Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1894 — Concert. [ARTICLE]

Concert.

Emma Warde Hoffman, the talented pianiste, will give a concert at the Rensselaer Opera House, Oct. 19th. She is a graduate of the College of Music of Cincinnati, where she won the gold medal for piano playing. She has a fine technique,and this coupled with talent of a high older makes her. a musician of unusual ability, and she has won golden opinions wherever she has appeared in concert. She will be assisted by the gifted young violinist, Bert Shepherd, of Chicago, and Mr. Frank Hardy, basso. Mr. Shepherd delights his audiences by his masterly playing upon that most difficult of instruments, the violin. He plays with great expression, and during a concert tour last winter and spring through the large cities of the west was given the warmest praises by the press. Mr. Hardy possesses a bass voice of great compass and wondeiful power and sweetness which has received the most careful training under the famous grand opera singer and teacher, Sig Vettorio Carpi of the Chicago Conservatory. Mr. Hardy’s voice has not only won praises from so great a teacher, but it has also won for him the warmest applause from his audiences.

Lakey & Sayler the new and en terprising bakers and lunch men. Don’t forget them. Estey organa and pianos, and Estey A Camp organs and pianos, on exhibition at C. B. Steward’s. The best and freshest of everything in the bakery line, at Lakey A Sayler the new bakers, successors to Milliren <k Martindale. Call on C. B Steward, agent for lots in Columbia Addition; 140 lots at prices from 025 to UM.