Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 169, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1916 — Lincoln Chautauqua Opens Here On August 10th. [ARTICLE]

Lincoln Chautauqua Opens Here On August 10th.

The Lincoln Chautauqua will open their engagement In Rensselaer on Thursday, August 10th, in Rensselaer, at Milroy Park. Rensselaer has been fortunate the past few years in securing chautauqua companies of extremely high class, and the one that . to come here this season is no exception, and in fact its numbers probably will be better than any that have ever shown here. The chautauqua will last six days, and they should be the six most entertaining days that Rensselaer people have ever had. The program will open at 10 o’clock on Thursday, and the first number will be known an Youth’ Chautauqua. In the afternoon the Strang-Coleman Company will entertain with musical numbers, and Booth Lowrey, the southern wit, will make an address entitled “Tolerably Good People.” He will make another address in the evening entitled, “Simon Says Wigwag.” On the second day the Arden Company will present vocarnumbers, cartoons, readings and “The Taming of the Shrew.” Nels Darling, of Oklahoma, will give two addresses on “The Home Town” and “The Village Storekeeper.” On the third day the Chicago Artists Quartette will render musical numbers and the opera “Martha,” and Mohammed Ali, a charming Oriental, will lecture on India’s millions. Bland’s Chautauqua Band, featuring Earl Hippie, the wizard of the Xylophone, will be here' on the 4th day, and readings by Miss McDonald. Mrs. A. C. Zehner will lecture on “American Ideals.”

On Monday the Gretna Party will present songs and music of Colonial days, and the Gales will give songs and stories of the Red Men. Pitt Parker, of Boston, the Yankee wit, will entertain twice during the day with crayon drawings. , On the last day of the chautauqua there will be a grand concert both afternoon and evening by the Hampton Court Singers. In the afternoon Charles R. Taggart, “The Man From. Vermont,” will give “The Old Country Fiddler,” and - in the evening an address by Captain Richard Pearson Hobson, an American statesman, on “Our Country,” will close the chautauqua week in Rensselaer. On Sunday there will be special selections from many celebrated oratoribsT' The above week’s program promises chautauqua lovers a chance of hearing the best artists to be found on chautauqua circuits anywhere and the week’s attendance should be a record breaker for the Rensselaer promoters.