The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-04-29
Chautauqua Secured.
For GaIlipolis.
It Will Be Held at the Old Fair
Ground. Reginning Anpnat. g.

Ground, beginning August,5.
It is just made public that
Gallipolis will have Chautau-
qua this summer to be held at the
old Fair Grounds. The inter-
etate Chautauqna Alliance with
whom more than twenty high
class Chautauqua Assemblies are
affiliated, have consummated
complete arrangements, and Prof
III. e. Conard will have charge
assisted by Prof. Cooper, of Point
Pleasant, who will look after the
interests on the West Virginia
side. The complete program will
be ready for publication in few
days. Tie best talent, lecturers,
musicians, humorists, and enter
tainers, some of national reputa-
ton, will be heard
The Chautauqua creates In the
minds of the people the enthusi-
asm of culture, the reverence and
conscientiousness of religion, and
the fruits ofmodern philanthropy
in every department of fmodern
life. The Chautauqua movement
is SO rapidly spreading that every
town and city istrying to become
one link in the long chain of
Chautauquas, and thus afford its
citizens high, class instruction and
entertainment, instead of spend
ing many dollars to hear the
same elsewhere.
AS 1T is definitely known that
a Chautauqua will be held at
Gallipolis this year, we think it
the duty of every one to encour-
age the movement, which will be
for the ultimate good of every
one who comes within it's influ-
cnce. The Chautauqua should be
talked in our homes, our places
of business, in our lodges, our So
cieties and on the streets.
When in 1874 Bishop John III.
Vincent and Lewis Miller estab-
lished the first little assembly at
Chautauqua Lake, N. Y, neither
they nor any seer or dreamer
could have seen the far reaching
development of the great Chau-
tauqua movement which sprang
therefrom. Last summer nearly
400 Chautauqua assemblys were
held, and the coming season
promises nearly 100 more. 1t
may seem an odd thing, perhaps,
that this movement is most -four
ishing in the Central West and
the South rather than in suppos-
edly cultured New England.
"Westward the course of Chau-
tauqua takes it's way" and last
year while Iowa numbered per-
haps 60 Chautauquas, Illinois 40,
Indiana 20, and Ohio 25, all New
England could not muster 10. In
the South, too, the idea has found
an eager acceptance, and no
where in the Union are they
more enterprising or better con-
Quoted than those scattered all
through the territory south of
the Mason and Dixon line.
OF the Chautauqua idea Presi-
dent Roosevelt has SAID, 81 know
of nothing in the whole country
which is so filled with blessing
for the nation" 1t has been said
that Chautaqua institution is the
Athens of America. 1t repre-
sents and reflects the thought of
the day as does no other move
ment. There in the Chautauqua
we shall have the true spirit Of
popular education, inspiring en-.
tertainments, and great and help
full lectures all standing for
the best things IN our social and
national life. In short, they have
become the great forum of Amer
ica, one of the greatest educa-
tionaI influences of our time and
sure buIwark of democracy.
A beautiful $500 piano is going
to be offered free to the one who
sells the most season tickets. Let
West Virginia win 1T. For terms
pertaining to the contest, apply
to Prof. Conard or Prof. Cooper.