Mexico weekly ledger., 1910-05-26
A. Gibbs 2
NJ. Bar-th 2

excitement with frequent class
cheers. The play was a decided sue
cess; the band concert between acts
was a glorious treat and everything
throughout the entire performance
went to make up an en- semble per-
fectly in accord with high school en-
tertainments of the highest order.
Miss Monimia Taylor, in the lead
Ing role, was most excellent and
Chas. Liebler, leading man, main
tanned his part we'll and assisted in
leading a cast that made a marked
hit i'm histrionic work. Miss Tay-
lor was pretty and fetching and Mr..
Liebler, handsome and debonaire.
The cast was a strong n through
out. Every member filled his re-
spective part ably and like Leopold
Barth, in the role of the village cut
UP, put Tfe in every line. Stanley
Pearson made a sinister villain;
Poole Harrison, a mysterious bur
glar; Maurice Barth, an interested
sportsmen.
One of the hits of the performance
was Miss Eva Miller, as Gretchen;
she made a most charming little
girl. Minerva Pearson was a good
Shirley, and, with Maurice Barth, had
one especially good scene. Ruth
Crews was pleasing as Amy; leila
and Alma Brown, as Punch and Jul
dy, were good. Beulah Griffin and
Roy Wright were both pleasing in
their respective parts, especially In
the surrender of the South TO the
North.
Geraldine Livingston made n pref
ty Madge, Effie Wentz pleased as
Frances and Addie Cunningham made
a perfect chaperone. josephine Ev'
ans filled the role of Eloise well
and Sudie Wim made a most anus
ing German servant girl.
All of the stage properties, dnclud
ing the furniture, we're the products
of the manual training department Of
the Schools, and added interest to
the performance. Some cry hand
some pieces of furniture were on the
stage and bespoke the dgree of eff
cheney the students have attained IL
this department.
The Band has improved much since
I its incipiency, and has not only
lengthy repertory, but plays in uni
son and without disoord. 1t Is
I strong organization and has an ex
eeIlent future. Prof. Hawthorne ana
those who assisted him should re
ceive much credit for the pleasur'
/ the evening afforded.
! When the boys in the first act stal
1 ed smoking, 1t was an innovation I
the production. While the direction
of the play call for cigarettes, Supel
intendent Hawthorne eliminated tina
part from the play and when he say
e the boys light up" he was SUI
d prised.
h The music and the class song {
1910 was written by Miss Maude Wa
lace, instructor of music in the pull
s lie schools, and she received muc
praise for its beauty. 1t is n
q the most tuneful and prettiest song
in a number of years. Miss Nil
erva Pearson and Monimia TaylC
wrote the words for the song, whic
are appropriate and show litertar
ability upon the part of the co1auth
ors. y
But, from the local data thus gat.
cred taken in connection with Fe
eral census figures, and vital stati
ed under State laws elsewhere and
which conditions of population al
substantially the same as in Misso
ri, it is possible to Approximate Il
truth with respect to our own Stat
and make estimates in cold figur'
b%erculosis,
of our losses year by year from t
And let 1t be said here that Il
delinquency on the part of a Sta
which fails strictly to require the I
cording of every birth and death tel
against the intelligence and go'
name of its government. To ILL
trate. in the cold blooded calcul