Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1913 — SUMMER CHAUTAUQUA BEING PROPOSED [ARTICLE]

SUMMER CHAUTAUQUA BEING PROPOSED

Promoter for Lincoln System Trying to Interest Rensselaer in the * Project, 'v' : , ■ ... ''* a- , E. G. Shouse, of Greencastle, was here today and will meet a few persons at the school house this evening to explain to them a plan of putting on a summer Chautauqua for six days! Delphi and Monticello have gone into the scheme, and the promoter guarantees some splendid talent and a high class and in all respects an educative and uplifting meeting. The proposition looks very good for towns remote from established ehautauquas, but The Republican believes that any arrangement for a meeting of this kind would be injurious to Fountain Park, where stockholders have !a big investment -and which Chautauqua has been built up by the hardest kind of effort by the patriotic gentlemen and ladies that are still back of it. In justice to them, we hope that Rensselaer will not enter the movement. By another year we can profit by the experience of Monticello and Delphi and it will be none too late to start then if our people decide that they care to oppose the Fountain Park meeting in this way.