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DOLLS AND PARASOLS
FAVORS FOR GUESTS
AT “RAIN” LUNCHEON
(World-Herald, Feb. 21)
Mrs. R. R. Dickson of O’Neill, Ne
braska, entertained at luncheon Fri
day at Athletic club in honor of Geor
gia Lee Hall, leading woman in
"Rain,” which opened a three days’ en
gagement at the Brandeis theatre
Thursday night. Tiny parasols and
spring flowers furnished the decora
tions. The plate cards were in the
form of rain checks and favors con
sisted of bisque dolls carrying parasols
and wearing tiny rubber boots, every
thing carrying out the name of the
play. *'
Mrs. Dickson and her husband were
among the O’Neill folks who came to
Omaha to honor Miss Hall, also a for
mer resident of that city. A number
of social affairs are being held in
honor of Miss Hall and the visitors.
Mrs. Dickson had as additional guests
at luncheon Mesdames A. F. Mullen,
T. J. Dwyer, James Hanley, Sanford
Parker, W. H. Mullen, T. J. Flynn, of
Plattsmouth,, W. H. Moore of Belle
fourche, S. D.: and Mesdames C. E.
Stout, James O’Donnell, J. B. Mellor,
the latter five of O’Neill; C. E. Stout
and Maxine O’Donnell.
A memory book containing names
of guests, all former residents of
O’Neill, and decorated with cupids
wearing boots and carrying unbrellas
in a rain storm was presented to Miss
Hall.
Miss Hall was formerly an excellent
singer, but she lost her voice'and then
gave her attention entirely to dra
matic work. She goes to London next
fall to play the lead in “Rain.”
The O’Neill people who attended
the reception for Miss Georgia Hall
in Omaha last week were Mr. and
Mrs. S. J. Weekes, Mr. and Mrs. R.
R. Dickson, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Mellor,
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. O’Donnell, Mr. and
Mrs. C. E. Stout, Miss Maxine O’Don
nell, Mrs. Mary Gallagher, R. M. Sul
livan and George Agnes.
Mr. and Mrs. James Hanley, Dr.
and Mrs. John Dwyer, and Dr. and
Mrs. Tim Dwyer also entertained for
Miss Georgia Hall at different times
during her three days stay in Omaha.
In regard to Miss Georgia Lee
Hall’s appearance in Lincoln last week
the Lincoln Star had the following to
say: .
“Georgia Lee Hall was just a little
?;irl when she came to Lincoln first,
resh from a convent. She was barely
sixteen years of age, and came here
to study music and dramatic art at
the University School of Music.
“That has been a number of years
ago. She is coming to Lincoln for the
second time next week, as “Sadie
Thompson,” the leading role in
•Rain.’
“Georgia Lee Hall has had quite a
career in the theatrical line. At
tractive and with a great deal of real
ability, it did not take her long 1o
make a name for herself in the realm
of theatrical folk, and before even she
had dared hope she was playing on
Broadway, which if- the aim of every
young and old would-be star.
“Miss Hall’s career began in Lin
coln when, as she herself states, her
money gave out and she had to get a
job. She heard that the Barrow-How
fM people, a stock company playing
Lincoln at that time, needed an extra
for a certain play. Georgia Hall ap
plied for the part and was accepted.
The little part led to other larger
parts, and finally Miss Hall was sent
to Sioux Falls, S. D. to play lead in
another company managed by the
Barrow-Howard people. Her salary
was thirty-five dollars' a week, with
wardrobe furnished.
“It was while she was in Sioux Falls
that a manager of a theatrical com
pany in Milwaukee came through, saw
Miss Hall’s performance, and asked
her if she would accept a position with
his company. When she closed the
season at Sioux Falls, Miss Hall said
that she weighed ninety pounds, and
didn’t have a cent. The manager from
Milwaukee advanced her two weeks
salary and that’s how sjie began her
season in Milwaukee.
“While in Milwaukee, Miss Hall
saved enough to get her to New York
and to live very modestly there for
about three weeks. She said that she
believed /that would be all of the time
she would need to secure a position.
It took much longer than that, but she
finally landed one playing stock in
Boston. She stayed there two seasons
and then went to New York. Willie
Collier gave her a chance to play op
posite him in some Broadway show
and later she was given a chance to
try out for a part in “A Voice in the
Dark,” with the promise by the man
ager that he would see about New
York if she made good. She made
good and he gave her the part for
New York with a twenty-five dollar
increase over the tryout salary con
tract.
"I had no help nor influence, and no
money but what I made myself,’ Miss
Hall said. ‘My father was back of
me always, however, until his death.
He was a wonderful man and beloved
all who knew him in Lincoln and
O’Neill.’
Miss Hall’s father was Captain
Charles B. Hall, captain of detectives
in Lincqln. He was killed while try
ing to^ capture some automobile
thieves a few years ago.
"Miss' Hall will be the honor guest
at a number of social affairs during
her stay in Lincoln, and will be wel
comed b:|-k by a number of old
friends,
Whilb at the University School of
Music, Miss Hall studied voice with
Howard Kirkpatrick, who is still there,
and John T. Prince, who was head of
the dramatic art department at that
time, and who is now in California.”
