Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1916-02-11
cREsCo, HOWARD COUNTY, IOWA. FEBRUARY
From New York to Cresco.

From New York to Cresco.
''Abe" Potash and "Mawruss" Perl
mutter come to '"The Cresco" on Satur-
day, Feb. 26th, when they will display
the latest designs in cloaks, suits and
laughs. They come direct from New
York where for two seasons they did a
rushing business at the Cohan Theatre
and on their staff are some of the
finest artists ever seen here.
"Abe" and "Mawruss," you know,
are the ''fellers" that Montague Glass
who writes pieces for the Saturday
Evening Post made so famous. A
couple of million of people got to know
the boys well but it took A. H. Woods
to put them into business for them
selves and since then they've been work
ing overtime. The firm name is ''Pot-
ash & Perlmutter;" they got designer
named Ruth Goldman who. ''has head
like Andrew Carnegie and shape like
Lillian RUSSELL a lawyer named Field
man who would sue plate of hash for
unlawful combination, and incident
ally they have hearts of gold, which is
what causes all the trouble. and of
course if there wasn't trouble there
wouldn't be any play.
The story of potash and Perlmutter"
revolves about the efforts of the two
lovable partners to save their new book
keeper, Boris Andrieff, from the clutches
of the Russian Government. They
really know little about Boris except
that as a bookkeeper he is a great
musician and they quarrel incessantly
| about him, but when there is danger
that the young man is to be sent back
to Russia and perhaps Siberian prison
they risk every cent to save him. For
time it looks as though the partners
would have to lose all through their
quixotic ideas, and Potash is going to
lose besides desirable son-in-law-
when everything turns out happily.
Cupid has been busy, betimes. with
Potash's partner and so the ending is
doubly happy. There are tears as we'll
as laughter, tears that are quickly
chased away by smiles, for though
there is pathos in the play, there is also
mine of mirth.
This delightful comedy will be pre-
sented in Cresco by the splendid COM
pany of artists who were seen in the
play in New York, San Francisco,
.zs;iity, Denver, is now pisyirig ut
the Olympic in Chicago, and following
their Cresco appearance play week
stands at Minneapolis, st. Paul and
Milwaukee.
Potash & Perlmutter, in play-cast
and production, is equal, if not superior,
to any comedy on the road to-day.
See later papers for date of seat sale
which will be opened earlier than usual
on account of the interest and enthusi-
asm manifested in this attraction.
Rural Carriers Do Big Business.
Few patrons of the postoffice de-
partment realize the volume of busi-
ness transacted by this branch of the
government nor do the patrons of a
postoffice appreciate the amount of
mail matter handled in the Office or by
its carriers.
During the month of January all ru-
raj carriers counted and weighed all
mail delivered and collected. The eight
carriers from the Cresco Office deliver
ed total of 62736 pieces, weighing
II, 736 pounds and collected 1907 pieces
weighing 500 pounds, a total of 7O343
pieces handled and total weight of
12245 pounds. This is the normal
amount of mail handled for this season
and included nothing out of the ordi-
nary run of mail handled except about
300 pieces Of parcel post which weigh
ed about 1850 pounds. The Cresco car
rier handling the smallest amount of
mail delivered 6O66 pieces and collected
76S pieces with total weight of 134S
pounds. The greatest number deliver
ed by any one carrier was 10551 pieces.
He collected 1929 pieces and the total
weight of mail handed was 1904 pounds.
OF the total pieces of mail handled,
there were 222S7 letters and post cards,
32349 newspapers and magazines, 65l5
pieces of third class matter and 9O65
pieces of parcel post matter.
Masquerade Costumes.
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