Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 287, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1913 — "The Only Son” at The Ellis Theatre Tonight. [ARTICLE]

"The Only Son” at The Ellis Theatre Tonight.

‘The Only Son,” in whieh Rich-* ard Kent is appearing in this season, like Mr. Smith’s other great play, ‘The Fortune Hunter,” which ran ope year on Broadway, had its premiere at the Gaiety Theatre, New York. The author, in this play, has provided a story with a kind of plot that grips the audience, goes ‘to the heart arid ’holds the interest from / the moment of'inception to finale. It is a wholesome story of a boy’s love for his mother; of a father’s love for his son and finally of the love of the parents for their child. The story centers around the Brainard family. Thomas Brainard, a New York millionaire, who has risen froni the ranks, is nettled over the fafct.that his son, Tom, Jr., has a greater and self confessed fondness for luxury than for hard work. On top of this,‘Brainard discovers that his wife, in her loneliness, had developed an indiscreet fondness for an artist. The knowledge is furnished him by a detective. In the presence of his son and daughter, Brainard orders his wife to leave her home. The daughter stands by the father, leaving Tom and his mother alone. It needed such a domestic tragedy as this to bring out what is best in the boy’s “man about town” character. He leaves the house with his mother. Together, heavy hearted, they go west after Tom, Jr., h6s forced his father to abandon the idea of a divorce. The boy forms a business alliance with a successful inventor and in time the elder Brainard seeks to buy out the firm of which his son, unknown to him, is a partner. The discovery works a powerful change in the father, who, in his hard hearted way, loves the boy. Father and son, brought together again, the ultimate and happy result is a reunion of father, mother and children.

The last chance to get your winter’s potatoes from the car. We will unload our 7th car on Wednesday and Thursday. A oar of ripe Wisconsin, sand-grown potatoes, in 2% bushel sacks, in lots of 5 bushels of more, from oar at 85 cents a bushel JOHN EGER. About thirty ladies of Milroy Circle gathered at the home of Mrs. W. C. Babcock Monday afternoon and gave an indoor picnic with a big basket dinner to Mrs. Babcock’s mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Daugrherty, who had planned to start for California, but whose departure has now been postponed until the last of the week. Representative Mac Keller, of Tennessee, introduced a new cold storage bill in the house Saturday. It provides that eggs may not be kept in cold storage for more than three months and limits the time for meats and other food products to six months. Dealers who violate the law will be subject to fine and imprisonment. Robert Milligan, aged playing with a revolver at ihis home in Brazil Sunday, shot his 3-year-old sister, Louise, in the face, causing a fatal wound. They are children of W. H. Milligan, a letter carrier. Mrs. Milligan once had taken the weapon from the boy and warned him not to use it, but difl not put it out of his reach. Cain Galbraith is enjoying very good health for one of his advanced years, he having been 78 years of age last August. He has been caused some annoyance recently by the failure of his pension, which was due on Nov. 4th, to arrive. He gets S3O per month, as%ie says, when he gets it. Letters he has caused to be written to the department have gone unanswered, he reports. The killing of 5,180 deer in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts this fall cost the lives of thirteen persons and more or less serious injuries to seventy-two others. The deer season closed in Massachusetts a week ago and ended in Vermont Tuesday, but hunters In Maine and New Hampshire have two weeks left in which to track their quarry. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Brosnahan, of Spokane, Wash., arrived this morning for a visit until after the first of the year with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John English. They have been visiting Sam English in Saskatchewan, Canada, for two weeks and in Chicago for the past ten days. Mr. Brosnahan* reports a fine crop of apples in his section of the country and a big price ranging from SI.OO to $1.50 per box.