The Tupelo journal., 1915-05-14

Partial Announcement of Good
Things Scheduled for 1915

community this season has just been
received from the Redpath headquarters
in Chicago. 1t surpasses the good pro-
gram of a year ago in many respects
and at once appeals to old and young
alike.
Band Day will again be a feature of
the week when Seroslav Cimera and
his concert band will appear both after
noon and evening of the fourth day in
delightful programs of both classical
and popular music. Mr.. Cimera was
born in Bohemia, the land from which
many of the great band leaders have
come. He appeared as trombone soloist
with leading bands in this country be-
fore taking up the work of directing his
own band.
The day on which Hon. j. Adam Bede
lectures will be known as "Bede Day."
Mr.. Bede was for eight years Congress
man from Minnesota and vas long
known as the "Humorist in the House.
His lectures sparkle with humor in adj
dition to carrying a great message. His
subject at the Forthcoming Chautauqua
will be "Our Nation; It's Problems and
Progress"
In addition to the work of the story
teller and playground worker, there
will be a special "Children's Night, "
when Taber and his assistants will rem
der a spectacular program of magic
and mystery to the delight of all.
Grand opera is announced as another
feature of special interest when the
Kellogg-Haine Singing Party will pre-
sent a rendition of the grand opera,
Martha" in special and elaborate cos
tunes. They will also render the
Songs of the Sixties in the dress of
the year 1860. The Kellogg-Haines
Singing Party has been upon the Ly-
ceum and Chautauqua platform for
some eight years past and have toured
the entire United States. Last year
they appeared on the Redpath seven
day Chautauqua circuit in a four months
tour with great success.
Among the lecturers DR.. William A.
| Colledge stands out very prominently.
| He will lecture on THE Fortune Hunt
en-" DR.. Colledge was with Henry M.
| Stanley for three years in Africa and
| also nursed Henry Drummond through
his first sickness from African fever.
He was a boyhood friend of Robert
| Louis Stevenson, was the first editor of
the Technical World Magazine, was
head of the Department of Language
and Literature in Armour Institute,
| Chicago, for nine years and author of
NInterpretative Studies of Scottish Au-
thors."
On the opening day Rev. Joseph K.
Griffis (Tahan) in the Indian costume
of the Kiowas will tell his thrilling life
| story entitled what | Saw and Did as
a Savage" Captured by the Indians
as a baby, he grew up in the home of a
Kiowa Chief, and not until almost a
young man did he know anything of the
lives of the white people. His escape
from the Indians and his subsequent
hardships, his conversion by the Saliva
ton Army into the ministry, his work
as a Presbyterian. pastor and mission
airy, !author and lecturer, all comprise
a wonderfully interesting story.
The above is but a partial outline of
| the good things in store on the forth
coming Chautauqua program. There
| will be other lectures, vocal and lnstru-
mental soloists, music by a Bohemian
orchestra, a male quartet, etc. All of
these will be more fully described as
the season approaches.
Three weeks in advance of the open
ing day the decorating of the town with
banners, streamers and unique forms
of advertising will begin, all of which
is more elaborate than ever before. In
many places Chautauqua week will be
made an old-home-coming event, n of
the gala times of the year. ,