Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1914 — Fountain Park Assembly Opens Today [ARTICLE]

Fountain Park Assembly Opens Today

The 20th annual session of Fountain Park assembly, near Remington, opens today, which is Grand Army and Sunday School day, and all members of grand army posts and relief corps and all Sunday schools of Jasper, Newton, Benton and White counties, who come as schools, are given free admission. A musical entertainment is given both afternoon and evening, also tomorrow, by the Euclid male quartet. Dr. H. L. Calhoun is the platform manager again this year, and will deliver sermon lectures each morning during the week and preach one of the Sunday morning sermons. This is the fourth season for Dr. Calhoun at the Park. He has just a year in the Orient and will have much to say of the lands and people he visited. Other entertainers during the assembly are the Heron Sisters; Dr. George R. Grose, president of De--1 Fauw University, who will preach Sunday morning, Aug. 30; The Pilgrim Girls’ Orchestra; Henry A. Nichols; Germain, the Wizard; Dr. Frank Grandstaff; The Beulah Buck Ladies’ Quartet; The Williams Colored Singers; Col. Bob Seeds; The Oxford Company; Maude Willis; Sylvester A. Long: H. V. Adams; Glenn Frank: and Miss Aladie Schwacke. The latter will lecture and demonstrate on domestic science, household economics and hygiene. The assembly will close on Sunday, August 30. As usual, a large number of Rensselaer people will at tend.