River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-11-11
Lecture Course.

lst The first entertainment of the
series Will be given Monday evening,
Nov. %, at the Congregational church
and will consist of dramatic readings
by Prof. r. l.. Gun mock, Director of
the Northwestern University School
Of Oratory.
2d, Price Of season tickets, $3.50, of
single evening tickets, 50 cents.
Either kind Of ticket may be purchas-
cd at any time from the committees,
from Rev. w. NJ Balch, at c. r.
Taggart's or at Barnard & Clough's.
3D. Reserved seats for Professor
Cumnock's reading may be secured at |
Barnard & Clough's and at Taggart's |
any time between Up. N. Friday, Nov. |
- and the hour of entertainment, |
Sunday excepted. The diagram for |
the east side of the church will be at |
Taggart's, for the west side at Barn
ards. This arrangement will avoid |
crowding and tedious waiting and |
will give a fair opportunity for all to /
obtain seats whether holding season |
tickets or not. The sale opening in |
the evening will give students and |
teachers an equal chance with the |
general public. To get good seats
come early.
4th, Remember that Professor
Cumnock is by common consent the
best reader in the country.
My dear Normal student, if you
happen TO find your exams particular
ly knotty and your teachers unusually
cro5s-grained just now, do not be too
hasty in passing Judgement, or jump
| at the conclusion that your professors
are paying off old scores. As matter
OF fact, they have decided, as with
one voice, that they are likely to pay
nothing till after January lst. 1t is.
Just possible too that your teachers
are in need Of change;-yOu yourself
have doubtless seen the day when
little change would have come handy
and you did not have ii in your
pocket. And if you find check
suddenly put upon your career by
your pedagogical supervisors, take it
with good grace, because the check
is only a make-believe and probably
not good at the bank-aJ least, not
till January 1st. If ordered TO do so,
we should even advise that you draw
on your Imagination as often as
, required; your teachers have been in
the habit of drawing on something
: much more substantial than this
the Farmers and Merchants, say
but even a luke warm imagination is
: not bad thing to draw on during
slack intervals. Expect few Christ
/ mas presents from your fond in
: structors, but lots Of valentines. BE
f models Of patience yourselves, and in
: your essays dwell on the beauties OF
{ patience. For il is long wait from
= September till January:-and it Is
D not till January that Mr. Peterson,
, who guards the finances of this
. | opulent commonwealth Of Wisconsin,
q expects to find any coin in the
= particular tin box out of which he
3 pays the state teachers. This box,
: alas. has now been swept and garnish-
: ed these many days.
Have you got your hot water bags
b yet at Barnard * Coughs sale?
A cob-web party was the designa-
tion Of an entertainment given Fri
day evening by Miss Lucy Peckham
for the young ladies who assist her in
the kindergarten, together with their
young gentleman friends. Cords in
various colors but presumably of
uniform length were strung through
out the rooms in an intricate device
that resem bled cOb-webs as much as
anything in nature. At one end Of
each cord, and in plain view, was at
tached a name-card which told each
of the several guests how to start out
on their search for the hidden treasure
tied to the other end of the cob-web.
Each prize. when discovered was ac-
companied by legend in verse clever
ly setting forth its object and its
relation to the finder. The quota
tions were apt and brought about a
great deal OF amusement. Cards and
other games were played, and re-
freshments, consisting of salad, sand
wiches, coffee and cake, were served
at small tables.
On Saturday evening Miss Laura
Peckham entertained at a thimb.e
party the young ladies who assist
her in the practice work Of her
primary department at the Normal.
About twenty we're In attendance and
all enjoyed pleasant evening. Ice
cream and cake were served in the
dining room.
Among the many blessings that fall
to our lot simply as jewellers in this
branch-line town Of ours. perhaps
none is more fortunate than our we'll
chosen lecture courses. The same
fact that adds life and stability to
| our mercantile trade--a com Portable
distance from the big trade centers-
makes possible our excellent courses
of entertainment. The well known
taste OF our community, its ability to
distinguish what is sincere from
what is false and its preference for
the former, must also add something
To the high grade Of our serial enter
taiuments. At any rate, high grade
they have been, and high grade they
| still promise to be. The opening
| lecture Of the new EpWOrth League
! course, TO be delivered on the evening
o. Nov. p, will be one of unusual
strength and brilliancy. Prof
Cumnock's charms as an orator are
Of very personal order; his mind is
of fine type. and the program in
which we shall hear him, select list
of dramatic readings, will afford a rich
| opportunity for the exercise Of his
gifts The four otbpr attractions Of