Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 16, 1915, Page 5

Misg Biewer Sang Role of ‘Bolnnted Queen in the Opera “Lily Bell, The iry” The Cincinnati nquirer has the following to say of Miss Bertha vocal in Cincinnati, which will’ be read with much interest by the - ;n‘;l;y friends of this talented young “The Good Venture Opera Club, an 24 aggregation of South Fairmount, gave the opera “Lily Bell, the Cul- prit 'Fxlry," by Herman §S. Sarvin, last Friday and Saturday. The per- formancs was given with a vocal and" dramatic éxcellence such as is Lh seldom seen in amateur undertak- :|ings. Miss Loretta Jones sang the title role, Lfly Bell. She is a very promising pupil of B. Foley. Miss n. Y I_'fl Lhaut l ua. uan H e A sut Treeeevavsan 1ladet * veland. XRTY Allua M. sliss Jula Mdluer. L. 1. siglersogevel . ramphries; Pagel 3. o. neune, New es uld WIEE*d Al ana wiie, bnm B & g " "Enchanted Queen. She is a native of s 410, WILE .PA‘:‘V!‘;(-D:I;S&-. Florida, this being her first appear . Lylie, P8 . patier- ance in Cincinnati. She has an ex- uriin, Gs. ¢ i ceptionally big voice, that gives = promise of greatness in the future. byr. and Mrd. M. ‘'W. Laird, of |Miss Alma Ruehlmann, well known hanta, are winter visitors to the in dramatic and musical cireles, and are pieasantly located at sang the part of Thistledown, the home of Mrs. rattie Brown. villain fairy. These principals were 40 voices. The whole production pere will be a meeting of the‘wu under the direction of Charles perintendent and officers of the W.:J. Young, and gave evidence of 7. U. tomorrow at Mrs. J. W. [earnest labor as wil as ability.” roer's residence, 504 East Orange. bt L Ao are urged to attend this meeting Society to Meet With Blewer) of his eity, who is studyisg Bertha Biewer, a pupil of Mr. Glov- \Wntrlbute- the following regarding er’s, sang the role of Eudora, the |€¥Dibits for that department: assisted by a well trained chorus of | ¥® Were permitted to sample, the | 10 1S FNAL REW " LAST EVENIG T 15 Col. J. H. A. Bruce, one of the hotel business all his life, haw Lakeland's ploneer citizens, passed ing a number of hosteiries in the away last night at hig rooms at the White Mountains, he became known Kibler hote] after an fliness of three]far and wide as a genial, compan-. weeks, during which time he suf-|ionable gentleman of the old school, fered a severe attack of lagrippe and | whom it was indeed a pleasure:to gastritis. Col. Bruce had been too, know, and all over the United: feeble to be out on the streets since | States as well ag in- Lakeland and coming to Lakeland early in Decem- his old home in New Hampshire, ber from his home in Wilton, N. H,, many hearts will be bowed down. in but had been able to go about the!sorrow when the news “Colonel hotel until the last three weeks, | Bruce ig no more” becomes known. since which time he haud been con.| (Notwithstanding his advanced fined to hig room. During his last | years, having passed the four score illness his loving wite was con-|year mark, Colonel Bruce always re- stantly at his bedside, the best of i tained the enthusiasm and buoyancy medical skill was exerted to prolong | of youth, and always took keen in- his life and everything that possi-|terest in everything pertaining to bly could be done wag accomplished, | the advancement and progress of but the loving and tender efforts [akeland. Having accumulated range for culinary art in its various | were all to no avail, and at 8:15 much of thig world’s possessions and phases, numerous prizes being o(.tlut night this grand old man passed 'confident of the growth and future fered as an incentive for all effort | peacefully away to live lorevermore!o‘ Lakeland, he invested consider of this nature, and we recall, from |in the land of pure and perrect da¥. | able in Lakeland property, having a last year's observation, as well as| Colonel Bruce was 81 years of age fine orange grove on lee’ Hollings~ {rom many toothsome morsels that at the time of his death. He Was'worth and also owning a number of born in Mount Vernom, N. H., but | regigences in the city, which are ex- surprise and pleasure afforded us. |for many years he had made his cejlent rental property. Then, too, is the needlecraft de-|home at Wilton, that State. In his) Ope of Lakeland’s most respected partment, wherein entries may beyounger days he was a prominent g;q peloved pioneer citizns has gone ‘made, from the mature matron and | Political figure, having served his 459 in his passing hundreds who dear old grandmother of sixty and)State as speaker of the House of j5yeq him feel that they have lost & over, to the budding miss of fl""n.l_ @ sl o | friend, tried and true in the strict- A ] Our Modern Equipment The Polk County Fair will open his city in full blast on next Mon. day, Feb: 22, continuing = through next.