Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1915 — EVELYN BARGELT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

EVELYN BARGELT.

Miss Evelyn Bargelt is one of the best known entertainers in the Lyceum world today. From east to west and in the south she (has appeared on hundreds of Lyceum bourses. Beginuffig redraw as a small child, she later pursued bfr art studies ip the Art Institute. Chicago, and her studies in vocal interpretation in the Cumnock School of Oratory. With her crayons of different colors Mi's 'Bargelt produces before her audiences many landscapes which appear

as beautiful as paintings, while Iter humorous drawings are as funny as the comic sections of the Sunday papers. While her pictures are taking shape under her deft fingers, she charms her hearers with flashes of wit and humor. At the close of an evening’s entertainment the audience usually crowds about the easel upon which Miss Bargelt has been working, and she is showered with requests for tho pictures she has made. She gladly distributes them while they last, and It is safe to say that her work adorns the

walls of homes in nearly all the states where the Lyceum course has become an institution. Miss Hazel Raymond, planiste. will render at least two piano solos during the evening, besides playing accompaniments for some of Miss Bargelt’s illustrated readings. Miss Raymond, like Miss Bargelt, has a most pleasing personality besides being a most skillful planiste. First jis a student and then as a teacher she has received much merited recognition Will be at the high school auditorium Wednesday ovening, April 7th, at 8:1 5 o’clock. Mrs. EJUlon dlopkins of Rensselaer, accompanied by Miss Goldie Stockton, a trained nurse of Morocco, left a few days ago to visit the former’s daughter, .Mrs. Thomas Goodman, ■Jr., at Redlands, Cali.* for several months, and will also take in tihe exposition at San Francisco while there.

George A. Williams bought John M. Knapp’s lot on Jackson street, sold at public auction Saturday afternoon, the price being $365. Mr. Knapp’s residence property did not sell, bidding running to only $1,300 while Mr. Knapp wanted $2,500 for it. He has rented the property to Mrsi Crooks of who now lives in one of the Mrs. Stockton properties on the east side of the court house square. Mrs. Crooks is educating her children in the Rensselaer schools and keeps house for them during the school term.

EVELYN BARGELT.

MISS HAZEL RAYMOND.