so well how to make. It was a rosy cheeked bright-eyed lot of children that sat around the tables and all of them thought '‘Aunt Kitty is as good as she is broad” as she handed them so many good things to eat.
After an hour spent very pleasantly with Aunt Kitty, the little folks went to their different homes to dream of Santa Clause and as the gingling sleigh bells drew nigh and the prancing reindeers stopped in front, the children clapped their hands in glee and shouted, “It’s not Santa, its Aunt Kitty.”
(Researcher's note: Kitty Grant died on October 4, 1904. She had been enslaved by the Rixey family.)Date(s) of Creation
3/13/1903
