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The Prescott daily news., 1909-12-16
Dear Santa Claus

l have been an awful good boy and I want bicycle and a tricycle. and an Irish mail and an automobile and that's all. I be- lieve l do want some good things to eat and you can put them in my stockings that'll hang in the sitting room. I'm just crazy for you to come, why don't you come on? Lovingly,
 Joe Clifford CarrutherS.
 P. S.-I might be out to grand mas that night.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-12-16
PRICE FIVE CENT s
early and shut my eyes tight. Please don't forget me.
 Analine Duke.
Dear Santa Claus:-

Dear Santa Claus
 I have been a good boy and have good lessons most every day. Be sure and come to ou1 house and bring me some nice presents. I would like bicycle, a foot ball and some story books and I like all kinds of fruits and nuts. Be sure and don't forget all the poor children and remem Der Miss Lyda Marsh with big box of candy.
 Your friend.
 Bracy Haynie.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-12-16
MT. Santa Claus

MT. Santa Claus
 Dear Sir have been a good little girl and brought up my lessons. I want you to bring me a sewing box and set of dishes, dresser and big doll. And 1 want some apples, oranges and bananas and candy. The is all I want this Christmas.
 Your little friend,
 Geraldine Johnson.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-12-16
and please don't forget to bring me a air gun and box of shots to shoot. Your little boy.
 Horace Mccain.
Dear Santa Claus

Dear Santa Claus
 want gun, please ma'am, and a choo- choo and a drum and a "bowger bear" that jumps and a doll and some blocks and lit tie broom, some candy, bananas, oranges and nuts. Please don't forget Buck, he is too little to write. Bring him rocky-horse and a choo. choo. I am a good little boy-don't run away any more. Your little boy,
 Rector City.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-12-16
Dear Old Santa Claus

We hope you won't forget to come to our house and bring us a doll buggy and dollies, a little slate and pencil, some A B c books and little story books, and also some oranges, apples, candy and nuts. Remember, Santa, you will have to bring two of everything.
 Your little friends,
 Hannah and Helen McKelvey P. S.-Santa, please bring sis ter a little rocking chair. Dear Santa Claus:- Please bring me a Billy Goat and wagon. a big drum and be sure to bring me plenty of fire crackers and roman candles and sky rockets.
 Also bring me plenty of good things to eat.
 Your little boy,
 Dwight Scott. Dear Santa Claus:-
 Please bring me a locket and a nice jewelry box and a story book and a box of candy and a bracelet and doll bed and some e oranges; bananas and grapes and all kinds of nuts and some fire crackers and sky rockets and roman candles. I will go to sleep
The Prescott daily news., 1909-12-16
Dear Santa Claus

Dear santa ClauS- 1 want set of dishes and a doll and doll buggy. 1 am in the third grade. I will hang my stocking early Christmas night. Come to my house first. will go to bed at eight o'clock. l have been a good girl. Please come early.
 Your little friend,
 Airline Haltom. Dear Santa Claus
 1 want a nice doll and doll bug gy, a set of dishes and a set of furs, and some apples, candy oranges and nuts and grapes and box of lemon candy and want nice story book and a nice dress. Be sure to come early. Your little girl,
 Baram Vickers. Dear Santa Claus
 want you to come to my house. 1 live on east second street. Fill my stockings full, with apples and nuts and cand- dies, fireworks and horn, au- tobile, and I want on the Xmas tree my horse and fruits and a ball. This is all l want. Please bring my toys. 1 will go to bed early and shut my eyes tight.
 Your little friend,
 Earl Majors. Dear Santa Claus Please bring me some dolls, a gocart, little doll, iron, tea-par ty table and dishes, and every thing else you can.
 Your little girl,
 Frances Terry. I want nice big doll, a pretty little doll buggy and 8 tea set, a set of furs. I want a nice story book. l want some apples, oranges, some nuts, candy, some grapes. 1 want nice pair of gloves. l will go to bed early.
 Your little girl,
 Lanie Bliss. Dear Santa Claus
 1 am very good girl. l want you to bring ne a trycikle; doll,
The Prescott daily news., 1909-12-16
Dear Santa Claus

