The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-30
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the zine OF NfnOna's w Ork.
Special to the Indiana polls Journal
WlNONA. PARK. Ind, July 29.-The most
important social event of the season took
place at Wnona tonight in the annual
reception by the Woman's Club at the Min
newawan Inn. Mrs. D. 3. Wells and Miss
Carrie B. Sharp, of Fort Wayne the di-
rectors of the club, received and num-
Der of the members, assisted by young la
dies of Winona served ices in the dining
room. The inn was most deliberately dec
GRATED and the orchestra was hidden in a
bower of ported plants and ferns. About
six hundred guests were received.
Since early spring the management of
Winona has been at work on a scheme of
great interest to every one interested in
the Presbyterian Chautauqua and the Pres
byterian Church in the United States as
a whole. This is a reading circle, and mat
ters have now so far progressed that the
Journal correspondent has been permitted
to make the figst announcement of the plan
TO be inaugurated before the close of the
present season. 1t means in effect, pro-
Iongation of the summer school the year
round, and as the Presbyterian Church
stands pre-emnenty for education. the
reading circle is expected to be the most
will combine the best features OF Chautau-
qua and Mortified, with additional fea-
lures unlike and superior to any plan now
fn use. The course will cover period of
four years with the usual diploma to those
successfully completing it. The matter is
IN charge # q committee the chairman f,I
Although the details of the course have
been fully marked out the announcement
to be made in few weeks will provide
provisional course only for the first year
This is because of the inability of the com
mlttee in charge to procure the books
which viii be most desirable for their
These hooks
ration, such as d textbook botany
which Professor Stanley Coulter, of Purdue
book on sociology. by Professor Kelsey
acting president of Lake Forrest, and
others, These reading circles viii be or
ganized III every Pc of the United States
This movement Is an outgroWth of the first
WinOna reading circle, organized by half
dozen members of the Memorial Church.
of Indianapolis, two years ago.
The weather at Winona for the last week
has been delightfully."- cool and the result
has been a large ogtpouring at lectures and
with which the day is always opened were
led this morning by Rev. Mr. Price, of
Kentland, Ind. The morning lecture hour
was filed by Hon John L. Griffiths, of In
dianapolis, who delivered an Grafton on
The Real Washington" Mr. Grifhths's
visit here on the Fourth of July and his
splendid Grafton on that day insured him
one of the best audiences that has gathered
this season. The speaker assumed the task
of bringing the Washington whom the
a H Steel engraving before his audience
as a living breathing and intensely human
warrior and statesman. He succeeded be-
yond criticism, and was continually COM
PEELED to quiet the applause.
Two o'clock in the afternoon has been
set apart time for a meeting of
Winona directors with those who desire
to inquire into the business outlook of
Winona. At o'clock the chorus under
Prof Miles takes an hours drill. The
chorus will render Fair Ellen and the
Messiah" in August. The children will
give the cantata THE National Flower"
on Aug TO-