The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-13
The Programs Offered Comprise the Best Tai
ent on the Present Chautauqua Platforms
and Crowds Applaud Performers
BIG CROWDS ARE STIRRED BY SPEAKERS
Thomas Brooks Fletcher, DR.. Jas. Montgomery
and Lyceum Ladies Please Sundays Prog
ram Big One-Hundreds are Expected

Mr.. MacMnrray comes with very high
recommendations as a platform man
ager. He is professor of Public
Speaking at Ames and is said to be
one of the most entertaining speakers
and deep thinkers on a modern plat
form. He has original ideas on the
problems of the day and has the pow
er of expressing them interestingly.
Mr. MacMurray will camp on the
grounds with his wife and son.
Miss Grace Mack will have charge
of the children's hour, tomorrow
morning at ten thirty o'clock and will
tell Indian stories to the children.
Other Programs.
Sundays program will be strong
one with DR.. James S. Montgomery
and Edward Russell Perry on for the
afternoon and evening program. In
the morning there will be sermon
by Rev. F. A. Johnson. The Lyceum
Ladies will give two concerts during
the day, also.
On Monday afternoon Edward Rus
sci Perry will again lecture, his sub.
ject being The Golden Cornfeld.'
In the evening Edward Reno, the
magician, will be the whole program
Sunday, August Thirteenth.
1890 a. m. Bible stories and read
ings, Miss Mack.
1900 a. M Sermon, Rev. F. A. John
son
300 p m. Lyceum Ladies.
! 2:3o p. m. DR.. Montgomery Zone
Sided People"
! 7:30 p. m. Lyceum Ladies.
| 500 p. m. Edward Russell Perry
Samson Aroused
/ Monday, August Fourteenth.
1920 a m.-Arthur MacMurray.
2::30 p. m.-Edward Russell Perry
The Golden Cornfield.''
500 p. m.-Edward Reno, Magician
Saturdays Program.
Saturdays program was another
great treat. DR.. Jas. S. Montgomery
of Minneapolis spoke at two thirty or
the subject, The Man With a Head.
Proceeding DR.. Montgomery, the Ly
ceum Ladies gave another one of theil
superb programs, comprising severa
selections by the quartet, one sole
number and reading from Josiah
Aliens Wife's Relatives by Mrs. Palm
err In the evening the LycNum La
dies gave another program after
which the little firebrand,' orator
Thomas Brooks Fletcher delivered his
characteristic lecture, The Martyr
dom of Fools
Or. James S. Montgomery.
/ Rev. j. H. Porter introduced DR.
Montgomery. DR.. Montgomery is q
! forceful speaker, has most pleasing
/ personality and combines humor anG
sense in way that is wonderful to
listen to. There is laugh in plenty
of his sentences, but throughout his
entire talk there is ring of sincerity
and unfolding of thought of a deer
4 thinker that makes his platform worl
/ such a success. He presents his ideas
/ in clear, concise manner that car
ries his audience with him durins
/ the entire lecture Dr. Montgomery
/ subject was changed from the one or
Hobbies to The Man With {
\ Head" He said:
! When God created man he gave
him mentality. He might have Civ
en- him great ear, a great eye, {
4 hundred fingers on his hands. Blu
i instead he gave him head. Wher
4 God Almighty gave man head he
I gave the greatest bounty to humani
ty. | shall speak this afternoon of the
brands of heads Don't take this
personally. | don't speak of the heads
of Hamilton-for there are none o.
I the kind l shall speak of here-but
the heads | have observed
The Block Head.
There are people who would make
an army extending from east to west
l speak Of the block head. He il
the man who laughs at a joke the
month after you have told it. The,
can't help it, they were born tha
way. But let me defend the blocl
head Psychologicany speaking, the
! greatest minds are slowest of un
folding. II you have genius in the
home ! pity you. For I tell you YOU
meteoric child will not be heard from
Because genius comes from industry
Charlotte Cushman's genius came be
cause she rehearsed so constantly
Edison told woman who told hin
genius was Inspiration mo mad
anne, it is perspiration! Horace Greel
ey, the greatest editor OF his day waf