O’NEILL WOMAN’S CLUB
HONORED BY VISIT OF
STATE AND DISTRICT
PRESIDENTS FRIDAY
On Friday, February 20th, the
O’Neill Woman’s Club was honored by
a formal visit from the State Presi
dent of the Nebraska Federation of
Womeii’s Clubs, Mrs. Paul C. Perry
man, of'Broken Bow. Mrs. Perryman
was accompanied by the President of
th£ Sixth District Mrs. S. W. Thomp
of JAJliapoe. The meeting was
called to order at two o’clock, p.
m. at the club rooms. The local presi
dent, Mrs. J. P. Gilligan, presided, and
in a few well chosen words introduced
the guests of honor. Mrs. Perryman
responded in a most happy vein, giv
ing to our club a most interesting and
instructive address lasting about
forty-five minutes.
Mrs. Perryman is a woman of re
markable personality, and her re
marks were replete with wit and hu
mor, as well as sound advice, and the
problems which all clubs are called
upon to solve.
No less interesting and entertain
ing, was the address of Mrs. S. W.
Thompson, District President. Mrs.
Thompson talked along different lines,
discussing the early history of Wo
man’s Clubs, and taking up subjects
of mutual interest to all women. She
talked at some length on the Child
Labor Amendment, showing herself
to be well posted in all things dis
cussed by her.
Musical numbers rendered were as
follows:
Community Singing—1-America.
2—America, the Beautiful.
Violin Solo—a. Orientale—Caesar Cui
b. In a Rose Garden—Tyler—Miss
Ruth Scott.
Vocal Duet—a. The Charm of Spring,
b. Mistress Mary—Salter—Mrs.
Reardon and Mrs. Kubitschek.
After the close of the program an
informal reception was held and most
delicious refreshments were served by
the Social Committee, with Mrs. Sau
ers aB chairman. The meeting was
declared a wonderful success by all
present, and a much more enthusiastic
club spirit will result from it.
On Friday evening, at seven o’clock,
the visiting presidents were enter
tained at dinner, at the Subway, by
the members of the Executive Board
and the past presidents of the local
club. Covers were laid for fourteen.
Club Reporter.
THE WOMAN’S CLUB
CALENDAR FOR MARCH
March 3—Dept, of Literary and Art
Leader.....Mrs. Templeton
Study of the Play, Hamlet, by Shakes
pear.
Art—A Reading from Homer—Alma
Tadema.
March 11th:
Department of Home Economics.
Leader-Mrs. R. E. Gallagher
Interior Decoration—March 18th
Department of Music.
| Study of Musical Forms, Continued.
Sonata and Mazurka.
Leader.—. Mrs. J. B. Ryan
March 25th—General Club Meeting
March 31st—Literary and Art Dep’t
Leader--Mrs. L. A. Carter
At the Generarl Club Meeting on
Wednesday, February 25th, the fol
lowing officers were elected for the
ensuing year.
President ._.Mrs. C. M. Daly
First Vice-Pres—Mrs. J. F. O’Donnell
Second Vice-Pres.Mrs. C. J. Malone
Rec. Secretary_Mrs. H. E. Coyne
Cor. Secretary-Mrs. W. J. Biglin
Treasurer-Mrs. B. J. Grady
Auditor-Miss Anna O’Donnell
Custodian-Mrs. G. A. Miles
Parlimentarian _Mrs. A. L. Cowper
thwaite.
LOCAL POST AMERICAN
LEGION START MEMBERSHIP
DRIVE FOR NE WMEMBERS
At a meeting of the local post of
the American Legion a drive was
started for new members, which was
to start immediately and last until
Marrch 7th in conformity with a state
wide drive, between the east and west
parts of the state, and will be called
the D’Olier drive. This year the na
tional convention of the legion will be
held in Omaha and for this reason the
legion wants to sign up every ex
service man as a member.
Last year there were 64 members
of the local post and this year they
expect to go over the top and have
set the goal at 80 members and more
if they can get them. So far this
year they have 40 members and to
date on the drive they have signed
up nine members.
Also at this meeting they decided
to write to our Congressman and
Representative asking the into sup
port Bill S. F. 211 which would require
tthat if a perrson wishes to vote they
must be able to demonstrate their
ability to read and write. This mat
ter is being taken up by the American
Legion all over the state and is being
pushed by them.
O’NEILL-EWING.
On Saturday the 21st, the O’Neill
High School Cagers went to Ewing
where they played and were defeated
by a score of 6 to 8 in a very fast
game by the Ewing Quintet, who were
too much for them on their own floor.
Hunt was the leading scorer for
O’Neill louping one basket and a free
throw, Cronin a ringer and Bazelman
a score of one point, while Vogel was
the staring scorer in the game tally
ing four points.
The O’Neill Five will take a three
day trip to Long Pine, Ainsworth and
Valentine.
HIGH SCHOOL.
La8t Friday the Third grade visited
the assembly and gave a few appro
priate selections for Washington day.
We enjoyed the little program very
much.
