The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-08-30
III WAS TO LAUGH


Auo~nee at High School AUDITOR.
t u" tuesday Evening -Receipts
FROM Sale of Tickets $3.50
1t was to laugh! You lust had :,
iaagh II you witnessed the doings of
ma Sweet and Her Gearls" at the
graded school auditoriumTuesdav eve.
ming.
Inc program as a whole was most
entertaining and those who took part
are 70 De commended for the manner
~ ~ which each played his or her part
me program consisted of music rec;
tatlons, drills, pantomine, etc. and
the audlence was kept busv lauohino
from the time Ma Sweet anno11nced
the flrst act till the program had
been completed. l''''
The entertainment was oiven for
the oenetlt of the local National Spec-
IA IA Ala society and an admission Of
20 cents was charged. The receipts
amounted to $47.5O, half of which
went to the society and the other half
to Mrs. Kate M. Fitz- Gerald and M;sr
lone newman of Atlanta, Ca, who
arranged the program and trained
those taking part.
MEMBERS of the society asks The
hooesonlan to express their thanks
TO MIR: K. D. Caldwell, chairman of
the ooard # graded school trustees
VINO oenoered the use of the school
9uoiterlum for the occasion. also to
MISS Carrie Mae Hedgpeth, who rem,
dered material aid in perfecting plans
Tor the entertainment.
fo!1oWlng is the cast of characters
Ma Sweet-Miss Newman
Ma Sweets Gearls
Mrs. H. II. MISUNDERSTANDING Du-
Mrs. Il. e. Lawrence Dor
cas- Whitcomb.
Mrs. K. E. Lewis-Susa Samonthv
Smithers.
Mrs. Fred Thomas Virginia Sweet:
MISS Elizabeth Wishart, Creep
er Sweet, (twins).
MISS Lille Barker-Angilina Peril
Wrinkle.
Miss Carrie M. Hedgpeth-Anae
Eliza Makafuss.
Miss Mary Lawrence-Gloriana Gala
bout Sweet.
Miss Rosa Wishart-Honolulu Bare
bones.
Miss Margaret Pope-sunny Jack
Darden Hamstring.
Miss Mary L. Caldwell Deborah
Blunderbuss.
Miss Annie B. Stainback-Arimento
Turnipseed.
Greclan Girls-Misses Vashti White
Rachel Mcnamara, Bertha Barker
Rosa Wishart, Mary L. Caldwell, Wv.
ian Mcneil, Annie B. Stainback
Mamie Thompson, Margaret Cotton
Chorus-Little Red Cross Nurses
Girls of the Stars and Stripes.
Columbia-Miss Vashti White.
Male quartette composed of Messrs
j. Pope Stephens, Adrian Britt, Alb.
nef Nash and John Proctor.
The following young girls tool
part:
<, Red Cross Nurses
Amanda Allen, Ethel Lee Wallace
Gladys Birmingham, Elizabeth Shaw
Alice Mclean, Eugenia Mclean. Shir
ley McPhaul, Roberta Nash, Francis
Mcneil, Margaret Biggs, Francis
thomas, Virginia Crabtree, Dorothy
oAe*OCIOC, cdCh Lawrence.
Flag Drill
Maitland Thompson, Evelina Beck
with, Vista Thompson, Aileen Ram
seur, Rosa Caldwell, Mary Biggs
jamie K. Wishart, Julia Thompson
Anna Lawrence, Drina Hedgpeth.
Fourteen tickets which were sem
out to be sold were unaccounted fol-
and any one who has one of the tick
cts is requested to turn it over t.
Mrs. p. L. Holloway. 1t may be thai
some, if not all, the tickets were solo
and not used.
Mrs. FITZGERALD and Miss New
man were only here one week and the
splendid program. arranged and the
way it was carried out not only speaks
well for them, but for each one tax
ing part in tht program. Mrs. Fitz
Gerald and Miss Newman left yester.
day morning for Laurinburg, where
they will arrange a like program.
MI