Show Eighth Ward Club The most successful meeting yet held by the Eighth ward club was held Tuesday evening last The attractions were so many and good that the house was packed to suffocation and no standing room was obtainable The features of the pro gramme were Helds band the drum corps Clawson and Barrell the midget drum mers Dr S P McKee the colored orator and the mondolin and guitar club The latter rendered some of their very exquisite selections which elicited the heartiest i selectons elcied herttest ap plause and as Leader Clawson turned ap face around it had that how much do you want for a quarter look that the audience finally gave in and let the boys quit Dr McKee seemed to be in the best of humor as his speech was received throughout through-out with immense applause so many good points were humorously brought out His description of the carpetbaggers was immense im-mense He gave a short sketch of his experience ex-perience with carpetbaggers in the south Mr C F Olsen a member of the Legis lature also spoke for a short time Legs speech tion was listened to with wrapt atten tionA A vote of thanks was tendered those tak ing part in the exercises The programme for next meeting was read and meeting adjourned until Tuesday Jan 281890 C L BERRT Secretary |