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Rehearsals followed in alternating homes for the next few weeks until the show was ready for presentation. The big event took place in Sturgeon Hall, and, providing the weather cooperated, the hall would be sold out. One of the more amusing acts involved two ladies, dressed in rather outlandish duds, sitting around a kitchen table in the center of the stage, reading “the latest gossip” from their newspapers. The “gossip” consisted of harmless, humorous, fictitious tales about well-known members of the community. A sale of fudge took place during intermission. The small revenue from the evening was given to the Women’s Institute or to the school for the purchase of a new water-cooler or a coal scuttle.