Good Old Days: March 5, 2020

8 years ago

The Commoner

March 8, 1895

The members of the Colfax band have been busy the last few days arranging their plans for building an opera house. A number of meetings have been held and within a week probably the details of their enterprise will have been agreed to. The general plan of the proposed house, its size, seating capacity and stage proportions are determined, so that the details of the financial part of the undertaking are about all that remain to be settled. As soon as they are perfected, committees will be appointed and subscriptions solicited. Many substantial offers of...