The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-06-19
MANY DANCE AT
CAMPBELL FARM
'Kenosha Team" Furnish
Lively Music at Jolly Old
Time Affair.
TURKEY IN THE STRAW

Maybe you have heard George
Adamson and Eugene Murdick from
w. L. S., Sears Roebuck station, Chi
cago, broadcasting their gay old-fash-
oned dances on the fiddle and guitar
to all of the United States in the
National Barn Dance contest, every
Saturday night for the past few
weeks.
This pair were the drawing card at
an informal dance given last Saturday
night at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
R. B. Campbell, on the Plank road in
the township of Bristol. George and
Gene were there in person, and had
their skillful fingers with them and
their merry tunes in their head. But
it is not the first time they have play
ed in the Campbell home for one of
the team has been coming here and
playing to dances for the last ten
years, and his musical side-kicker is
not so far behind him.
Fred Collins Calls.
From nine until midnight they
played without recess, and then after
morning. Surrounded by merry faces,
there was seemingly no WEAKNESS in
those nimble.. fingers as they played
the old. dances, and certainly no wear
mess in the group that whirled about
them. The dancers would not have
given up then, if the musicians had
not tucked away their instruments,
so that fiddler and fiddle together
said "Good- Morrow"
"All around the cider jug,
The monkey chased the weasel;
The parson kissed the inn-keeper'S
wife.
Pop Goes the weasel.
"My old lady is 80,
And she can thread needle;
That's the way the money goes,
Pop! Goes the weasel"
But Pop goes the Weasel was only
one of the dances. There was the
Drunken Sailor, square dances; the
Irish Washerwoman, another square,
Mrs. McCloud's Reel.
Fred Collins of Kenosha was the
caller, and well did he do his part,
singing his calls out Justify and keep
ing the rythm of the dance and the
music. 1t was part of the gayety
of the occasion to hear him give the
calls for the Girl I Left Behind Me.
"Pass Right Through! Balance too!
And Swing with the Girl behind you'll"
In the Drunken Sailor, the dancers
"chased the squirrel"
Old Fashioned Hospitality.
The home in which the dance was
held was fitting place for such a
gathering. Known throughout the
county as one of the most hospitable
homes in this section, it's eighteen
rooms filled with the fragrant spirit
of an older time, there was nothing
the host and hostess left undone to
make the party a memorable one. The
big dining room, cleared for the &C.
casion held two sets of the dancers,
with the fiddler and his pal sitting in
a bay window with a background of
geraniums and in the kitchen was an
other indefatigable set. Among the
least weary of the dancers always on
their toes and entering with the full
est zest into the fun were "Dick"
CdiHpUS1 ulHSeIIy LHS HOoI anu HIS
cousin Minor Carey.
Come on now! The fiddle is scrap
ping again. Get your partner and
swing right in.
"Old Dan Tucker is very cute,
Keeps his money in his boot;
Washes his face in the frying pan,
Lards his hair with new boiled ham;
Combs his head with an emory wheel,
Dies with a tootache in his heel.
Clear the way for Old Dan Tucker!
Put on style and swing Miss Tucker"
Gene Murdick calls out, ere they
tune up again: evils. CHI-ca-a-GO!
SEARS ROebuck station! Broadcast
ing from R. B. Campbells studio-O-O!
Tootl loot! Let's 60"
They played Kingdom is Coming
square-All-round the haystack-
square; Little Brown Jug-square,
and Old Dan Tucker, The Devils
Dream, Buddy McOwen's Reel and the
Portland Fancy, all square dances.
For Waltzes and two step they
danced Write Ne Letter from
Home" The Rye Waltz. Peek-a-Boo