Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-06-11

But ere 60 sweet miss, will but sip from you
red lip, tender farewell kiss.
Then without the assistance of the Lord Chancel
lar the Queen mounting her throne she per
| soually gave.
THE QUEENS SPEECH.
"A very little Queen am l,
And yet to rule l mean to try,
For surely just one short day,
can q May Queens scepter sway
My young companions, who are here,
Are each and all to me. most dear.
| thank you from my heart this day,
For crowning me your Queen Of Nay.
Solo by the Band.
RED, WHITE AND BLUE.
Minnie Thayer and Minnie Overly,
arrayed in the conventional colors,
san: cred, White and Blue" while
the chorus was echoed with patriotic
gusta by thirty-two pupils, of Mrs Jen
ME Moore and Miss Augusta Waite.
Followed by independence Bell, y
which was we'll rendered by Cora Mer.
ril. Mrs. Atchison and Miss Shinn' s
pupils Joined in the Farce of:
''FoUR SCORE AND FOUR OF US POOR
OLD MAIDS.
Appropriately followed by the Old
Bachelors solo, by Annie Hobbls. We
all remember the wind up, 'when all
the old maids, some younger, some old
err; each carried an old Bachelor home
on her shoulder
DIALOGUE.
Mary Labree and Hattie Hobble, as
City and Country girls. Each part in
character and well sustained. When
the curtain again rose on
THE FOUR QUEENS:
Lizzie Overly, as Spring; Minnie
Thayer, Summer; Nettie Tarbox, Au-
tumn; Katie Collar, Winter, with its
allegory Of:
THE FOUR SEASONS.
Minnie Martin, as Spring; Gertie
Thayer, as Summer; Matte Singer, as
Autumn; Rosie Powell, as winter; pupils
of Miss Waite and Mrs. Moore, exceed
ingly well rendered, when the fact is
considered that no time had been given
for rehearsal in this large hall, followed
by very pretty piece.
The FIVE wishes, by Miss Waite's pu-
pills, wherein Lua Lemert was the beau
tiful Fairy; Clara Crawford, as Bird.
Jessie Tilghman, a Star; Annie Mar
tin, Flower; Gertie Kelsey, School
Girl. Pearl Boyd, $50 sweetly) the
Angel, who awarded the crown to the
School Girl, for the best wish-acted
and spoken well throughout
Another overture by the Band, and
the curtain rose on the
TWELVE MONTHS,
A brilliant array of boys and girls
from the classes of Miss Waite and Mrs.
Moore; actors all dressed in character.
Nina Norval, as January; Lua Lemert
"a valentine, her robe decked with ar
row pierced hearts) as Feb. Seth Cher
rington, as boisterous March; Annie
Sughrue, as showering April; Clyde
Boyd, as blooming May; Anne Lime,
as fowery June; Edna Merrill, (the
sweet little goddess of liberty as July;
Emma Behl, as August; Robert Heus-
It's, as September; Eddie Bayles, as Oct;
Harry Snyder, as November; while Al
bert Berg done the Santa Claus for
December.
The exercises closed with a we'll |
spoken raledictory by Master Lutte
WEIGH.
The children seemed to think they
lad enjoyed jolly good time, and to
he older ones the fact was revealed
hat the city schools possessed materi-
Il whose near future with proper train
ng would be second to none in the
state.
Yet their application to books will
become attractive or rspulsive, just in
as their respective DISPOSE
ions are skillfully handled by careful
md discriminating teachers, whose in
uition can readily solve the mystery of
child disposition, and whose whole
oul is in their work. And this seems
prominent characteristic with Prof.
'wan and his staff of assistants.
Other pieces of equal merit were
iven but space forbids mention.
Large lot of German millett seed.