Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1914-10-23
BOOSTERS DAY
THE Big EVENT
Arrangements About Completed
For Entertainment on Novem-
Der End, 5rd and 4th.

Arrangements Tor the Boosters
Festival, to be given in Tazewell OF
November-2, 3, a, are now well under
way and everything points to its be-
ing a great success "The Radcliffe
Attractions" of Washington, ID. c..
will send four different combinations
and two lecturers, each among the
best of it's kind.
The Festival will open on Monday
November 2, at 3 p. m. The first en-
tertainment being devoted to the
children. Mr.. Hal Merton, we are
told, in his inimitable jests as ven
triloquist and wonderful skill as a
magician, entertains the fathers and
mothers and gladdens the hearts of
the children.
The Floyd Featherstone Novelty
Concert Co. is one of the greatest
novelty companies in existence, and
the programs from beginning to end
are filled with surprises. OF this COM
pany the Richmond, Va, Times-Dis-
patch says:
"Mr. Featherstone's capacity for
making sweet music on every kind of
instrument, singing comic songs, and
telling amusing stories, appears to
be unlimited. His entertainment was
one of the best ever offered in this
city"
Three ladies compose the La Dell
Concert Co. Miss Marietta La Dell
has the reputation of being reader
who is different" Her work is un-
like that of other lyceum readers.
"Her comedy is infectious, her child
work inimitable. Blanche Deering and
Miss Bergh are artists in their respec-
tive lines. Miss Deering plays the
piano as beautifully as she plays the
violin. Miss Bergh has beautiful,
rich, high soprano voice, flexible and
of delightful quality"
The Metropolitan Glee Club.
Composed of four men, is one of
the finest companies on the road.
Each member plays "slide from
bone," the greatest of wind instru-
ments. Their program comprises
male quartets-classic, popular and
humorous.
Trombone quartets-Old selections
and new airs.
Swiss bell selections, vocal solos
and duets, instrumental solos and
duets, monologues and impersona-
tions.
Dr.. Sears lectures, "More Taffy and
Less Epitaphy" and "The Magnetized
Small Town." are classic in wit, hum
or and philosophy. AS an all around
entertainer, DIR. Sears is without n
peer on the American platform"
Col. Geo. A. Gearhart, the manager
of the Festival, is also a charming
speaker, who will be heard in two lee
lures. Each of these attractions will
appear twice-once in the afternoon
and once at night, and for all twelve
entertainments, season tickets are be-
ing sold at $1.5O for grown people and
$1.00 for children under IL. Subscribe
early, and get the benefit of these
cheap rates, for after the season tick
cts are gone, admission to each enter
tainment will be: 35 cents in the af-
ternoon and 30 cents at night; chill
dren 20 cents. Tickets at all the prin-
cipal stores in town.
Besides these entertainments, DR..
Pierce, chairman of the committee APP
pointed by the Board of Trade, re-
ports that on Wednesday morning a
scientific demonstration of milk test
ing will be given in the Court House,
at 1880. Professor Hutchinson of V.
z. l., will have charge of the demon
stration. The owner of cows are in
vited to bring samples of milk, and
the percentage of butter fat will be
scientifically determined.
Corn Test.
Also, at the same time. different
kinds of corn will be tested as to its
yield per bushel of corn in the ears.
To determine most profitable corn to
plant and to grow, half bushel of
ears, 35 pounds, will be shelled and
the shelled corn weighed. In this
way only can it be determined wheth-
er the seed corn now planted in the
county, is satisfactory, or whether the
farmers are wasting time and money
was appointed, to conduct this part of
the demonstration on Wednesday, No
yember 4th.