The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-08-03
The LEON CHAUTAUQUA
Opens Friday Afternoon with a Fine
PROGRAM. AFuII Week of Ele-
vatinQ Attractions for Sl.50.

The Leon Chautauqua opens on
Friday of this week, the big teHt ar
irving Tuesday and is being set up on
the High School grounds today, SO
that there will be nothing to prevent
the starting of the program FRIDAY
afternoon on time. This will be the
last opportunity we will have OF
urging our people to attend the Chau-
tauuua and to buy season tickets be-
fore noon on Friday. 1t was posi-
BILE for Leon to secure the Chautau-
qua this year only by two hundred OF
our citizens paying dollar apiece to
guarantee the sale of 900 season
tickets, and you can buy q season
ticket for the entire session for $l.5O
if you buy before the Chautauqua
opens. but there will be no season
tickets sold at the gate by the Chau-
tauuua management for less than
$500, We have had the Redpath-
Vawter system here for four years
and their programs have Invariably
given good satisfaction. This year
they are presenting the strongest
they have ever given us. 1t is solld
week of refined, elevating, instruct
i've and entertaining features.
Now the question of the future OF
. a Chautauqua for Leon will be de-
.cided by the attendance the coming
week, 1t is mighty expensive prop
osition to handle a Chautauqua, and
unless the attendance this year comes
up to the guarantee Leon will have
no Chautauqua next year. A few
boosters cannot maintain Chautau-
~
hundreds or it is going to De nnan-
,cial failure. In the years gone py
you have seen how much shetter the
Chautauqua was than a reunion or
.street fair, yet there are hundreds
of people who will go to reunion or
street fair and spend more money in
one day than would purchase sea-
son ticket to the Chautauqua-
ss Many people have already bought
seaann tickets but some are holding
back IN the hope that they can buy
the tickets few cents less than the
regular price in case the guarantee
number is not sold before the open
ing of the Chautauqua, but they will
find that this year they cannot do so,
as the local association has already
taken the matter up and in case the
guarantee number is not sold De-
fore the opening day, the association
will make up the deficiency and the
tickets will be destroyed. There will
be no cut price tickets offered at any
time during the Chautauqua this
year. And if you wait to buy your
ticket at the gate it is going to cost
you $500.
The musical numbers on the pro-
gram, change each day during the
entire week are alone worth several
times the price of the season ticket.
There is all kinds of music, vocal, in
strumental, novelty, orchestras, and
Thavius great band and grand opera
singers All the lectures and all
the fine musical entertainments may
be heard for the price OF one ticket
at a city theatre. We cannot afford
to allow the Chautauqua movement
TO be dropped for many reasons, but
the problem Of continuing the Chau-
tauqua movement is now up to the
people. They must decide whether
they will give it the necessary finan-
q cial support, for unless it is supported
a few private individuals are not go
ing to spend their money in a vain
effort to give the people of this vicln- :,
ity the best entertainments for
nominal price that money and brains
can secure.
s 1t is up to you to do your part.