The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1917-07-17
Deestrick School Was Great Success;
Was Well Put On And Melted
Red Cross Chapter $1O5. 90

y ioeal talent last night, was a
s''eam from start to finish. and the
large crowd in attendance fel. thew
hau certainly gotten their moneys
"crth. From the time the School
foard opened the performance with
.e selection of a teacher until the
'as' piece was said at the closing
eAhibltion, the audience was in !.
roar.
The Skule Board, composed of
Messrs, NJ. F. Hetherington, chair
man; II. c. Stevens and S. l. A.
'ionts, first received applicants. and
tfst to present herself was Miss
iashaway, impersonated by Mrs. ].
Is. Hanna; Miss Genevieve Morrow
as Miss Sharp; Miss Maggie Ander-
son as Miss Simple and Capt VIM.
Sfeltz as Mr.. Pendergrass Miss Sim
PIE was SO simple she was told to
20 nome instead of TO the ante
room where the other applicants
were consigned to await the pleasure
OF the Board. Mr. Pendergrass was
chosen teacher. and school opened.
1t was hard to tell which Of the
scholars made the biggest hit with
the audience as they came up through
the audience and on to the stage
MIS-. W. R. Grower was a "sight :"
this was the decision of all her
Trends, and waiting world must
rot be left in suspense as to Just
how she looked Her hair was braid
ed in two tight pig tails. she wore
an old brown bingham apron, red
stockings and looked like fat girl
Just escaped from the circus. She
was Samantha Piper, the Gigeling
Girl. and she was whole show by
herself
,lrs. Fred Eaton caused everybody
to take their breath, when she took
her seat dressed in a short dress.
slightly below her knees, extending
below which was a siX-inch petticoat
rutfc, and with these were pante.
lcttes extending to dainty slippers
With this exquisite creation of red
checked bingham she wore green
hair ribbon. Mrs. Eaton, as Belinda
Rassett, proved quite a singer AMI
her detective ability as to who was
eating in school, who was in love in
Lakeland, etc. made it absolutely
necessary that she keep these talents
carl, else Pinkerton will draft her in
to the detective business
The perfectly correct, precise and
angelic student was Dorcas Doolittle,
this role being splendidly carried
out by Mrs. w. b. Moon. Dorcas
was in a prim little school girl dress,
with apron, in which light blue pre-
dominated. and with this she wore
a sash of vivid green with hair rib
bJns to match She didn't think
that "A little boy should speak of his
insides" nor did she think that d
"lIce little boy should say that bad
wore that began with h." when one
of the pupils referred in history to
what war is. SET DOWN" was
the thunderous words of the Corpu-
lent teadber to such remarks, and she
generally set Everybody, however
was glad to learn from her that
spring came in the spring time.
The school was proud of its Hlocu-
ZIONIST. Penelope Hornwell, imper-
soaated by Mrs. NJ. IL. Paddock.
Penelope helped the teacher out so
much the first day of school in ex-
planning "as how Miss Louie Layton
al:lays wrote a motto on the board
for us every morning, ana Teacher,
Miss May Tomlinson always had us
naTfn dTOuIu anu SIllS N''i b''t''
ing - This advice came in handy,
and from that time on Penelope was
looked upon as quite sage. The
closing day of school she covered her
self with glory in her original poem
which she elocuted in grand style.
Instead OF being the Town Crier,
G:ry Matilda Perkins Mrs ]. VI.
N'or dsI was the school erier. She
didn't like the looks of things from
the start. and was regular mourn
o. CRYING whenever she was looked
at at least whenever there was a
hurled her way she r1ct it
with boo-hoo, which was done in
a very professional way.
susan Crofoot was on deck when
over she was called and sometimes
when she wasn't, especially when she
10, cut a comanche yell when Rev.
callahan, dressed up in patched
breeches and bare feet, pulled her