The Newtown bee., 1896-10-23

ENI EIk1 AIN MENIS OF WHlCd AM ClI4
 MIGHT BE JUSTLY PROUD.-THE SALE
 OF SEASON TICKETS.
 The series of entertainments which is
 to be given at the Town hall in N3wtown,
 this winter, under the auspices of the
 Mems Literary and Social club has been
 completed m its schedule. The talent
 and dates are as follows: November TO-
 1896, Will Carleton, the famous ''poet of
 the p3ople;" December 10, 1895, c. E.
 Bolton, A. M., Illustrated stereopticon lecture on 'Russia and the Romonoff5 ;''
 New York Male Quartet company, male quartet and lady reader, January II, lS97; s, NJ, Spedon, cartoonist, Febru- ary 10, 1897. If any of TIE BEE readers
 have enjoyed at any time any one of the
 entertainments which these artists give,
 they can judge from that of the charac- ter of the course. In it's particular line each entertainment is unsurpassed; there is nothing better anywhere. All are first class talent that are engaged in the lar gest cities and occupy places on the best Iyceum courses. It is only possible to have such a course in Newtown because the management are making no effort at gain; if, at the end of the course, the re- ceipts cover expenses, they will be satis- fled.
 The plan of the course is for the bene- fit of Ncwtown, to bring the very bes that can be had here, and give the people some real treats to looK forward to throughout the usually dull winter. Ncwtown people, who have the best in- tcrcsts of their place at heart arc appeal. ed to for cooperation and support. or Will Carleton it has been said; "IIe in troduced the habit of depicting real life in verse, and has lowered prominent among American poets ever since, while hundreds of imitators have ably second ed his work" The best word that can be spoken for c. K. Bolton is what he did here last year; his lecture on "The Land of the Midnight Sun charmed all who heard it, and they will speak to all their friends in his praise. IA crowded 1 house greeted the New York Male quar- tet company last night at Music hall Lancaster, N. H. it being the first of high school lecture course. The quartet is one of the finest that ever sang to 8 l Lancaster audience. Every number of the program was cncored. Miss Nichols 1 captivated the audience with her fine se- lectionr, which were of an unusually high order" s M. spcdon was born in l New York City. In 1883 he was sent tu New Mexico and the South by Leslie'- | as artist and corresp spOndent. For three yeara he travelled in the Northwest writ. i ing and making sketches. For the last eight years he has devoted himself to the platform and newspaper work, and the study of Illustrated art. This is the course offered to people of Newtown and vicinity.
 Notice This year the plan is to be tried of selling course tickets. The price of a single reserved seat at each of the four entertainments ia to be 50 cents; the general admission to each entertainment is to be B cents. A single course ticket, securing a reserved seat to all four enter. tanments, is to be $I75. A scholars ticket, entitling a scholar in any public school to a reserved seat in the two front rows of the main floor at a single enter taiument, is to be 20 cents. The course tickets (only) will be for sale at the store of Edgar F. Hawley in the Street and of Warner, Taylor & Curtis in Sandy Hook, October 20, 30 and 3l. Monday morning, November 2, reserved seat tickets for Will Carleton's lecture on November 10I go on sale at the above places, and course tickets can then still be secured. Get your seats early. You have read ''How Betaey and I Made Up;" you now want to sec and hear the author.