Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1906 — BEAUTIFUL WINONA [ARTICLE]

BEAUTIFUL WINONA

Son» of the Things That Will Malta This Rasort More Attractive ; Than Ever This Year. • SEASON 0F UNUSUAL INTEREST j? Program Includes Many of tha Foremost Preachers, Lectur ire, Teacher# and Entartalnsra of tha Country- -A Paradiae for Women, an Outing Piaoe for Brain-Fagged and Bual-neaa-Weary Man and a Playground for Children Summer Training Sohoola and Great Bible Conference. The year book of affairs at Winona Lake show that a season of extraordinary interest has been arranged for this attractive resort In northern Indiana. The program Includes the names of many of the foremost preachers, lecturers and teacherß of the country, a number of monologists, readers and other entertainers are to appear, while the whole list of events and attractions Is dominated by music. The management of Winona Assembly has from its beginning eleven years ago bent its efforts toward making Winona Lake a resort for Christian people by eliminating everything which would be unattractive to all other classes, and that there is a demand for such a place as this was indicated last season when about 250,000 people from all over the country visited the lake. The tone of the affairs for this year are In keeping with the Winona spirit of wholesomeness, and tha Indications are that the total number of visitors will by several thousand exceed the figures of other years. An unusually large number of conventions are to be held at the lake. The park on the shores has been materially Improved in extent and appearance. Outdoor recreations are to have more than common attention. The greatest enterprise which the Winona management has developed during the year is an interurban railway system, reaching from the lake to Goshen, where It connects with trolley lines to many cities in northern Indiana and southern Michigan. , Speakers at Wirfona Lake. Among the notable speakers who are to be beard from the platform at Winona Lake this season will be three state governors who have won fame as reformers. One of them is Governor Hanly of Indiana; Governor Folk of Missouri will speak on questions which are holding the attention of the American people; Senator LaFollette, former governor of Wisconsin, Is in this trio, and they will ail appear during the same week at Winona. A great debate has also been arranged, the subject to be the ship subsidy, the affirmative to be taken by Congressman C. H. Grosvenor of Ohio, and the negative by Congressman Champ Clark of Missouri, and Congressman A. L. Brick of Indiana is to preside. Dr. R. W. Rogers of Drew Theological Seminary, one of the foremost ex plorers of buried cities of the Holy Land. Is to give fifteen lectures at Winona on Bible people and times. With pick and shovel Dr. Rogers has dug out of the old cities the libraries of kings, written on clay tablets, and translated the inscriptions for himself. Dr. W. J. Dawson, the famous British preacher and author, will also be heard at Winona. Booker T. Washington. Dr. Frank Dixon, the anti-so-cialist; John G. Woolley, the prohibition orator, and many others are also on the program. A Paradise for Women. Winona Lake has among th© women of the middle West become known as “a paradise,” because of the many features offered for tbeir enjoyment during the summer season. The mu•leal programs, the light entertainments, the sermons and lectures, are all of appealing Interest. The outdoor life, with fountains, flower beds, walks In the woods and on the lake shore, the boat rides, the social affairs of the Winona Women’s Club, all combine in giving wide range of entertainment. Tired mothers who go to the lake increase In number from year to year, for there they turn their children loose in the sandheaps and on the beaches, the mothers themselves getting oppor tunities to rest. This resort will this year be more than ever a playground for children. An elephant, a wild animal, a pony and dog show, and some other events of the kind have been arranged to interest the children. The little folks will have their own Sunday school, and there will be special playgrounds. In the charge of adults, open to them There will also be a big Indian camp, with the youngsters as Indians, back In the Winona woods. For the older boys and girls there will he a clubhouse, where they may play on rainy days, and outdoors there will be tennis, baseball and field athletics of various kinds for them. A Feast of Summer Music. There will be a feast of music at Winona Lake during the season of 1906. It will be marked by many band and orchestra concerts. In vhlch & number of noted singers will participate. Gargtulo’a Italian band of New York opens the list at Winona, and through July Rogers' Winona band and symphony orchestra will give daily concerts. On July 30 the Thomas orchestra of Chicago will begin twelve concerts at the lake, during which Bruno Stelndel. 'ceUoUt. of Chicago;

