Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1879 — Festival.—Acknowledgements. [ARTICLE]

Festival.—Acknowledgements.

The committee take pleasure in thanking the public for their liberal patronage of the festival held in the Presbyterian ehureh 22d instant. Special acknowledgement for, favors is due Messrs. W. J. lines, C. C. Starr, R. F. Goddard, N. Warner, H. V. Childers, A. Hoover, F. L. Cotton, Robt. Patton, El Waldon, A. Woodworth, Mrs. S. C. Hammond, Mrs. J. Phegley, Mrs. Wm. Day, Mrs. W. Cotton, Mrs. M. Porter, Mrs. D. B. Miller, Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Warner, Mrs. G. A. Moss, Mrs. J. W. McEwen, Miss Genie Patton, Miss Lizzie Smith, Mrs. M. K'ger, Mrs. J. Cowdin, Mrs. H. A. Barkhey, Mrs. M. Spitler. The net proceeds amounted 828.68, which, together with the proceeds of the previous festiva.l, both amounting to $58.21, has been applied as payments upon the organ for the Sunday school. A series of musical and literary entertainments will be given to raise means to complete the payments due. If taw generous public will extend as greM courtesy to these as to the festivals just held the organ will soon be paid for, much to the relief of the committee and greatly to the delight of the Sunday school. Thanks are also due Mrs. Ludd Hopkins and Miss Katie Green for valued aid in the festival preceding the one here considered. Committee. Cantata in Starr’s Hall. The brilliant cantata, The Flower Queen, or Coronation of the Rose, will be performed under the auspices of the Presbyterian Sunday school,, in Starr’s Hall, Friday night, June 6th. The argument of this attraotive cantata may be slated thus: The flowers meet in a sewluded dell in the depths of a noble forest to choose a queen. A person who is discontented with the worl'd, seeks, in the same place, retirement born its cares and disappointments. The flowers tell of love and duty, and the recluse, learning that to fill well the station alotted by Providence is to be happy, resolves to return again to usefulness and contentment among his fellow creatures. The personifications will be as follows: Organist, Mrs. S. P. Thompson. Recluse, Mrs. Ludd Hopkins. Rose, Miss Hattie Coen. Crocus, Miss Lola Moss. Dahlia, Miss Emma Rhoades. Sunflower, Miss Maggie Cowdin. J'nponica, Miss Lettie Hopkins. Heliotrope, Miss Sarah Tuteur. Mignonette,.Miss Carrie Eger. Violet, Miss Lizzie Purcupile. JJNy, Miss Annie McEwen. Dandelion, Miss Madge Hemphill. Touch-me-not, Miss Rilla Cotton. Poppies, Misses Della Cotton, Lizzie Eger, Genie Patton. Tulip, Miss Rose Coen. Heather bells, Misses Nora Hopkins, Ettie Imes, Ora Duvall, Hattie Hopkins, Frankie McEwen, Eliza Tuteur, Rachel Leopold, Blanche Longhridge. Semi chorus, Misses Kate Green, Rosa Kaker, Lizzie Eger. On account of the engagement of Starr’s Hall for this week the Ladies’ Orchestra Band have postponed their entertainment until a day in Jnne which is not yet determined upon. The admission fee to the cantata will be twenty-five cents; the proceeds to be applied as a payment for the new organ.— Union.