Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1894 — The Fannie Hills Company Busted at Monon. [ARTICLE]

The Fannie Hills Company Busted at Monon.

Monon News. The manager of the variety show in Monon Monday night skipped out with all the money leaving four girls and three men with their board unpaid. The performers were wandering about the depot Tuesday in a forlorn looking manner. They were in a pitiable plight without money or friends and their manager gone the Lord knows where. The attendance Monday night was vety light. The small bills were worded in such a manner as to cause a suspicion that the show was grossly immoral, and instead of drawing as they supposed, they had the effect of keeping men away. The whole affair was a complete failure financially and otherwise. Those who were there were disappointed at the weakness of the company, and considerable grumbling was prevalent on the street corners. Some of the boys risked their reputations to go to see what they expected would be extremely immoral; but their time, character and money were risked with very poor results. Otto Middelstadt has a part of their trunks to secure §l4, that being the amount due him for board bill. It will be a bad day for that truant manager if the blond ladies should ever get eyes on him. One of the men left his trunk with Harry Fros to secure a loan of §5- The sum and substance of the whole affair is that it was a very poor ending of a very bad business. The manager counted upon the great majority of men being so lost to all sense of decency that they would take any risk to witness an indecent exhibition of soiled doves. He found to his sorrow that he misjudged the average man and he is a wiser but a poorer man by a considerable. It is one more evidence that the way of the transgressor is hard. The attendance in Alonon was very slim, and at Rensselaer they failed altogether, so that when they came here they were about at the end of their ability to travel.