Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-25
Annual Summer Session Opens
Under Conditions That Are
Most Auspicious
SPLENDID PROGRAM ARRANGED
Many Celebrities of the Forum to Par.
ticipate. and Good Music Feature
The Opening session-Bryan En-.
dorses Roosevelt's Atttude-other
News.

Indianola, July 25.-The summe
chautauqua opened here last night. TIL,
people Of this college town have made
elaborate arrangements for the session
! which began under pleasant auspices
The opening program included an adj
| dress of welcome by Hon. b. f. Clay.
and a lecture on ultimate America
by DR.. John Merritt Driver the pastor
of the Peoples church in Chicago
When DR.. Driver spoke at the college
commencement last spring the Indian
ola Herald said that he was possessed
of the most wonderful assortment OF
adjectives ever displayed In this city
And since then he has improved or
them.
gram. The Gypsy chorus from Balfe's
Bohemian Girl" and the wedding
chorus OF Cowen were rendered under
the direction of Professor Alexander
Emsee, who was educated in Aberdeen
Scotland, and in Boston, and who Is
instructor in voice in the college. The
conservatory Of music of the college
gave The Bohemian Girl" during the
winter in this city and delightfully."- sur
prised the people whose attention had
not been called, especially, to the work
in music which Simpson is doing. The
Simpson Conservatory orchestra, Pro-
fessor Winifred r. Colon, director, rem
dered several selections. Professor Col
ton is instructor in violin and all or
chestral instruments in the college
Mrs. Pearl Warthen rendered a solo
as the closing number Of the first ses-
sion's program.
The chautauqua tent is a new one
and was erected just outside the main
college campus, on the college athletic
field. 1t seats about 5000 people, COM
fortably. 1t has a yellow tinge, but
there is nothing yellow about the as
'sembly unless Sam Jones may be
classed that way. The officers of the
association prove it's standing. They
are: Mayor B. +. Clayton, president.
f.. p Henderson, vice president; S. NJ.
Holiday, secretary; and j. w. Slocum
treasurer. The program will continue
until August /. 1t includes many eN-
cellent attractions, for instance. the
following:
Governor John Mickey, of Nebraska,
spoke this afternoon on Christian
Citizenship" Col. George A. Balm. Rev.
Dewitt Miller, j. Lorenzo Zwickey,
Charles Eldred Shelton, Laurant, the
magician, William Jennings Bryan,
Charles A. Marsh, NJ. v. O'Shea Lou
Beauchamp, and many others, besides
Sam Jones and DR.. Driver. Several
Des Moines musicians are on the pro-
gram assisting those of 1ndianola and
talent secured from the east. Among
these are Miss Anna Kramer, soloist;
Miss Roe Steinman. violinist; Homer
c. CARRIER, banjo; Clarence I. Seigel.
mandolin: Charles r. Parker, cornet.
Miss Nellie Marlatt Mrs. Frank Miller,
Miss Bertha Pearson, l.. d. Carpenter.
Miss Gertrude White, John Todd, and
the Orpheus Jubilee singers, are among
the other musicians on the program.
The subject of the lecture by DR.
Shelton will be The Trials and Tribu-
lations of the School Ma'aN," and Mr..
Bryan will speak on the Value of An
Ideal" Thursday and Saturday af-
ternoons, next, respectively.