Dear Santa Claus
 Please don't forget to come to see me. I am a good little boy and smind my mamma. Please bring me a doll, a doll buggy, a little horn and trunk and be sure to bring me a little piano, apples and I do love grapes.
 Your loving little girl,
 Maxine Carruthers.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-12-16

Dear Santa Claus
 I want big doll and a doll buggy and pair of furs. I am in the third grade and l bring my lessons up well. Please do not forget to come. 1 will go to bed after supper and shut my eyes tight. And I want oranges apples and nuts. 1 have oeen a good girl and won't you please come. Your little girl,
 Rosa Stuart.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04
INSTRUCTIONS FOR
AK-SAR-BEN JUVENILES
Certain Attendant Rehearse Today
and Tea Party Children Next
Saturday.

children participating in the japanese
Tea party of Ak-Sar-Ben are expected to
report at the Den next Saturday at /
o'clock, according to announcement OF the
managers. They will enter at the stage
door at the northeast corner OF the build
ing and assemble in the banquet hall up
stairs. Signs on the pillars in the hall
will indicate where the various groups
and dancers are to meet.
The children will be expected to dress al
home and those who received fans and
parasols at this drill last Saturday arc
requested to preserve them and bring then
to the rehearsal at The Den for the at
PENDANTS OF the emperor and empress, blu.
for no others.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04

"~Checkers' mt the KruB.
Checkers has returned to Omaha and
for a weeks stay. He opened Sunday even
ing at the Krug to an IS. r. o." house
that followed him through four bright and
snappy acts with an ear for every syllable
and an eye for every pretty face, and he
has brought several with him. Florence
Heston, as Pert Barlow. daughter of the
rich banker of Clarksville, Ark, won a
great many more hearts than that of
Checkers" Her part is not one calling
for any great emotional demonstration. but
it necessitates beauty, sweetness and an
ingenious manner, and in these Miss Hess
ton is not lacking.
James Gleason as Checkers" carried q
rather difficult part with credit to him
self and to the play. To portray a character
at once fine and sensitive, yet marked
and counter marked by years of race track
touting and sporting with all that that
implies is no easy task, yet by simple
straightforward natural presentation Mr..
Gleason held the audience TO its seats even
after the curtain rang down on the last
act.
Checkers is a story OF money and
gamblers, a dark picture OF a Swallowed
side of life. in which a few strong and
really noble characters are made to tighten
the effect. 1t is a simple story of simple
people. and rather a relief from the hurri-
cane Of alleged sociological extravaganZas
Of impossible ball rooms and ,ill-fittinE
dress suits that has swept the stage Of
late.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04
.'GirIs'' ut the Burwood.

Girls" a comedy in three acts, by the
late Clyde Fitch; under direction of Sam
S. and Lee ShubeTt Unc.). The cast:
Pamela Gordon, secretary and stenog-
Violet Lansdowne, stenogTapheT and
Kate West. a free.iance writer .vi. Bates
u:n ni.,np 1. the strickland
Edgar W. Holt, junior partner Of the
law firm of sprague & Holt....:..".
William Hayward Claire
George H. sprague, his partner....."
Frank Loot, clerk with spTague & Holt
Augustus bennett. ...........,iE A, Locke
Inc Janitor.. william Jones
The Postwar. ,.......,..,.... John Dudley
Messenger Boy George Bunny
Girls" Is by Clyde Fitch, which is equiv
alent to saying it is light, bright, and in
consequential. Also, that It pays an infinite
deal OF attention to microscopic details,
such as the rafting OF steam In the heating
pipes Of a flat building, the feminine prepa-
rations for bed, the wiggling of toes that
protrude from beneath the cover when one
Of the girls pretends to go TO roost for the
night in a Morris chair, and a lot Of similar
incidents. Ar. Fitch was a stickler for these
little things that make up the realism and
the atmosphere OF his comedies, And he
never went farther than he did in Girls"
AhN oLoIg mas % w ~ AAlbt 1OuI6
women who are banded together in a man
hating society, and are searching for work;
two are photographers and the third draws
Illustrations for stories for whoever will
employ her. The 'man-hating' is so plainly
a pose that the girls have a hard time
hiding then hypocrisy from one another.
and do not succeed in convincing anyone
else. And in the end each is made happy
with a masculine protector. But the
stretch is filled with comedy that is pecu-
liarly Fitchian. II has been seen here be-
fore, and therefore does not come with the
startling attraction OF novelty.
The company presenting il at the Bur
wood is made up OF some very capable
people, and the humor OF the play is richly
set forth. In one or two points the true
action OF the piece Is submerged for the
purpose OF making somebody laugh, and q
f~aroical rathsd than a comedy result is at
tanned. Miss BuTrel is doing much with
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04
At the 1'heaters

