People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1896 — Smalley Opera Company. [ARTICLE]

Smalley Opera Company.

Testimonials. A popular entertainment.-Inter Ocean. A rare musical treat. —Evening Post. The finest musical entertainment that was ever given in Fairfield was undoubtedly given last night.—Burlington Hawkeye. The singing of the ladies was very fine and elicited numerous encores to which they responded graciously.—Times, Oshkosh, Wis. The Smalley Grand Concert Company is a superb organization and the singing of the lady quartette was a revelation to all.—lndependent, Harvard, 111. The four beautiful voices were blended into rich, clear harmony, which seemed to liit the hearer into a higher and purer atmosphere.—Journal, Fairfield lowa. They stand far in the lead of any lady quartette in existence, and their excelh nt work has made for them a national reputation, —The South Side Call, Chicago.

Mias Frankie Porter, daughter of the recorder-elect, was given a surprise by a party of about twelve couple of her. young friends, at her home five miles east of town. It was a farewell occasion, previous to the removal of the family to Rensselaer. Jasper county’s farmer’s institute will be held Monday and Tuesday, January 18 and 19, 1897. The instructors are to be T. B. Terry of Hudson, Ohio, and A. O. Lockndge, of Greencastle, Indiana.