I VhIuv, A|*j il l.T T-BASKETEERSPRESENT PLATAT MONTROSEMontrose. April 9.—The play ) | ‘Safety First/* was Riven by the(boys and girl# basketball teams hiErr the city hall last Friday evening ti JLjH la r*e and appreciative audience. ! [ The characters ware: Jack Most*ornery, a young husband. Eugene Auter; Jerry Arnold, an unsuccessful fixer, Francis Wilcox; Mr. Me-. Nntt. a defective detective. Sherman 1 Mullikln; Elmer Planned, awfully ■shrinking. DDallae Crooks; Abou Ben Mocha, a Turk, James Tweedy; Mabel Montgomery, Jacks wife. Ethel Stile*; Virginia Brfdger. her j sister, Bernice Hancock; Mrs Bar-me-Jrington Brfdger. their mother. Elva the Dresner; Zulika. a Turkish maiden. aMl Mabel 81 ties; Maiy Ann O’Finnerty,| an Irish cook. Roduska Wilcox. 11 Hj Time, today. Place, suburbs of a ath large city. The comedy was in three •ies acts and the young people tmperson-hat 'ated their respective chara-’er* in a I very creditable manner. Gentry Koch sang a solo aft« r act I. Mrs, X. J. ver j Maxwell rendered r piano solo aftei .act 2. The business manager* were s|t- Paul Me Lea rn and Theodor** Davis, on Property man; Gentry KochMr. and Mrs Frank Oeese of ML |on Hamill were business callers in ,rt -1 Montrose last Friday. Accompanying them was Mrs. Susie Campbell of al- Steamboat Rock, Iowa, ess i Mrs. 9. L. Curtis, after spending four weeks in Montrose, returned to Ha*! Fort Madison, where her son*. Claude led and Ernest, are attending school, hly Raymond Barnes has accepted a he (Position with the firm of Keri A 2U_ Kennedy, hardware and Implement dealers.Thomas L. Keith has bean ill for \ the past week w ith the grippe and • complications, rg. I Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Gilman and of | two children of Keokuk spent la?;* lor; Saturday at the home of V. F. Gil-lay man.1*0. Joppa Lodge, A. F. V M . had by cn interesting meeting last Samiras day evening. Floyd Jamison was iea Initiated Into the mysteries of th* icii order.as Mr. and Mrs. Louis Wahrer and ng I little daughter visited at Die home I of Mr. and Mrs. Harry King in Kco-‘h. knk last Sunday, rs. j David Houghton is able to a; i after being confined to bin h to | w inter with sickness.bt FTto 111orv r \r chad