The Young Ladies' Cornet Band, Of Caro, Mich

A few weeks before the Fourth of Julv, 1879, the young ladies attending the principal school of Caro, the coanty seat of Tuscola county, said one to the other, "Isn't it too bad we haven't a band in this town?" Another said, -I don't see what the Caro boys are about. The idea of spending the Fourth of July in solitude and silence." "It makes me feel lonesome to think of it," said a third young lady. A fourth said, "wouldn't it be jolly if the young ladies of Caro should set the young men a good exaniple? Wouldn't that be fun, and no mistake! It would fairly paralyze them. Say we try it." "Say we do," screamed a chorus of twelve or fifteen young ladies, clapping their hands. Accordingly that evening their paren ts, úneles, consins and aunts, the merchants, lawyers and bankers were all waited on, and heaps of money was forthcoming. A complete set of instruments was purchased, and Mr. Jones, afterwards aucceeded by Mr. ltobertson, the music teacher of Caro, took in hand his enthusiastic charge, and Caro, for the next two months, was full of incipient toot-tootings. At the end of that time they had learned several tunes. A uniform was then provided, and soon the Carp band became celebrated far and wide. The thirteen young lady performers are still only school girls- but very few of them exceeding the age of eighteen years, and two of them being about the age of fourteen. They all have a most genteel and unassuming bearing, and in their conversation and deportment are ladies in very respect. Another very fascinating feature about this group of school girls isthat they are all pretty. Last fall they were engaged in playing for the benefit of the sufferers by the forest fires. We herewith gives the names of the young ladies constituting the female cornet band, all daughters of the best families of Caro: Mr. Wm. Robertson, bandmaster; Miss Emnia Jones, lst B flat; Miss Maud Townsend, 2d B flat; Miss Edith West, solo E flat alto; Miss Kittie Wright, alto; Miss Ella Wendall, alto; Miss Ada Mertz, alto; Miss Ida Franklin, tenor; Miss Lettie Ross, tenor trombone; Miss Nellie Rogers, baritone; Miss Belle Franklin, tuba; Miss Flora Sprague, tenor drum; Miss May Reed, base drum. Their new uniforms are described as a full snit of rich, black velvet, trimmed with military braid; white epaulets, and white cord and tassel around the waist; jet black buttons with silver leaf in the center. The hat is a black Derby with white pompon in front.