Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 210, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1913 — CHAUTAUQUA STARTED. THIS AFTERNOON [ARTICLE]

CHAUTAUQUA STARTED. THIS AFTERNOON

Attendance at First Session Probably Exceeded Two HundredProgram for Tonight. The tentage for the Chautauqua was erected Tuesday afternoon and the talent for the first day arrived this Wednesday morning and the first program is being given this afternoon. The Chautauqua is dt Lowell this week also and their program began one day sooner than ours; so the talentj;omes from there here. William Beers, the vice president of the Lincoln Chautaucma System, arrived this morqing, -as did W. Lloyd Davis/a professor in Wisconsin university,, who will be the platform manager during the entire session. Mujor R. W. McClaughry, a former warden of the federal prison at Ft. Leavenworth, and who Ijas been at the head of various other prison institutions and with correctional schools, will lecture both afternoon and night, having replaced J. K. Codding, the Kansas warded, who was called back to his home on business. Major McClaughry was accompanied here bjr his son, A.‘ C. McClaughry, of Chicago. The Wehrman quartette is composed of fout young ladies and their number has proven very pleasing at other places. Miss Jane EMe Wrate is a reader of ability and occupies a part of the program. The season tickets are good to all sessions. The sepafate tickets for tonight are 35 cents for adults and 15 cents for children.