People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1894 — Thanksgiving Entertainment. [ARTICLE]
Thanksgiving Entertainment.
Kniman, Jasper county, Indiana, Saturday, November 24th, 1894. PROGRAMME. Song—America. Play—Prof. Baxter’s Great Invention or Old Maid made new. A Farce Comedy in one act. This entertainment is a decided novelty, and is excruciatingly funny. First class Irish Soubrette’s part, and capital comic old man. Prof. Baxter’s process for making old and handy. Young and handsome by the use of electricity, is something that will suit everybody.
CHARACTERS. Benjamin Franklin Baxter. Inventor. —L. H. Hamilton. Peter Crawford, age 72, deaf and infirm.—Wilson Meiser.— O. O. Hanley. Samuel Wodley, age 70, sprightly for his years.—E. C. Henry. Roxana Tucker, age 72 and dignified.—Mamie Ballinger. Dardby Tucker, age 78 and frivolous. —lda McGlinn. —Maggie McGlinn. Mary Ann O’Flynn, uncertain age servant. —Ella Hanley. SUPPER. Boxes sold to the highest bid der. Funds to be expended in buying Young People’s Reading Circle Books. A fine present will be voted to the most popular girl present. Curtains rise 7:30 p. m. Everybody invited.
