Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-06-02

mas. Rev. Joseph Fort Newton, Of
Cedar Rapids will give an address.
Thinking Ahead: After School
What?'
Pictures of the class will be found
on another page of this paper.
Following is the program render
ed last night.
CAST.
Nan Worthington, One Of the Peo-
Ple Bertha Sihler
Gordon Clay, Foreman of the Works
+. $50. Karl Christopher
Margaret Byrne, Loyal and True
........ Ethel IS. IAN
Mrs. Jenkins, Keeper of the Board
ing House Cecil euro
Angelina Maud, Her Daughter
.......... Myrtle Tyler
Jack Brown, A Cub Reporter.
80. (. ..... Charles Knorr
Miss Louisa Hawkins, One CT the
Florabel Mullins, A Poetess. i.
........ Esther Arncson
Miss Mehitabel Biddle, A SIffra-
gette :. -. >. Mayme Scl:litter
Bobbie Burns, Averse 4 to College
Women -. .. Allyn Bailey
Emmy Lou Norton, Fond of Fairy
Tales .gRuth Sheei
Nora, A Maid !. Marjorie Ostenson
Delphine Norton, A College Gradu-
Eot "
Peggy Gilbert, A Browning Fiend.
~. -. =. Hildegarde Dahljelm
Billy Best CAPTAIN of Varsity Tear,
- ....... Leslie Schrubbe
Mrs. Allaire, The Chaperone .s.!.
Ruth 5weze-
Doris Hall, An Athletic Girl. >. :.
49,. -. Leila Marsh
Lord Algernon Reginald, Straight
from England :. Allen Wells
Charles Norton, Owner of the Works
-. -. Hartvig Engbre son
Merkle 4. =. :. Lloyd Ostenson
Martin Henry F.. Charles Tupy
Jane, A Maid f. Elizabeth Plagman
Miss Monti, Athletic Girl. :. 80.
..... :. .Dagmar Sperati
Miss Hewlett, Stenographer. -.
....... Ruth Bake
Miss Barnes, Stenographer -.
.......... Grace Lomen
Miss Richard, School Teacher.
........ .Clarice Johnson
Miss Sampson, Sales lady. ....
49,. ann. Florence Thune
Miss Dewey, Bookkeeper. -.
:. =. Esther Rohm
Miss Bates, Stenographer. =. .....
49,. 49,. .... Gladys Anderson
Miss Bennett, Saleslady +. ......
=. Viola Schwartz
Miss French, One of the Boarders.
=. 49,. GLADYS Anderson
Miss Wescott, One of the Boarders
......... Hazel Gillette
Story of the Play.
Nan Worthington, a factory girl,
who has risen to better things, meets
in the factory town a young man,
Gordon Clay, who despite his lowly
position of foreman of the works, is
college bred and gentleman. In
the same boarding house with them
are Bob and Margaret Byrnes, whose
fortune has been swept away and
who have been brought to the small
factory town where Bob holds a po-
sition in the works, given him by the
owner, Mr.. Norton. Norton's daugh-
ter, Delphine, is Margaret's greatest
friend, and when the old home of the
Nortons is opened for a Christmas
houseparty, Bob and Margaret are
included in the list of guests. Cor
don Clay, the young foreman, is in
terested in the cause of the people;
he has an earnest helper in Nan,
whose hatred for Norton is due to
the fact that her brother, factory
hand, has died as result of poor
sanitary conditions in the work
rooms. Clay, enthusiastic in the
problem of capital and labor, dis
tressed over the poor wages, desir-
ing to find something by which Nor
ton may be brought to terms and
forced to consider the peoples needs,
thus averting a strike, persuades
Nan to act as Norton's private secre-
tory during the Christmas holidays.
He tells her that years before, Nor
tons partner, an Impractical man,
had left the management of his at
fairs to Norton, and at his death had
appointed Norton sole executor of
the estate until the sons twenty-fifth
birthday. The son, Clay's friend in
looJlege, had spent most of his life
in Paris, and though his income had
come to- him regularly he believed
thai in, some way his interests had
mob been properly protected.
Nan accepts the position and sus-
poets, from Norton's actions in re-
gard to communications from Will
liam Gordan (the son of his friend)