Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1915 — Delphi to Run Home Chautauqua Next Year. [ARTICLE]

Delphi to Run Home Chautauqua Next Year.

Delphi has figured out that it can get better talent for less money by running its own chautauqua and declined to again contract with the Lincoln Chautauqua company. The committee who backed that company and paid a loss this year have formed an association and organized to hold a home chautauqua next year. Charles Benjamin, of Terre Haute, came to Delphi some time ago and explained how Rockville, a city of 2,000, hqd ex-President Taft and other prominent “speakers at their chautauqua this year and that the chautauqua gave better satisfaction and cost less than the other plan. Another advantage claimed is the selection of a date to suit themselves.

Delphi people, it is understood, objected to the increased price of season tickets, the increased responsibility on the guarantors and the apparent determination of the chautauqua company to each year make it next to impossible to pay out. The Republican, while in hearty sympathy with the chautauqua and the writer being one of the guarantors, believes that there is an opportunity in the independent field and suggests that next year another contract should not be signed until some investigation is made about the comparative cost of the two plans. The experinece of Delphi will be watched with great interest.

iM. V. Brown and family are moving back to Rensselaer from Montana, where they have resided for several years. ‘Mrs. Brown, who is a daughter of D. H. Yeoman, came some time ago on a visit, but Rensselaer looked so good to her that she induced Mr. Brown to again return here. They will live in the house formerly occupied by Mrs. Howe. Mr. Brown and the children are expected here tonight, all except Miss Mary, who is attending college at Missoula, Mont,, taking the domestic science course. Since Mr. Brown and family moved to Montana two .of the daughters have graduated from the Rensselaer high school, Misses Mary and Marguerite, who made > their home with their aunt, Mrs. A. R. Hopkins, while attending high school.

„ Mrs. C. ATtfillisch, of Newland, left this morning for Maquokota, lowa, where she will spend the winter. Her daughter and husband, Mr. and Mrs. John Bertsch, are living on her farm.

Sheriff and Mrs. B. D. McColly, accompanied by Dr. Wkshbum, went to Logansport today by auto driven by Stewart Moore, taking Mrs. Jessie Roberts to the asylum at JLongcliffe. The thrashing at the county farm was finished yesterday. The crop, that is, the part gathered, averaged about 45 bushels to the acre. The late thrashing is not showing up nearly so well as the earlier and unfortunately the price has dropped too. Some people are never quite satisfied. The Republican, for instance, with more than a column and a half \ of live classified advertising, would . like to have twice or three times that amount and feels that those who are not.ußing it are missing a wide field of opportunity. Just try it and see at the time helping satisfy our desire to extend its influence. „ i . w Rensselaer physicians prevented an epidemic of smallpox there last week when they took the proper precautionary methods to isolate suspicious looking cases and some that showed'some similarity. To be certain they quarantined all of them, instead of disputing the diagnosis of each other and thus the contagion will be stopped. Sensible action for the doctors and those affected. —Francesville Tribune.