Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-07-12
1910 CHAUTAOQUA
GREAT SUCCESS

JAMES w. FOLEY RETURNS TO
CITY AFTER GIVING TWO
READINGS.
Many People In Attendance and Ex'
celent Program Offered - Crop
Situation In That Section.
Mr.. J. w. Foley of the Tribune. re.
turned from Devils Lake Monday,
where he appeared Friday and Satur-
day nights before the Chatauqua, at
! the large auditorium there.
There was large audience there
on both nights, and they were en-
thusiastic and appreciative. Mr.. Fol-
ey was entertained while in Devils
Lake by Judge Morgan and Mrs. Lew.
is at their lake cottage. Both are
enjoying the summer holidays at the
lake, and they have constant num-
Der of old friends as visitors.
The drought and unfavorable sea-
son has kept the attendance at the
Chautauqua from being as large as it
has been in some years, but there are
from 1900 to 1900 people in camp on
the grounds. The Chautauqua
grounds have become a popular place
of summer resort for people both
from Devils Lake and the surrounding
country. There are scores of hand
some cottages on the grounds, which
are laid off in building circles stretch.
ing back from the lake.
There is plenty of amusement dur
ing the ChautauQua session and be.
fore and afterwards there are all the
delights of boating, bathing and rec
reation of various kinds on the water
and in the woods. There are few
prettier spots in the state than the
shores of Devils Lake. The woods
are almost primitive in their wildness
and density. The grounds are cover
ed with oaks, box elders and various
kinds of trees and shfubbery. There
are birds OF variety enough to delight
the lovers of Audubon. Across the
lake is view of Fort Totten, and
there is much his toric ground in the
locality.
The Chautauqua association has
been built up until it is third or
fourth in the United States in point
of attendance. There is an auditorium
that will seat four or five thousand
people. Lecturers and entertainers
of national distinction are present
during the season and good many
hundred persons are added to the pop.
ulation of Devils Lake during the
summer from the attraction of the
resort.
Senator Hansbrough has been
spending a few weeks at Devils Lake
following the political campaign, and
he looks refres he'd and in very good
health. He is pleased at the pros
pect for republican harmony in the
state and sees no reason why repub.
licans should moi get together and
elect their entire ticket this fall. The
senator feels that President Taft has
amply carried out the promises of
the republican platform and says the
work of the congress just closed will
stand out as the most Affective and
beneficial that has been accomplish
ed for a great many years. Senator
Hansbrough is warm admirer of
President Taft and says he will prove
one of the ablest presidents we have
had in many years.
Judge and Mrs. Fisk and their
daughters, Doris and Helen, were at
the lake Sunday. They have been
at Maple Lake and Bemidji for sew
eral days and are on their way to
Fish lake, in the Turtle mountains,
where they will spend some days.
Judge Fisk was receiving congratu-
lations from his friends for the splen-
did endorsement he received at the
primary election.
Crops in the section of the state
between Grand Forks and Devils
Lake are poor. There will be little
wheat cut at all. About Larimore
there are a few fields on land that
was planted to potatoes last year that
will raise some wheat, but a short !
crop at that.
On the big Elk Valley farm of N
G. Larimore, some 10000 acres, they
hope to get seed back. A hail storm
between Larimore and Michigan has
beaten what crops there were, into
the ground. Grain stands only few
inches high, and much of it is being
plowed under Some of the farmers
are putting in corn to get feed. The
forage crop question is a serious one.
The pastures are entirely bare, and
he farmers have little reserve of
,odder and hay.
Grand Forks, Nelson and Ramsey
counties will raise little grain. In
PARTS of Trail county, between May
lille and Hillsboro, there are fair
,rops. 1t was raining in the Red
river valley yesterday, and that will ,
lelp late crops, corn and fodder.
NO FIGHT PICTURES
Oh, Joe! There will be no fight !
ictures shown at the Grand theatre.
lot only the Jeffries-Johnson pictures q
ill be barred, but all fight pictures in s
le future will be eliminated. This is il
ue not only to the present agitation Il
painst them hut- also tn tho fact that IL