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Milford chronicle., 1903-10-30
ADAMSVILLE.

The farm belonging 10 the late william
Lewis 'Hs sold on saturday to Charles smith
OF Greenwood, for hoo Is.
oiiS' The l2-vear-oid $ N # lIoel smith and
e. died pn Friday Of ar0eodlrti-, having
tea- sick only few days. He was q re
in"t .aol- bright lad, who be greatly
u ssei by an who knew h'm Funeral was
a-i1 go Bethel v. p. Chureh on snuIay af.er-
noou no three o'clock.
1lr Ellis spent Saturday and sunday at his
home near Delmar.
w F.Joues aud Mrs. John Jones were in
Bltimore on Thursday
Ms. Margaret Davis, Of Greenwood. is
so-udiug the week with Mrs N. NJ. Davis and
Mis. Hesoert Edgeu.
Milford chronicle., 1903-10-30
WILLOW GROVE.

our farmers around TINS section are about
through drilling wheat.
Jesse T.. Williams aud wife visited her par
ents sunday.
Miss Anna b Clark, who has been vbi.ing
Miss Ann" Moore, of bower, nas retained
nome aiter very leaSant visit
Willie Cabbage met with quite 81 serious ac-
cldent on Friday whue duIirg wheut. lie
got his hand caught ia the driu ANA was IN
Jared quite badly
Charhe G. ark visited 10 FELTON, SUNDAY.
Miss Neuye Cook who las been Visiting
Miss Mabel Goodeu Of Wyoming has re-
turned home. NC
Milford chronicle., 1903-10-30

spent sunday In Burrsvine.
Miss Gertie MURPHY has returned to her
home ia Baltimore accompanied by Miss
Florence CubbHge.
Mss Amanda Cooper entertained Mrs. Car
ohne Gruwell and daughter, Mrs Henry Vim
cent William Shockley and son Frank, OH
sunday.
80. q. Cooper and family were the guests Of
George sylvester and family on sunday.
Nathan Winner and WIFE, OF Harrington.
.p no sunday withWuard Gomez and family
ON sunday.
william Sippie and wife spsn sunday With
friends near GOldsbOrO.
Marion StuDbs spent sunday with Martin
Shock ey
william Horsey spent sunday with his son
Cookmau Horsev and family.
Milford chronicle., 1903-10-30
BOWERS.

The ladies' Of Bowers NJ. E. Church viii Give
an oy ster supper IN the church on Friday ...d
saturday evenings, October 8Jth and 3lst Ice
cl eun, cOniectionery,e etc, Will also be on 81, e..
Proceeds are for the benefit OF the churcD
Thomas Kennedy has resigned as co.lS on
the gGard boat Delaware.
Mi-s sallie snort is visiting relau es at
Thompsonville.
Miss Maud Maeklln is on visit to Phila-
delphia.
Quite number ofour citizen. are attend
Ing court this week
oysters are not so plentiful now. and are
bringing 10 cents per bushel at the wharf.
CTTEr
Milford chronicle., 1903-10-30
BROWX'S NECK.

aus farmers in the country,
As the seasons go aud come,
Is purity much like other folks
We're apt To grumbie son e.!
The springs too BACKYARD fer as,
Err TOO fOr'ard, AIRY one
We % Jaw about 70 any how,
And have Uuf way er none!
The thaw's set in too sudden;
FIR the frost stand in the soil
Top long To give the wheat "a chance,
And crops jig hound t3 spoil.
The weather's either most too mild,
FIR too outrageous rough,
And altogether too much rain.
FIR not naif rain enough"
Notwithstaudiug the prolonged drought.
early Ia the spring nd SKINNER, and later on
the excess Of rain, and ,he severity of tfe nu-
ia uual storms crops are on an average good
Farmers are aboJt done seeding wheat.
There has been a iarSe acreage .oWu 10 wheat
owing TO the present prosper for better prices
for next years crop.
The tomato crop has paid hqndsome!y this
year, and corn never was betier.
Taxing an into c3usIdsratil lu, the farming
go nmuniiy has great cause tu be thuusflI.
Revival services are in progiess at Laws.
conducted boy ihe Rey. j. u wilson, Of uous-
on.
Misses Elite Jacobs. r uje Melvin ard Mol.
.ie D"ileo, were tne guests Of MIss Elsie
Jacobs on Thursday Of last wee0
Mrs. Geo. B Taylor is on the sick-list
Noah scotl is harvesting an abundant crop
Of very fine sweets. His great trouble seems
10 be lack Of room in which to ,lore them.
II he mad the Old ark he used to sail, TINS
trouble wouid bee averied.
Mrs. j.. .. sacoos is visiting friends and rel
'tives IN Philadelphia and Camden, y. j.
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Notes and Comment.

