The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1901-01-17
Outlook Club Entertainment.

The entertainment given at the
opera house last Friday evening un-
der the auspices of the Outlook Club
OF this city was one of the very
pleasant events Of the season.
The program was opened by music
by the cornet band Then followed
recitation, ''Aunt Melissa on Boys",
by Miss Addie Lansdon, which was
very commercially rendered
The Misses McClung and Wright
gave duet in pleasing manner.
The revel of the Naiads, the Misses
Hanthorn, Hixon, Hitt Coston,
Powell, Cora Smith, Hattie Smith,
Watson--was especially interesting,
and each of the young ladies was
very charmingIy attired and carried
her part in a thoroughly pleasing
way, The quartet, composed of
Messrs. Davis. Ashby, Burley and
Wolfe, very creditably rendered 4
selection. The recitation, s'Grand-
ma at the Masquerade, by Miss
Beulah Haas, was very good. The
pantomime farce was one of the es-
pecially entertaining features Of the
entertainment, in which the Misses
Cope, Bargelt, Powell and Gallo
way, and the Messrs. Jenney and
Charles Galloway took part In
this scene Cupid Frieda Sommer-
appeared and did splendidly.
The violin solo by Irene Bernard,
was good considering her age, and
the Topsy Turvey Quartet, corn
posed of Messrs. Davis, Ashby,
Burley, Wulf, sang very laughable
song.
The entertainment closed with
reproduction from the camp life of
the Weiser volunteers while in
Manila, and so realistic it was that
every beholder knew as we'll what
the boys said and how they acted in
those far off isles as If visit had
been paid them there, When the
curtain rose, q typical scene OF their
soldier life was presented the trop-
fical forest, the rocks, the camp fire
and tent, all bathed in the semi
gloom of night About the fire
, lounged the well known forms of the
Weiser volunteers joking one another
just as they did in the real campaign,
) and when Charlie Galloway came in
from guard duty, the circle was
complete and pranks we're played on
the stage as they were practiced at
e quarters. Woody Jeffreys was
< dragged from his bed in the tent and
S told that it was morning, but when
e the bugle broke upon the air, he real
/. lied that he bad been asleep but one
d hour, and he got even by guying Ed
Harper about his Filipino sweetheart.
Then the boys fell into the dumps
and Pope's older wisdom and philos-
ophy came into play to cheer the
boys up and he had succeeded we'll
by the time the mail arrived, and in
the excitement of the boys as The
letters were handed out. hardly any
one in the audience felt that he was
anywhere but on the other side OF
the Pacific Envelopes were torn
open in haste and the epistles from
home we're read eagerly and ever and
anon one would call to the others to
listen while he read aloud some ex-
tract. Then the Signal was discov-
cred and there was scramble until
one read aloud tue news from home.
!. and it was surprising how excited
they were at many little things en-
N tirely unilnportant to US on this side
ir of the water. For the most part tn,
at boys reproduced incidents as they
Iy actually occurred, even to the hand
D. ing around of piece of sage brusl
NJ received in one of the letters, an(
" the smell Of which was delicious fra
ie GRANGE from home, to them. The,
Sc sang "Tenting on the Old CAM
d Ground" and as they drew to TIN
w close, the crack of Filipino rife
&C, began to echo through the woods
the boys siezed their arms and tn
ty colored lights last saw them creeping