Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 163, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1916 — Committee Shaping Plans For Fine Chautauqua. [ARTICLE]

Committee Shaping Plans For Fine Chautauqua.

The committee is getting plans into shape for what they believe promises to be the most successful, most interesting and altogether the best Chautauqua that has been known in this locality. The Chautauqua backers point out that there are a hundred and one things that enter into a really successful chautauqua and they are wording hard to get these numerous things in spick-and-span shape so nothing will stand in the way of the big week’s success. And if you stop one of the<e chautauqua on the street any day now and ask him how things are coming and what’s got to be done first and foremost in importance, he’ll say, season tickets. He will insist that they must be sold. And so the committee is going to drive hard on the season ticket proposition, and feel they are safe in taking it for granted that everything will come out all right if the tickets are sold in sufficient quantities to give the affair a good, solid foundation to rest on. The program is a whirlwind. “A glance at the last of attractions is convincing enough,” said a committeeman today, “but a closer survey of the list gives you a doubly strong satisfaction in believing that it is sure to go big and win an almost unanimous approval on the part of lhe patrons.” The tent will be pitched in Milroy Park, right west of the court house and across the river. It may be that plans will be made for a Farmers’ Day. These are details the committee is working on now. “We trust,” said a committeeman, “that if a Farmers’ Day is planned our good friends W. D. Bringle, John E. Alter, Judson Adams, H. E. Parkison, Frank Alter, W. L. Wood, Jay E. Lamson and John Moore and others among the farmers will make it a point to bring in a good crowd from the country. It will be a grand day for all.”