- week. <. The ball. groundeiol North 'Florida avenue is whew the fair is to be located, and already the Woman’s building has been com. Dleted, and a tremendous tent will accommodate the remainder of the exhibits. Reports from all sections of the county are to the effect that every- body will be here with exhibits, and farm products, vegetables, fruits, live stock, poultry, and everything that pertains to the Woman's de- partment will be on display in great profusion. One of the ladies, in. terested in the Woman’s department, Set of Teeth $8.00 Up Fillings soc: Up £ extracted without pain. Offie Hours 8 to 6. This department includes domes - ic sclence for adults, also Yor girls under 14 years, and suggests a wide This is a day and age of Specializing. = We are Speehluts i in every branch of GOO D DENTISTRY. ience insures you Best Work at Reasonab Riggs: discase, Loose Teeth treated and cured.~Teeth in. Come and let me examine your teeth and make you estimate. OFFICE UPSTAIRS FUTCH AND GENTRY BLDG. and years of rmtical exper- e Prices. *e Crown and Bridge Work: oo Up - i Roofless Plates P Suite 10-12-14 Separate. Rooms and Equipment for White and Colored. Children's Teeth extracted, under ten years, FREE. Dr. W.H. Mitchell’s Painless Dental Office $ Pl GOPEIPE S Must Little Homeless Children Suffer and embraces every kind of handi- | work known to feminine art. There are also an arts and crafts depart. ment; antiques, curios, and heir- looms, and cut flowers. o The management has spared no 4 pains to make this department an ! essentially feminine one and reflects i hich occurs at 3 o’clock. Miss Gladys Wilson i The Young People’s Missionary | Society of the Cumberland Presby- pr. F. D. Bryan and Mr. L““e,!erlnn church will meet with Miss wards, were among those who KGlm‘lyg Wilson at her home on South |, nt down to Tampa today to wit- Friday evening, *Kentueky avenue. the Gasparilla celebration. 'pep, 19, There will be a short pro- ey will return tonight. |gram, after which an hour or two will be spent in merry making. All ‘;e:l:l ";ed“h“b‘"‘ all the instigators The Southeast Baptist Mlloionu.ry‘:of the young people associated with > Th:“oflh.".o"n::: tair. jety will meet . tomorrow after-|the Cumberland Presbyterian church bullding 30x75 ‘e““h::’::t;leltfil a on at 3:30 o’'ql with Mrs. W, |are cordially invited to attend. s geddd v deplrtma:tu' ;0 Fannin, corm$y m\or&nge and | 1 s . In | L I & o this will be found a rest room, jgram street. * ‘C | Heart Sovia]l a*Great Success i The Heart social given last night thoughtfully contributed by the la. at the home of Mr. R. E. Lufsey | 318 of the Wi C. T. U., where & Mr. R. L. Webster, local man-|{py that gentleman’s Sunday school '::" m:::::’dl’:ll dfifl{h will be r of the 'Western's Union Tele- | claes, was a financial as well ag a ‘n ."’o"““ y al e women oh Co., returned this - morning |gocial success, the home being filled |} 2 ! voted wife has the dee sympathy est sense of the word, a man wno wae always ready and willing to ré. lieve suffering waer;ever he found it, and who always had a kindly word and a pleasing smile for all with in Florida? whom he came in contact. Long identified with the interests of WE DO NOT BELIEVE that the good people of Flor- Lakeland, he will be sorely missed ida ruw..ce that there are right now in our State Hundreds and in his death his lovipg and de- of litde children in real need—some absolutely homeless— of the entire community. that just must be cared for. The funeral services will be held at the First Methodist church to- morrow morning at 10 o'clock, Dr. Wray in charge. Rev. W. H. Stem- meyer, an old friend of the family, and Rev. W. 8. Patterson will as. st in the services. Col. Bruce was was a member of the Congregational church but as this denomination is We feel sure—that they do not know that there are hun- dreds“of worthy mothers in Florida who are just struggling to keep’ thir little ones alive—and at:home. We just cannot believe—that with these facts true—and every orphanage jn Florida crowded to the doors—that the om Jacksonville, where