The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-11-29
The Street Fair at the Peirce
School.


full entertainment was given at the Peirce
/ school last Friday evening under the di-
-ection of the teachers, Mrs. Charles A.
townsend, Grade l; Mrs. Samuel Adams,
Grade II; Mrs. Annie c. Black, Grade
|. III; Miss Florence Keene, Grade "; Miss
Alberta Wadsworth, Grade V; Miss Flor
ence Cross, Grade vi. The children can
yassed the city with tickets selling over
500 but Murray Keene as ticket seller
sold large number at the door. If the
evening had been pleasant it would have
snts and friends interested in this iuve-
nile winter show. About SIS were taken,
/ SO of which will be expended for i'm
movements for the playground, etc
Good music was furnished throughout the
evening by machines placed in the lower
and upper halls. The entire building
was used even to the basement, which
sheltered two real goats.
Room one was devoted to side show,
/ he specialties including Mr.. and Mrs.
Tom Thumb, with John Chalmers dressed
full evening costume and Catherine
pendleton in long, blue silk gown, with
ace collar and lace cap. They entered
nto the spirit of their parts with quiet
dlgnity that was astonishing for such
lively little ones. In this room was the
strong man impersonated by John San
horn and the fat man by James Fair
Drother. Seymour White was in charge
+ the door
Room two was occupied by the glass
flowers, with Medora Kennedy, Ralph
Yates, George Buzzell and Dorothy Thorn
as blowing on small pieces of glass War
vas represented by Henry Hustus and
Lewis Curtis using boxing gloves. Nov
ng pictures were run by Mildred Talbot
sing a large wheel covered with pict-
lres. The snake charmer was wonder
fully well taken by Harriet McKinnon,
no was as pretty as picture. Warren
Hampton and Lawrence Curtis were in
narge here.
IN room three was a veritable zoo, all
me animals belonging to the pupils, whose
PARENTS had also taken lively, interest
In the show, boxing and bringing the ex-
ribits to the pleasure of the patrons and
he qualification of the teachers. There
we're hens, ducks, geese, rabbits, mud
-uFtles, Guinea pigs and Guinea hens,
many handsome cats and a pair of Japan
ese rice birds-pure white with bright
/ red bills
Living pictures were shown in room
i touT with the following subjects:
thanksgiving Greetings, Horace
combs; Serve America First, Dexter
Robinson, Olive Robinson, Eugene Ham,
mons; Carrying Thanksgiving to the
Needy, Wallace Thomas; First Aid to the
Allies, Evelyn Knowlton and Laddie
Woodcock; Heaps of Fun, Lloyd Glenn
ents, Eva Pendleton and Alice Banks;
Making the Flag, Elene Fernald; Goddess
Of Liberty, Alfredo Hawthorne; The Box
rom Home, Eugene Hammons; Salt of
The Earth, Henrietta Coombs; Red Cros
Nurses, Doctor and Patient, Melissa
Dyer, Thelma Nichols, Beatrice Dutch,
Audrey Chalmers, Annie Sanders, Ed
ward Poor, Reginald Thomas, Carlton
Robbins, Benjamin Buzzell. Russell
Knight was in charge of the door. In the
ableaux of First Aid to the Allies, LAD
de- the beautiful collie of Mr.. and Mrs.
frank R. Woodcock was most effective
feature. Mrs. Woodcock took him to
The building leaving him with Miss Eve
yn knowlton who was in the tableaux.
Tor seven times Laddie took his place
without the slightest hint as to position,
elc. At the close of the show he went
1rectly home alone.
IN room five were the minstrel girls un-
der the direction of Mrs. w. X. MacNeil,
Matron of the Girls Home, and some of
her family as follows: Florence Mac
Neil, Harriet Towne, Lillian Eldridge,
Martha Allen, Mamie Tuttle, Angie Web
oer Myrtle Carey, Ida Mcdonald, Stella
-""olo, Lula w dlhCI, IlduyS ocdFty,
Fern Mcdonald. Miss Georgia Knight,
also of the Home assisted. The funny
Gowns were the little Misses Priscilla,
Louise and Evelyn, daughters of Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Sweat.
Room six was given up to the Red
Gross Workers and the Band of Mercy,
with the following little children knitting,
Tipping for comfort pillows, ETC.: Ruth
Ang, Thelma Dexter, Ernestine Webber,
Bertha Parsons, Elena Shute, Martha
hartshorn, Eleanor Talbot, Bertha Thomp-
son, Hugh Tuttle, Eleanor Stephenson,
Alice Brown, Isabel Coombs, Mary Spear,
LA Brown, Mildred Darby, George Rogers,
fferne Linniken, George Whitehead
1ohn Morrison sold Red Cross stamps
here.
Helen Burgess was fine little fortune
yeiier. Popcorn, cider and candy were
sold on the roof garden.