Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1910 — CHAUTAUQUA AT ATTICA. [ARTICLE]

CHAUTAUQUA AT ATTICA.

■ .7* Fourth Annual Assembly Promises to Be Full of Interest. Attica, Ind.. July 29.—5. I. Conner and his sylvan plavers, who are presenting Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” in Fairview park, at Indianapolis, this Week, have been obtained as a special attraction for the fourth Chautauqua assembly, to be held in Ravine park here. r The -cries of entertainments begins August 12, and will continue ten davs.

The Chautauqua this year promises to he even more successful than tibe three that have preceded it. and already nearly eight hundred season tickets have been sold. The principal speaker at the assembly will be Thomas J\ Gore, the blind senator from Oklahoma, wihio will deliver his lecture. ‘‘Abe Lincoln and feflf Davis.” The program also includes lectures by Bradford Williams. Madame Montford, Professor Frank Lockwood and Charles H. Platenburg; monologues by William Sterling Battis; chalk talks and character sketches by Ross Crane; a dramatic lecture by Frederick Warde, and musical concerts by the Ma-son-Jubilee Singers, the Chicago Ladies’ Orchestra, the Metta K. Legler company, the Fisher-Shipp Concert Company and the Newton Concert Band. The Chautauqua is held under the auspices of the Attica Meidhant’s J Association and is unde v r the general direction of A, S. Peacock, a veteran .newspaper man, of this city. *