Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1913-09-10
Craftsbury Lecture entertainment Course

The time is approaching for the
opening of the lecture and entertain
ment course. The best course that
ever came to town will appear this
year. The course is being managed by
the following committee which was
elected by the various churches last
spring: Rev. G.. E. Garvin, John
Kendrick, Aurelius Shields, Martha
Paterson, Rev. E. R. Gordon, N. B.
Williams, Guy Garvin, Geo. Dunn, A.
B. Pike, Ed. Wheeler, Martin johnson,
Rev. G. D. Pierce, Mrs. Sawyer, J. D.
Leavitt, Geo. Wheeler. The officers of
committee are Rev. E. R. Gordon,
chairman; Rev. C. E. Garvin, CORE
spending secretary. and Mrs. Sawyer,
secretary and treasurer. The course
will open this year at the town hall,
Crafrsbury, on Sept. 80 with a lecture
by the famous Russell H. Conwell,
who is the greatest lecturer on the
American continent and who is the
greatest orator ever in the town of
Craftsbury. DR.. Conwell has been on
the platform for .ffty-one years, and
has delivered more than 5000 lectures.
He is the president of Temple Univer-
sity of Philadelphia, and is pastor of
the largest Protestant church in
America which is located in that city.
1t is understood that DR.. Conwell will
deliver only twenty lectures this year,
and that Craftsbury gets one of them.
The door admission to this lecture will
be fifty cents. The season ticket cost
| ing only one dollar will admit to this
lecture as we'll as to all the other
numbers of the course. The next num-
Der will be a high class concert at
East Craftsbury, on Nov. l, by the
Hazel Dell Chandler Company, consist
ing Of two men and two women, all of
them soloists On Nov. II at Crafts
bury town hall the Floyds will give On
entertainment of magic and mystery
and sleight of hand. On Dec u, L. B.
Wickersham, one Of the most popular
lecturers in the country. who has
delivered over 100 lectures in one
state, will lecture at North Crafts
bury 1t will be remembe! e1 that this
man delivered lecture in this course
at East Craftsbury last year, which
pleased the audience so we'll that he
has been invited to return again this
year. At North Crafsbu1y on IAN. g.
there will be a concert by the Hunt
ington Concert company, a ladies trio
The sixth and last number will be :
lecture by II. V. Adams at East Crafts
bury on March IL. This course of siz
numbers. consisting of three lectures
and three entertainments Will bE
evenly distributed among the three
villages. a concert and an entertain
ment being given at each village
The course costs the committee $500
or $3.50 more than we paid for our EN-
inently successful course of last year
The buyer of season ticket received
two years ago only four numbers fo1
one dollar; last year he received five
for the same amount of money; bu
this year he will receive SD nights Z
entertainment for one dollar, including
lecture by the famous Russell H
Conwell. Rarely can a man get 81
much for that sum of money. Th
reason for this is that the churches ar,
public they have in the past years no
taken the profits for their own use
but have left them in the treasury tt
be used in buying a more expensive
course on each succeeding year. The
members of the committee have don'
the work without pay and have eve,
paid for their own season tickets
Now if the citizens of the town viii
buy the season tickets promptly they
will give financial backing to the
} course, and will help the committee
The door admission to Conwell's lee
ture will be SO cents for adults and 2
cents for students and children Th'
door admission to all other NUM- ers 0
the course will be IS and "a cents
The season tickets admit ng TO the
six lectures and entertainm MS viii bt
sold to adults for 81, out to children
/. under 16 years and to all students the!
will be sold for only Is cents.