Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 298, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1912 — High School Play. [ARTICLE]

High School Play.

Friday evening, Dec. 6, the seniors, assisted by a few underclassmen, presented Mrs. Briggs of the Poultry Yard to a crowded house. The cast follows: Mrs. Briggs—Marie Rhoades. Ralph Briggs—Max Hargreavest Jimmy Briggs—Harry Howard. Alvira —Mabel Rawlings. Melissa—Rachel Smalley. Silas Green —Robert Hutton. / i MV. Lee—Bernard Hargreaves, Virginia Lee—Helen £*eck. V J Daisy Thornton —Daisy Ott Mrs. Connor —Florence Johnston. Mandy Bates—Myrtle Alter. The play was brimful of innocent fun, wit and laughter, with a hearty moral tone, and made clear the proverb of necessity, mothering Invention as Mrs. Briggs always saw a way of surmounting her pinching poverty. Min Rhoades as the leading lady is to be congratulated upon her ability and she was ably supported by the other characters throughout the three seta. Miss Pearl Morris gave very able assistance to the program, reciting a selection from “The Lion and the Mouse,” and responding to a hearty encore. it • The proceeds of the evening were S7B. Use oar Claswifisd Column.