Babylonian spectacle founded on F. Ma
rion Crawford's story ''Zoroaster," but not
adapted from it. is promised for the some
what distant future in New York. The pro-
duction has been set for year hence at the
New Amsterdam Theater, which is to be
formally opened this week by Nat c. Good
win in "A Midsummer Nights Dream" and
meantime Mr.. Crawford will ransack libra
ries for details of architecture, armor and
costumes.
The pit is gradually disappearing from
the English Theater. In the new play
house which Seymour Hicks is going to
build in London there will be neither pit
nor gallery. This will put an effectual stop
to the ''booing that has so long been a
disgrace to London. The new Coliseum in
st. Martins lane will have no pit either.
although it will accommodate 1900 persons
1t will have d circular revolving stage on
which four scenes can be set simultane-
ously.
Xxx
Eleanor Robson is rehearsing two plays
at the same interchangeable Merely Mary
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interesting performers. The three Kea-
tOns-Joe, Myra and "Buster"-will fur
nish a comedy turn that has been caus-
ing much merriment i'm the East. This
trio has been seen here before, but this
time new act is presented. Buster
the boy comedian, Is only ten years Old
Sager Midgley and Gertie Carlisle are old
favorites at the Grand. They have another
sketch in their Sarah and Sammy series
Mr.. Midgley again appears as a bashful
boy, and Miss Carlisle as a bright little
soubrette. Julian Rose, an exponent OF
Hebrew comedy, who was well liked when
seen here last year. is the male monologist
Of the programme. and Dorothy Neville is
on the bill as a feminine conversationalist
Bert Howard and Leno Bland, who have
often been seen in Indianapolis, will give
their well-known act, in which Mr.. Howard
does trick playing on the piano. Clifford
and Dixon will offer a comic singing and
talking speciality, and the bioscope will
present many new and interesting moving
views.
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find the drama one of unusual worth and
the production, a whole, magnificent.
Mr. Sotnern's acting is described in the
Sun as something that will bear further
study and the critic goes on to say that
1.-The actor has done nothing in which the
range was wider except Hamlet and moth
ing in which his touch was more mellow,
his technic more sure" The Tribune as
was to be expected. looked upon the play
somewhat pessimistically. 1t is rare occur
renee indeed wher William Winter. or any
of his assistants, run across anything in
the theatrical line that appeals to them.
The Tribune takes crack" at Detroit with
the opinion that there is nothing in either
play or the acting to account for the civic
and ecclesiastical hysteria that they pro-
NOTED in the West
If one wishes to become hopelessly con-
fused in regard to theatrical affairs in
New York, 1t is only necessary to read
the dramatic columns of tine different met
ropclitan papers. Take the case of f. II.
Sothern in 1.-THE Proud Prince" as an in
stance. Since the first reviews OF the
play were published there have been sup
Elementary comments upon il that have
been as varied as the programme at a
vaudeville show. With William Winter, OF
the Tribune, leader, several critics have
refused to treat the production in other
than a cold sort of way, while others have
hailed ii as a great artistic treat Some
critics say that 1.-The Proud Prince" is but
snowy melodrama like ''Ben-H ur:' others
declare that ii is the work OF an ingenious
playwright. interpreted by fine actor and
a splendid company. Some of the critics
find fault with the scenery. which created
such a sensation i'm Detroit: others say
that this scene Is necessary to the proper
development OF the beautiful lessons which
the play has TO teach. And Ii seems that
few of these profound thinkers are well
posted concerning the theatrical world
outside of New York. for none of them
appear To know who Mary Hall is, or
where she came FROM Miss Hall. as Lyca-
beta. has scored pronounced success.
One critic says that she was a leading
lady in an isolated stock company I'm the
West" Miss Hall has long been known
in these parts rs an exceptionally talelted
actress For some time she was at the
head of the capable stock organization in
Cincinnati.
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.NR- BLUE BEARD" DRURK LANE
EXTRAVAGANZA, AT ENGLIsHs.
Vaudeville at the Grand-Two Plays
at the Park-Burlesque at the
Empire-The Unique.

