Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 202, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1913 — MANY AT FOUNTAIN PAUL ON SUNDAY [ARTICLE]

MANY AT FOUNTAIN PAUL ON SUNDAY

Four Thousand Paid Admissions— James E. Watson’ill and Unable to Fill Engagement. Pour thousand paid admissions at Fountain Park Suflday g\ve the record crowd for the year and one of the largest sessions in the history of Fountain Park. James E. Watson, former congressman from the sixth district and the republican candidate for governor in 1908, was advertised for an address, but he failed to appear, sending word that illness made It impossible for him to leave his home. Of course, the large crowd was greatly disappointed as “Sunny Jim” is an orator of great power and it was expected that he would have something to say about Colonel Muymll and the charges the latter made against Watson in the congressional investigation of lobbyists. Rev. DeWitt Jones, the platform leader, delivered an able address in his stead, and the large audience was well pelased. . A correspondent writes from the park as follows: £ “We are having splendid sermon lectures each morning by Rev. Jones. They are full of pathos and power. They are surely worth making a strenuous effort for anyone to come and hear them. They are the strongest feature, of the magnificent program. A splendid audience greeted the Innes band last Thursday, the auditorium being packed and apparently hundreds on the outside. It was a great May in the history of Fountain Park. On Tuesday and Wednesday James Allen Rice gave two powerful lectures on the subjects: ‘Man of Mammon’ and “Social Parasites.’ They proved of vital interest, questions of the hour. The liquor traffic, child labor and equal suffrage. He believes the ultimate overthrow of the liquor traffic will be accomplished when the Christian manhood of this country will stand hack of the body politic and through equal suffrage. Four million women already have the right of the ballot.” Tuesday is Hiawatha Indian day. Wednesday Miss E. Virginia Kessler will deliver lectures and the DeKoven Quartette will also be present, and Thursday is Old Settlers’ Day. Miss Kessler and the DeKoven Quartette will again compose the program. Friday Elmer Ward Cole will lecture in the afternoon and Jliss Kessler will again deliver readings both afternoon and. evening. The Giersdorf Band, Orchestra and Concert Co., will also he on hand and remain until after the close of the assembly next Sunday. Saturday evening Byron L. lick will de-

liver an illustrated lecture. Bunday morning A. 8. Buehanan will deliver a sermon entitled “Weaving the Webb of Life.” In the afternoon Hon. Arthur E .Gringle will lecture from the subject: ‘The Right and Wrong Way of Doing It.” Miss Kessler remains until the close of the session. The evening after the concert will he devoted to farewells and the adjournment of the assembly.