Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 297, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1916 — REPORT ON CHARITY ENTERTAINMENT FI-FI [ARTICLE]

REPORT ON CHARITY ENTERTAINMENT FI-FI

Financial Report Shows That Charity Board Made About SIOO From Play. Knowing that the public, who were so genenouy in their co-operation with the Charity Board in their recent endeavor to make money, would be interested in the financial outcome of the same, we submit the following report of receipts and expenses: Sale of tickets, 3 nights.. .$258.25 Business men’s donation ... 25.00 Total cash receipts $283.75 Expenses. Moving piano $ 8.75 Express 4.81 Rooms and meals, producer.. 11.00 Opera house 38.00 Stage equipment 12.90 Printing, programs, ads .... 22.50 Miscellaneous 5-27 Total expenses $106.23 This report shows that there is a balance of $177.52, fifty per cent, or $88.76. A later donation from the Rensselaer Republican and smaller amount donated brought this total up to SIOO, the sum realized by the charity board. MRS. J. W. HORTON, Chairman Financial Committee. To Mrs. A. L. Burton belongs the first credit for arranging the entertainment and being responsible for the general management. Mrs. Burton selected as her helpers persons who could not be excelled in these lines. Mrs. E. J. Randle, who selected the talent, and Mrs. J. H. Horton, who had the strenuous work of managing the sale of the tickets. The ladies who acted as the chaperones deserve much credit, and the ladies who sold the tickets are deserving of praise; also the parents who co kindly brought their children to be in the cast and bought tickets besides, and last, but by no means the least, the general public, who were so generous in heir patronage, deserve great credit. The money was nearly all needed to pay a long-standing overdraft at the bank and outstanding bills.