Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-05-22
The Trades Advertising Display st me
Opera House.

Upera house.
NEARLY THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS hh-
Allied BY THE EXHIBITION.
This entertainment given at the opera
House, Friday night, under the auspices OF
the Y. M: G. A. Ladies Auxiliary, MIS-. a.
NJ. Henkel, President, was very pro-
nounced success and realized 1927. Inc
house was full Notwithstanding the falling
morous advertisements, the fine marching
and final tableau made it one of the most
amusing and entertaining exhibitions
that has been given there. The committee
ON costumes was composed of Miss Lena
Bell, Mrs. G.. d. Euritt, Mrs. W. W. Gibbs,
Mrs. A. M. Howison, Mrs. S. Hammond,
Miss May Elder and Miss M. B. Frost,
and to their fine taste was due great
part OF the beauty of the scene. The young
ladies who drilled the pretty troops were
Misses Annie Child and Fannie Blackley.
AS it would be impossible to give the pc
culia costumes of some four score young
la lies cleverly representing firms and trades,
we shall only mention few of the most
striking advertisements. The Baggage
Express OF the Street Railway Co., had the
an express wagon drawn On the stage by two
live ponies and filled with trunks-a reals
Lie display which received loud applause.
The representative of a drug store had her
dress Ornamented WithpOrOus plaSters with
passamenterie Of pills; a young lady repre-
sensing a jewelry store shone like the morris
ing star with silver ladies', spoons, jewelrg
boxes and a wealth of jewelry all over her
dress; q young lady representing a tin store
had dress trimmed with tin cups and
almost everything else made OF tin; q real
estate young lady S dress was trimmed with
the familiar blue maps; a newspaper young
lady wore dress Of paper, and there was
no end to the quaint devices Of the adver-
Users, OIL rather of the committee on cos
tunes.
The banner of white with letters of gold
carried by Miss Fannie Blackley as she led in
the march, showed to the audience that she
personated 1.-The Ladies Auxiliary to the
7. NJ. G. A" Her costume was a strik
ing feature of the evening. and one most
appropriate to represent a Christian organ
ization. Miss Blackley wore a graceful
Eastern drapery of white. having the loins
grit about with a broad silver chatelaine
(Truth) and Having on the breast-plate OF
Righteousness" which was copied after the
description found in Exodus xxx, 9-15.
Her silver sandals were typical of ''the
preparation of the gospel of Peace" she
carried the shield Of Faith, and wore the
''helmet of Salvation and the sword Of the
Spirit short she put on the whole
armor of God" See Eph. vi, 14-17.
The spoken advertisements were for the
most part clever and witty and brought
down rounds Of applause. One eight-year
old young lady-little Minnie Wilson
achieved an encore as the representative of
a barber shop. The barber was so pleased
that the next day he sent for her, made her
present, gave her apair of trained pigeons
and gave her a free ticket to haveher bangs
trimmed att his shop as long as she lived.
The following ladies represented the diff
ferent advertisements-Mrs w. II. Brew,
gardner, Calvert Wake, Florence Elder,
Meta Hullihen, Annie Lee Patterson, Rosa
Witt, Mary Guy, Sadie Weller, Gussie
Bumgardner, Gertrude Abby, Mary Wal
ters, Maude Kinney, Carrie Terry, Ellie
Shelton, Nettie Baker, Mary Keblinger,
Jennie McCue, May Crowle, (Alma Schef-
fer, Minnie Wilson and Masters Nat
Moore and Godfrey Henkel-children rep
resenting scholars in Miss CroWle s Sunday
school class, Sue Wren, Madge Massie,
Eva Tyree, Lily Fuller, Evelyn Kinney,
Lizzie McCue, Virgie Halves, Margaret
Mccoy, Mary Haines, Annie Colhoun,
Edith Hawpe, Mary Dabney, Maude Cooke,
Lucille Kilby, Anna Cotton, Gertrude Mas
sic, L. D. Mckee, Cora Shepherd, Mary Nor
ton, Matte Wayt, Annie Bell TimDerlake.
Alice Halves, Mamie Edmondson, Cora
Turner, Helen Hutchinson, Elma Moore,
BERTHE Bell, Katie Hoge, Lucy Edmond
son, Libby Terry, Mary Bell, Carrie Wren,
Katie Slower, Annie Winter, Lottie Ruth
erford, Marie Hoge, Eula Keblinger, Mag
gle Daniel, Amelia Kerr, Cora Tinsley,
Leila Robinson, Nellie Miller, Grace Pat
terson, Bessie Van Lear, Eva Thompson,
Fannie Sproul, Laura Nelson, Maggie Spit
ler, Katie Bell Baker, Katie Mcclure, Kate
May, Mamie Opie, May Miller, Lena
Daniel, Maggie Walters, Roger Walker and
Ralph Meyer-two boy porters Of two rival
hotels], Josephine Robinson, Helen Hanger
and Bessie Lambert.
1t was rather remarkable that out of SC
long a list, and though a large majority OF
them had never faced an audience before.
and many of the advertisements were quite
a tax on the memory, not one failed, and
all went off well.
During the intervals between the march
es, vocal and Instrumental music was given
i by Mrs. Geo. G. Jordan, Miss Belle Shlnn
Cadet Holstein and Ed. Baker.
The marches showed the effect of good