Show TOO MUCH BILE There Thero was an irate gathering of some Borne hundred at the Lincoln Theatre last Sun Sunday ay afternoon at 4 o'clock at which time tho the Howard Foster Company which had played at at the theatre tho the two previous evenings evenings evenings even even- ings had announced that they would produce the tho play The Tho Parish P Priest lest a popular and religious play durl during the aft afternoon rno m. m There happens to be an ordinance prohibiting entertainments of this kind on Sundays Last fall tall there was a city election and and tho the former president of the board who by the tho way was appointed appoint appoint- ed not elected to fill the vacancy made ade thru the tho resignation of the former former former for for- mer president was vas a candidate for ro re Thereby hangs the tale so it is said He Ho was defeated defeat defeat- ed and in order to work off a little of the bile which has been simmerIng simmering simmering simmer simmer- ing on his stomach over since the minute ho heard that there was to tobe tobe tobe be an entertainment given on Sunday Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- day and ani that it was not opposed by bythe bythe bythe the new board he hied himself right down to the city marshal and told him what would happen to him if ho he allowed the entertainment to take place He told him as we get it it that suit would be brot brat against him for failure to uphold the law and I that his bonds would be forfeited There Is such a thing as being I zealous over-zealous in such affairs yet criticism might be withheld if It it were purely a matter of religious zeal but when a mates mm's spleen just simply odes oC over its it's another mat mat- ter The play to have been rendered Is a avery very moral one with a good lesson les lese lesson I son contained therein and it might have done dono the presidents president's soul good to have gone in and seen it rather than to have interfered with those who did wish to And among them were people of ot various denominations denominations denom denom- whose souls we will venture venture venture ven ven- ture to say when they are called on onto onto onto to render a report to Saint Peter will pass muster aw away away y a ahead ead of the self anointed We Ve are not passing judgment as asto asto asto to whether or r not not a Sunday entertainment enter of this nature is the proper thing That Is a matter for the people people people peo peo- and the city efty council to decide I Yet we see no harm In it and it certainly certainly breaks the monotony to some extent However there were things going on during Mr Cottrells Cottrell's term of office office office of of- fice which might well have been dealt with with a vigorous hand For instance the punch boards which were vere rife rite tor for some time These permitted night and da day as ns well as Sunday Yo Young n boys went vent wild over I them and spent every dime they could obtain bucking them and among the crowds crO which congregated ed around them in some instances the language used in connection was more desecrating than at a horse orse race raco P Parents tents objected to these boards and the matter matter was even brot to the attention of the Commercial Club before any move was made to put them theta out out of business Another thing g which went on continually continually con con- was poker playing Did you ever hear of the town of ot Delta being enriched from fines from poker players players play play- ers era No Yet the county has been enriched by several thousand dollars of good hard money which went out from Delta and which should have gone Into her depleted coffers I Another thing we wish to remark remar-k on while on the subject is Sunday baseball playing While baseball Is la I our National game rame and is indulged I in by all aU young Americans it has hns no place on a Q Sunday school lesson leSion leaf and a n real genuine baseball game Is ia little better than a rough house or ora ora ora a horse race when it comes to a Sabbath Sabbath Sab Sab- Sabbath bath desecration If It the Sabbath Is Isto Isto isto to be kept holy some other c day ay must be set aside for baseball Yet we haven't heard of there being any steps taken to prevent Sunday baseball baseball base base- ball nor are we asking that there be bej j just just st drawing comparisons There are other things too which might be discussed Maybe at a n later date I |