Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1918 — LINCOLN CHAUTAUQUA AUG. 6 [ARTICLE]

LINCOLN CHAUTAUQUA AUG. 6

Another Meeting of Ixical Guarantors Tomorrow Night. The Lincoln Chautauqua will be held in Rensselaer this season August 6 to 11 inclusive, and an excep.tioinally good program will be rendered. A meeting was held in the directors’ room of the First National bank Monday evening by the local guarantors apd the follow ing officers elected: George H. McLain, president; Ross Dean, vicepresident; George E. Collins, secretary, and J. D. Allman, treasurer. Another meeting will be held at the same place tomorrow evening, at which the guarantors and all friends of the Chautauqua are urged present, and plans for pushing the sale of season tickets and making the Chautauqua a complete success will be taken up. In view of the many demands made upon the people because of the war it has been felt by some that these chautauquas should be abandoned for the time being, but Rensselaer signed up last year to. the coming Chautauqua and could hot repudiate its contract if it felt so disposed, and President Wilson has signified his earnest des re t)iat this class of educatidnal entertainment should continue as a means of war-time educational propaganda. Rensse.laer and Jasper county has nobly responded to the support of this Chautauqua in. the past and will not fai; to respond again tb,is year. The expenses of the Chautauqua, which will be about $1,200, including everything, has been guaranteed by some forty of the public spirited citizens of Rensslaer who confidently expect our people to purchase season tickets in sufficient number to meet these expenses. Help them out and heki yourself at th s<ime t : me by puretaf mt tickets when the solicitors call upor. you.