Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-06-27
FIRST ANNUAL ASSEMBLY WILL
BEGIN IN FRANKLIN PARK
TUESDAY MORNING,
HOBSON TO SPEAK
ON AMERICAS NAVY
Enterprise Of ottumwa's Citizens to
Be Lapnched, All Arrangements
Having Been Completed = Program
Contains Many Features - Choral
Society to Give Grand concerA

Contains Many Features - Choral
Society to Give Grand concerA
From Mondays Daily.
The first annual assembly Of the OF
tumwa Chautauqua association will
will open tomorrow morning In Frank
lin park with the first council of the
Seton Indians, an organization of chill
dren under the direction of Miss Lillian
Gilman. At 10:30 lecture, Where
Did We Get Our Bible" will be dilev-
cred by Rev. G. A. Vincent, d. D., yas-
tor of the Central Congregational
church of Galesburg, Ill. Welcome will
be extended to the visitors by Presi-
dent P. B. Davis at 2 o'clock. "A
thirty minute concert by the Imperial
Saxophone quartet will follow, after
which Captain Richmond Pearson Hob
son. late of the United tSates navy.
will deliver an address, America, the
Mistress Of the Sea- The days pro-
gram will close with concert by the
Imperial Saxophone quartet, assisted
by Miss Josephine Retz, reader
With the opening Of the annual as.
sembly Of the Ottumwa Chautauqua
association, an enterprise Is launched
that is deserving of the staunchest
support of the citizens of this city. It
is venture that cannot but result in
good, and this first annual event should
be attended by degree Of success
that would perpetuate it. Every possi-
1 BILE arrangement for the comfort Of
visitors have been made, not even the
smallest detail being left undone. An
united effort has been made by the
< committee on grounds to provide every
convenience possible for chautauqua
visitors. Franklin park, where the
chautauqua will hold sway is admir-
ably adapted to the uses of a gathering
of this nature. Located on a large
4 area of grounds, well grassed and
A sprinkled with trees, overlooking the
1 Des Moines river valley in itself offers
an inducement to the visitor. Filtered
ice water will be procurable through
out the eight days of the assembly, the
grounds will be well lighted with cleo
tricity, patrolled by watchmen at night
and policed by day A large tent, ca
pable of seating 100. will be used to
serve meals. The lunch counter Will
be open day and night.
Sufficient tents to supply the de.
mand has been provided for and ev.
cry possible convenience will bee look.
ed to for the comfort and entertain
ment of the visitors.
r. P. Hobson, Lecturer.
In the lecture of Richmond Pearson
! Hobson, scheduled for 2:45 o'clock to-
morrow afternoon, the chautauqua Wis
itors will be treated to an address that
can well be depended upon as treat.
His close association with the United
States navy during the recent Spanish.
/. American war and previous to that
, time, has eXcellently equipped him
: with information as to the needs and
/, necessities of that part of Uncle
q Sans defense. America, TIE Mis-
q tress of the Sea-" is the title of Cap
tain Hobson's lecture. A concert by
the Imperial Saxophone quartet as
sisted by Miss Josephine Retz, will
= furnish the amusement Of the even
y ing.
# Educational Day.
n The feature of the second day Of ths
c assembly will be an address by Book
er T. Washington, president of tn,
: Tuskegee institute of Tuskegee, Ala.
which will be given Wednesday after
i. llCoH dL q oV " ClOCh. L IOl. washington
the noted colored lecturer needs no in
4 PRODUCTION. His prominence Is no
confined to the vicinity Of the south
ern states, but reached from coast t,
= coast. Prof. Washington will doubles
e, be heard by an unusually large al
1t tendance The Imperial Saxophon
e quartet and Robertson and Roltare
i. twentieth century magicians, will en-
!, tertain Wednesday evening.
= Farmers Congress"
N Upon Thursday the assembly will oi
fer something to the farmers of tn,
= state that is sure to meet with enthu
=. =. siasm and large attendance. Prof F
- G. Holden, the corn man from Anne
:. Agricultural college, will speak. H
~ tells the farmers how to select tlei
y seed corn, how to plant it and cultiyat
~ 1t and upon what sort of ground t
q plant different sort of corn and hoy
- to handle it under the various cond
!" tions met with Prof Holden will be
. gin his talk to farmers at 2 o'clocI
~ Thursday afternoon. The evening vii
=. be devoted to concert by the Fift,
= fourth Regiment band and display Q
u magic and moving pictures by Roberl
=. son and Roltare.
y History Day.
sy Friday will be history day. the fes
is ture OF the afternoon being a lectur
w on Footprints of the Century" b
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