People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1896 — To Have a Western Chautauqua. [ARTICLE]

To Have a Western Chautauqua.

Plans are being perfected for the opening at Rome City, Ind., of a Chautauqua to rival the famous eastern resort. A syndicate of churohmen, headed by Bishop J. EL Vinoent, proposes to expend SIOO,OOO in improving the assembly grounds at Rome City and in the erection of buildings, the purpose being to make that place the headquarters for students of literature and science in the western states as well as for western Methodists.