The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-06-27
Sixth Annual Assembly at Anderson
Park Will Begin Friday, Aug
Park viii Begin v75 oss.
August 18th.
FINE TALENT SECURED
Pennington chautauqua Has Always
Made Good From Standpoint of
Giving Patrons Their
Moneys Worth.

FARMINGTON. June 27.-The |
Pennington chautauqua people are
/ hustling along their arrangements for
the sixth annual assembly at Ander-
son park, the assembly will cover ten
days, beginning Friday, August 81
Their booklets will be ready for dis
tribution by the first Of next week and
then the advertising committee Will
/ get busy. The Pennington chautauqua
i has always made good in point of tai
ent, delivering more than promised.
Excellence rather than notoriety has
been the watchword for the Anderson
park assembly. The big head liners"
serve their purpose, make good, graft
fly curiosity, but when it comes to
real merit some of the less consplcu-
Gus men and women on the platform
4 give infinitely greater satisfaction.
Anderson park, where the Farming
ton chautauqua is held, is one of the
beauty spots along the Des Moines
valley division of the Rock Island
road. Nearly twenty years ago Ira
Anderson. the village blacksmith, left
to Pennington, by will, this plat OF
ground. In 1895 w. H. Jones, then
city engineer of Keokuk, plated the
park, and year later the people OF
the town planted the trees and deciat-
ed the grounds as memorial to the
good, old man, who remembered his
adopted home.
T For the Sixth chautauqua assembly
the program committee has secured
), Hon. Thomas P. Gore, the blind sena-
tor from Oklahoma, for the opening
, day. SO much has been written by Sen
ator Gore, and his recent startling dis
, closure on the floor of the senate, is
Il suffi lent introduction for this brilliant
: orator. AS a public speaker he Is
t surpassed by few men and his com
: ing for the opening day should assure
r one of the largest crowds ever seer
at Anderson park.
t On Sunday, August z, Congressman
e Ollie James of Kentucky will be the
t principal speaker. Ollie James Is an
r unique character in public life, having
e refused nominations for governor and
e senator from his state and for vice
e president on the democratic ticket
Q Unlike some great southern orators
t tie is not a word painter-he hits
y straight from the shoulder, dealing
3 with some of the real live problem:
l. )of the day. Ollie James is without {
I. superior as public speaker, more
n convincing than William Jennings
A. Bryan, and by some regarded as "th'
IS greatest orator in the republic" OF
e. lie James is a born poiit1cian, having
IS started as a page in the halls of thu
* Kentucky legislature, he was attorne.
d for Governor Goebel in the celebrated
= Kentucky case which ended in the as
if sassination of Goebel, the trial of Cal
TT eb Powers for murder and the fligh
e of Governor Taylor.
rt For Thursday, August II, woman
TX day is provided, with Maud Ballingtol
lg Booth in the afternoon and Leonora NJ
X Lake in the evening. The name Q
4
IN by all odds the most attractive woma
~ speaker on the American platform
No other woman is In such great de
o. mand as Mrs. Booth. All of the MOI
5 ey she receives from lectures goes int
IN the funds for maintaining her tw
homes for released convicts. Che
v. known the world over as the littl
Is mother" and no woman has don
IS more for prison reforms than this II
If. tie woman, who devotes her entiT
time to rescue work,
ne Mrs. Leonora M. Lake, who is date
M for the evening following Mrs. Boot
up was born in Ireland, but became
Gu country school teacher in New Yorl
az During the palmy days of the Knigtt
nc of Labor, she became investigator {
'ii- women's work" demanding equal pa
On for equal work. She drafted the Pen
~ sylvania factory inspection law, ar
W. later became identified with the Cat
Ole Total Abstinence Union of Anne
" lea. OF all the speakers ever secure
as, for the Pennington chautauqua nor
go. have been more generously recor
'ut mended At Hannibal last year Il
M Journal said "She made decided hit
W ]. Adam Bede, who was dated fl
"a Pennington two years ago, but ca
celled his date to make last race f
congress, is coming Friday, August
us In his lecture, "Side-stepping the VII
oy- Presidency" ex-Congressman Be,
M keeps his audiences on the tip-toe
he expectancy AS q congressional h
morist he was never surpassed, Be,
- mixes facts and fancy in such ia
tastic fashion that he is regarded
\ one of the best cbautauqua speake
\ in a long list of notable men.