The pictorial glories, electrical splendors
and good fun of THE Sleeping Beauty and
the Beast are still fresh in the minds of
Indianapolis theater-goers. And now comes
the twin to that great Drury Lane spectacle
1.-The NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. MIR. Blue Beard"
another great extravaganza under klaw &
Erlauger's direction. which has TO its credit
Immensely successful runs in London and
New York. For five nights and Wednesday
matinee at EngIish's. opening tomorrow
evening. local ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS are
promised the limit of stage beauty and
Tnagnihcence in this new production OF
Klaw & Changers. The Americanization
of the piece has changed it from a Drury
Lane spectacle into the kind of musical and
pictorial entertainment that Americans de-
light in. Mr.. Blue Beard" is a very big
show. Its first projection in this country,
after a years run in London, was at the
Knickerbocker Theater, New York, where
nearly all OF last season 1t was the sensa-
ton OF Broadway. It is said to retain all
of the resplendence that it possessed in
London-thc gay ballets and professions,
the brilliant scenes. Kaleidoscope with
women gorgeously attired. and the nursery
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legends for a theme to particularize so
sumptuously. More scenery and more per-
formers are shown than would seem pos
sibie to get into the space back of the foot
light line. There is enough of them to
equip half a dozen ordinary extravaganzas.
The principal object OF the great produc-
ton Is for mirth, music, beauty and bewil-
dering stage craft to hold high revel from
beginning TO end. One OF the most elabo-
rately splendid effects is called the '"Tri-
umph Of the Magic Fam" a fashlight
picture OF which is shown on this page of
the Journal. This scene is a magnificent
woodland. where every suggestion, every
fancy, every imagination is ettuned, as it
were. to green. Against the background of
deep green turf and green foliage comes
an army OF handsome and shapely women
arrayed as birds and insects in all shades
OF green-light green, tinged with yellow.
sage green, peacock green, beetle green
and dark green, every hue fading and melt
ing into some allied tint. All the changes
OF color run in turn from the lightest myr-
tie to the richest shade of laurel Having
exhausted the world of birds, beasts and
tints which meet the eye of the most ex-
pink. blushing rose, pale violet. deep pur-
pie. misty gray and beautiful shaded blue.
One cannot imagine the enhancing beauty
OF all these. exquisite graduations of colors,
this symphony and harmony of the paint
er's art. worked out OF phalanxes OF mag
nifcently costumed boys, pretty girls and
strikingly beautiful dancing women and a
wonderful panoramic display of gorgeous
I.-a-
Earring 6isoord in the color note. AS spec
tacle. nothing more beautiful than "Mr
Blue Beard can be conceived, It was said
IN New York. Klaw & Granger have spent
several fortunes on this production. Among
the imported ballots, the original English
pony ballet creates a yeritable dancing SEN
sation. and the famous Grigolatis, or flying
ballet, In their graceful aerial posing. are
again a delightful feature with a remark
able novelty. which consists OF the pre-
miere taking Fights over the heads OF the
audience. sailing away from the footlights
10 the gallery rail and back again, mean
while showeriug the auditorium with carna-
tons. Some 400 persons are used in the pro-
duction. many of them coming from the
original DrIry Lane cast, with score of
well-known favorites added. prominent
among whom are Eddie Foy, Harry Gilfoil.
Sam Reed, Bonnie Maginn, Adele Rafter,
Blanche Adams. Robert Evans. Annabelle
Whitford. Davoie and Young. Dawes and
Seamore and others.
The curtain rises tomorrow night and
every night OF the engagement at o'clock
sharp. and the Wednesday matinee will
begin promptly at p. m. The management
requests that all spectators make an effort
TO be in their seats for the first rising of
the curtain.
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inQusitor who would fondly hope to draw
her out Whether this is from diffidence
on her part. or fear of misinterpretation,
or simply feminine modesty and reserve
(for such rare, lovely traits do occasional
ly survive, even in great actresses), or
whether il is a kind of fine artistic pride,
the writer would not presume to say. But
affectation most distinctly ii is not. The
real condolences of this actreSs-and they
are many and intimate-are made TO the
public straight from the stage Sit for
an evening under the spell of her Tess OF
the D'Urbervilles.' or Nora Helmer in A
Dolls House.. or Becky Sharp. or the
sparkling mondaine OF 'Divorcons. and
you know more about Mrs. Fishes tenn
permanent manner. intellectual outlook.
partialities and antipathies and artistic
ideals withal. than any number of formal
or informal chats could possibly give. Her
self aware of this, she cannot conceive
it to be of any concern whatever TO the
public to know how she looks or what
she does outside the theater, or what
she may be quoted as saying upon this
or that topic, or about art in general
Mr.. Sothern's new Mccarthy play, which
New York for an engagement at the Her.
aid Square, has been well received by the
ma jority of metropolitan critics. The New
York Suns review of 1.-THE Proud Prince
agrees in nearly every particular with that
published in these columns when the play
was presented here. Most of the reviewers