"a Dry Town. at the Boyd.
S. Miller Kent and company in a three
act comedy by f. e. DUNN; produced
under direction of Robert Milton for Joe
NJ. Gates; the casts:
Argus, and Mayor Of Blissfulvillea
Hon. Billie Crewliss, Editor Of the
Barnabas Crewiiss, His Uncle and an
Attorney Of the old school.".."
Horigan, Chief OF Police. JAMES BEVfHNs
HARRY MainHALL
tasoentoB, dun. arr. 80. e%lleipunnlu .HARR
.~.~.S Eu''H, WILSON, fREPYNoLDs
Mokes, a b~ootlegger. MARCUS MORTALITY
Mrs. Letitla Crewless, president Wo-
mems Aggregate Temperance socity
HELEN TARCY..
ImoEene Renford ...WINONA SHANNON
Dollie Wimple, a printers devil. .......
LYDIA DICKSON
Those who view Mr.. Dumm's comedy
from a standpoint unprejudiced as to either
view of the liquor question will find 1t
a fairly amusing play reflecting some of
the circumstances incident upon prohibit
ton, but not attempting to settle the ques-
ton. What ethical stress there is has
to do with the matter Of hypocriscy and
can't rather than prohibition or license.
For the sake of what humor there may be
in II some. characters OF course are made
to act rather differently Than their preach
ments and over ardent advocates OF one
side or the other are ridiculed a little not
because OF their views but for the in
tensity with which these views are mani
tested.
Mr.. Kent is cast as the somewhat in
consistant mayor of the Saharah COM
munity, and the action OF the play re-
wolves upon the perplexities in which he
finds himself due to a rather false posi-
ton. For the plays sake 1t just so hap
pens that the father of the girl he loves
is charged with being a bootlegger and 1t
becomes incumbent upon him to order the
arrest of the girls father and to pass
sentence on him at a trial-incumbent that
is unless he wishes to play grave-digger
at his own political tragedy.
AS happens more frequently in the drama
in real life, just after the hero has re-
solved to do what is really right in the
circumstances with the consequences be
hanged, just then, things right themselves,
all ends auspiciously and the girls friends
plan for showers.
Mr., Kent shows himself as able an actor
as he was in the Cowboy and the Lady
and later In "Raffles' and the company is
competent throughout. Miss Shannon
makes a sweet young person out of the
aggressive president of the Temperance
socity deserves praise for her restraint in
a part easily caricatured and Miss Dick
son won a good many laughs as feminine
printers devil.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04

Pamela Gordon, the head Of the m~an-hating
triumvirate, who succumbs only after a
most bitter struggle; she is convincing most
Of the time, and always enjoyable. Miss
Bates is an ingenue Of capacity and fairly
romps along as vi ~Lansdowne, the younger
of the three, while Miss Strickland fills
out the list with a completely charming
Kate West. Almost any manager would
give a girl like her a chance to show what
she could do. Miss Allen makes Lucille
Purcelle decidedly low comedy, but it is
effective from the amusement point Of
view. Mr.. Claire is a sufficiently impudent
young lawyer to win his way with the audi
ence, and the others are all very we'll
placed. The play is staged according as
it's author wanted it, and that also means
that much attention has been paid to de-
tail.
The Sunday night audience at the Bur
wood was greatly pleased with the piece
and its performance.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04
AMATEUR ATHLETES To MEET
Indoor Championship Tourney BeGins
in New York Tonight.

