Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1911 — Parlette’a Popularity-hi Bryan’s Town. [ARTICLE]

Parlette’a Popularity -hi Bryan’s Town.

One of the largest, most successful and best known of the chautauquas of the middle west is the State Epworth Assembly at Lincoln, Neb., in whose great auditorium the usual attendance day by day mounts into the thousands. It was after Parlette’s first appearance here here that the State Jaurnal said: “For downright, masterful humor and at the same time a wealth of scholarly, up-to-date philosophy, perhaps nothing at the assembly for years equaled the apearance of Ralph Parlette.” He was returned to this assembly the next year, the only man of the Season returned, and afterwards Manager L,. O. Jones wrote to engage him for the third year, adding: “There is only one other man, George B. Stuart, who has ever been invited to lecture trom our platform three seasons in succession. At Presbyterian church, Monday night, Nov. 27. > ;