Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1887 — A BIG BOOST [ARTICLE]

A BIG BOOST

t’-js* tho SelMvoi■ iL-rorary an:! :: 7 12-i's j '' .'■ -L Kil v • : . r ' Y'iP.i'sitftrsr The Scott to:ivr.l ami en't..*rt iinmeat. > by the Kenssciner high schob!, in the Opera House, last Friday evening, waa auno .t gntiity uigL-suiwus.; ia eyuy pu tieul ir. About 7.0.) persons pa':.! the ailit*i(tnr.ee fee a! the door r.nfl v< :-rly ■ -too partook of '.lie bountiful r prw | fey their <i*-l *« tetiom Tiiirty jar ■forty of Scott's best known chacm eis were i-epriseulcd, by ccstumis gotuu up jt g '■..!( s oi >.,■ . - Grhu :Uid ,i:id heaiieiJ Queen Boss .'was , uw+v, in r.garrr~.bev. otmt Dso her. brnr sutteraig:.. victtniT gihify . 6X Septiaml. Rowena, the Byxofe prtagesji Meg Merriiicst the gypsy wit b, nbesses, nuns, brave knights in armor chuh Robin Ilcodtand Friar Tuck, ' with their jdly baud of bowmen, Waaibn. the ms or, a flit a score oLt»t!;ers. z>t' Iho ofhqiiVins of the wonderful • Afeizard'of the North'’ wore there in vi-ible forms }The literary liiterti.inai. ul was cedent of its kind, and i.) tiie o I’-isiaii. It consisted ot cssaas, recitations, mu-i and fabkduis The ehicl inter..&t of the whole : evening, however, however, centered in ti e <:..*iiU*M fi-r the silver d .-!) for tl:e most popular hi ;y Miises Kr.tie Gree-i auid Nora Honknis were the en’v e.me.i "dates, excepting a law.seatte;v >Us ablirst, and' the (nehds of each weie determined -that t! e*:r candidate febou’d r- . have the prize.. The* votes wi iv one cent eaeii. and ;*e, $5, ; ,nd rK ; worth at a time were I'- mraoa thi. bai lotrug. AY hen-the votes «*crf cumted wash found- that Miss Green ovas ahead, ait a 5, , 11 votes go 2.9r*. for Miss Hopkins. The pr lit-: on the d:,. Were alinnt..!ilSO .*. The veto f : thi gold a did c was very tight, t). J. Thompson' and Fsttf Htutbdt were the only yamfidatest and a*; '!c. Thoiapsbb w xrkedjiaYil ami b ughtmany vott s for ids opponent, of -£oa. Thei e was a loss of about s;i bri PHlie The -i.et proliis of the evening wilLbe nearly i r •;nite $175: which ail wili agree is a very satisfactory result. - — ~v-_* ; .. -..-Try nr r remsiesfe. calfec&-- Tl • i-y-J for the ici^tiev. * LaLu: Bros. Tkr uipking to order., of picturo •frame#, bocli-ccses and ;-wHidow--curtain Imngiug-, a specialty, at ; Wrigfet’sluniitxire store. ' 1