The Jamestown Weekly Alert declared it the social event of the week--the basket social hosted by the ladies of the Methodist Episcopal Church, using a vacant business space as venue, in late September 1884. The hosts made the room ready and attractive and, before the arrival of guests, it was graced by “an abundance of handsomely constructed baskets well filled with the delicacies of the season from all parts of the continent,” as the Alert described them, “each basket containing supper for two