Indoor Championship Tourney Begins
in New York Tonight.
NEW YORK, oct. a-Boston. Montreal,
Pittsburg. Philadelphia. Chicago. New
York and other cities will contribute their
best amateur athletes TO make the indoor
championship games Of the Amateur Ath-
Square Garden tomorrow night, one OF the
most noteworthy track meets ever held
under the auspices OF the Amateur Ath-
letic union.
Especially keen will be the rivalry be-
tween the athletes of the Irish-American
Athletic club and the New York Athletic
club. The recent victory of the Irish
American men In the Metropolitan senior
championship games at Travers Island has
added fresh fuel to the rivalry.
But the laurelB will not all so to the
local men by any means, for such organi-
cations as the Boston Athletic club, the
Montreal Amateur Athletic association, the
Plttsburg Athletic association and the
Quaker City Athletic club have also en-
tered.
The Boston club lie sending a strong dele
cation headed by Sherman, Nelson, Rand,
Ballard, Lawrence, PrOutt, Ellery, Clark
Happenny, the famous pole %vaulter, will
be on hand TO represent the Canadian club.
He cleared the bar at eleven feet nine
inches at the Amateur Athletic union
championship games OF 1905. Among the
other Canadian athletes are Lukeman,
Desmarteau, MackRy and Royal Other
dangerous sspirants TO championship
honors expected to compete are A. b.
Shaw, the champion hurdler: W. w. May
and w. Hamilton, all OF whom will wear
the colors of the Chicago Athletic assoc
iAtion.
Among the local athletes, the field COM
prlses the holder Of precisely every record
made in track athletics in the past years.
The 800 and 1,O00-yard races are counted
upon to bring together Sheppard, Lunghi,
PAUL, Kiviat Hillman and GissinB. These
six men are undoubtedly the fastest in the
world for their distances and new world
records may be established for both the
e0o-yard and 1,0o0-yard events.
Almost as representative a field will
meet In the two mile race, in which George
Bonhalg, the record holder, will toe the
mark with Wilson, the English champion,
Sullivan, DAILY, Bellars, Win Banley and
other we'll known distance men
Other star performers entered for the
championship events include 8. c. Law
renee, Plat Adams, Ray Ewry, Martin
Sheridan. John Biller and Jack Frank, the
crack shot putter Of Brown university.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04

Richard earle is coming TO the Boyd
for the latter half of the week, begin
ming with Thursday evening, in "Mary's
Lamb" the very best thing this actor
composer-suthor has yet prepared for his
own uses. earle is the lamb, and has
the support and approval of a large
number of comedians, singers and chorus
women, the latter said to be a little the
finest aggregation he has ever gotten to-
gether. And this is saying much, for
earle has a bully good eye for a chorus
girl. A matinee will be played on Sat
urday afternoon.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04
IMPERIALS
WOMEN To PLAY GOLF TODAY
National Tournament Begins n
Merton Cricket Club.

PHILADELPHIA. Oct 2-The most
promising field that has ever teed up in
the woman's national golf championship
will begin play in the qualifying round OF
that event tomorrow morning over the links
of the Merton Cricket club at Haverford, a
Philadelphia suburb.
Special interest lie lent the affair by the
presence of five players from abroad, In
Guiding Miss Dorothy Campbell, who won
the women's title this year at ct. Andrews,
the most difficult of all courses. Miss
Frances Teacher, who was Scottish woman
champion in 1907, will be another.
Miss Katherine Harley of Fall River is
the present title holder.
The players likely to carry the largest
gallery are Miss Georgianna Bishop OF
Bridgeport, former national and metropoli-
tan champion; Miss Vida Llewellin OF Chi
cRgo, western champion; Miss Mary Adams
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04
COUNCIL BLUFFS TEAM LOSES
Underwood Team Wins Game Mt NeOIH
Three to Two.

