Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-09-13
THE LECTURE COURSE.
Six Excellent Numbers for the Season
Of I9O5-O6. Instructive, En-
tertaining, HUMOROUS.
NOT A DULL NUMBER IN 1T.


er lecture course and the manage
ment consider it most excellent
one. The first number is the Har-
mony Concert Company which
comes about the middle of October.
This company is composed. of five
very fine lady musicians. They
give six kinds of entertainments
instrumental quartette, consisting
of violin, viola, flute and piano;
vocal quartette, flute solos, violin
solos, contralro solos and splendid
readings. They have appeared
more times in Kansas and Oklaho-
ma during the last two years than
any other concert company en-
ployed by the Central Bureau.
They have pleased everywhere and
have been greatly praised not only
for their music but also for their
much varied program. Do not
fail to hear them October.
The second number is Alton
Packard, the humorist and cartoon
ist. For fun producing Medicine
Lodge has never had his equal.
He is far ahead Of Ham or Dixon
or any show that has appeared.
it is generally supposed that Ex-
Governor Bob Taylor is the best
entertainer in America. He costs
$500 a night; yet when Packard
came to Winfield, Kansas, after
Bob Taylor bad been. there the
people praised Packard just as
much as Taylor. At Wichita,
Newt on, Everywhere Packard has
been he has been styled the best
humorous cartoonist on the plat
form. Do you enjoy a laugh? Do
you love art made real? If sohear
Packard in November.
DIR. Jas. Francis O'Donnell, the
great Irish impersonator, will come
in December. He presents the
noted book of Wilson Bonett,- =
"The Sign of the Cross" iii which
he tells the story in the authors
words. In short he plays the play,
"The Sign of the Cross, imperson-
ating eighteen different characters.
As an entertainer or a reader he is
immense. His message will be
very highly appreciated. In hear
ing him you hear one that meas
ures we'll with any SIS or $1oo
man on the platform.
In January will come DR.. Geo.
Bradford who has made a greater
record during the last five years
than any man on the platform.
When but boy he started to col
lege with only $S.25 on hand.
During the winter he shoveled coal
at spare hours and in the summer
was hostler for millionaire. In
this way he worked himself
through school. Six years ago he
took the pastorate of church at
St. Joseph, Mo. 1t paid him only
$500 year and had a membership
OF only forty and practically no
church building. He was faithful
to his trust so that when he left
three years later he had not only
built a $4,000 church and had his
salary increased to $4,000, but
he advanced the church member
ship to 400. He then sacrificed his
position for church in Kansas
City, with only $50 members, no
fit building and only $1,000 salary.
But it did not remain such long.
After being there 3 years he left a
$4,000 church building and sal
ary of $4,000 and accepted the chan
cellorship of the Epworth Universi-
ty of Oklahoma. Everywhere he
has gone he has lifted and surpris-
ed the people. At Alva they have
had such men as Vending, De
Motto, Green and Willets, each
costing 500 or more. But Brad