he went to | with happy young people all bent on We intend that this shall be the tend the meetingof the State man: | paying a delightful time. rs of the. Westerst Union. Mr. The young ladies were met at the bster reports that in addition to|goor by Miss Maude Roberts, who e managers, the president, MTr. |gave each a part of a heart. Miss ewcomb Cariton, Vice ,President|Connie Wray gave each young man ooks and.General Manpger Will-lg part of a heart and these were er, all of.New York, were in at-|matched for partners, which created ndance besideg other officials from | much amusement. tlanta and New York. After the IAt 8:30 a mueteal and literary siness session a splendid*i¥ch¢on |program was rendered consisting of as served .and Mr.. Webster Was|a vocal selection by Miss Vera Mc- people of Florida will let our fair par excellence, and unge upon . not represented here the funeral all the ladies not only to lend their OOL. J. H. A. BRUCE takes place at the Methodist church. Presence on this occasion, but to!Representatives in ‘the early. 70's. The body: will be placed in a vault contribute in every way possible to|He came to JacksonVillé about forty,at the Kimbrough Undertaking par make it a success. Here will be truly { years ago and aanl‘é in the hotel '!on. where it will remain until the found an interchange of {ideas business, spending his winters there epring, when it will be shipped to among all feminine arts that will be | unti} 1890 when he came to Lake.' Wilton, N. H., accompanied by Mrs, of incalculable value to ‘every jand) He leased the Tremont, then Bruce. The latter would agcompany housewife, no matter how thorough- | considered one of the finest hotels in the remains there now, but the se- 1y she may be informed in all that | Florida, which he conducted for sev-|vere weather would not allow of pertains to domestic sclence, but to|eral seasons. He later bought the | burial, and the remains will there. all other branches that e under | hostélry and was for many years its | fore be held here in a vault as they The Children’s “of F1 great work which has cared for 850 of these little ones this year slone—go d'ow? for lack of funds to keep it up. . Your immediate help—is. greatly needed—right now=-Please: send what you can to-day—to R. V. Covirigton, Treasurer of * Home Society orida ost pleasingly impressed with the | Ras; two vocal numbers by Mr. F. | 5 0, 0" Mool ew president and general manager, |E. Washburn and two songs by Mr. | &= ' part- | genial host. pd in addition had a most royal G. C. Williameon. Mr. Ll:yd me. Hooks and Mr. R, E. Lufsey de- LARG e S lendidly ren.. 'E FLOAT FAILED ] . ASSES AWAY e cazci e s lighted all with two splen 70 REACH T. A MBRS. R. E. PINCH ' dered recitations. The heart hunt at 9 o'clocf-was greatly enjoyed by all, Miss Marguerite Straw and Mil - Dr. F. A. Thomason, a leading hysician of middle Florida, has sold t his interests in Live Oak and ssed through Lakeland this morn- hg on his way to Okeechobee, the ew town on the big lake of that ame, wacre he will make his home. br. Thomason is one of the best Reports received last night and this morning from Tampa brought —_— lard Futch winning the prize, a Val. | the ‘news that the large Lakeland| Mrs. R. E. Pingl's many friends entine box of candy. Plercing the | float broke down about six miles | were shocked to learn of her death, heart with Cupid’s arrow was a con- | this side of Tampa, and, despite the | which occurred Sunday night, after test of skill, the arrow missing the fact that a crew of men worked all | an fllness of about two weeks of heart when thrown by some, but [DISht, it ‘was found impossible to|fever. M. Washburne proved an adept budge it, and at 7 o'clotk this morn- makes this death all the more de- hen in Florida and Okeechobeo 18 £0 oy \rioq off the prize, a cake cov.