New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-02-18
Class Reading.
Pupils of Miss Schoch Give Exhibition Of
Their Talent.

@ The lecture room at Tuner Hall was
taxed to its utmost capacity on Friday
evening to accommodate the people who
came out to enjoy the public recital Civ
len by the pupils Of Miss Shoch.
The room was Hastily decorated as
beftted an occasion of the kind. The
The monotonmy ofthe walls was broken
by gay bunting artictica!ly arranged
while in front two huge palms were So
placed on either side Of the raised plat
form as to give a genuine stage effect.
/ Dainty screens concealed conner where
the pupils awaited their parts.
The program was opened by Miss Elsie
Koch with reading from Richard Hard
! ing Davis, entitled .sScotch Coolie.'' The.
story of lost dog does not ordinarily
present theme for much enthusiasm
and great credit is due to Miss Koch for
her careful rendition. "Fourteen Ninety
two" was selection well suited to 81 ohm
Iien Peterson, and he gave il IN very
delightful way Ada Neumann followed
with the story Of .sHow Jimmy Tended
the Baby Jimmy's idea of babies and
the novel way of letting his baby brother.
amuse himself with q shoe black1ng out
fit, while his parents were away, was very
u ~
Dream" from BulWer Lytton, was we'll
handled by Miss Viola Schell. Dreams
are sometimes most terrible in their SEEM
ling reality and this, the dream of murder,
4 aphroacher the horrible. Miss schell re-
Icited with seemingly good understand
.IIiagsof the situation.
i At this point in the program Miss Ida
/ McCabe of st. Peter, rendered Franz
Liszt'a s.Polonalre'' In a very charming
|way and generously responded to .
hearty encore, playing "AnD1e Laurie
with original variations. The s.fall OUT
of Betsy and Frltz,a german dialect se-
lection was then given in q very excel
lent manner by Miss Violet Gray.
aJlm Bludso" from the writings Of
John Hay was next given by Edward
Larson in very excellent form.
Miss Schocn, for her own part, chose
Mother Goose" . story OF the downfall
of a mother through rum and the drama
tic meeting with her daughter, who has
1 become Princess Donna. Miss Schoch
was given hearty applause and she re-
sponded with negro dialect selection
which, was well received. Elizabeth
Schmidt next pleased the audience 50
much with her quaint little story Of an
arm chair that she was given generous
recall, to which she responded in happy
way. The Whistling solo given by Johr
Peterson, with piano accom- animent b,
, Mrs. Bingham, was we'll received Ed
] Il gar Zelle then told of the sscootlng'f o
Larrie O'Dee. Il was case Of Irisl
courtship in which . pig played the sta
! part the audience Was very we'll please
J with the story and the speaker. Fo
the Chief's Daughter' was selection
+ dealing with the tragedy Of an Iudial
love affair and well rendered by Mis-
Loida Buessmann. The final number
] "a Man after Her own Heart IN th
( form ola monoIogue, was given by Mis-
!, Alma Heimerdinger. The climax Of th
!, story is in the fact that the ssman" prove
to be q pick pocket.
FL As q whole the program was thorough
! fly enjoyable and great credit Is du
Miss Scboch for her work, while til
pupils themselves are to be congratu
J lated upon the very excellent shown
: they made.
J, On Wednesday, Feb. 4th. Mrs. Deligh
futile, of Town Home, mother Of F. A
futile, celebrated her Goth birthday. Sh
is enjoying good health and was the Il
lcipent of many congratulations fror
friends and neighbors. Mrs. futile cam
to this section of Minnesota IN 1855 an
was one of the residents OF Brown coun