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No comedian-manager is better known
in the burlesque world than Sam Devere,
the veteran minstrel and banjoist, who
comes to indianapolis annually with a big
burlesque show. Mr.. Devere and his COM
pany will play their regular engagement
at the Empire this week, opening with the
matinee tomorrow afternoon. The organ
ization is a large one. The chorus is said
to be we'll trained and handsomely cos
TUNED. Two burlesques will be given-"A
School of Love" and "A Bunch of Daisies"
with Larry Smith as the leading comedian
in both. The vaudeville olio will be made
up OF a number of well-known speciality
people. Sam Devare will give his popular
singing act with his own banjo accom-
paniment; Smith and Champion will appear
in new comedy sketch; the Rico Brothers
will give what is said to be hair-raising
performance on the horizontal bars; Sey-
mour and Hill, will present a laughable
farce called Mixing Them Up;'' the
Troubadore Four will appear in a singing
act, and Burke and McAvoy will claim at
tention with burlesque boxing act called
His First Lesson" The scenery and cleo
trlcal displays used in the show are said
to be elaborate.
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vigorous young actor can make OF a reso-
lutte patriarch. and he is the hero of the
play in the esteem Of New Workers, who
care less for ''the best OF friends''-two col
lege chums who quarrel for the love of a
circus girl and later meet as military foes
in South Africa But don't you see that
young Barrymore's versatility, while IL gets
the commentator OF theatrical people. loses
for him the fond acQuaintanceship OF the
multitude?
Xxx
Agnes Booth. once wife of Junius Brutus
Booth, now Mrs. John B. Shoefen and not
compelled to act for living. has been
brought back TO the footlights by Charles
Frohmap to play a serio-comic part of a
circus woman who has dropped from the
pride OF a female hercules TO the crushed
humility OF an exhibitor OF trained parrots.
Mrs. Booth has the scene in this piece
which appeals most strongly 10 a New
York audience. She is with the British
army as kind of acknowledgements
and, when the arch villain OF the play pur-
sues the delicate heroine into a. house, the
tricky matron holds a lighted candle over
a powder key and swears she viii drop il
in if the scoundrel and his companions don't
imprison themselves i'm the cellar. They
obey in abject terror. and then, placing the
keg on the trap where any effort 10 raise
the door will upset the burning candle. she
quits the place with her bevy OF giris-hrst
telling the audience that the powder is
merely ground coffee. Laughter and APP
plause.
XXX
One play dramatized from fourteen booksi
To support that exclamation. have to
count each nursery primer volume and
each childrens tale as a novel. The result
of putting fourteen juvenile stories into
Babes in Toyland" is well nigh as con-
fusing as the same number of modern
novels would be If mixed for the stage.
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At the Park Theater tomorrow afternoon
the comedy drama 1.-THE Little Outcast,"
will begin a three days engagement. The
title part is taken by little Anna Blancke.
who impersonates the character of Bob,
the newsboy. With Miss Blancke i'm the
cast are Florence Cecil, Antoinette Smart,
Little Naomi. Irene Meara, Joseph Smiley.
Frederick Monley, j. Martin Mckee and
w. A. Meckling. With this company of
players is a newsboys quartet, composed
of small street urchins taken from the
slums of New York. These boys are said
to have rich voices and are capable of rem
dering stweet music. j. Martin Mckee dur
ing the play gives an impersonation of the
dope fiend." For years Mr.. Mckee lived
about the slums Of San Francisco and stud
led the manners of these people. He did it
with view of presenting this type on the
stage, and ii is said that he has succeeded
admirably. THE Little Outcast" is taken
from scenes daily seen throughout the
streets of New York city. Part of the plot
is laid in the thick brokerage district, while
at times the thread runs down to the Bat
terry and through the Bowery. The story
of the play is made UP of the usual love
and honor fighting for supremacy over
the villainous acts of designing persons.
Much care has been taken in securing the
scenic and mechanical effects for this piece.
1t is reported that coo yards of silk and
more than two tons of electrical appliances
are used in the play.
Nellie McHenry will spepar at the Park
Theater the last three days of this week in
Bret Harte's story, m liss." Miss Nc
Henry is an old favorite with the theater-
goers of this city. She has been seen here
in this piece before and on her last visit
she was accorded a gracious welcome by
those who remembered her in her other
performances. With Miss McHenry in
Miss are Mart Kelsey, Frank Dayton, j.
Duke, Jaxone, Ben F. Grinnell, l.. j. Lor-
ing, Charles Drake. Thomas Murray. WILL
lam +. Deihm, Madge Ollinger and Ella
Gardner. The piece is taken from Bret
Harte's book of the same name. 1t tells
story of wild Western life when many
people of the East rushed to the foot of
the Sierra Nevada mountains for the gold
of California. With this Heterogeneous mass
of people Bret Harte wove story Of love
and villainy that has also fascinated the
readers. In dramatizing the story none Of
the good points have been lost. The seem
cry is largely made up of those beautiful
mountain scenes for which the West is ia
NOUS
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The Unique-vaudevilIe.

