Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-06-23
PLATTEVILLE
CHAUTAUQUA
Program Stronger This Year
Thar 1t Was Last.
TALENT AMONG THE BEST

OCtoTGG NOIISdIly III Tic country
and Many Others Will Take Part In
the Singing-Remember John B..
Ratio? He Will Be There-AIso Pitt
Parker, the Cartoonist-Best Lee
turers and Preachers To Attend.
The PIatteville Chautauqua was a
venture last year. 1t proved a success
full venture. Everybody enjoyed it
possible the program this year is
stronger than last. From the opening
concert on the evening of July 20 to
the closing number on the evening of
August 8, the talent is among the best.
The Cleveland Ladies' Orchestra
will give the opening concert Thurs
day evening July %. 1t is one of the
finest musical organizations in the
west.
The best colored company in the
country, the Slayton jubilee Singers,
has been secured. This company con-
sists of a splendid mixed quartet, a
splendid male quartet, and four solo,
lists of exceptional ability.
The Lyric Glee Club can sing. They
proved that last year and the Platte
vile Chautauqua is very fortunate in
securing them for this season.
Bohumir Kryl and his band will
have the right of way for two con-
certs. Mr.. Kryl has no equal as a cor
netist on either side of the ocean. He
has undoubtedly the best band yet
organized and is assisted by eight well
known operate singers.
The Schubert Male Quartet will be
at the Chautauqua for the two closing
days. At the dinner recently given in
Chicago to Mr.. Bryan and President
Taft, then Secretary Taft, it was this
quartet which was selected to furnish
music for the occasion. The quartet
has an assistant of great ability in its
reader, Miss Gertrude Garfield.
For two days the Four Great Artist
company will furnish the music. That
it will be good goes without saying
when we remember that the company
consists of Forrest Dabney Carr, an
exceptionally fine concert singer; Earl
]. Pfouts, one of the most talented v1o-
Iinists of New York city; Edwin NJ.
Shonert well known on both sides of
the Atlantic as a pianist, and Miss
Agnes Doyle.
Rita Rich will be present for two
DAYS and will win all hearts with her
good old folk songs our mothers used
to sing and her typical child songs,
both rendered in costume.
What shall be said of John B.
Ratio? Only this, he captured the
Platteville Chautauqua horse, foot and
dragons last year, and when he comes
this year, they will all be there to be
bound still more securely.
Pitt Parker says that it. is easy to
draw with both hands if you know
how. He knows how to draw pictures,
and how to draw the people. Parker
is a great cartoonist, a good joker,
and a brilliant entertainer.
On July 81, Charles Faggart, the
man from Vermont, will lift the cares
and burdens from your life and 'turn
your pain into pleasure by music, your
worries into wonderment by mimicry,
and your sadness to smiles by humor."
We are all interested in one way or
another in the little brown man and
his country. On Saturday, July 81, Kiyo
S. Inui, native of Japan and an ora
tor of ability, will speak at the Chau-
tauqua.
Hon. J. Frank Hanly is one of the
great men of the country. His lecture
alone will be more than worth the cost
of the Chautauqua to those attending.
Professor P. M. Pearson will be pres
ent two days in lecture recitals. If you
want to hear something good in this
line you must hear Professor Pearson.
DIR. Frank Crane, who recently re-
signed from the great Union church OF
Worcester, Mass, to follow a special
line of work in Chicago, will lecture.
There will not be a dull moment for
anyone while he speaks.
Talking about lecturers, DR.. Frank
Dixon knows how to lecture. Wit, logic,
eloquence, matchless oratory will hold
sway at the Plattsville Chatauqua
while he is on the platform.
Sylvester Longs lectures are enter
tanning but not foolish. They combine
entertainment and recreation with in
struction and inspiration. He is one OF
the most popular lecturers on the plat
form.
The Hon. Arthur X. Peck of Bos-
ton, Mass, will give one of his travel
talks. The Platteville Chautauqua folks
will be travelling with "the quality
when they are listening to him, for he
has spoken at all the greatest Chautau-
quas in the country.
And last but not least the Hon. Will
liam Jennings Bryan. All do not agree
with him in politics Che is not going to
talk politics), but all are agreed thai
as an orator he has few if any equals
in this country Mr. BRYAN Snnalrc on