| I8 work wag abandonéd and the at-| plorable, is the fact that Mr. Pinch o concratulated on getting him. He | b "l " 01l candy hearis. Each |tempt to get it into Tampa in time | g glgo seriously ill of the same mal. ays the new town is a wonder “o‘penon present received a valentine | for the parade given up. The Tedr | 44y, having bhegbufined to his ill beat everything in South Flor- and after various games were played axle broke, which caused the break-|pod¥or the past week. While slight- da, Tampa ingluded, in the eourse | = . - . chments served, ail re down. A heavy rain fell all night, | 1y petter today, he fs considered to bt time. paired to their homes, having had a which also militated against the|pe in quite a critieal condition. most delightful evening. workmen, who, however, were . not Mrs. Pinch had only lived in LSl d‘“’"'e‘: by ":‘;'m“' working g,akeland a little over a year, but REW. valiaatly but without smscess. had madg a large number of friends, TEN DOILARS ARD 1t the weather improved suffi-|yp, no'deeply‘ pained at her sud. I offer the above reward for infor. | clently for the parade to be Meld,(gen demise. The remains were mation to convict the cowardly mis~ |and at noon reports were to the ef— | shipped today to her old home in creant who has heen pulling up |fect that it was clearing there, Lake- | pychigan, accompanied by her sis- Eucalyptus trees fa Bon Afr along |land will be in the parade In grand | ter in-law, Mrs. C. O. Pinch. The both sides of Vermont avenue. This style anyway, as the attractive "“"’ sympathy of all the people of Lake . {s malicious meanness and the per- |artistic float advertising Lakeland’s | 459 goes out to this affiicted fam- | petrator 1s almost—not ouite—as | strawberries and citrus fruits and|;;y i their deep sorrow and con- low down as the writer of anony- the city's altitude, reached Tampa |iinued {llness. mous letters and the sender of anon- | in fine shape and the finishing | ymous clippings reflecting on my- touches given it last night. selt. Come out from under cover The Lakeland Municipal Band -v;: and let's see what kind of vermin |about 75 Elks also went down to JOMN F. COX. in the parade, and, as said before, it erlandy 3817 |the eclements do not interfere, — AI| ] MAJESTIC THEATRE ! THE LYRIC one of those that will live In your appoint you laet night but that best |memory for weeks to come, western of all serial pictures is here tonight, | scenes, eastern scenes, nuther‘n We got it locked up tight. |scenes and northern scenes. Don’t|A two reel western drama f'“" of And besides you will see the greatimissit. GOOD MusIC : thrills, a good play you don't want six reeler “Home, Sweet Home,” and | Continuous Show 2:30 to 5 o'clock | to mi Singing, Talking and dancing, fea=|, wovstone scream. A great big nine Rt P S SR FO PG HER HUSBAND SERIOUSLY ILL The strawberry shipping shed, ad- oining the Southern Express office, | as the scene of lively activities ast night, the largest gingle ship- ment of the season going out; 5,600 quarts of the big red berries went out to th northern markets from his point alone, and the quality of the fruit was pur excellence. 1t is 'worth anybody’s time, provided that they don’t et in the way of the workers, to visit the shed and see the splendid specimens of berries which are pouring out of this sec- tion everv eveninz and which will continue to go forward for severnll the parade will be considerably strengthened by Lakeland’s partici- pation even though its entire repre. sentationwill not be on hand. Well, folks, sorry we had to dis oy The Fotest Comedy Co , 15 people in: a ome hour musical comedy THE WESTERN TELEPHONE GIRL sure. turing REGGY FUTCH, the South’s| .. show, two hours of “reel” en- DISILLUSIONED popular black face comedian. joyment. T A great drama featuring J. Warren EDMONSON SISTERS Y Kerrigan THE MILLION DOLLAR MYSTER 5 Peature Reels Singing and Talking FOREST AND BUCHER FIFTH EPISODE UNIVERSAL BOY NO. 3 THURSDAY, FRIDA' TURDAY b s Featuring Little Matty THE JOHNNY JONES TRIO full of action Exponents of the modern dance Two thrilling reels, ity 431G FEATURE REELS—4 TOMORROW Classy vaudeville, featuring the tiny Doog. open at 6 o'clock FEXT WEEK—TUESDAY— “TODAY” HIS SECOND CHILDHOOD comedian and singer BUSTER . .. A Keystone comedy scream A LAW UNTO HERSELF A deep drama in two reels A New York attraction, one of those HOME SPECIAL FRIDAY I Tl S AW Ghows HOME, SWEET ; —— Fowt Rylasde of THURSDAY THURSDAY— | features AULINE One of the prettiest six ree e 3D EPISODE PERILS OF P . MUTT AND JEFY IN MEXICO r:: bave ever seen. The. '}:;: - Runaway Jule e & FIRDAY AND SATURDAY— sayiog o earth 8 o | The serial yon want t0 start dad'you. This picture s too §0od to mis, %0 Home.” It toue will be sure to finish be sure and see it THE CHRISTIAN 8 reel feature softens the mind. The feature is He only sold his in-|would have to be there if taken at terests in it about two years ago. In this time. A sad circumstance, which | 361 St. James Bdg, « JACKSONYILLE, FLA. 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