The Council Bluffs base ball team went
to Nicola Sunday to play the Underwood
team there and was defeated through errors
in the first inning. II was Underwood's
game up to the ninth inning, when the
Council Bluffs team started a rally and
nearly won out. Each pitcher allowed a
few hits, but the pitching of Hanson was
easily the feature. He struck out seven
teen men, ten Of them vi succession. The
battery work OF the Council Bluffs team
was good, as they nearly played the whole
game for their side. The pitching OF j.
Bennett and Gardner OF the Underwood
team and the fielding of p. Peterson, who
was in the two double plays the Council
Bluffs team worked in the game, was also
noteworthy. Score:
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04

Clyde Fitch's latest comedy, Girls"
under the management Of the Shuberts,
which will be presented at the Burwood
theater tonight and twice tomorrow, deals
with the fortunes of three young women
who have gone to New York with the de-
termination to fight their way In the
world without the assistance Of the OPP
positeI sex. After q struggle, however.
they finally succumb TO the inevitable
and throw down their arms to their sworn
enemies. 1t can be readily understood
that such a theme handled in the mas
terly fashion common to Clyde Fitch
would be full OF bright lines and humor-
Gus situations, The entire performance
is filled with the bubblinE buoyGney Of
yotH
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04
ImperIals defeat Monmoutbs.

The Imperial eleven sprang a surprise on
the spectators at Florence park Sunday
afternoon when they emerged victorious
from p gar" with the heavier m
Park team. The speedy victors twice crossed
their oppOnents' goal line, but one touch
dow was not allowed, leaving the Tina
score 5 to 0 In favor of the Imperials. Be
cause OF the earliness of the season and the
intense heat the halves were only fifteen
and twenty minutes. respectively. Davis
at guard and c. Hamilton at quarter for
the Imperials shone most as individuals.
The score that counted for the winners re-
suited from an on side kick, w. Hamilton
to Jenkins. The lineup OF the elevens was:
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04
state base BAN LeaEue.

HASTINGS. Neb.. Oct, S-(Special)-
association 70 promote the organization OF
a state base ball league, will begin CORE
with various towns this week.
They will also confer with Henry Sisvsrs
OF Grand Island. who took a leading part
In the agitation for a state league three
years ago. TIL prospects for a league are
encouraging and the local COMMITTEES ante
ipates no difficulty I'm enlisting six towns
for the circuit.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04

While Lew Dockstader has preserved
the customary first part setting with his
minstrels this year it is so woven into
the plot or story as not tofnterrupt its
action, The framework OF the produc-
ton is called The Postum Aero Club"
and presents Neil o'Brien in a unique
character as chief of the fire department.
The Dockstader minstrels will be at the
BurwOod next Thursday, Friday and Sat
urday.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04

MONTREAL, Oct. 3.-Henry st. Yves, the
famous French long distance rune col
lapsed in the twenty-third mile of a race
here today. Physicians declared that his
heart was affected and that he probably
will be unable to run again. His opponent,
Hans Holmer OF Quebec, finished strong,
covering the Marathon distance in 1882: 40,
a new record II the track is found to meas
ure correctly. Today's win gave Homer
his sixth straight Victory since June. st
Yves was leading by a few yards when he
went down.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04


Charles F. Semon, a musical comedian
both musical and comic. scored the biggest
success of the current bill at the Orpheum.
The headline act is Tom Nawn's Pat and
the Genii,' which though not new here
was as warmly received as before. Nawn
is a protrayer of a stage Irishman at
whom the Ancient order of Hibernians will
never pass resolutions. Mrs. Nawn and
Charlotte Appellee appear with him, both
quite satisfactorily.
The sketch Trimmed" an episode in a
New York manicure shop, is a bright little
effort full of clever lines well delivered by
Madge Pierce, Bruce Brayton, William
Mickey and Albert Peters.
The bill opens with a magician's act by
Martini and Macmillan, who introduce
more fun than ordinary in an act of the
kind. At least one OF them did. The other
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04

