The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-09-23
WOMEN OF MARIN
COUNTY At WAR
OVER POSTERS
Ross Valley Ladies Make
Midnight Attack Upon
Advertisements
BITTER FEUD BEGUN
San Rafael Amateur Dra-
matte Organizations
Are Sufferers
PLAN FOR REVENGE
Beautiful Vale Is the Scene
of Conflict Which
Stirs Society
PLAN FOR REVENGE

LIte ghosts IN the night, q number
Of society womcn Of Ross sped along
the hiehpavs Of that valley Of Marin
county until almost daubrcae yesterday
morning 10 undo the pork of tUo rival
dramatic clubs uhich had pldstered the
londsodpe1Hlainly the fences and
iTees-uith posters SO Iurid they Of
tended even IN darkness, TO advertise
he productions DhoSe near conflicting
dales had Started bitter feud be-
tucen the dniaten actors organizations.
both OF which hail from sana Rafael
Vow the feud has ended and plans for
revenge have united the warning COM
psnies.
when the ladies' improvement club
OF Ross met Friday II was not a pink
tea function such as usually has re-
suited. Reused to ire by the gigantic
scale Of the bill posting operations the
women decided TO blot out the vile
work with which man had embellished
nature The women unanimously de-
cisred IN favor Of the unvarnished and
unadorned in art when the landscape Of
their valley was IN question.
Electing as captains Mrs H de ".
Kipple. Mrs. Jane Cofhn and Miss An
nette cohin the meeting adjourned
shortly after nightfall to enter several
big touring cars, each provided with a
sssrchlight- Slowly the machines rolled
over the highways, the acetylene glows
twisting and turning on the trees by
the roadside. Wherever A poster was
seen q sudden stop was made. Nor
would the women desist until by some
means or other the offending sheet was
torn down and garnered IN the autos
-tonnesu, later TO be consigned to a
zscrihcial pyre in the rear OF the resi-
dence OF Mrs. z G. Schmiedell, from
whose home the expeditions started.
The advance agents had done their
work we'll Before the women pro-
oeeded very far they wished that step
ladders OF fishing poles had been in
cluded IN their OUTFIT But they would
not be deferred The signs broke the
peace Of their quiet valley, and the
signs must so. When high hung one
was encountered the most agile men,
Der OF the party mounted on the rear
seat OF the motor car
Supported by other members Of the
party. she would lean toward the dang
ling placard until. lifted by as many
hands as could get purchase. she came
within reach with a futter Of skirts.
down she would slide, clutching the
poster. Some OF the urchins who were
reused from slumber and who were in
terested spectators from the shelter Of
friendly fence posts have declared that
the women can climb trees as well as
boys
BY the time Sirius beams began TO
pale before the approaching sun every
plscard was down and the country side
had assumed its normal aspect Not
50 the women, who gathered to reioice
over the bonfire and partake Of refresh
rnents more suited to the strenuous Ia
bors they had just finished than pink or
other colored tea
Many were the rueful looks with
which they surveyed the rents in costly
skirts and the generally bedraggIed ap-
pearance OF what had been tightly TT
ting tailor n1sdes. but which had be-
come split IN every seam and bagged at
The knees. or where the knees ought to
be. But the signs, with all their lurid
hues, were gone and the crusade la
Carrie Nation had succeeded
RED PAINT WILL SOAR
The San Rafael dramatic club IN
way Down on the Suwanee" viii I'm
fsh It's two days engagement tonight at
the New Garden theater, and the Mi
kado- Will not be put on by the CALI
fornia dramatic club until September
q. The two organizations, both Of
which were formed to enliven the tedium
Of guests at the san Rafael hotel. Will
drou the feudal tactics and combine to
be revenged on the society women who,
the girl members Of the troupes say.
have been too gay.
Both troupes will set out in motor
cars. and say they viii make the sunny
slopes OF Ross valley look like family
washlsne in winter with lurid blotches.
Red paint viii cost z dollar a drop in
san Rafael II these poster and anti
poster c-ussdes last to the date Of the
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