The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1913-10-31
The School Trustees Have
Arranged for a Lyceum
Course of Attractions
FIRST NUMBER NOVEMBER 8
When L. B. Wickersham, a Noted
Lecturer, Will Open the Sea-
son In Odd Fellows Hall

| The school trustees have made ar
rangements for the giving Of Ly-
ceum course of entertainments in
Oroville during the coming winter
| months, and have made selection of
numbers that can hardly fail to please
the public. The booking Of the sew
eral attractions insures for the people
of this place several first class enter
| tainments that otherwise would never
appear here. When the contract was
signed up the purpose was to have
the entertainments take place in the
auditorium Of the new high school
building, and it is expected that after
the first number, which has been
sprung Unexpectedly, the auditorium
will be available for the purpose. The
course is to consist of five numbers
which will include a lecture by L. B.
Wickersham, the Wood Orchestral
Trio, Robert o. Bowman, character
portrayer, the Stelzl Quartette and
Concert company and a lecture by
Prof. W. B. Courtnay. When the
trustees decided to provide this course
they felt that they were arranging for
clean high class entertainment for old
and young, from which instruction as
we'll as pleasure would be derived,
and hoped that the course would be
so we'll patronized that q cash bal
ance would be found in favor of the
school in which case the money would
be turned into the library fund. 1t
was not expected at the time the con-
tract was entered into that the course
would begin until later in the season,
but word was received this week that
l.. b. Wickersham was assigned to
Oroville for Saturday, November Sth.
This disarranged the plans formerly
made and the lecture will have to
take place in the Odd Fellows build
| ing.
Notice of the coming of Mr.. Wicker
sham is necessarily brief in point of
time, yet it Is hoped that the reputa-
ton of the lecturer will be a sufficient
| incentive in lieu of weeks of adver-
tising to attract crowd. The gentle
man is heralded as one of the best
and most entertaining speakers now
on the lecture platform, and while in
the past this class of attraction has
not appealed strongly to the popula-
tlon, let us trust there has been a
change of sentiment of late, and that
on this occasion the public will show
appreciation for the efforts of those
responsible for the booking of the
course and turn out in large numbers.
All who do attend are assured they
will be treated to most able, enjoy
able and instructive lecture. From
among the many flattering testimon-
ials and comments from individuals
and the press praising the work of
Mr.. Wickersham, the following from
committeeman of the New York State
Premier course, Springfield, N. Y,
shows what favorable impression the
lecturer makes wherever he appears:
Il. B. Wickersham has appeared on
our course each year for the past
three and we want him again next
year. His popularity here rivals that
of Russell H. Conwell who has lectur-
ed for us ten times. Mr.. Wickersham q
first lecture here was received with
such favor that we were almost afraid
to repeat him for fear that he could
not come up to the high standard he
had set, as is often the case, but each
lecture seems better and stronger
than the last so we shall keep on hav.
ing him until something happens. Mr.
Wickersham is convincing, forceful
pleasing speaker with a message that
deals with the every day life of all
kinds Of people and he knows how to
send the message home so that it will
touch the heart. When a lecturer
speaks for good two hours and &c
holds his 500 hearers that the general
comment afterward is that it was 'toc
short" there is some satisfaction In
being committeeman. We are
spending $4,000 and upward, each
year for the numbers of our course
but for no part of it do we feel tina,
we are getting more for our money
} than for the fee Mr.. Wickersham re-
ceives'