Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1902-02-15
DAKOTA. SATURDAY. FEBRUARY IS. 1902
The Men Have an inning.

The anniversary every year?
The husband.
Who, when he's donning evening clothes,
Would with an angel come 10 blows,
And lets the whois house hear his woesp
The husband.
Who sometimes makes us qSail and quoke
With tales about the bread and cake
His mother used to make and bake?
The husband.
But when the skies are DARK and gray,
And ruin seems not far away,
Who takes the helm and saves the day9
Tie husband"
This taking the helm sounds all right
in poetry but when it comes to taking
the helm Of a supper for three hundred
In an opera house and only handful OF
men about to work and every one ask
ing the other what to do next, it is seri.
Gus business calculated to cultivate gray
hafrs'on an Indian cigar sign.
Blu. the men, bless them, took things
in their own hands last Saturday night,
and sailed fsarlessly out on the sea that
has wrecked thousands Of people and
the supper they served was equal to any
ever served by a bunch of men any
where on this earth. Men don't believe
in throwing boquets at themselves as Il
rule but when they do something well
they are not averse haying folks men,
ton it in conversation.
The men did get their supper a little
out of proportion in one or two instances
but they expected that. They will know
better next time. For instance six cak ss
would hardly 20 around three hundred
hungry folks, at least not in these times
One young man sailed up to LADY at
the table and asked hef if she cared for
coffee and when she said she did he ask
ed If she would have the cream first.
She assented and was surprised and
horrified to see the young man pour out
some buckwheat batter which he had
taken in the rush and whirl to be nice
thick cream. But mistakes like this
were the exception not the rule.
Up on the stage where the dishwash
ing, cake baking, sandwich making, etc.
was going on fast and furious there was
many small tragedy and one worth
noting was the disappearance Of four
clean plates. The plates had just been
washed and wiped when all at once they
lost their balance and disappeared down
Il hole in the floor. Ford Mclaughlin,
who was boss of the dishwashing gang
said he didn't mind the loss of four
plates but that the missing plates had
Just been washed.
Tom Delicate broke the record by max
ing twenty ham sandwiches in twelve
seconds. Frank Peterson handled the
range in most able manner and the
coffee he made beat any that mother
ever turned out. Then his flap jacks
we'll they were the real thing and with
the maple syrup just oozing out of them
they would have made the mouth of a
bronze statue water. Frank you are a
good cook and that's no lie.
S. N. Fitch and j. r. Cruson acted as
walters and kept the crowd supplied
with steaming hot cakes, while Roy
Streeter and Andy Ennis carried clothes
baskets full of sandwiches to the hungry
folks in the gallery. M. j. Bailey and
John McFadden were in the thickest OF
the work of feeding the hungry and de.
serve the medal as being where the bis
cults flew thickest, and hereafter they
will be known and numbered with the
brayest of the brave.
Then the vaudeville show, which came
first must be mentioned and say it was
worth the money any day in the week.
To the left as you came into the hall was
a great wire cage specially erected by
WILDER Wright for the monkey. The
cage was surrounded by men and women
and little folks all evening long and this
little bit Of natural history proved most
interesting. The bringing of it there
was deed of kind man whose heart is
in the right place. Ofcourse there were
few kickers about the monkey but
these kickers only proved the Darwinian
theory in respect to themselves.
The vaudeville proper opened with a
funny sketch by Deacon Jones, who
really made folks think he was to sing
and Town Marshal John McFaddeI, who
threatened him with instant arrest If he
should sing. Trouble was averted how.
ever by the timely arrival Of Rube who
said he could sing the song better than
Jones. The Reuben was uproariously
funny and his make up was quite
Reubenafed. Here in Custer we know
the man who impersonated the Rube as
Mark Willis, the genial good natured
dry goods man. Town Marshal John
McFadden acted as announcer and gen.
eral manager of the show and he does
so well that he is our candidate for life
No one suspected that s. N. Fitch
could be a comedian but he came out in
Little Lord Fauntleroy suit and made
tremendous hit with his funny stories
and the way he sung LADY Hotentot.
Hereafter in home talent shows we will
cast Fitch as funny man. In fact we
strongly suspect he must be relative o.
Clyde Fitch, the actor-playwright who
has scored more hits than any theatrical
writer in the world.
Chet Henderson forgot all about bel nl
the Judge with stern and unrelentinl
countenance and came out and suns
Every Darkey had Raglan On" Che
makes dead swell coon and no mis-
take. Fred Dunn brought The biushin.
Miss "Annie Moore" out on the stage
and introduced her to the audience, anc
Thomas Wesley Delicate sung "Goot
Morning Carrie" and both these gentle