Mr.. F. G. Fritz. oneonta. N. Y, writes:
MY little girl was greatly benefited by
taking Foley's Orino Laxative, and / think
II is the best remedy for constipation and
liver trouble" Foley's Orino Laxative is
mild. pleasant n effective, n curer
hGbitusl constipation. Sold by all drug
Riste.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04
Council Bluffs. .......0 Z
Underwood ...........2 {

stolen bases: SMITH fleper' ENefs, D.
Bennett, Stephany. Reed 90, Gardner.
Double plays: Peterson TO Evers, Boyne to
Phillips TO Peterson, Ryan TO Gardner.
hits: Haggerty. Peterson. Sacri-
flee hit: Smith. Bases on balls: Off Gard
ner, 8; off Hanson, 4. Struck out: BY
Hanson, II; by Gardner, l; by J, Bennett, l.
Time: 1850. Umpire: Turk.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04
CINCINNATI

beau, Ellis Knetchy (2), Evans. Base on
balls: OFF Griffith. 2; off Higgins, L.
Struck out: BY Griffith, 3: by Higgins, l.
Passed ball: Bliss Time: Ills. Empires:
Brennan and Kane.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04
efeat Cubs; C~ornhuskers to Change Lineup

Miss CampbeID: the Misses Harriet and
Margaret Curtis Of Boston. both former
national champions; Mrs. Charles T. Stout
OF New York, ex-national and metropolitan
title holder, and Miss Frances 0riscom,
Philadelphia, another ex-national title
winner.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04
Tigers Even Up with Pirates,

The series between the two picked teams,
the Pirates and Tigers, is now evened up,
the Tigers easily winning Sunday, z to 4.
crowd on the Fort Omaha diamond Heavy
hitting featured the contest, Steck and
Daugherty leading with the stick. Eddie
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04
CLEVELAND

Three-base hit: Hartzeli. Sacrifice hits;
Williams, Criger, Goode. stolen base:
Easterly. Balk: Ables. Wild pitch:
Bailey. First base on balls: Off Bailey,
3; off Ables, /. Struck out: BY Win
chell. 5; by Ables. 4; by Bailey, I. Hits
in two innings, /. Left on bases: st.
Louis, 4; Cleveland, s. Time: 1866. I'm
pires: Perrine and Sheridan.
Score, second game;
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04
Announcements of h Theaters.

"A Dry Town will continue till after
Wednesday night at the Boyd, with a
matinee on Wednesday afternoon. II is a
comedy OF types, and gives Mr.. s. Miller
Kent, who is starring in II, a fine chance
for his admitted capacity as an actor.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04
At PILGER
OMAHA WINS AT

ROurke transformers Take Satur-
days Game Ten to one.
PILGER. Neb. Oct. 3-(Specisl.)-The
Omaha league team arrived here Friday
evening and Saturday afternoon played
the Pilger team, defeating them, 10 to
team ever visited this city and It afforded
our citizens a great treat to see them
play ball. A large crowd was out to
witness the game. Score:
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04
..Can be depended upon. IS an erpressIon

Can be depended upon" IS an expression
we all like to hear, and when It is used in
connection with Chamberlain'S Collie,
Cholera and Disrrhoea Remedy IT means
that II never fails to cure diarrhoea. dys-
EMERY or bowel complaints. 1t is pleasant
to take and equally valuable for children
and adults. Sold by all druggists.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04

was delayed a day in arriving. Arthur
Whitelaw appears in Irish songs and stories
and ten colored entertainers giving a dan
cling and singing act close the bill. They
met with considerable favor and rounded
out a bill which win generally please.