Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 194, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1910 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

AT THE Princess Conight —• — PICTURES. Mistaken Identity. Awful Symphony. SONG. Taffy, by Mr. Roscoe WHson.

Harrison Wasson made a business trip to Peru, where he owns property, today. E. 8. Poole and son, of Kankakee, came this morning to visit Chas. Parker and family. Russell Parker went to Shelby to meet them. Mrs. John Dale and baby returned to Darlington this morning after visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.* J. M. Torbet, of Barkley township. N. Littlefield, of Rensselaer, and F. P. Morton, of Goodland, started this morning for a prospecting trip through Washington, Yuma and Cheyenne counties, Colorado. They expect to be gone about ten days. A. Duggleby, of near Tefft, was a Republican office visitor today, it being the first visit he had ever made to Rensselaer. He came to Jasper county last spring from near Davenport, lowa, and purchased a farm of 431 acres, just west of Tefft. Little Gertrude Kannal, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. H. J. Kannal, who suffered an attack of infantile paralysis several months ago, and from which she has been slowly recovering, had the misfortune to fall several days ago and to break the limb most afflicted. It is a very sad misfortune for the patient little sufferer.

There is no thrashing on the Os Ritchey farm today, nor on any other farms in this section of the country for that matter, unless the sun which has been playing hide and seek behind the clouds, stays out long enough to dry the shocked grain so that some thrashing may be started this afternoon. Os was in the office this morning to remind us that he had forecasted the rain as a sure thing on the day he had set for thrashing. The little rain of yesterday was followed by a good big one last night, or rather, early this morning, for it was about 3 o’clock when it was raining the hardest. The intense heat of today bespeaks more rain and another big shower won’t hurt even if Os has to put oft the thrashing for a day or two more. The thrashing hands will be just as hungry when they do get there.

No more interesting story was ever enacted on the stage than that played in Rensselaer Monday night and entitled “The Fighting Parson.” It was the second night out for the eompany, which is composed of a very clever set of performers under the management of Henry Wyatt, a young man who looks like he will make good as both actor and manager. The play is sent out by W. F. Mann, who selects good actors and has from a dozen to thirty shows on the road all the time. In the cast that produced “The Fighting Parson” here was Annie E. Inmah, who has been on the stage for fiftyone years, having played with a number of prominent actors and been cast in some of the leading plays of the latter 80’s. Mrs. Inman plays the mother part in “The Fighting Parson” much after the style of the mother in “Shore Acres” and does it splendidly. Walter Regan carried the parson’s part admirably, having style and action to which he suited the dialogue. Mr. Wyatt was also good in Joe and Ezra. The parts are very different, but he bandied each ably. Marie Fairfield doubled in two very different parts; the school teacher and the bowery girl and proved her diversified talent by doing each splendidly. George Solden as Jasen, was admirable in an old man’s part, and L. F. Harrison did a good double as Abe Grumble,' the old skinflint who held a mortgage on the farm, and as a bowery tough. The company showed a lack of rehersals and did not make the most of the possibility of several strong climaxes, but individually they are good and they should make “The Fighting Parson” one of the best road companies the coming season.