Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-05-23
Will BOOST
(fHj CHAUTAUQUA
Local Committees Are Named
for Big Event of Summer
ARRANGE FOR BOOSTERS
TRIP TO NEARBY TOWNS

Whole Valley Win Be Given An In
vitation to Spend the Week O.
June IL at Our Chautauqua
For the first time since the sum-
mer Chautauqua has been estab-
lished in Rocky Ford the people
of neighboring towns will be told
of our big week of instruction and
profitable entertainment, combined
with a most enjoyable outing, and
they will be given cordial invi-
tation to Participate in our great
annual event, according to the ac-
ton Of the local Chautauqua asso-
citation at a meeting with Miss
Watson, advance representative of
the Redpath-Horner system, in
this city on Tuesday afternoon.
AT this meeting committees were
appointed as follows:
Tiokets--Chairman Pollock.
Grounds-R. M. Pollock. E. C. Shell
ton, A. S. johnson, T. F. Dobbs and o.
w. West.
Advertising S. Woodside. A. Lat
son. W. B. Vaudeville, Will r. Monkman.
G. P. Randall, j. E. Lawson. T. F. Dobbs,
G. M. Coffman. W. c. Steele and R. D.
Rhodes.
The functions of the latter COM
mittee are really that pertaining
to boosters, as the duties of the
members consist of arranging for
and assuring the success OF the
boosters trip spoken of above, the
date of which will be decided upon
at meeting to be held this { Fri
day. afternoon.
At this meeting Miss Weaver
WAS recommended to the Chau-
tauqua management as local junior
supervisor, and the rooms of the
Otero County Agricultural Asso-
citation were designated as Chau-
tauqua headquarters, where litera-
ture and information pertaining to
our big entertainment week will
be at the disposal of all.
According to a short outline of
the program by Miss Watson, the
attractions offered us this year are
of even higher character than
any preceding year;
The feature, in music. is the Neapolitan
Grand Opera Singers. company mod
eled after the plan of the Venetian Trou-
badours, which vas so popular last sum-
mer.
A new band is coming out this year,
oft from the same organizer. Victor Of
New York. The Italian Marines will be
directed by S!gnor Vinci. director Of the
Venetian Troubadours at last summers
Chautauqua.
Other musical companies that promise
to make especially good are the Chicago
Artists. with Nine. Ringsdof, soprano.
Lawrence Lewis. baritone, and Earle
Browne, pianist. This is a company that
will take especially we'll with the musical
class. Rogers and Grilley have been to-
ttLitt lUi 1coitl VI dud aim
as the best entertainers IN the lyceum.
Rogers is harpist; has had big success
in the Boston Symphony Orchestra and
in concert work with Madame Schumann-
Heinek and other artists OF her class.
In the Gretchen Myers Company is
Gretchen Myers, soprano and reader.
and Senior Fabrizio. Spanish volinist,
also from the Boston Symphony Orches-
ira. Senor Fabrizio is whirlwind of a
yiolinst, who will be brought out to
sweep everybody off their feet" Other
musical companies are the Symphony
Four and the Strolers Male 0uartette.
The big entertainer Of the Chautauqua
will be Elias Day, costume impersona-
tor, said to be the originator of makeup
impersonation as he uses it. Day has
been on the Chautauqua and in the ly-
ceum long time and has established
big reputation.
Sylvester A. Long is coming out again.
and new lecturer who will make de-
cided impression is Mrs. LaSalle Corbell
Pickett. wife of General George E. Pick
EFT. who led the charge at Gettysburg.
This being the fiftieth anniversary of the
famous charge at Gettysburg. special in
terest will be taken in the coming Of Mrs.
Pickett.
Other lecturers are L. H. Weir Of the
American Playground and Recreation
Association. and the big feature the de-
bate by Henry j. Allen and Chas. F
Scott on "The Future of the Political
Parties"