People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1896 — The Smalley Concert Co [ARTICLE]

The Smalley Concert Co

The above meritorious entertainers appeared under the auspices of the Presbyterian Christian Endeavor society, at the opera, house last Tuesday evening before a crowded house. The four ladies were very sweet singers and quite charmed the thorougly attentive audience. The reading of Miss Maude Caruthers was received with manifest satisfaction. It was evident that the quartette, Marie Louise Perrine, Ist soprano; Grayce E. Gilmore, 2nd soprano; Alice Thurlow, Ist alto; Gertrude Sprague, 2nd alto; are ladies of fine natural talent carefully trained to a high degree of perfection.

Get your gooseberry roots set right away. They are now starting to leaf out. The Jasper circuit court will probably close to-day. The full report will .be given next week. The following additions to the popula tion of Marion township are noted: At the home of Frank Siers a girl on the 23d; at Albert Wolf's a girl on the 25th, and a boy at Albert Blue’s on the 29th, Mrs. Ott Clark of Goodland was visiting in Rensselaer last week and the first of this woek. Walter M. White of Wilmington, 111., has arrived in Rensselaer to take possession of the Iliff livery property which he purchased a few months since. He is to put in a complete new line of vehicles, including some nice closed carriages.