The Unique Theater enjoyed good busi-
ness during its second week and enters upon
its third week tomorrow with a vaude-
vile bill which Manager Thorbus thinks
will prove the best offered yet. The shows
are all clean. and for nominal admission
an hour of entertainment may be had.
Each performance lasts exactly sixty min
utes. There is but one performance each
afternoon. beginning at o'clock. except
on Saturdays. when two performances are
given, and three shows are given each
evening, opening at o'clock. An entire
change of programme will be offered with
to-morrows matinee. Cook and Howard.
in a musical act; Miss Shaw, in up-to-date
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Ann and a dramatization of Mrs. Hum
phrey Wards Agatha" Miss Robsons
first starring vehicle, Audrey was not
wholly successful, and the attempt to re-
hearse two plays at once is due to the fact
that her managers do not want her to
again appear in anything but winning
production. And so both of the two new
pieces are to be prepared and the one that
proves the stronger success will be used
throughout the season.
March / of next year will be the closing
date of the play contest now being con-
Quoted by George Fawcett the Baltimore
theatrical manager. The success of 1.-The
Favor of the Qveen." in which Miss Percy
Haswell is now starring, has been great
stimulant to new playwrights, and manu-
scripts pouring in at a rapid rate at
Mr.. Fawcett's office. The present contest
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The Grand has had several excellent
vaudeville bills OF late, and it looks as il
the programme for this week will be up
10 the high standard recently set The
chief attraction will be the first engage
ment in Indianapolis of the Armenis-Tito
troupe OF Russian dancers, from Moscow
IA little company that has just crossed
the ocean to America for the first time.
and whose American debut takes place at
the Grand tomorrow afternoon. The Ar
menis-Tito troupe was sent directly to In
dianapolis by the vaudeville agent having
the American tour OF the dancers under
control There are six men and women in
the troupe. They are said to costume
their act beautifully, and to give an en-
tertainment entirely different from any
thing else to be seen on the American
vaudeville stage.
A German team. Sierra and Bella Rosa.
wiz be on the bin with an unusual Jug
Cling speciality. They come from the music
halls OF Europe and are recommended as
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songs; Santora and NARROW, in a new
sketch, introducing clever crayon pictures
and new ballads and the little favorite,
Grace Morrison, in her newest songs and
dances will compose the vaudeville por-
ton Of the bill, and series of new moving
pictures will be shown. The picture ma
chine used at the Unique is an excellent
one
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-01-22
Cyclfnr Trade Tricks.

There are tricks in all trades, and the
pacemakers in cycling are known to
have introduced schemes that sooner
OF later were adopted by bicycle man
ufacturers as part of the regular equip
ment. This was particularly noticea-
BILE in the matter of straight forks for
pace following. Last year, when the
rule was enforced prohibiting the rear
man from sitting back Of the rear tire,
one pacemaker utilized strap, which
enabled him to lean far enough back to
meet the head Of the pace follower.
The new rule provides that the rear
wheel of the motor tandem shall not
exceed twelve inches in radius and that
the width of the motor shall not exceed
six and one-half inches, allowing a
width of thirteen and one-third inches
for necessary cams, plates and bolts.
At no place shall the width be greater
than twenty inches excepting the ham
die bars and pedals. To prevent rid
ers from stuffing towels under the rear
saddles them. G. A. board Of control
has decided that seats must be only
eleven inches across and three from
top to bottom.