Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1914-07-04
CHAUTAUQUA CLOSES.
Chautauqua a Success-Closes With I'm
perial Guards Band. Good Attend
ance and Splendid Talent.

ty of the attractions, the courteous and
business like conduct of the crew. mana
ger and other officers, the enthusiasm
aroused, Custer's second chautauqua was
a success. 1t was noticeable to all OBJ.
servers the number of farmers who
brought their families into the night
sessions and some to the afternoon also.
Without any delay each number as ad-
vertised in advance programs, was on
hand and ready to render their parts.
To describe each program ofthe chautau-
qua would be impossible, but brief mem
tion may be made of some of the leading
features.
Chautauqua closed Monday evening
with Imperial Guards band. They also
gave concert in the afternoon proceed
ing the lecture by John F. Chambers,
"The Grand Army Man"
One of the best programs given was
the concert by the Browne-Enlow COM
pany on the afternoon of June 26th
The concert was greatly enjoyed by all
and the excellent work of the musical
organization was loudly applauded. The
afternoon concert was very good and,
not withstanding the wind storm,
brought out large crowd in the even
ing to hear the artists. The evening
program was given at the opera house,
Along with the afternoon attraction
Stewart L. Long gave an interesting
lecture on Reaching the Goal"-
an inspirational address for young and
old. Despite the heavy wind storm,
which an hour later wrecked the tent,
Mr.. Long held his audience to the very
end of his excellent address. hollow
ing are some Of his striking sentences:
mo man can afford to cherish the
memory of a thought that is unclean,
an act that is debasing or an influence
that is degrading. Many of the greatest
triumphs have been won by men who
were handicapped by infirmity, disease
or both-Handel, Chepin, Beethoven,
Pope, Prescott, Stevenson and others.
The best years in a mans life are after
he is forty. Gladstone said, "IfI had
died at the age of three score years and
ten, fully half my life's work would
have remained undone." Mr.. Long
closed his lecture with a dramatic word
picture of the Grecian athlete "Reach-
ing the Goal"
In the evening the Browne. Enlow
company entertained and "Laurant,'
the man of many mysteries gave pro-
gram which was DIVIDED in three parts.
The first presented an act of marvels,
lightning change stuff and magic tricks,
the second part was delightful act cal
led "The Wizard SUPPER" and the third
part closed the program with "Laurants
Silk Factory"
The chief attraction Saturday after
noon were the Musical Maids, and a
lecture by Henry r. Mexican. Mr.. Nc
Kean is an entertaining: :and instructive
speaker, and great advocate of the
community church. He is an ideal ex-
ponent of church extension and his
lecture was along those lines. In the
evening the audience was entertained
by the Musical Maids.
The program Sunday afternoon and
evening were given by the Chautauqua
Entertainers and Nels Darling. The
Chautauqua Entertainers company is
composed of Miss Dollie Mcdonald,
reader and pianist; Miss Edith Hooker
son, violinist and pianist; James A.
Butin, whistler and bird imitator, and
Ethel Gorten, reader and pianist. Mr..
Butin is university man who spends
his summers studying birds and making
Chautauqua tours. His imitation of a
long list of birds were most exact and
showed an acute ear and mind to imi-
tate the hardest of all creation to copy
He was the drawing card of the perfor-
nance.
The chief lecturer was Nels Darling,
who favored the audience Sunday after.
noon, and again in the evening, with a
lecture on Community of Interest. u
MIR. Darling stated that this country is
in good deal the same position that
Rome was just before the fall. The
great dangers that threaten the life o1
the Republic are the concentration ol
wealth, the centralizing of the business
the congestion of population. One third
of our people live within ten miles oI
AZ cities. In few years there will be
twenty million more people living in the
cities of over hundred thousand thar
live on all the farms, in all the villages
and towns put together. He showed
how farm machinery is taking people
from the farm, how the things that were
once done by the individual in small
town are now done in large factories ir
great cities and centers. Then he show
ed how the buying of goods from th,
catalogue and mail order houses tend,
to destroy the job of the merchant anc
his clerk, and how it is driving peopl,
out ofthe small town into the city. FL,
made plea for home buying, for tn,
people in town working together tt
better their own community. He scol
ded the merchants for not buying O
each other. He explained how tn,
clever advertising of the mail orde
house gets the business, and took t.
task the retail dealer who does not ad
vertise in his home paper in the righ
way. The Chronicle also came in for
drubbing.
A contract was signed up with the Red
path. Horner company for chautanqu
for next year.