Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-03-06
THEY'RE AFTER FRED.
The Cherry Sisters Were Roasted by an
Iowa Paper and Suing its City Ed



The Cherry Sisters Were Roasted by an
Iowa Paper and are Suing its City Ed
itor.
The newspapers of Iowa are mani
testing a great interest in the coming
trial on the charge of criminal libel
preferred by the Cherry sisters
against Fred Davis. city editor of the
Cedar Rapids Gazette, and some of
them have generously offered to as
sist in the trial in any way desired.
The Iowa City Citizen is glad that
the defendant was released on bail
and hopes the trial will be held in the
opera house. 1t states that in such
an event the Citizen will have re-
porter at the trial and promises its
readers all the facts in the case. The
Keokuk Gate City speaks of the suit
as luxury and says 1.-The roasting
was an unmerciful one" The Du-
buque Times says the suit is cherry
colored and recites the troubles of a
dramatic critic. The Dubuque Her
aid says 1.-THE girls are after him, are
| after him" The Burlington Hawk
eye thinks the trial viii discount the
performance. and the Burlington
journal says .'he wrote racy roast
on gang of female transformers and
now there is blood on the moon. The
trial will be a memorable one and the
journal suggests that if the city edi-
tor is convicted. he be bound hand
and foot and be compelled to listen to
iStn ., ha
Journal and State Register are
awaiting the result of the trial with
anxiety, and the Marshalltown Times
Republican says: Five girls are
after Fred. He roasted them for de
sorting their farm work for which
! they are peculiarly fitted and now
! they don't like it because they are
criticised for running farm in the
summer time and giving dramatic
! entertainments during the winter -
What Caused the Trouble
1t seems that five young ladies,
young by reason of that courtesy
| which 2ccords youth to all unmar-
ried females of the human race, re-
side on farm near Marion. Iowa.
They organized an operate COM
q: pany-''The Five Cherry Sisters
company They prepared an enter
tainment which was largely original,
and which further developments
proved to have been unique. New
songs by the sisters. new music by
the sisters and new dances by the
sisters, were among the features adj
vertised ON neatly printed posters
which first met the public gaze at
Marion. The brave sisters advanced
on Cedar Rapids. where they secured
! Greene's opera house and gave per
Torrance.
The performance was of such :
character that overshoes were thrown
from the audience to the stage, and
among the comments by the loca
press next day was one from the
/ caustic pen OF City Editor Fred Davi,
Of the Gazette:
They no doubt are respectable
girls and educated in some things
but their knowledge of the stage Is
worse than none at all, and they
surely could not realize last nigh
that they were making suci
fools OF themselves. If some in
detinable instinct OF modesty could
not have warned them that they
were acting the part of monkies. il
does seem like the overshoes thrown
at them would have conveyed tn,
idea in n more substantial manner
which is perhaps easier to be under
stood by people of calibre. But moth
could drive them away, and no com
bination OF wells. whistles. barks ant
howls could subdue them
| Whereupon the girls have come il
again from the farm and entered sui
against Fred Davis for libel, and the
Gazette is arranging to have the
trial in the opera house and charge
admission.