Ethel Anderson had the misfortune
to cut herself yesterday. The razor
she was using in a grafting experi
ment in botany class slipped and
gashed her finger to the bone.
Edith Grenier was absent from
school today and yesterday.
The six weeks’ tests are now in
progress", and everyone is working
for good grades.
Rheumatism
Chiropractic Adjustments for rheu
matism have given the greater help
to patents than any other form of
treatment. We could give any
number of references regarding cures
by Chiropractic when all other
methods have failed.
Drs. Lubker
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PUBLIC SCHOOL GRADES.
First Grade.
Mrs. DeLand and Mrs. Hancock
visited the First grade Tuesday.
The Third grade visited the First
grade and gave a very nice program
for Washington’s Birthday.
Third Grade.
Edwin Burival is a new pupil in the
Third grade.
The Third grade had a perfect at
tendance Tuesday.
Fifth Grade.
Donald Martin has been absent from
school so far this week.
We are starting a new unit in geog
raphy "The Southern States.”
Mr. Suhr visited our geography
class Tuesday.
Mrs. Hancock and DeLand paid us
a short visit Tuesday afternoon.
Sixth Grade.
Albert Rummel was absent Monday
and Tuesday because of illn^ps.
The Physical Training class is doing
exceptionally good work.
Leonard Madison, Ruth Jenkins and
Sidney Wilkinson handed in the best
Washington Day Booklets Monday.
Opening exercises and the language
period were given over to Washington
Day exercises.
Eighth Grade.
The Eighth grade regret the loss
of Hazel Stewart who moved to Sew
ard.
Phoebe Abdouch and Lona Crom
well were absent Monday on account
of illness.
The class completed the geography
of Nebraska and are now reviewing.
They took up square root Monday.
NEBRASKAN’S FATHER WAS
FREED BY PRESIDENT LINCOLN
This Abraham Lincoln story has as
one of its principal characters a Ne
braskan, still living, and the old shawl
figuring in it is in existence still, a
highly prized treasure. The story,
which follows, is believed to have been
never published heretofore.
On a morning in 1861, a few months
after Lincoln had ascended to the
presidency and was battling with the
problems of the new-born civil war,
there came to the White House, a wo
man, ill clad and travel worn, bearing
in her arms a baby wrapped in a
grimy plaid shawl.
As on several previous morning the
woman was halted before reaching the
portals, and told with increased em
phasis that the president could see no
body except on urgent official busi
ness.
And as before, she loitered about
mutely, beginning her usual daily vigil
because there seemed nothing else to
do.
But on this morning, instead of a
long wait without attracting more
than casual notice from hurrying pas
sersby, a man stopped, peeked through
the folds of the shawl at the baby,
and inquired its name. Under his ques
tioning, the woman unfolded her story.
Her husband, a coal miner at Hazel
ton, Pa., with a half hundred other
miners, had attended a forbidden po
litical meeting of some sort, with the
result all were jailed as federal pris
oners. They had been in jail a long
time, and seemingly nobody knew
what could be done to liberate them.
The woman was almost destitute,
and in desperation had walked, carry
ing her baby, 2 hundred miles from
Hazelton to Washington. She wanted
to 3ee President Lincoln, because she
didn’t know whom else to appeal to.
“Have you had your breakfast?” in
quired her questioner.
No, she had not had breakfast, she
was cautious about parting with the
few remaining coins in her meagre
hoard.
“First, then,” said the man, ‘come
in to breakfast.”
“I am Lincoln,” he added, leading
the way.
After breakfast and a private aud
ience with the president, the woman
was taken by a White house attend
ant to the depot, given a ticket, and
placed on a train homeward bound. On
the way they stopped for another wo
man from Hazelton, whose husband
was in jail and who also had walked
to Washington. She, too, was given a
ticket.
And when the women alighted at
Hazelton, their husbands, liberated
that day with the other miners by
telegraphed order of the nation’s chief
were the first to greet them.
The “baby” in the story is Stephen
Donlin, 64 years old, long-time resi
dent of Phoenix, Neb., in Holt county.
The old plaid shawl from which he
peeked at Abraham Lincoln, is the
treasured possession of Donlin’s sis
ter, Mrs. John McCaffrey, of Pitts
burg, Pa.
The mother was Mrs. Margaret Don
lin, who died in Holt county in 1904.
Her husband, the imprisoned miner,
was John Donlin, who followed her
to the grave December 5, 1924, aged
95.
Old friends of Mr. and Mrs. Donlin
remember hearing the story from them
Among these is Arthur Mullen of Om
aha, to whom the bit of history was
related by Mrs. Donlin twenty years
ago. Mr. Mullen recently wrote ta
Stephen Donlin, the "baby” for details
which, had grown obscure in his mem
ory.
The Donlins came to Nebraska and
Holt County in the late '70s. -Mrs.
Donlin, born in County Longford, Ire
land, when 7 years old was sent by
her parents with neighbors to Amer
ica to escape the famine raging in
Ireland at that time. She married
John Donlin in New York when she
was ,18.
The above article was taken from
the Omaha World-Herald dated Fri
day, February 13th.
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