•frs. Josephine Bremmerman Edmunda, soprano, of Indianapolis, and Other eminent soloists will be heard. The Newsboys’ Band of Indianapolis will spend the week of August 6 at the lake, when an airship and two fast motor-boat# will give exhibitions. The Indiana Editorial associations will ba at Winona during this week. The Kilties band, of Canada, with bagpipers, male chorus, giant drummajor and other features, will spend the week of August 13 at thla resort. On August 10 a national choral contest will be held, the Winona management offering prixea amounting to |I,OOO. This contest will ha on the order of an Americanised Welsh Rlsteddfod, or German sangerfest, and a number of choirs and singing societies will participate. E. O. Bxoell, one of the best- known writers of hymns, will organize a church chorus of 400 or 600 voices for Sabbath services at Winona. An Outing Place for Men. The management of Winona Assembly has arranged many attractions for business-weary men who may during the summer Indulge in sort or lengthy vacations. Winona Lake is proving to be unusually good bass fishing ground this year, and fagged-out men will find outings on the water there of much physical benefit. There will be golf tournaments, baseball and athletic contests for college men, water pageants, and other attractions to take men into the big outdoors. Summer Training Schools. There seems to be a general effort on the part of organizations which work toward clean citizenship get their affairs on better basis through the medium of trained workers, the workers being developed in summer schools. Several of these schools will be in session at Winona Lake this season. One of them is In the charge of the Anti-Saloon League of Indiana, which will teach township temperance workers how to clear out saloons, the 1 operations of the state laws, and how to organize for temperance campaigns. The Winona Bible school will teach ministers, missionaries and church workers, as well as other students of the Scriptures. There will be a special school for the training of Sunday School workers, and another will be to instruct women that they may lead their local missionary societies In the work during the winter months. There is also a department to train workers among children. In all of these schools some of the most prominent authorities In the country will be the teachers and lecturers. The Winona Bible Conference. The Bible conference which attracts many thousand men and women to Winona Lake every year will open on August 19 and continue through ten days. Dr. David Gregg, formerly of Lafayette, Ind., now one of America’s greatest preachers; Archdeacon Webi her. a leader in the Episcopal church; ! Bishop Morrison of the M. E. South; Dr. R. A. Torrey of Chicago; Dr. W. E. Gell of London. Eng.; Dr. C. H. Woolston of Philadelphia, are a few of the eminent men who will be heard. There will be special conferences for evangelists, missions, rescue work, and along other lines. John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers, will be one of the speakers In the conference on church work among men The Bible Conference days will be so crowded with speakers and services that the programs wdll begin at 6 a. m. and continue until 10 p. m., with several meetings in progress at one time. The indications are that the attendance will'be greater than ever. The Winona Summer Bchoofs. Some of the best-known instructors from Indiana colleges and high schools are on the teaching force of the summer schools at Winona Lake this season, there being more than fifty of the instructors in about twenty-five school departments. All lines of school and college work are taught, and there are also schools for music, art and nature study. One of the new departments is domestic science, in charge.of Daisy A. Dean, of the Fort Wayne publio schools. Another is a school of swimming for women, conducted by a young woman who is an expert at swimming. D. W. Dennis of Eariham College directs the study of birds, flowera and trees, and Isaac Brown, “the bird and bee man.” will lead the chil dren Into the woods and talk to them of birds. During the summer school season the students will each afternoon assemble at the auditorium, where they will hear some noted speakers on educational topics. These lectures will supplement the work of all summer school departments, and the convocation affairs will be open to all visltocs to Winona Lake. Y. M. C. A. Camp at Winona. A new feature at Winona Lake Is a ramp In the woods for members of the Y. M. C. A. and college students, and several hundred young men are expected to spend their vacation there. The camp is In the deep woods far from the hotels and centers of Winona park, with a fine swimming beach close at hand. The camp occupies a large frame building, about which several tents have been pitched, where the young men will eat and ale*p. To those who have limited means the Winona management is giving work that the young men may have a fine vacation and meet expenses, and ftor the others the price of living In the camp has been placed at actual cost. Some famoua story tellers are to gather with the young men at their campfires, some good singers will be heard, and other entertainments will bs given, so that ciunp Ilfs will have no dull moments.